On Wednesday, the Public Religion Research Institute released its new American Values Atlas. It is full of information regarding the American public’s religious identity, political views on hot-button issues such as abortion and immigration, and demographic information for regions, states, and major metropolitan areas. This atlas should prove to be […] Read more »
What Americans Actually Think About Immigration
On immigration reform, rhetoric has often been out of sync with public opinion. Despite roughly three-quarters of Americans supporting the goals behind President Obama’s executive action on immigration, Obama’s new immigration plan has run into repeated Republican roadblocks. CONT. Robert P. Jones, Public Religion Research Institute Read more »
6 Years On, Is The Tea Party Here To Stay?
It was February of 2009. President Obama had been in office less than a full month. His approval rating was over 60 and nearly 60% of the House and Senate seats were held by Democrats. The country seem poised on the edge of a new era, perhaps even another New […] Read more »
Americans’ Views of U.S. Position in World Steady
Thirty-seven percent of Americans are satisfied and 61% dissatisfied with the position of the U.S. in the world today. These views are unchanged from last year, even after a series of significant challenges for U.S. foreign policy. Americans’ satisfaction is a bit higher than at the end of the Bush […] Read more »
Shut it down – again
… President Obama decided that, in carrying out the laws of the United States, he is going to focus on deporting dangerous felons, not grandmothers with families who are citizens. Irate at the notion that grandmas are being coddled, while felons are given a hard time, the GOP is bound […] Read more »
Many Republicans gambling that a new shutdown would not hurt their party
… Some Republican stalwarts fear another government shutdown, even a partial one, could deliver a deep political wound to the party. … But buoyed by a Texas federal judge’s order last week to temporarily halt the president’s immigration plan, other Republicans are betting heavily that this time things will end […] Read more »