… The Hillary Clinton e-mail controversy is just the latest entrée in a decades-long, calorie-rich menu provided by the former first lady and her husband. But will it make a difference in 2016? Scandal allegations are almost always an enormously time-consuming distraction and they make it virtually impossible to communicate […] Read more »
Why Don’t the Clintons and the Press Get Along?
… With the media feeding frenzy the past two weeks over Hillary Clinton maintaining a private e-mail account while she was secretary of state, the 1990s dysfunctional marriage between the Clintons and the DC press has come roaring back—no lessons learned or maturity built up on either side since Bill […] Read more »
Pennsylvania: Approval rating for Attorney General Kathleen Kane at a dismal 26%
Kathleen Kane deserves neither re-election nor impeachment, a poll on the embattled state attorney general shows. By slim margins, pluralities of Pennsylvania voters who have made up their minds reject either course. Pennsylvanians also disapprove of the job Kane is doing after a year of intense scrutiny, rough headlines and […] Read more »
How the Watergate crisis eroded public support for Richard Nixon
Forty years ago today, Richard Nixon announced his resignation from the nation’s highest office, making that decision in the face of almost certain impeachment by the House and plummeting public support, as a majority of Americans called for his removal from office. But it happened in stages. CONT. Andrew Kohut, […] Read more »
CNN Poll: Trust in government at all-time low
Four decades after President Richard Nixon resigned, a slight majority of Americans still consider Watergate a very serious matter, a new national survey shows. But how serious depends on when you were born. … The poll also indicates that the public’s trust in government is at an all-time low. CONT. Paul […] Read more »
Public Opinion and Nixon’s Downfall
Forty years after Richard Nixon resigned the presidency, observers today are re-examining how the White House, the courts and the Congress handled that crisis. An additional element worth considering is the weight of public opinion. CONT. Gary Langer, ABC News Read more »