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Electoral environment bodes well for Republicans — but one nefarious F-word still lurks in the background
The Kamala Harris campaign has two pillars holding it up: “baby killing” and the narrative “[Trump] is literally Hitler.”
“They don’t have anything else to run on,” says Steve Deace.
According to Gallup’s most recent favorability polling, it would seem as if the Democrats’ two pillars are beginning to crumble.
Currently, Trump’s total favorable rating sits at a 50, while Harris’ sits at a 48. However, those numbers are reversed on the unfavorable scale. Harris’ total unfavorable rating is 50, while Trump’s is 48.
While this certainly is a positive sign for Republicans, Steve says we can’t forget about the thing that’s “lurking there in the background.”
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It’s the F-word we all dread: fraud.
Steve points to Maricopa County, Arizona, saying, "'I don't know, guys, it might take us a couple weeks [to count the votes]”’ as an example of a glaring sign of impending fraudulent activity.
“In fairness to them, given how Trump is surging in the polls right now, they don't have any clue how many votes they're going to actually need, so it may take them longer to conjure them up. I'm sorry — to count them. Count. Wrong C-word,” Steve jests.
While Steve is being humorous, "what lingers underneath the surface" is the gnawing fear that Trump will win and still not see the Oval Office — especially considering that there’s an overwhelming amount of evidence that that's exactly what happened in the 2020 election.
“Nothing substantive was done about it for the last four years. Lots of people built massive engagement farms, wringing their hands about it. ... Lots of money was raised to stop the stealing from happening,” but “no Krakens were ever released,” he sighs. “The polling is still close enough perceptively that you could justify stealing it if you wanted to try.”
While “the margin of cheating is definitely lower than it was a few weeks ago ... we're not outside of it yet by any means,” warns Steve.
To hear more of his election forecasting, watch the episode above.
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Most Americans support hiring more Border Patrol agents, immigration judges: Poll
A recent poll conducted by the Associated Press and the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago found that most American voters support hiring more Border Patrol agents and immigration judges.
The poll, distributed from March 21 to 25, asked 1,282 adults whether they “favor, oppose, or neither favor nor oppose” a number of policies related to immigration and border security.
Approximately 79% of Republicans, 54% of Democrats, and 56% of independents answered that they would support hiring additional Border Patrol officers. When asked whether they would like additional immigration judges hired, an overall 58% agreed, with 60% of Republicans, 65% of Democrats, and 36% of independents.
The poll also asked voters whether they would like to reduce the number of migrants allowed to seek asylum in the United States. Overall, 53% answered yes, with 75% of Republicans, 35% of Democrats, and 51% of independents supporting the reduction of asylum seekers.
Approximately 77% of Republicans answered that they would support building a wall to curb illegal immigration, while only 12% of Democrats and 40% of independents agreed.
The poll also asked American voters who they blamed for “the current situation at the U.S.-Mexico border.” Most Republicans blamed President Joe Biden, 73%, and Democrats in Congress, 68%. Only 27% of Democrat voters blamed Biden, while 58% faulted Republicans in Congress and 53% former President Donald Trump. Among independents, 45% blamed Biden, 44% blamed Democrats in Congress, 38% blamed Republicans in Congress, and 29% blamed Trump.
Overall, 85% of respondents stated that the economy is the biggest issue facing them personally. Other top problems impacting voters included health care, crime, gun policy, and immigration, in that order.
Democrats claimed that climate change affects them more than crime and immigration. Additionally, Democrat respondents largely asserted that both illegal and legal immigration is positive for the U.S., with over half stating the migrants “contribute to economic growth,” “enrich American culture and values,” and “contribute to government revenue by paying taxes.”
71% of Republicans answered that they are concerned illegal immigrants will commit crimes, while only 17% of Democrat respondents said the same.
In a separate Gallup poll, American voters were asked to rank the most pressing national issues, with immigration, government/poor leadership, the economy, and inflation topping the list.
“Gallup also measures Americans’ views of national concerns monthly by asking them to name, unprompted, what they believe is the most important problem facing the country today,” Gallup reported.
When unprompted, respondents listed immigration as a greater concern than inflation.
“Overall, 28% of Americans, the same as in February and the most for any issue, name immigration as the top problem,” the poll found. “Mentions of government and poor leadership, combined, rank second (at 19%), while the economy in general is next with 14%, followed by inflation at 11%.”
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Gallup Poll: Biden’s Border Invasion Is Americans’ No. 1 Worry
Voters are clearly blaming President Joe Biden and his band of leftists for the invasion the nation has endured over the past three years.New poll suggests Americans may finally have had enough of the Democratic Party
Gallup released the results of a devastating new poll Tuesday, indicating Americans are majoritively fed up with the Democratic Party.
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are not well liked by the majority of Americans. The latest Economist/YouGov poll put their unfavorability at 55.4% and 54%, respectively; 57% of respondents also indicated they disapproved of the job the geriatric president is doing.
Biden and Harris are not, however, the only Democrats in Washington out of favor with the American public.
According to the results from a Sept. 1-23 Gallup poll, 58% of Americans now hold an unfavorable view of the Democratic Party at large.
When asked which political party would do a better job of keeping the country prosperous, 53% of respondents said the GOP. Only 39% answered Democratic.
On national security, 57% of respondents said Republicans would do a better job protecting the nation from international terrorism and military threats; 35% said they preferred Democrats at the helm.
On this question, 56% of independents went with the GOP, and 30% went with the Democrats.
When asked which party would best handle their top problem, 44% of respondents went with Republicans and 36% went with Democrats.
Democrats appear to have less confidence in their party than Republicans do in theirs.
