… The Hillary Clinton e-mail controversy is just the latest entrée in a decades-long, calorie-rich menu provided by the former first lady and her husband. But will it make a difference in 2016? Scandal allegations are almost always an enormously time-consuming distraction and they make it virtually impossible to communicate […] Read more »
George W. Bush’s Quiet Comeback
If Hillary Clinton runs for president, many analysts note that she’ll have a formidable surrogate campaigner in her husband, the popular former President Bill Clinton. The other likely 2016 candidate from a presidential dynasty, Jeb Bush, probably won’t have the same family star power in his corner. … There are […] Read more »
About Half Say Obama Doing Good Job on Environment
As President Barack Obama works to make environmental protection a key issue in the final two years of his administration, about half of Americans (52%) say he is doing a “good job” of protecting the environment. They are less likely to say he is doing a good job of improving […] Read more »
The Trouble With Being Jeb
For some time, polls have found former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush with higher negative ratings than one might expect of someone who has never before run for president or, until recently, maintained a high national political profile. … While political reporters, activists, and aficionados may be quite well versed in, […] Read more »
Republicans Like The Bushes’ Stances On Foreign Policy
Jeb Bush gave his brother, former president George W. Bush, a big bear hug today — foreign policy wise, at least. … That got me thinking: With Jeb trying to win the GOP presidential nomination, how do Republicans — coming on seven years after the end of W’s term — […] Read more »
For Presidents Day, a look at presidential job approval ratings from Ike to Obama
Perhaps no measure better captures the public’s sentiment toward the president than job approval. It dates back to the earliest days of public opinion polling, when George Gallup asked about Franklin D. Roosevelt starting in the 1930s: “Do you approve or disapprove of the way ____ is handling his job […] Read more »