… The most recent WSJ/NBC News poll contains some welcome news for President Trump and Republicans: Nearly two-thirds of Americans are satisfied with the nation’s economy, one of the highest ratings since Bill Clinton left the White House in 2001. Trump’s approval rating has climbed to 44 percent, the highest […] Read more »
Trump’s New Plan to Dismantle Obamacare Comes With Political Risks
After failing to repeal the Affordable Care Act with a Republican-controlled Congress, the Trump administration is seizing on a different strategy for dismantling the law, one fraught with political risk. It is asking a court to throw out major elements, including hugely popular provisions that protect sick people from being […] Read more »
A blue wave could happen and still hit a wall
As we get closer to November, I gain confidence that an electoral “wave” will develop the likes of 1946, 1994, 2006 and 2010. Unlike the elections in those years, however, I’m not sure a wave will necessarily mean the minority party will wrestle away control of the House. How is […] Read more »
Orange County Fights Turning Blue. And the Resistance Is Formidable.
California has dug in at the front lines of the resistance to President Trump, suing to overturn his environmental policies, passing legislation to hamstring his immigration enforcement and marching in mass demonstrations of defiance. Then there is Orange County, a stubborn redoubt of conservatism that keeps defying prognostications that 80 […] Read more »
Americans like Trump on the economy. They dislike Trump for being Trump.
… A new Fox News poll yields an approval chart that will look familiar. The overall approval number for Trump is at 45 percent, according to Fox, about where it has been since January. … After that question, though, Fox did something interesting: They asked people to say why they […] Read more »
House Ratings Changes: Democrats Breathe a California-Sized Sigh of Relief
Democrats have to be happy and relieved by the results of Tuesday’s primaries: they appear to have avoided getting “locked out” of California’s top-two primaries, advancing candidates to the November ballot in all of the seven GOP seats they’re targeting (although in several districts, they didn’t avert catastrophe by much). […] Read more »