92% of Republicans said their party was best equipped to handle the most important problem. Only 86% of Democrats could say the same.
When it came to protecting the nation, 81% of Democratic respondents said their party had what it takes versus 93% of Republicans who said the same of their own. 17% of Democratic respondents said Republicans were better equipped to protect the nation. On the flip side, only 2% of Republican respondents said Democrats could make do.
Gallup concluded that "Americans currently see Republicans as the party better equipped [regarding economic security and safety from military threats], which could enhance Republicans' position in promoting their agenda in Washington in the near term."
While the poll painted a bleak picture for Democrats, the Republican Party is not, on the whole, looking a great deal better, scoring only 2 points better on overall unfavorability than its counterpart.
The unpopularity of the two parties appears to have created an unprecedented opportunity for an alternative.
Gallup reported Wednesday that 63% of U.S. adults are so disenchanted with both major parties that they've determined "a third major party is needed." 58% of Republican respondents said so, up 13 points over last year.
This response represents the highest measure since the question was first asked by Gallup in 2003.
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Poll: Tucker Carlson Is Most Influential Public Figure In America
According to a recent Gallup poll, Tucker Carlson is the most followed public figure in America. The legacy media is trailing behind him.Americans’ approval of labor unions is at its highest point in 57 years
The percentage of Americans who approve of labor unions is at its highest point since 1965, according to the latest Gallup poll.
Seventy-one percent of Americans now approve of labor unions, up from 64% before the COVID-19 pandemic.
Unions have scored a number of major victories in 2022. In April, workers at an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island voted to create the first unionized Amazon facility in the U.S. Last week, Amazon's efforts to undo the results of the election were rejected by a hearing officer for a federal labor board. In December 2021, Starbucks workers voted to create the company’s first union in America. As of last month, 209 Starbucks stores have officially voted to unionize.
Union membership is highest among front-line and production workers at 20%. Eighty-four percent of American do not belong to unions, the poll showed.
Support for labor unions peaked in the 1950s at 75% and reached its low point at 48% in 2009.
Steve Dawes, director of United Auto Workers Region 1-D in Flint, Michigan, told ABC12 that interest in the union is up because employees are concerned with how they are treated at work — much as they were nearly a century ago, when his union was formed. "If you go back and you look at the very first one-page agreement with General Motors and the UAW, you won't find anything in there about wages, the 40-hour work week, health care, vacations," Dawes said. "It was all about dignity in the workplace."
According to Gallup, the National Labor Relations Board reported a 57% increase in union election petitions filed during the first six months of fiscal year 2021.
Among union members, 40% rate their membership as "extremely important." Over half — 58% — of nonunion workers in the U.S. told Gallup they are "not interested at all" in joining a union.
The survey concluded that the low unemployment rate over the past two years “altered the balance of power between employers and employees, creating an environment fostering union membership that has resulted in the formation of unions at several high-profile companies.”
Number of Americans who believe in God drops to all-time low, liberals have the least faith: Gallup poll
The number of Americans who believe in God has hit an all-time low, according to a new Gallup poll.
There are 81% of Americans who believe in God – the lowest percentage in the poll that has been conducted by Gallup since 1944. There were 17% of American adults who said they do not believe in any God and 2% who said they were unsure.
The latest poll shows the number of American adults who believe in God is down 6% from the 2017 survey.
Between the years 1953 and 1967, 98% of U.S. adults believed in God. By 2011, 92% had religious faith in God.
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Just 68% of young adults between the ages of 18 and 29 believe in God, according to the survey that was released on Friday.
Based on regions, the South polled the highest at 86% versus the East being the lowest at 78%. There was only a 2% difference between those from cities, suburbs, and rural areas.
The Gallup Values and Beliefs poll of more than 1,000 U.S. adults that was conducted between May 2 and 22 found there was a stark ideological divide regarding belief in God between political party affiliations.
The survey said that 94% of conservatives and 92% of Republicans had the highest belief in God, while only 62% of liberals and 72% of Democrats believe in a higher power. Independents polled at 81%.
When asked if God hears prayers and intervenes, 56% of conservatives said God can help those who pray versus only 25% of liberals who had faith.
Another Gallup poll of more than 6,117 Americans taken between 2018-2020 found that only 47% of Americans belong to a church, synagogue, or mosque. This is the lowest ever recorded in the poll that has been conducted regularly since 1937, and it was not a majority for the first time. House of worship membership had been over 71% from 1937 until the mid-1980s, according to Gallup.
A 2021 poll of 2,000 U.S. adults by Arizona Christian University discovered that more millennials believe in guidance from horoscopes (35%) than those who believe that the universal purpose for all people is to know, love, and serve God with all heart, mind, strength, and soul (19%). More millennials believe in astrology than the idea that the universe was designed and created, and is sustained by God (30%), and that God is the all-knowing, all-powerful, just creator of the universe (31%).
"Gen X and the millennials have solidified dramatic changes in the nation’s central beliefs and lifestyles," said George Barna, director of research for ASU’s Cultural Research Center. "From a nationwide perspective, the Christian church has done shockingly little to push back. The result is a culture in which core institutions — including churches — and basic ways of life are continually being radically redefined."
Barna – a sociologist who has been studying national religious patterns for more than four decades – added, "Millennials are leading the way toward the new worldview emphases in America. The research reveals that their rhetoric is often inconsistent with their behavior. Because people do what they believe, if behavior does not coincide with stated beliefs we know that people do not truly hold those beliefs."
"More importantly, the millennial generation in particular, seems committed to living without God, without the Bible, and without Christian churches as foundations in either their personal life or within American society," Barna said.
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