Despite the rise of the tea party and unified Republican control of government, one decidedly anti-free-market idea appears ascendant: single-payer health care. And it’s no wonder, given that a record-high share of the population receives government-provided health insurance. As a country, we’ve long since acquiesced to the idea that Uncle […] Read more »
Most Americans support medical marijuana but are divided on legalizing recreational weed
More Americans favor some form of marijuana legalization than oppose it, an exclusive new Yahoo News/Marist Poll, “Weed & the American Family,” found. And that’s especially true for medical marijuana. CONT. Dylan Stableford, Yahoo News Read more »
How GOP Voters Are Getting in the Way of a Medicaid Rollback
President Trump on Wednesday signaled his determination to mount another drive to repeal the Affordable Care Act, but he faces a surprising obstacle: unexpectedly widespread Republican resistance to cutting Medicaid. That hesitation, following decades of GOP efforts to retrench the program, powerfully demonstrates how the party’s growing reliance on economically […] Read more »
Americans Name Dissatisfaction With Government as Top Problem
More than one in five U.S. adults cite dissatisfaction with the government and political leadership as the most important problem in the country. This is by far the problem U.S. adults most frequently mention, followed by healthcare, immigration and the economy. Americans have often named government dissatisfaction as the top […] Read more »
Focus groups find early breakthrough moment in off-years
America has been roiled by the election of Donald Trump and total Republican control of the federal government. Will it be roiled again by a wave election in the coming off-year elections? That would require engaged and consolidated anti-Trump voters, demoralized Trump supporters and independent voters reacting against Trump and […] Read more »
CNBC survey: Trump’s agenda is popular, until he acts on it
The CNBC All-America Survey shows President Donald Trump’s economic agenda polling well — until he actually acts on it. The survey of 804 Americans, conducted April 3-6, before the Syrian airstrikes, shows strong support for his plans to rebuild the nation’s infrastructure, cut individual taxes and renegotiate trade deals. But […] Read more »