There’s nothing new about calls to replace the Electoral College with a national popular vote. Until recently, partisans on both sides supported a constitutional amendment to do such a thing. Frustration over a polarized and politicized Supreme Court has been going on forever. Activists on both sides have been pushing […] Read more »
President Trump Still Wants to Repeal Obamacare
The health-care proposal likely to loom largest over the 2020 presidential election was released last week—and it didn’t come from a Democrat. In the 2020 federal budget that President Donald Trump unveiled, he renewed his commitment to repealing the Affordable Care Act and replacing it with a block-grant system that […] Read more »
This isn’t Nancy Pelosi’s first impeachment rodeo
… Earlier this month, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who remembers 1998 and the price Republicans paid for impeachment, made her position clear: “I’m not for impeachment. … Unless there’s something so compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan, I don’t think we should go down that path, because it divides the country. And […] Read more »
Trump declared an (unpopular) national emergency — and lost no public support
CNN’s latest poll shows President Donald Trump’s approval rating hitting 43% with voters and 42% with all adults. That’s not great, but it matches other recent polling that illustrates the President’s approval rating is clearly up after crevassing during the government shutdown in January. Another way to look at these […] Read more »
Job Approval of Congress Reaches Two-Year High
Congress’ 26% job approval rating is the highest it has been in over two years. Congress last had a higher reading — 28% approval — in February 2017, shortly after Donald Trump became president and began working with Republican majorities in both houses of Congress. CONT. Jeffrey M. Jones, Gallup Read more »
Experts push back on Trump-touted poll that shows 50% of Americans calling Mueller probe a ‘witch hunt’
President Donald Trump on Monday touted poll results that appeared to show more Americans than ever siding with his oft-repeated accusation that special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe is nothing more than a “witch hunt.” … But multiple polling experts took exception to the structure of the question. “I’m sorry […] Read more »