Over the past few weeks, members of Congress, journalists and television hosts agreed on one thing: The looming government shutdown was a huge deal. Then, after the shutdown ended, those same people pontificated about who won and who lost, as well as about liberal dissatisfaction with the deal to open […] Read more »
Fox News Poll: Voters spread the blame for government shutdown
Voters love to hate Congress. The latest Fox News Poll shows only 15 percent approve of the job Congress is doing. That’s close to the record low 9 percent recorded in October 2013. A year ago, 17 percent of voters approved (January 2017). … Democrats (32 percent) are the top […] Read more »
The prosperity paradox is dividing the country in two
While President Donald Trump relentlessly claims credit for the strengthening economy, the nation’s economic growth is being driven overwhelmingly by the places that are most resistant to him. Counties that voted for Hillary Clinton against Trump in 2016 accounted for nearly three-fourths of the nation’s increased economic output and almost […] Read more »
Public Has Mixed Expectations for New Tax Law
A month after Donald Trump and Congress passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the public has mixed views of the sweeping tax overhaul and its long-term impact. Just as support in Congress for the legislation was divided along party lines, there are wide partisan gaps among the public in […] Read more »
Democrats, Trump to blame for government shutdown
Americans blame President Donald Trump and congressional Democrats about equally for the three-day government shutdown that ended Monday with another stopgap spending measure, according to a new NBC News|SurveyMonkey poll. CONT. Stephanie Perry & John Lapinski, NBC News Read more »
The last time women backed House Democrats so broadly? 2006.
As more than a million people marched in U.S. cities for the second straight year in protests centered on the rights of women, The Washington Post and our partners at ABC News released a new poll. In it, we found a wide gap between men and women on several central […] Read more »