New polling from NBC/Wall Street Journal shows a public still struggling to regain its economic footing six years after the financial meltdown of 2008. Americans’ real economic distress is one reason why President Obama is not getting credit for a steadily dropping unemployment rate and improved economic growth. The other […] Read more »
The Political Risks of an Obama Executive Action on Immigration
With hopes fading of passing an immigration reform bill, President Obama is reportedly contemplating bypassing Congress and making sweeping changes to immigration policy before the midterm elections. … Such a broad executive action could provoke a backlash in the midterm elections that might be avoided with a move just a […] Read more »
Americans’ views of Obama, Congress, political parties: Gloomy
Americans’ views of both political parties are negative and nearly match historic lows, a new CBS News poll reveals. Just 29 percent of Americans have a favorable view of the Republican Party, down four points from May and just one point above the lowest favorability rating for that party recorded […] Read more »
President George W. Obama Meets the Midterms
I certainly didn’t know foreign policy would be front and center in the final months before the midterm elections when I wrote in late April that these issues “could have an indirect yet significant impact on the midterm elections.” But now, it looks increasingly as if foreign policy — particularly […] Read more »
Republicans Remain Slightly Favored To Take Control Of The Senate
If Americans elected an entirely new set of senators every two years — as they elect members of the House of Representatives — this November’s Senate contest would look like a stalemate. … The problem for Democrats is that this year’s Senate races aren’t being fought in neutral territory. Instead, […] Read more »
GOP sees signs of Jewish voters drifting away from Democrats
Republicans believe that the deepening crisis in Gaza could ultimately loosen the grip that the Democratic Party has traditionally held upon American Jewish voters. While declarations of a rift between Democrats and the Jewish community have proven premature in the past, things could be different this time, they assert. CONT. […] Read more »