The Commentary Pages Are No Tea Party By Froma Harrop
Several columnists recently referred to the tea party "patriots" as terrorists. The terrorist label set off a stormy protest among the group's legion of message writers.
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August 19, 2011
August 19, 2011
58% of GOP Primary Voters See Tea Party As A Plus for Republicans in 2012
While many Democrats, journalists, and establishment Republicans have been critical of the Tea Party, most Republicans think the grass roots smaller government movement will be a plus for their party in next year’s presidential race.
August 18, 2011
28% Say They’re Conservative On Both Fiscal and Social Issues
A plurality of U.S. voters continues to say they’re politically conservative when it comes to fiscal issue, but voters are more evenly divided on their social views.
August 18, 2011
Homeowners Remain Pessimistic About Home Values Over Next Year
Perceptions of home values among homeowners has improved little over the past month, though more than half still believe their home is worth more than when they bought it.
August 18, 2011
49% Concerned Efforts To Identify Illegal Immigrants Will Violate Civil Rights
Voters are showing less concern that anti-immigration efforts will also end up violating civil rights and most continue to oppose automatic citizenship for children born in the United States to illegal immigrants.
August 18, 2011
The Dirty Thirties By Larry J. Sabato
President Obama has found himself in the cellar for the first time since taking office: He fell to 39% in Gallup Poll tracking over the past weekend. Obama may or may not have a month or months when his average is below 40%. Still, it is a number that has already imprinted itself on the mind of the political community.
August 18, 2011
Harry S. Obama? By Michael Barone
Pundits lately have been comparing Barack Obama to Jimmy Carter, suggesting he is a likely loser in 2012. But my American Enterprise Institute colleague Norman Ornstein, writing in The New Republic, compares Obama to Harry S. Truman, suggesting he may outperform the polls and win.
August 18, 2011
68% Expect DC Politics to Become Even More Partisan
While voters feel stronger than they have in a year that politics in Washington will grow more partisan in the near future, they say Democrats in Congress are behaving more bipartisan than Republicans are.
August 17, 2011
15% Say U.S. Heading In Right Direction
Just 15% of Likely U.S. Voters now say the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey taken the week ending Sunday, August 14.
August 17, 2011
New High: 62% Expect To Pay Higher Interest Rates Next Year
More Americans than ever predict they will be paying higher interest rates a year from now, despite the fact that most say they’re paying about the same in interest as they were last year.
August 17, 2011
New Low: Only 15% Now Expect Situation in Afghanistan To Improve Over Next Six Months
Voter confidence about the short-term course of the war in Afghanistan has fallen to its lowest level in nearly two years, while confidence about the direction in Iraq over the next six months has dropped to the lowest point in almost five years of surveying.
August 17, 2011
20% Now Support U.S. Military Action in Libya
Voter support for continued military action in Libya continues to fall along with the number of voters who think dictator Moammar Gaddafi will be removed from power as a result.
August 17, 2011
Perry’s Red-Hot Bernanke Slam By Lawrence Kudlow
Gov. Rick Perry scorched the political pot on Tuesday with a red-hot rhetorical attack on Fed-head Ben Bernanke. When asked about the Fed reopening the monetary spigots, Perry said, “If this guy prints more money between now and the election, I don’t know what y’all would do to him in Iowa, but we -- we would treat him pretty ugly down in Texas.”
August 17, 2011
More Voters Than Ever Worry the Government Will Not Do Enough to Help the Economy
On the heels of the downgrade of the U.S. credit rating, unhappiness with the debt ceiling debates and more unemployment and housing woes, more voters than ever worry that the federal government will not do enough to help the economy.
August 17, 2011
The Authoritarian Temptation By Tony Blankley
In the weeks during and since the debt-ceiling debate, the media, pushed by the Democratic Party, has peddled the propaganda that our government is broken -- because the Republicans in the House of Representatives negotiated a better deal than the liberals wanted.
August 16, 2011
Election 2012: Generic Republican 48%, Obama 42%
For the fifth week in a row, a generic Republican candidate edges President Obama in a hypothetical 2012 election match-up.
August 16, 2011
GOP Primary: Perry 29%, Romney 18%, Bachmann 13%
Texas Governor Rick Perry, the new face in the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, has jumped to a double-digit lead over Mitt Romney and Michele Bachmann with the other announced candidates trailing even further behind.
August 16, 2011
75% Favor Big Cuts in Mail Delivery Rather Than Give More Money to Postal Service
Americans would rather see the U.S. Postal Service dramatically cut its workforce and reduce mail delivery to three or four days a week than have the government pour more money into the financially struggling agency.
August 16, 2011
Perfect Economic Storm Leads to Record-low Sentiments
Americans' ongoing uneasiness about their finances is putting some cracks in how they feel about their retirement nest eggs. The COUNTRY Financial Security Index® dropped one point to 63.7 in June, in part because confidence in retirement reached an all-time low.
August 16, 2011
58% Want to End Small Business Administration Loan Guarantees
Small businesses are seen by many as the heart of the U.S. economy, and most voters think the best way the government can help them is by staying out of the way.
