President Joe Biden has released the proposed Budget of the U.S. Government, Fiscal Year 2023. The budget document is 148 pages long. It presents a very lengthy list of proposed government spending initiatives, along with a discussion of the virtues and benefits of each. … An important question from my […] Read more »
Why hasn’t Biden felt the rally ‘round the flag effect?
In times of external threat, we expect to see the presidential approval rating spike as the country ‘rallies around the flag,” unified around a common crisis. … While Biden might be performing relatively well on Ukraine, the larger problem is that ultimately, Americans are most concerned with the inflation and […] Read more »
Ipsos Core Political: President Biden’s approval rating stands at 42% this week
This week’s Ipsos’ Core Political finds most Americans believe the country is off on the wrong track as President Joe Biden’s presidential approval rating stands at 42%. Three in five Americans (61%) believe the country is off on the wrong track, with Republicans (86%) and independents (66%) most likely to […] Read more »
New polls confirm Democratic problems for November
The recently released March 7-13 Pew Research Center survey and the March 18-22 NBC News poll paint a grim picture for Democrats. Even worse for the president’s party, they offer little reason to believe that things will improve for Democrats before the November midterm elections. After watching his performance for […] Read more »
Inflation Dominates Americans’ Economic Concerns in March
Roughly one in five Americans mention the high cost of living/inflation (17%), or fuel prices (4%) specifically, as the most important problem facing the U.S. today. Together, these account for over half of the economic issues that 35% of Americans cite as the nation’s top problem. Within that group, 11% […] Read more »
Ketanji Brown Jackson is the most popular Supreme Court nominee in years
… Five recent surveys have indicated strong support for President Joe Biden’s decision to nominate Jackson for the Supreme Court seat retiring Justice Stephen Breyer is vacating. According to an average of polls by Gallup, Fox, Monmouth University, Quinnipiac University and the Pew Research Center, about 53% of Americans supported […] Read more »