Just 25% Recognize That Most Americans Are Investors
Half of all Americans own stocks, bonds or mutual funds, but most are also unaware of that fact.
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February 11, 2011
February 11, 2011
Homeowners Remain Wary About Short-Term Housing Recovery, Confident About Long-Term Market Values
Homeowners continue to hold little hope for the value of their house in the short-term and show no new confidence in long-term recovery.
February 11, 2011
How Clinton Balanced the Budget By Joe Conason
As America approaches the deadline for increasing the statutory national debt -- or risking a catastrophic default on our obligations to creditors and citizens -- there is no shortage of stupid ideas to restore fiscal order.
February 11, 2011
The Shirtless Congressman By Susan Estrich
At one level, it's astoundingly funny: a congressman telling a woman with whom he is flirting that the only picture he has of himself is shirtless. If there is one thing every congressman has, it is pictures of himself in a shirt. Often, stuffed.
February 11, 2011
60% Have Favorable Opinion of Hillary Clinton
With the crisis in Egypt dominating the headlines, most voters give good marks to America’s chief diplomat, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
February 10, 2011
Coffee Drinkers Buy Starbucks More But Like Dunkin’ Better
Maybe it's the doughnuts that make the difference. While Americans are more likely to buy their coffee at Starbucks, they like Dunkin' Donuts better.
February 10, 2011
43% Say Government Policy Mistakes Created Great Depression of 1930s, 26% Disagree
Economists still argue about what caused the Great Depression of the 1930s and what got the nation out of it.
February 10, 2011
62% Still Favor Death Penalty for Fort Hood Killer
Voters are now more inclined to view the November 2009 massacre at Fort Hood, Texas as a criminal act rather than terrorism, but they feel just as strongly that the Muslim U.S. Army major charged with the killings should be executed if convicted in his upcoming trial.
February 10, 2011
Lieberman, Harman and Vanishing Democratic Moderates By Michael Barone
Political pundits of a certain stripe have been lamenting the disappearance of Republican moderates for years. It's time now to lament the disappearance of moderate Democrats.
February 10, 2011
48% Say Shifting Military Money To Border Security Would Make America Safer
Nearly half of U.S. voters think America would be a safer place with less spending on the military and more money put into securing the borders.
February 10, 2011
AOL/HuffPo Meet Corporate Greed By Debra J. Saunders
In one of her many iterations, Arianna Huffington targeted "corporate greed" as a force undermining America. That was during one of her populist phases, which frequently are followed by Huffington morphing into what she once scorned.
February 9, 2011
30% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Thirty percent (30%) of Likely U.S. Voters say the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey taken the week ending Sunday, February 6. That’s down two points from the previous two weeks.
February 9, 2011
15% Say U.S. Needs A New National Anthem
Oh, say can you see … uh, what comes after that?
February 9, 2011
Just 45% Know That U.S. Has World’s Biggest Economy
The United States of America boasts the world’s largest economy, but fewer than half the nation’s voters recognize this fact.
February 9, 2011
35% Say Their Home Is Worth Less Than What They Still Owe
The number of homeowners who say their homes are worth more than what they still owe on their mortgage has fallen to its lowest level in nearly two years.
February 9, 2011
Egyptian Army Is West's Best Hope By Tony Blankley
Last Sunday, the media were reporting that the Muslim Brotherhood was sitting down with Egyptian Vice President Omar Suleiman, in a completely unrelated story, the BBC reported that British Prime Minster David Cameron announced that "State multiculturalism has failed": "David Cameron has criticized 'state multiculturalism' in his first speech as prime minister on radicalization and the causes of terrorism.
February 9, 2011
Romantic Revolutions By Susan Estrich
In the first days of the demonstrations in Egypt, almost everyone I know was glued to their television. Many of them were caught up in what they saw as the romanticism of the moment: students and young people in the streets, willing to risk their lives to stand up to a tyrannical regime and replace it with a democracy. Irresistible.
February 9, 2011
January's Unemployment Report Was a Snow Job By Lawrence Kudlow
The January employment report was a complete snow job. Abominable winter blizzards across the country caused 886,000 workers to report "not at work due to bad weather," according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This is 600,000 more than the normal 300,000 not at work for the average January of the past decade.
February 9, 2011
80% Say Terrorists Are Bigger Threat to U.S. Than Traditional Wars
While U.S. troops are fighting daily in Afghanistan, the nation's longest-running war, voters overwhelmingly think terrorism is a bigger threat to the country than traditional wars.
