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May 25, 2016
May 24, 2016
Voters Think Trump Would Be Better for Economy - Or Would He?
The U.S. economy historically has had an average growth rate of 3.3% but has fallen short of that number in every year of Barack Obama’s presidency. Still, his fellow Democrats give the president positive marks for his economic performance and think Hillary Clinton would do more of the same. Donald Trump, on the other hand, is expected to make the economy better by all voters - except Democrats.
May 24, 2016
Commencement Season By Thomas Sowell
This is the season of college Commencement speeches -- an art form that has seldom been memorable, but has increasingly become toxic in recent times.
May 24, 2016
Clinton Policies to End Pay Gap Would Just Make It Larger By Michael Barone
Women, lamented Hillary Clinton in an April 2014 tweet, make just 77 cents on the dollar to men. As a presidential candidate she has repeated that lament again and again, updating the numbers, in line with government statistics, to 78 cents in July 2015 and 79 cents this year.
May 24, 2016
Who Should Pick the Next Supreme Court Justice - Obama, Clinton or Trump?
Just over half of voters still think President Obama should be the one to pick the replacement for late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, although they don’t feel strongly about the president’s current nominee. But if the decision is pushed off, voters are closely divided over which presumptive presidential nominee would make the better choice.
May 24, 2016
Is Scarborough Shoal Worth a War? By Patrick J. Buchanan
If China begins to reclaim and militarize Scarborough Shoal, says Philippines President Benigno S. Aquino III, America must fight.
May 23, 2016
27% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
For the third week in a row, 27% of Likely U.S. Voters think the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey for the week ending May 19.
May 23, 2016
Democrats Say Sanders, Party Equally to Blame for Violence
Bernie Sanders has vowed to stay in the hunt for the Democratic presidential nomination to the very end, and voters in his party tend to think that’s okay. But Democrats are evenly divided over whether Sanders supporters or questionable party rules are to blame for recent campaign violence.
May 23, 2016
Voters See More Anti-Trump, Pro-Hillary Bias in Media
Voters think the media is even more prejudiced now against Donald Trump in favor of Hillary Clinton.
May 21, 2016
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending May 20, 2016
What a campaign season! Now it appears the candidate the Democrats won’t nominate has the better chance of beating the nominee the Republicans are expected to select.
May 20, 2016
Open Borders or Tighter Control – Voters Decide
No wonder there’s an angry debate over illegal immigration in this country. Most Democrats believe people should be able to freely enter the United States at any time. Republicans strongly disagree, as do a majority of unaffiliated voters.
May 20, 2016
'Ferguson Effect' Is Real, and It Threatens to Harm Black Americans Most By Michael Barone
University of Missouri at St. Louis criminologist Richard Rosenfeld has had "second thoughts." Like many academic criminologists, he had pooh-poohed charges that skyrocketing murder rates in many cities in 2015 and 2016 result from a "Ferguson effect" -- a skittering back from proactive policing for fear of accusations of racism like those that followed the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in August 2014.
May 20, 2016
Sanders 45%, Trump 41%
Are Democrats on track to nominate the wrong candidate? Hillary Clinton has now fallen behind Donald Trump in a head-to-head matchup, while Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders edges out the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.
May 20, 2016
Who's the Conservative Heretic? By Patrick J. Buchanan
In his coquettish refusal to accept the Donald, Paul Ryan says he cannot betray the conservative "principles" of the party of Abraham Lincoln, high among which is a devotion to free trade.
But when did free trade become dogma in the Party of Lincoln?
May 19, 2016
Only 25% Believe There's A Political 'War on Women'
Many politicians and activists claim there is a political “war on women” in America today, but voters are even more convinced that isn't true.
May 19, 2016
Voters Who Care Strongly About Illegal Immigration Expect Trump to Deal With It
Nearly half of voters rate illegal immigration as Very Important to their vote in the upcoming presidential election. These voters don't like how President Obama's dealing with the problem and are much more confident that Donald Trump rather than Hillary Clinton will do a better job.
May 19, 2016
The Veepstakes, Part Two: Trump’s Temptation By Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley
Heading into the 2014 National Football League draft, rumors were swirling that Jerry Jones, the eccentric Dallas Cowboys owner, was considering using his team’s first-round pick on the biggest star available: Johnny Manziel, the controversial star quarterback from Texas A&M. Indeed, when Dallas’ pick came around, and Manziel was still available, Jones reportedly wanted to pick Manziel. But Jones’ son and other team leaders advised Jones against it, and the team instead selected Notre Dame offensive lineman Zack Martin. For months after the May draft, Jones fumed over being talked out of taking Manziel, who he saw as a future star and the kind of flashy selection that defined “America’s Team,” the Cowboys.
May 19, 2016
White House Watch: Trump 42%, Clinton 37%
Donald Trump has now grown his lead over Hillary Clinton in Rasmussen Reports’ first weekly White House Watch survey.
May 18, 2016
Voters Remain Cool to U.S. Involvement In Syria
After weeks of escalated fighting between the Syrian regime and rebel factions, most voters here now consider Syria important to U.S. national security, but they still show little interest in getting more involved.
May 18, 2016
Who Would Make A Better Military Commander – Clinton or Trump?
Voters see Donald Trump as a stronger military leader than Hillary Clinton, but most think they’ll be less safe no matter which of them wins the White House in November.
