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 June 11.
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June 15, 2015
June 15, 2015
Evil Employers Can Lay You Off, But You Don't Have To Go Quietly by Ted Rall
You've seen it in movies: Gangsters are going to kill a guy. But before they do, they force him to dig his own grave. Who would go along with that? Why, during their final moments alive, doesn't the victim avail himself of the chance to die defiantly, with dignity, going to his death with the small pleasure of knowing that his assassin will at least be inconvenienced by the disposal of his body?
June 15, 2015
Should the U.S. Constitution Still Be the Nation’s Legal Bedrock?
Voters may question just how faithful President Obama has been to the U.S. Constitution, but they continue to stand firm in their own belief about the document that has been the supreme law of the United States for 227 years. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
June 15, 2015
Voters Think the Terrorists Winning
More voters than ever now say the terrorists are winning the War on Terror.
June 13, 2015
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending June 13, 2015
Some Americans think this checks-and-balances thing is overrated.
June 12, 2015
More Voters Say Obama Is Less Faithful to Constitution
On issues from immigration policy to Obamacare, Obama’s executive actions have sparked criticism that the president acted outside the Constitution by circumventing Congress. But are Obama’s actions any different than those of his predecessors?
June 12, 2015
In Turkey and Mexico, Voters try to Strengthen Electoral Democracy By Michael Barone
Another election, another surprise. Actually, two elections, in two countries last weekend, with surprisingly pleasant surprises. And in two very large countries: Turkey (population 82 million) and Mexico (119 million), both very important to the United States.
June 12, 2015
Americans Prefer Living in Neighborhoods With Guns
American Voters overwhelming prefer living in a neighborhood where they have the option of owning a gun than to live where nobody is allowed to be armed.
June 12, 2015
Why America Hates the GOP-Obamatrade Deal By Michelle Malkin
Constitutional conservatives don't like it. Trade unions abhor it. Obama critics hate it. Environmentalists despise it.
Outside the Beltway bubble, a broad coalition of voters from the left, right and center opposes the mega-trade deal getting rammed through Congress this week by the Republican establishment on behalf of the White House. Here's why.
June 11, 2015
Voters Say Yes to Handguns, No to Assault Weapons
Voters still tend to see no need for more gun control in America and remain strongly opposed to a complete ban on handguns. But semi-automatic and assault-type weapons are another story.
June 11, 2015
To Metric or Not to Metric – That is the Question
Is America ready – finally – to go metric along with the rest of the world? No more miles, pounds and inches, but kilometers, grams and centimeters instead.
June 11, 2015
Ohio, New Mexico the Best Presidential Bellwethers By Kyle Kondik
The Buckeye State, long recognized as perhaps the nation’s premier presidential swing state, deserves its status. In the 30 presidential elections since 1896, Ohio has correctly picked the winner 28 times.
Ohio has company at the top though -- it beats out another top presidential swing state, New Mexico, by only a hair. Like Ohio, the Land of Enchantment has also only been incorrect twice, but because statehood arrived in 1912, its record is just 24-2, and thus it has a slightly lower batting average (92%) than Ohio (93%).
June 11, 2015
Voters Question Whether Ukraine Is Worth It to the U.S.
President Obama and Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush have both been pushing this week for tougher sanctions against Russia over the continuing political unrest in Ukraine. But Americans don’t see that get-tough position as good for this country.
June 10, 2015
Immigration Numbers Leave Voters Guessing
Most U.S. voters are unaware that the number of legal immigrants outnumber those who come to the United States illegally.
June 10, 2015
Who Needs the Courts Anyway?
The Constitution can be such a hassle when you’re trying to do the right thing, President Obama complains. The president who bypassed Congress to reshape his health care law and to change the nation’s immigration policy is now upset that the courts may find those unilateral actions unconstitutional.
June 10, 2015
Teach for America's Professional Agitators by Michelle Malkin
It's increasingly difficult to tell the difference between Teach for America -- whose leaders are at the forefront of inflammatory anti-police protests in Baltimore, Ferguson, and now McKinney, Texas -- and left-wing activist groups such as Organizing for Action (President Obama's partisan community organizing army).
June 10, 2015
Green Lies By John Stossel
Millions go to SeaWorld to learn more about sea life and get closer to killer whales. But fewer go now because the documentary "Blackfish" exposed what one reporter called "the darker side" of SeaWorld.
The movie, which CNN bought and ran over and over, tells how greedy businessmen take baby whales from their mothers and imprison them in small aquariums, where the frustrated animals are a threat to each other and their trainers.
June 10, 2015
Does Lincoln Chafee Stand A Chance?
Lincoln Chafee who held statewide office in Rhode Island both as a Republican and as an Independent has an uphill battle in his bid to become the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee. For starters, he needs to help voters in his own party get to know him better.
June 9, 2015
Time to Push Both Republicans and Democrats Aside?
A sizable number of voters think it’s time for a major new political party because Republicans and Democrats aren’t getting the job done.
June 9, 2015
Who Lost Iraq? By Thomas Sowell
After the pro-Western government of China was forced to flee to the island of Taiwan in 1949, when the Communists took over mainland China, bitter recriminations in Washington led to the question: "Who lost China?" China was, of course, never ours to lose, though it might be legitimate to ask if a different American policy toward China could have led to a different outcome.
