Whoever President Joe Biden nominates to the Supreme Court is likely to spend at least the first decade, and possibly much more, of her tenure on the losing side of many key rulings decided by the court’s conservative, Republican-appointed majority. That stark prospect, though rarely discussed, looms as perhaps the […] Read more »
Biden Approval Rating Crashes As Democrats Cool, Investors Turn Negative
President Joe Biden’s approval rating dived to the lowest of his presidency, close to President Donald Trump’s standing as he exited office, the February IBD/TIPP Poll finds. … The February IBD/TIPP Poll finds that Biden’s approval rating fell 4.8 points to 44.4 over the past month. That index measure indicates […] Read more »
Led by Trump, GOP increasingly casts White people as racism’s victims
Early barbs for President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court selection process have helped crystallize a rising Republican line of attack against Democrats. “He’s saying, ‘If you’re a White guy, tough luck,’ ” complained Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas. Cruz was referring to Biden’s vow to name a Black woman to the […] Read more »
Joe Biden should be thankful he’s polling better than Boris Johnson
President Joe Biden has the worst approval rating after one year in office of nearly every elected president, except for former President Donald Trump. But a look across the Atlantic Ocean shows that things can always be worse for Biden. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, a Conservative Party member, is […] Read more »
How would the American public respond to a Russian invasion of Ukraine?
President Joe Biden has said that Russia would experience “enormous consequences” if it invaded Ukraine, but that he has “no intention” of moving military forces into the country. Opinion polls suggest this might be more or less what the American people want. Across the political spectrum, a strong majority supports […] Read more »
Americans support a diplomatic boycott of the Winter Olympics
The 2022 Winter Olympics opened today in Beijing, with US athletes in attendance but US government officials absent, out of concern about China’s human rights record. This is the first official US diplomatic boycott since the 1984 games. … Although critics of the US say that the boycott has unnecessarily […] Read more »