State of the Nation

In the April NBC/WSJ survey, 59% say the country is on the wrong track. 33% say it is on the right track. The following are the Right Direction/Wrong Track findings from the NBC/WSJ and the CBS/NYT, dating back to the...

Odds and Ends

At least for some, if not many, the ubiquity and ease of email has changed what we would have thought of as the practice of social graces. Before email, when a response or circumstance dictated a response, a visit, a...

President Obama

With 6 months to go before the general election, the public’s grade for the job President Obama has done so far is lower than that of 6 of the previous Presidents at this point in their first term. The President’s...

2012 Republican Presidential Nomination

22 people have been tempted or have joined the race. 19 people have announced they are not running, quit the race, or have written it off. 3 people are still running (sort of): Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, and Ron Paul....

The Money

The following is an attempt to summarize campaign fundraising and expenditures for selected Presidential campaigns, national Party organizations, and the larger Super PACs. The data does not include State political parties, 501c (4)s, or 527s. Some of the Super PACs...

2012 Presidential General Election

As you can see in the charts below, early polling on the general election contest does not show a contest in which the ultimate winner is obvious at the present time. In surveys that were completed after Romney was the...

The Congress

Approval of the job being done by Congress reached 17% in mid-April , up from 12% in March. This is the highest rating that Gallup has found since July 2011, when 18% approved. The Congress seems to be unable to...

Restaurant: Mintwood Place

Washington, DC: Amy and Peter took Debbie and me to Mintwood. We will go again.