04.23.2024
By Robert Romano After both incumbent President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump wrapped up the Democratic and Republican Party nomination contests, national polls between the two candidates have tightened somewhat, according to the latest average of polls compile by RealClearPolling.com, with Trump leading Biden 44.6 percent to 44.4 percent in the two-way race and 41.6 percent to 40.6 percent in the five-way race when Robert Kennedy, […]
04.22.2024
By Robert Romano On April 19, the Senate completed passage of a two-year reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which will not come up again until 2026 with either incumbent President Joe Biden or challenger former President Donald Trump deciding how best to work with Congress. […]
04.18.2024
By Robert Romano In the latest Emerson poll showing former President Donald Trump leading incumbent President Joe Biden by 3 points, 46 percent to 43 percent, a remarkable 5.5 percent of 2020 Biden voters now say they are supporting Trump in 2024. Comparatively only 0.9 percent of 2020 Trump voters […]
04.16.2024
By Robert Romano Job openings have collapsed more than 3.4 million, or 28 percent since March 2022 when they peaked at 12.1 million, now down to about 8.7 million. That’s a massive drop-off but there’s still more job openings than unemployed as since that time, the number of unemployed has […]
04.15.2024
By Robert Romano Former President Donald Trump led among voters above the age of 30 years old in the latest Emerson national poll taken April 2-3 over incumbent President Joe Biden, who only led among younger voters 18 to 29, 50.2 percent to 39.6 percent. Among 30-39-year-olds, Trump led 45.7 percent to 43.2 percent. Among […]
04.11.2024
By Robert Romano “KILL FISA, IT WAS ILLEGALLY USED AGAINST ME, AND MANY OTHERS. THEY SPIED ON MY CAMPAIGN!!!” That was former President Donald Trump in an April 10 post on Truth Social , hours before the House of Representatives was set to vote on a rule to move Section 702 of the Foreign […]
04.10.2024
By Robert Romano Consumer inflation in the U.S. once again spiked upward to 3.5 percent over the last 12 months, or 0.4 percent the past month in March, according to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics . The news comes as the Federal Reserve had been anticipating reducing the Federal Funds Rate this year as inflation had slowed down to 3.2 percent in February, but […]
04.09.2024
By Robert Romano “It’s kind of like one is old and effective and compassionate, has a heart, and really cares about people, and one is old and has been charged with 91 felonies.…I don’t understand why this is even a hard choice.” That was former Secretary of […]
04.08.2024
By Robert Romano Don’t look now, but inflation might not automatically return to below 2 percent before it starts going up again, and it could lead to much higher interest rates, JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon is warning in a letter to his company’s shareholders. In the letter, […]
04.04.2024
By Robert Romano Former President Donald Trump and his campaign are promising to bring civil rights litigation against colleges and universities that have violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act with racially discriminatory admissions policies that the Supreme Court struck down in June 2023. In a May 2023 campaign video , prior […]
04.02.2024
By Robert Romano Former President Donald Trump has led incumbent President Joe Biden in 88 percent of the five-way race polls between Trump, Biden, Robet Kennedy, Jr., Cornell West and jill Stein taken since Nov. 2023, according to RealClearPolling.com — and it could be putting the popular vote nationally into play […]
04.01.2024
By Robert Romano When you watch a political ad, often you’ll see a disclaimer of who the ad was paid for by, usually a political action committee, but what about the donors to the committee? Or the donor’s donors? That’s the bridge that a San Francisco campaign […]
03.29.2024
By Robert Romano President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are running neck and neck among Millennials in a Economist-YouGov poll take March 10 to March 12 , with Biden leading Trump narrowly 41 percent to 36 percent among 30-to-44-year-olds, and 10 percent saying “other” that might be a proxy for Robert Kennedy, Jr. Among […]
03.28.2024
By Robert Romano There is not much news to report on the reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) with all quiet amid Congress in recess for spring break. The last action Congress took was to pass a short-term extension of existing provisions […]
03.26.2024
Poll: 71 percent say inflation has ‘proven sticky and is here to stay’ as nobody is buying Biden’s happy talk on the economy By Robert Romano 71 percent of registered voters say that post-Covid inflation has “proven sticky and is here […]