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Nearly 40% of Republicans are still hesitant about getting the Covid-19 vaccine or refuse to get it, a new Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI)/Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC) poll finds. Allison Durkee of Forbes crunches the numbers on the Republican pandemic of the unvaccinated. Overall 71% of poll respondents in the...
The pandemic resurgence is affecting optimism in the nation. Writing for ABC News, Quinn Scanlan highlights how now 55% of the public say they are pessimistic about the direction of the country, a change from the 36% that said the same in an ABC News/Ipsos poll published May 2. In...
Tammy Webber and Emily Swanson write that among American adults who have not yet received a vaccine, 35% say they probably will not, and 45% say they definitely will not, according to a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. On the other hand, 3% say they...
I’m not quite sure why Democrats are upset that the shutdown has ended. CHIP has been funded for 6 years, and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell now has to open an immigration debate in the coming weeks. An overwhelmingly bipartisan vote for an immigration bill in the Senate puts...
Voters of the opposition party don’t hate America, they just vote differently than you. The Democratic and Republican Parties have been around for 150 years now. They are hardly antithetical to America. It’s unrealistic and frankly naively to expect purity out of politics. How Bad Are They Really?...
The silent majority is an unspecified majority of people in a country or group who do not express their opinions publicly. The term was popularized by U.S. President Richard Nixon in a November 3, 1969, speech in which he said, “And so tonight—to you, the great silent majority of...
Rising heroin use in many conservative states have caused House Republicans to ease longstanding opposition to federal funding in support of needle exchange programs. The House bill taking shape now would still bar federal dollars from buying sterile needles or syringes, but officials could use federal grant money to...
New Yorkers know the faces of poverty. During a single morning’s commute, we encounter all too many familiar faces of hunger lining the concrete streets. The winter months, snow and sleet hindering our timely arrival to work and school, underscore the stark reality for the 60,000 homeless in New...
While Democratic President LBJ shepherded the 1964 Civil Rights Act to passage, 80 percent of Republicans in the House voted aye against 61 percent of Democrats. In the Senate, 82 percent of Republicans favored the law, but only 69 percent of Democrats. What the hell happened? Barry Goldwater...