27% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Twenty-seven percent (27%) of Likely U.S. Voters think the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey for the week ending November 5.
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November 9, 2015
November 9, 2015
Americans Are More Confident In Home Sellers Market
Americans are more convinced that their local housing market is good for sellers, although homeowners’ expectations for their own home values have stayed about the same.
November 9, 2015
Support Grows for State Enforcement of Immigration Laws
Most voters continue to believe the federal government is not interested in stopping illegal immigration, and support for state rather than federal enforcement of immigration laws is now at its highest level in several years.
November 7, 2015
Cops Gone Wild: Police Unions Are Killing Our Freedoms by Ted Rall
Police unions are out of control.
November 7, 2015
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending November 7, 2015
No matter what some elected officials tell them, Americans just aren’t buying the need for a lot more gun control.
November 6, 2015
Trump Change: Most GOP Voters Still See Trump As Likely Nominee
It still looks like a “Donald” world as far as most Republican voters are concerned.
The latest Rasmussen Reports weekly Trump Change survey finds that 64% of Likely Republican Voters think Donald Trump is likely to be the GOP presidential nominee next year, but 33% still consider that outcome unlikely. This includes 19% who say a Trump nomination is Very Likely and 10% who consider it Not At All Likely. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
November 6, 2015
Who's Burning Black Churches? Oh. By Michelle Malkin
Here we go again: another liberal narrative burned to a crisp.
November 6, 2015
Americans Nix Transgender Use of Opposite Sex Restrooms
The U.S. Department of Education on Monday criticized a suburban Chicago school district for not allowing transgender students access to girls' locker rooms and restrooms, but voters in Houston a day later repealed a law barring discrimination against transgender individuals in large part because of concerns that the law would allow men claiming to be women to use women's bathrooms.
November 6, 2015
Liberals' Response to Dissent: 'Shut Up' by Michael Barone
'Shut up,' he explained. That's a sentence from Ring Lardner's short story "The Young Immigrunts." It's an exasperated father's response from the driver's seat to his child's question, "Are you lost, Daddy?"
November 5, 2015
Americans See Heroin Abuse on the Rise
Heroin abuse is now the number one drug threat in the country, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration, and Americans say it’s affecting their communities.
November 5, 2015
Voters Expect More U.S. Troops to Go to Syria
Voter confidence in the Obama administration’s fight against the radical Islamic group ISIS is down despite the president’s decision to send a small number of troops to Syria, perhaps because voters strongly suspect that more will soon be on the way.
November 5, 2015
1968: Ball of Confusion -- A year of chaos that makes today’s political battles seem tame by comparison By Larry J. Sabato
The UVA Center for Politics’ latest documentary, Ball of Confusion, has begun airing on PBS stations across the nation this week. Check your local listings to see when it’s playing in your area, and click on the image below to watch the trailer. The documentary recounts the three-way presidential contest among Richard Nixon, Hubert Humphrey, and George Wallace held against the backdrop of the Vietnam War and civil unrest at home. That election, decided 47 years ago today, remains amongst the most extraordinary in American history, as Larry J. Sabato writes below.
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November 5, 2015
35% Favor Expanding List of Those Who Can't Buy Guns
Support for the current federal system of background checks on gun purchasers remains high, but voters still question their effectiveness in reducing crime. One-in-three voters, however, want to expand the list of people who can be denied a gun.
November 4, 2015
Freshman Senator Gives Pep Talk To Vapid Chamber Of Fake Debate By Charles Hurt
When was the last time you heard a sitting politician give a speech that made you stop and think? A speech where you actually learned something?
When was the last time you heard a vicious excoriation of Washington and Congress and the whole federal government, yet saw the first glimmer of hope that perhaps all is not already completely lost?
November 4, 2015
Was Mixed Pot Message Toxic to Ohio Vote?
Ohio voters yesterday rejected by nearly a two-to-one margin a ballot initiative that would have legalized both medical and recreational marijuana, but mixing the two into one vote may have been supporters’ biggest mistake.
November 4, 2015
Beat the Elite by John Stossel
We love to complain about elites, people who seem to have a special advantage, privileges in life.
November 4, 2015
Voters Doubt Sincerity of Politicians Who Raise Gun Issues
Republicans rate gun issues more important to their vote than others do, but there’s a great deal of skepticism among all voters about politicians who raise gun-related issues.
November 4, 2015
You're Doing It Wrong, 'The View' By Michelle Malkin
It looks like those elitist harridans on ABC's "The View" learned nothing from the national backlash over their mockery of nurse Kelley Johnson less than eight weeks ago.
Guess they've already forgotten how major advertisers Johnson & Johnson, Party City, McCormick spices, Snuggle, and Eggland's Best all pulled spots from the show after co-host and lead Mean Girl Michelle Collins led a cacklefest ridiculing Johnson, Miss Colorado 2015, for a heartfelt monologue about her work during the Miss America pageant.
November 3, 2015
Voters Favor 'Kate's Law' Sentences for Illegal Immigrant Felons
Senate Democrats recently blocked "Kate's Law," legislation intended to impose mandatory prison terms on illegal immigrants convicted of major felonies who have been deported but have again entered the United States illegally. The law was named after Kate Steinle, the young woman murdered this summer in San Francisco by just such a person.
November 3, 2015
What Happens When an Irresistible Force Meets an Immoveable Object? By Michael Barone
What happens when an irresistible force meets an immoveable object?That's one question raised by the 2016 presidential campaign.
