27% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Twenty-seven percent (27%) 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 October 29.
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November 2, 2015
November 2, 2015
Americans Think Politicians Don’t Want to Cut Spending
The United States remains by far the world’s largest debtor nation and is currently running a budget deficit of nearly $129 billion. Congress late last week approved a controversial bipartisan plan that allows the government to borrow even more. Voters want less government, but as far as they’re concerned, their elected representatives refuse to listen.
November 2, 2015
Obama’s Full-Month Approval Ratings Hold Steady in October
When tracking President Obama’s job approval on a daily basis, people sometimes get so caught up in the day-to-day fluctuations that they miss the bigger picture. To look at the longer-term trends, Rasmussen Reports compiles the numbers on a full-month basis, and the results can be seen in the graphics below.
October 31, 2015
Politics Behind a Pay Wall: If CNBC Sponsors a Debate, Did It Really Happen? By Ted Rall
There are two kinds of media censorship: direct and self-directed.
October 31, 2015
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending October 31, 2015
Right now voters look at the presidential race and think they’re damned if they do, damned if they don’t.
October 30, 2015
Americans Find Room in School for Halloween
Halloween may not be an important holiday to most Americans, but they still think kids should be able to celebrate it in the schools.
October 30, 2015
Daylight Saving Time: Fall Back
Daylight Saving Time ends this Sunday, and most Americans will remember to change their clocks. But not all will change them the right way.
October 30, 2015
Free Stuff Can Turn Out to Be a Bad Buy By Michael Barone
Free college! That's what the Democratic candidates were offering in their presidential debate. And it's likely that, if the subject had come up, they would have offered something like free home mortgages as well, to judge from Hillary Clinton's statement that she had urged Wall Street to stop mortgage foreclosures. Sounds a lot like free houses!
October 30, 2015
Trump Still the Clear Leader After Latest Debate
Did Wednesday night’s debate make a difference in the Republican presidential race?
October 30, 2015
Melissa Harris-Perry Needs a Trip to Hard Work U by Michelle Malkin
MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry is the cable TV pioneer who broke the tastelessness barrier for feminists by wearing tampons as earrings on air in 2013. This week, she made ignominious history again -- as the race-baiting fool in an ivory tower bubble who believes the words "hard worker" are a slur against black slaves and moms who don't have health care.
October 30, 2015
Trump Change: Most Still See ‘The Donald’ On Track
Most Republicans still believe Donald Trump is the man to beat for their party’s presidential nomination in 2016.
The latest Rasmussen Reports Trump Change national telephone survey finds that 56% of Likely Republican Voters think Trump is likely to be the GOP nominee, with 30% who say it is Very Likely. Thirty-four percent (34%) disagree, including 10% who feel a Trump nomination is Not At All Likely. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
October 29, 2015
Free Market or Closing the Income Gap?
Voters still think policies that are pro-free market are important for the economy, but are they more important than those that reduce the income gap between rich and poor?
October 29, 2015
Most Democrats View Socialism Favorably
The man currently running a distant second for the Democratic presidential nomination, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, is a self-declared socialist, and most of his party’s voters now have a positive view of socialism. They are almost evenly divided as to whether they like capitalism or socialism more.
October 29, 2015
Republicans 2016: Where the Race Stands Now By Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley
The third Republican presidential debate, held in Colorado on Wednesday night, was an odd, disjointed affair. The moderators arguably engaged in too much confrontation with the candidates and had a hard time divvying up the speaking time. With 10 candidates on the stage, the problems of the first two debates — too many candidates, too little time — became more apparent than ever.
October 29, 2015
GOP Wins, CNBC Loses Last Night’s Debate
The latest Republican presidential debate was a textbook example of the media bias voters have complained about in surveys for years.
October 28, 2015
Most Say Hard Work Doesn't Pay
Hard work used to be synonymous with some degree of success, but most voters think the economy now frowns on those who work hard in this country.
October 28, 2015
Anti-Trump Glee Leaves GOP With Single-digit Candidates By Charles Hurt
To hear the GOP establishment squeal with such glee, you would think there was a fire sale going on down at Brooks Brothers. Or maybe Congress just passed a law making country club dues tax-deductible. Or somebody invented a glow-in-the-dark golf ball.
October 28, 2015
How Do GOP Voters Rate Their White House Contenders?
Going into their party’s third presidential debate this evening, Republicans aren’t overly enthusiastic about the candidates hoping to be the GOP standard-bearer next year.
October 28, 2015
Fear By John Stossel
This Halloween, what do you fear?
I fear fear itself because when we are afraid, we willingly give away our freedoms.
October 28, 2015
A Closetful of Hillary Clinton's Immigration Costumes by Michelle Malkin
When it comes to immigration policy, Hillary Clinton's had more career costume changes than her new BFF Katy Perry.
