Americans are torn on the most important problem facing the country. President Biden’s approval rating stands at just under half of Americans. Sixteen percent of Americans say public health is the biggest problem facing the country, followed by 15% who say it is the economy. CONTINUED Chris Jackson, Annaleise Azevedo […] Read more »
It wasn’t hubris that drove America into Afghanistan. It was fear.
… We live history forward, in the chaos of onrushing events, without a clear guide. But we judge history backward, smugly armed with the knowledge of what did happen and uninterested in what might have happened. This partly explains the oscillation of U.S. foreign policy over the decades between periods […] Read more »
To Predict Biden’s Political Fate, Keep an Eye on Independents
What is potentially so damaging for President Biden and Democrats isn’t so much the substance of the decision to pull out of Afghanistan. After all, any chance of the conflict turning out well ended about 15 years ago. It was the shambolic execution of it. The intelligence community, Pentagon officials, […] Read more »
How Donald Trump Turned Off Swing Voters in 2020
Key Points• The number of swing voters — those who change their minds between presidential elections — has been declining over time.• However, there are still some swing voters, and they can be decisive in the nation’s highly competitive presidential elections.• Swing voters helped Joe Biden win the White House, […] Read more »
Biden headed for divisive debate over resettlement of Afghanistan refugees
President Biden, already facing political peril over the chaotic exit from Afghanistan, has in recent days waded into an escalating domestic debate over thousands of refugees slated to be resettled in the United States. Criticism is intensifying on Fox News, among Republican state lawmakers in Wisconsin where some refugees are […] Read more »
The Media Manufactured Biden’s Political ‘Fiasco’ in Afghanistan
… The latest polls have shown sharp drops in Biden’s approval rating, driven in part by widespread opposition to “the way” his administration handled its (otherwise popular) exit from Afghanistan. Yet this political fiasco is not a development that the media covered so much as one that it created. … […] Read more »