40% in Pennsylvania Approve of Governor, 60% Disapprove
Sixty percent (60%) of voters in Pennsylvania now disapprove of the job Democrat Ed Rendell is doing as governor, the highest level of disapproval measured since early October 2009.
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July 8, 2010
July 8, 2010
56% Oppose Justice Department Challenge of Arizona Law; 61% Favor Similar Law In Their State
Voters by a two-to-one margin oppose the U.S. Justice Department’s decision to challenge the legality of Arizona’s new immigration law in federal court. Sixty-one percent (61%), in fact, favor passage of a law like Arizona’s in their own state, up six points from two months ago.
July 8, 2010
Thomas' Principled Jurisprudence in Arms Case By Michael Barone
In 1978, Justice Lewis Powell wrote an opinion in the Bakke case asserting that the need for diversity could justify racial preferences in university admissions. No other justice joined this opinion, but because the other justices were split 4-4, Powell's opinion decided the case, and in time his argument has been embraced by a majority of the court. A regrettable result, in my view, but a consequential one.
July 8, 2010
75% Blame State Budget Problems on Politicians’ Unwillingness to Cut Spending
Most Americans report their state currently has a budget crisis, and they continue to blame politicians more than taxpayers for the problem.
July 8, 2010
Obama Should Leave Arizona Alone By Froma Harrop
The Obama administration is challenging Arizona's tough new immigration law, and that's too bad. It's not that the Arizona law is good policy, because it isn't. And it's not that President Obama doesn't have a better idea on immigration reform, because he does. Democrats should know that they play with fire by going after a law that reflects the public's utter frustration with illegal immigration.
July 8, 2010
Florida Senate: Rubio 36%, Crist 34%, Meek 15%
Florida’s Senate race remains all about Republican-turned-independent Charlie Crist and likely GOP nominee Marco Rubio.
July 8, 2010
Show Us the Money By Joe Conason
So often are the certitudes and pronouncements of the chattering class simply mistaken that they must always be treated with deep skepticism. That is especially true when anything important is at stake -- from the arguments for invading Iraq several years ago to today's economic stagnation. Whatever the conventional wisdom tells you must be true is almost certainly false.
July 7, 2010
Kansas Senate: Republican Candidates Still Far Ahead
Republicans Jerry Moran and Todd Tiahrt outdistance all four of their potential Democratic rivals by substantial margins in the race for U.S. Senate in Kansas, a state that hasn't elected a Democrat to the Senate since 1932.
July 7, 2010
Pujols is National League Favorite for All-Star Game
St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Albert Pujols earns more votes than any other National League player to start in this year’s Major League Baseball All-Star Game.
July 7, 2010
79% in New York Favor Cutting State Spending Over Raising Taxes
In the face of strong voter opposition to tax cuts of any kind, New York’s state legislature continues to resist efforts to cut the budget down to size, forcing Governor David Paterson to veto what little he can to reduce the sticker shock for voters.
July 7, 2010
NC Senate: Burr (R) 52% Marshall (D) 37%
North Carolina Secretary of State Elaine Marshall received a big bounce in the polls last month following her run-off victory to win the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. However, the bounce is gone and the race is back to where it’s been for most of the year with Republican Senator Richard Burr enjoying a double digit lead.
July 7, 2010
NC Senate: Burr (R) 52% Marshall (D) 37%
North Carolina Secretary of State Elaine Marshall received a big bounce in the polls last month following her run-off victory to win the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. However, the bounce is gone and the race is back to where it’s been for most of the year with Republican Senator Richard Burr enjoying a double digit lead.
July 7, 2010
Most Americans Not Willing To Pay Higher Taxes For Public Employees, Entitlement Programs
Most Americans would not pay higher taxes for specific public services in their states, but they are more supportive of paying for education and staffing law enforcement than supporting state employees and entitlement programs.
July 7, 2010
The Anatomy of Defeat By Tony Blankley
The Afghan War may be the first one we lose primarily because our civilian leadership did not understand the effect of its public words on our government, our allies and our enemy. Throughout the summer and fall of 2009, as experts were getting more pessimistic about success in Afghanistan, President Obama began having second thoughts. He was conflicted between his campaign statement that Afghanistan was the good and necessary war and his supporters' concerns that America not get bogged down in another unwinnable Vietnam.
July 7, 2010
22% Say U.S. Would Be Safer If Saddam Was Still In Power
With the Iraq war seemingly drawing to a close, 42% of voters believe life in the United States would be more dangerous today if the war had not been fought and Saddam Hussein was still in power. Most (55%) also believe the Iraqi people are better off today because Hussein was removed from power.
July 7, 2010
Oklahoma Governor: Fallin (R) 48%, Edmonson (D) 39%
Congresswoman Mary Fallin remains the most competitive Republican in Oklahoma’s gubernatorial contest, with state Attorney General Drew Edmonson her strongest Democratic opponent.
July 7, 2010
Stunt Season By Susan Estrich
Trying to make news over the holiday weekend and trying to avoid the attention being paid to the latest gaffe from Republican National Committee Chair Michael Steele (who is "the gift that keeps on giving," according to former Democratic National Committee Chair and Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell), Republican leaders put out the story that the president needs to take a trip to the border to see just how dangerous it is.
July 6, 2010
Oklahoma Senate: Coburn Outdistances His Democratic Foes
The good news for Oklahoma Democrats is that Republican Senator Tom Coburn, a champion of term limits, says he will not seek reelection in 2016. The bad news is that Coburn is far ahead of both his Democratic challengers in his bid for reelection this year.
July 6, 2010
Kansas Governor: Brownback (R) 59%, Holland (D) 31%
Republican Sam Brownback still holds an overwhelming lead over his Democratic opponent Tom Holland in the contest for governor of Kansas.
July 6, 2010
Yankees Still Favored to Win 2010 World Series
As the 2010 Major League Baseball season reaches its halfway point, fans of the game still think the New York Yankees will most likely win their second straight World Series Championship.
