29% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Twenty-nine percent (29%) of Likely U.S. Voters now think the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey for the week ending September 10.
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September 14, 2015
September 14, 2015
Are Democrats Ready for Biden?
Democrats still aren’t clamoring for Vice President Joe Biden to jump into the race for their party’s presidential nomination.
September 12, 2015
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending September 12, 2015
Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan writes this week about the growing divide between the elites and those they govern, and there was more proof of it in our latest polls.
September 11, 2015
Trump Change: ‘The Donald’ Is Still the Odds-On Favorite
Donald Trump lost a little ground over the past week, according to Rasmussen Reports’ latest Trump Change survey.
September 11, 2015
America's Reckless Refuge for Jihad by Michelle Malkin
On the anniversary week of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, President Obama is rolling out the welcome mat to tens of thousands of Syrian Muslim refugees. What could go wrong?
September 11, 2015
In Praise of Monarchy By Michael Barone
Some time in the early evening of Wednesday, London time, Queen Elizabeth II broke a record: she became the longest-serving monarch in British history, beating her great-great-grandmother Victoria's reign of 63 years and 216 days. She is also, at 89, by a solid stretch the longest-lived British monarch.
September 11, 2015
Should U.S. Take Migrants to Help Out Europe?
President Obama announced yesterday that the United States will take in up to 10,000 Middle Eastern migrants to help alleviate the illegal immigration crisis now besetting Europe. Americans aren't sure that's such a good idea.
September 10, 2015
Hate Congress, Love Your Congressman? Not Quite
Ratings for Congress’ overall performance have dipped, but voters are a bit more positive about their local representatives.
September 10, 2015
Most Think Iran Unlikely to Honor Nuclear Weapons Deal
Despite the opposition of most members of Congress, the Obama administration appears to have maneuvered its nuclear weapons deal with Iran into reality. But most voters still don’t trust Iran to play ball.
September 10, 2015
Obama’s half answers bolster mullahs By Charles Hurt
You may not like ex-Vice President Dick Cheney and you may not miss former President George W. Bush but you have to give them credit. They did not do things halfway.
September 10, 2015
This 9/11, Voters See Terrorists As Winning
Fourteen years after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, concern that the terrorists have the upper hand in the ongoing War on Terror remains near a record high.
September 10, 2015
The Real Presidential Deadlines By Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley
The presidential fields on both sides are so much in flux that rumors of new candidates entering the race continue. For the Democrats, the whispers about Vice President Joe Biden making a late charge into the fray have become roars. Biden made a campaign-style appearance at a Labor Day rally in Pittsburgh and otherwise seems to be strongly considering a run as frontrunner Hillary Clinton’s polling has dipped significantly (though to us she remains the clear favorite for the Democratic nomination).
September 9, 2015
Trump Tops Clinton in Economic Trust
They remain in the lead for their respective party’s presidential nomination, but how do voters rate former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and billionaire businessman Donald Trump head-to-head on specific issues facing the nation? Trump holds a double-digit lead in voter trust when it comes to the economy and immigration and is slightly ahead in the area of national security. Clinton holds small leads on social policy and the environment.
September 9, 2015
GOP Voters Question Whether Jeb Agrees More with Hillary Than With Them
Democrats are more confident than Republicans that Jeb Bush will be next year’s GOP presidential candidate, perhaps in part because a lot of Republicans suspect Bush agrees more with Hillary Clinton than with the average voter in his own party.
September 9, 2015
Meet Candy Carson: The Anti-Michelle Obama by Michelle Malkin
After nearly eight years of the East Wing's politics of mope and complain, it's refreshing to see a presidential candidate's spouse who is always smiling.
September 9, 2015
Cutting Red Tape By John Stossel
I'm upset that the presidential candidates, all of them, rarely mention a huge problem: the quiet cancer that kills opportunity -- regulation. The accumulated burden of it is the reason that America is stuck in the slowest economic recovery since the Depression.
I understand why candidates don't talk about it: Regulation is boring. But it's important.
September 9, 2015
What Do The SATs Measure Anyway?
The Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) is set to be revamped soon following reports that scores across the country have fallen to troubling lows. But do poor SAT scores really mean poor students?
September 8, 2015
Voters Show Little Sympathy for Jailed Clerk in Gay Marriage Spat
A federal judge has sent a Kentucky county clerk to jail for refusing to issue wedding licenses to gay couples despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in late June upholding the legality of same-sex marriage. The clerk insists that gay marriage violates her Christian beliefs.
September 8, 2015
Black Lives Matter's Agenda Is Costing Black Lives By Michael Barone
I've seen this movie before. And for the last 25 years, I thought I'd never have to watch it again. But now it's playing, not in theaters, but all over mainstream media, with something like rave reviews from the president and his administration.
