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Marc YachtMarch 30, 2016

The late singer Ted Lewis in top hat, cane and tuxedo would look straight at the audience and ask, “Is everybody happy?” He would go on to sing, “Me and My Shadow” or any number of songs in his repertoire. The audience laughed then, but there would be little amusement today. Very few are happy. […]

Mitch PerryMarch 13, 2016

Is it possible that the more people believe that Donald Trump could become our next president giving people a different perspective on Barack Obama? According to the latest Gallup weekly tracking poll, Obama has a 50 percent approval rating, his highest since May 2013. The president’s 50 percent weekly average exceeds the 46 percent he’s averaged […]

Jenna Buzzacco-FoersterJanuary 8, 2016

Jeb Bush’s image among Republicans has worsened, according to a new Gallup poll. Forty-five percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents said they had an unfavorable opinion of the former Florida governor. The results reflect voters opinions between Dec. 18 and Jan. 5. That support, the poll found, is significantly lower than his position in July, […]

Mitch PerryAugust 19, 2015

All summer, we’ve heard blowhards like Joe Scarborough inform the supposedly stuffy talking heads that they just don’t get it about the phenomenon that is Donald Trump. He likes to remind viewers that his brother, an alleged sophisticated Republican voter, really loves The Donald, and thus that explains why about 25 percent of Republican voters […]

Mitch PerryMay 26, 2015

For decades it’s been labeled simply as “The L-word,” but it appears left-leaning Americans are less reluctant to call themselves liberals in 2015. A new Gallup poll shows that 31 percent of Americans now describe their views on social issues as generally liberal, matching the percentage who identify as social conservatives for the first time in […]

Mitch PerryMarch 13, 2015

According to a new poll taken just as the story about her private email account was breaking, Hillary Clinton remains one of the few 2016 presidential candidates to have a significantly higher favorable (50%) than unfavorable (39%) rating among the American public. And 89%have enough knowledge of her to form an opinion, by far the […]

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