As the COVID-19 omicron variant surges throughout the United States, this week’s Ipsos’ Core Political finds that COVID-19 remains one of the top issues that Americans want President Joe Biden to prioritize. President Biden’s overall approval rating remains stable, but his approval rating on COVID-19 has dropped. Americans are most […] Read more »
Biden’s economic message needs a reality check
… Per our Jan. 2-4 Winning the Issues survey, our first of the year, what we’re seeing isn’t a “failure to communicate” on the part of Biden, his administration and congressional Democrats, but a failure to connect with the reality most Americans are facing and the priorities people want addressed. […] Read more »
Biden’s First Year
One year into his term in office, President Joe Biden is seeing his approval decline and nearly two-thirds of Americans say the country is on the wrong track, according to the results of a recent University of Massachusetts Amherst Poll released today. The nationwide poll of 1,000 respondents found 53% […] Read more »
If Democrats can’t pass their agenda now, they may not get another chance for years. Here’s why
The last four times a president went into midterm elections holding unified control of the White House, Senate and House of Representatives, as Joe Biden and Democrats do now, voters have revoked it. It happened to Donald Trump in 2018, Barack Obama in 2010, George W. Bush in 2006 and […] Read more »
Biden Approval Rating Relapses As Omicron Surges, Stock Market Slumps
President Joe Biden’s approval rating has slipped back underwater amid fading support for his handling of the pandemic. Rising inflation concerns also are hurting the president. And investors may be rethinking their support as the stock market, particularly the tech sector, wobbles amid hawkish Federal Reserve signals. The January IBD/TIPP […] Read more »
The immovable Republican Party and ‘ink-blot politics’
Supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. It was an effort to stop the procedural certification of a presidential election that Joe Biden won and Trump lost. The mob was egged on by conspiracies and Trump’s lies about that 2020 election. Those are facts. […] Read more »