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President Reagan won a landslide election in 1980 when he asked voters a simple question: "Are you better off than you were four years ago?" Voters knew they weren't. Midterm voters should be asking themselves that same question now, before casting their ballots next Tuesday. Only this time, the answer is yes.
Democrats hold a 2-point lead over Republicans when asked by registered voters which party that want to control Congress after November’s midterm elections, according to a poll released Thursday, a sharp decrease from previous iterations of the survey.
Democrats may have seriously miscalculated when they decided to mount an unprecedented campaign of character assassination against Judge Brett Kavanaugh. There could be hope for this country yet.
I was driving along a country road in Monmouth County the other day when I came upon a farm stand.
I pulled over to pick up some produce and got to talking with the lady who ran the stand. The subject turned to politics. It turned out she was a big Donald Trump supporter.
Democrats have been very busy lately trying to tell the public that theirs is not an extremist socialist party. But the public sees through the smoke screen. Just a third now see the Democratic Party as mainstream.
The more the public learns about the Republican-passed tax cuts, which took effect in January, the more they like them, according to the latest IBD/TIPP poll, which also found President Trump's favorability continuing to climb, as the Democrats' chances of a wave election in November appear to diminish.
Republicans are hoping that revulsion over a series of stealth videos featuring Planned Parenthood will swing the politics of abortion in their favor.
The Republican Party was obviously the big winner on Tuesday. But the midterm elections also produced some notable losers, chief among them the president and his big-government policies.
If Republicans win control of the Senate on Nov. 4 – and thus gain full control of Congress – it just might be that more gets done in Washington, rather than less, that dysfunction sputters into some semblance of function, and that Republicans and President Obama cooperate a bit more with each other.
Voters heading to the polls next week are increasingly downbeat about the direction of the country and the economy, are concerned about Ebola and largely oppose President Obama's plans on immigration, the latest IBD/TIPP poll finds.
The news that the US economy added a healthy 288,000 jobs in June and the unemployment rate fell to 6.1 percent should be good news for Democrats trying to hold on to the Senate, right?
If voter intensity is the key to who controls the Senate next year, Republicans appear to have a big edge, according to the latest IBD/TIPP Poll.
The latest IBD/TIPP poll points to big trouble for Democrats in the November midterm elections, as support for President Obama hits record lows, and as voters in so-called red states — home to several competitive Senate races — are more downbeat about the economy, ObamaCare, and Obama's performance.
Republicans look ready to throw in the towel on shrinking the nation's gargantuan debt. With 10 months to go before midterm elections, it's yet another slap in the face to the GOP's most enthusiastic supporters.
We keep hearing about how the Republican Party is full of radical Tea Party crazies. But our latest IBD/TIPP Poll shows that it's Democrats who are out of touch with reality and well outside the mainstream.
Across the board, Americans favor "The Help" as the best picture of the year.
