New Poll Sends Right Into Tizzy

Rasmussen just released a poll purporting to show that only 53% of Americans prefer capitalism to socialism: Only 53% of American adults believe capitalism is better than socialism. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 20% disagree and say socialism is better. Twenty-seven...

Americans Fault Bush and Wall Street for Economy, Not Obama

Despite the eagerness among conservative bloggers and media pundits to make  Pres. Obama responsible for the fact that the economic downturn has not righted itself in the two months since he took office, Americans in general are more inclined to blame the former administration and Wall Street malfeasance, a...

Right Jumps on Outlier Zogby Poll

Right-wing bloggers and media pundits are wallowing joyfully like pigs in mud over the new Zogby poll (which hasn’t even been released yet), that purports to show Barack Obama’s approval rating plummeting from the low 60′s (63% on today’s Gallup Daily) to a dead heat. Well, they...

And Yet, It Could Be Worse

There’s been a lot of criticism of President Obama over the past few weeks, and this is in general a good thing. In an adult world of politics, even political allies are deserving of valid criticism. No President Obama has not done everything perfectly, and there are things that I, and my fellow...

The Black Panthers Are Coming To YOUR Neighborhood!

Another Townhall.com blogger, Matt Lewis, this time with audio of Rush Limbaugh talking about “Black Panthers [heavy emphasis on those two words], in Philadelphia, intimidating voters.” “Imagine,” Lewis intones, “if this was Skin Heads in Georgia or Florida trying to intimidate...

This Is Why We’re in Trouble

Only 18 percent of Americans were able to correctly answer a 3-question test of basic political knowledge: The survey, conducted between April 30 and June 1 by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, measured the political knowledge of 3,612 U.S. adults. Participants were asked to name the...