Opinion · 119th Congress
The electorate’s inflation report card: January update
↵↵On the positive side, although 47 percent of the electorate still thought that inflation was getting worse, that number is down from 57 percent in our November survey.
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Senate Democrats face difficult, but not insurmountable, path to majority
Democrats (including independents who caucus with them) hold 47 seats, while the GOP holds 53.
Ditch the bromides; stand up for the Constitution
One way to do that is for all 47 of them show up every morning at the normally mostly empty Senate chamber, ready to negotiate a funding compromise and restore Congress as an independent, co-equal branch
Debt, taxes or cuts: NATO’s 5 percent solution
In Italy it is 47 percent. If faster growth and raising taxes may be off the table, more defense spending may have to come from cutting other government expenditures.
If Trump runs for third term, why not Obama?
But there’s nothing stopping 44 from stopping 45/47 from getting a third term.
Judge starts contempt of court process over US immigration moves
"Rather than comply with the Court’s Order, the Government continued the hurried removal operation," Boasberg wrote in the 47-page decision Wednesday.
Setting the record straight on Biden’s spending
Fifty-three percent approved of the job he was doing as president, while 47 percent disapproved. Good numbers for Trump. Fifty-nine percent of people also approved of his immigration efforts.
Sorting out the facts on ‘waste and abuse’ at USAID
A clip of that portion of her comments was shared widely on social media — the version shared by the White House’s "Rapid Response 47" account on X garnered more than a million views, alone.
The nation’s report card hits crisis level
All three of these characteristics are especially important in the context of grade inflation, which 47 percent of the electorate called a "widespread problem" last year.
Trump’s big bang approach to Day 1
In the end, it was a frenetic day of dinners and dancing, press scrums, parades and executive order signings that were pure Trump, too, along with a bit of controversy that we’ve come to expect from 47
The great Democratic divide elects Trump twice
Finally, 47 percent of Elites had graduated college, while 80 percent of the Working Class had not.
Trump’s biggest problem remains Trump
A noteworthy 47 percent of those who responded selected Vice President Harris, while only 38 percent identified former President Trump.
Three campaign beliefs that need to end in 2024
Yet Republicans lost them by 2 points (47-49). This was after winning them in 10 consecutive elections with a Democrat in the White House.
Once a liability for Democrats, abortion gets new life with Harris as nominee
Rick Scott over Democratic challenger Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, 47 percent to 43 percent.
The path to victory for Trump is policy, not personality
But Trump won them decisively by 17 points, 47-30 percent.
The sad folly of Joe Biden’s defiance
Polling analyst Nate Silver, in a New York Times op-ed last week, pointed out that Democratic Senate candidates in rough races are running better than Biden in 46 of the 47 quality surveys.
Editor’s Note: Dead dogs, porn stars and brain-eating worms: Congress can barely compete
Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., on a 359-47 vote. It wasn’t all bonhomie in the House. Several measures raised partisan hackles on their way to passage and nearly certain Senate doom.
How voters are responding to the latest campus protests
Less than half of Republicans and independents have a favorable view: Republicans are slightly negative at 42 percent favorable to 47 percent unfavorable, while independents are slightly positive at 46
Is this the year Montana Republicans oust Tester?
In 2020, conservatives jumped to 47 percent, which helped Trump win the state.
A threat to democracy no one is talking about
In 2016, 18 percent of the electorate had an unfavorable view of both Trump and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; Trump won those voters 47 percent to 30 percent.