The Democratic roaches are developing an immunity to Republican charges that they are socialist. Polling by John McLaughlin suggests that the impact of the charge, originally formulated by Newt Gingrich, is wearing off through repetition. At first, it seemed like…Continue Reading ...

Vocabulary matters! From Newt Gingrich comes key advice for Republicans in the Midterms: Don’t call the Democrats “communist” or even “socialist.” Call them “democratic socialists.” Newt’s survey, taken among 2,000 registered voters by McLaughlin and Associates on August 31-September 2,…Continue Reading ...

Most political figures have higher personal favorability than job approval. But Donald Trump is the opposite. He has a higher job approval —48% in John McLaughlin’s August 24th poll — than his personal favorability rating — only 33% in the…Continue Reading ...

In the new asymmetric world of threatened global economic suicide, President Trump has stripped the terrorists of a terrifying weapon in their toolbox; the threat that the collateral damage of their own and the world’s economists’ overreaction to the use…Continue Reading...

By Dick Morris Presidents fail when their policy objectives become so important to them that they take over their administrations and lead them to destroy themselves. Johnson in Vietnam, Biden in Afghanistan, and Bush-43 in Iraq are potent examples of…Continue Reading...

During the Clinton years, State of the Union speeches routinely led to huge upticks in the president’s approval ratings. But in the highly polarized and fiercely partisan environment of today’s politics, they have had little impact other than to reinforce…Continue Reading...