Thursday, March 05, 2026
Trump Has A Net Approval Rating Of Negative 21 Points
The chart above reflects the results of the Economist / YouGov Poll -- done between February 27th and March 2nd of a nationwide sample of 1,515 adults, with a 3.4 point margin of error.
Americans Overwhelmingly Believe Vaccines Are Safe
The chart above reflects the results of the Economist / YouGov Poll -- done between February 27th and March 2nd of a nationwide sample of 1,515 adults (including 1,366 registered voters). The margin of error is 3.4 points for adults and 3.2 points for registered voters.
Talarico Wins Texas Democratic Senate Primary (As Dems Turn Out More Votes Than GOP)
Texas Democrats have their nominee for the U.S. Senate. James Talarico defeated Jasmine Crockett in a hard fought race (52.8% to 45.9%) - with both candidates getting more than a million votes. On Wednesday morning, Crockett (being the good Democrat she has always been) conceded saying:
“This morning I called James and congratulated him on becoming the Senate nominee. Texas is primed to turn blue and we must remain united because this is bigger than any one person. This is about the future of all 30 million Texans and getting America back on track. With the primary behind us, Democrats must rally around our nominees and win. I’m committed to doing my part and will continue working to elect Democrats up and down the ballot.”
We still don't know who the Republican nominee will be. Neither incumbent John Cornyn and Ken Paxton could get 50% of the vote, so they will be in a run-off in late May.
This will help Talarico. He can get busy raising funds and campaigning across the state while the Two Republican candidates fight each other (in what has been a rather nasty campaign) for another two months.
The Republicans spent over $100 million in this campaign, and it is expected they will spend another $100 million in the run-off. This is money that could have been spent helping Republicans in other states stave off what is looking like it could be a nationwide blue wave.
It also looks like Democrats may have a small enthusiasm edge. Spending only about $35 million in the primary, they turned out 2,252,358 votes. The $100 million spent by Republicans got them 2,141,929 (about 110,429 fewer votes than in the Democratic primary).
Add to this the fact that Donald Trump is underwater in red state Texas (45% approve to 49% who disapprove), and it looks like Texas may have its best chance of electing a Democrat to the U.S. Senate in several decades.
Wednesday, March 04, 2026
Half Of Americans Now Support Abolishing ICE
The charts above are from the Economist / YouGov Poll -- done between February 27th and March 2 of a nationwide sample of 1,515 adults, with a 3.4 point margin of error.
Trump Is Waging A War That Most Americans Don't Support
The chart above is from the CNN / SSRS Poll -- done on February 28th and March 1st of a nationwide sample of 1,004 adults, with a 3.9 point margin of error.
The chart above reflects the results of the YouGov Poll -- done on March 3rd of a nationwide sample of 1,633 U.S. adults.
The Most Troublesome Thing About Trump's Regime Is All We Don't Know
The following is part of a post by Dan Rather:
One of the most solemn responsibilities of this president, or any president, is to explain to the American people why he is sending our military into harm’s way. And just as important is to explain why and how our service members were killed in the line of duty.
Donald Trump has failed in both of those duties since he started a war of choice with Iran three days ago.
After failing to address the nation as every president has done since it became technologically possible, the president finally spoke on camera for just six minutes on Monday. It was a rambling preamble to an already planned White House event.
In remarks insulting to the intelligence of anyone following the events of the past three days, not to mention to the families of military members killed, Trump oddly segued from talk of honoring those who died to the curtains in the East Room of the White House and ballroom construction.
Among the most troublesome things about Trump’s despotic regime is all we don’t know.
The need for credible information about the war in Iran can not be overstated, and yet we are getting almost nothing from the White House and an administration not known for its truthfulness. How can we believe a word they say when the agenda has long been freewheeling falsehoods?
The paltry communications from Trump and the Department of Defense have been scattershot and contradictory.
Instead of a live address, shortly after hostilities began, Trump posted an 8-minute authoritarian-esque video on his own social media platform from Mar-a-Lago. This way, reporters couldn’t question his motives live. A second short video followed and was no more enlightening.
The White House did not send proxies to the Sunday morning talk shows to make the case for war. The famously available president did not hold a press gaggle on Air Force One on the way back to Washington from Palm Beach, nor did he answer shouted questions as he entered the White House on Sunday night.
The president did take quick calls from more than a dozen reporters, spinning different narratives, sometimes to the same people. On one of those calls with reporters from The New York Times he laid out three competing options for an Iranian endgame.
At one point he recommended complete regime change, saying the Iranian people should overthrow their government. “That’s going to be up to them about whether or not they do. They’ve been talking about it for years, so now they’ll obviously have an opportunity.”
He also suggested the Iranian military hand over their weapons to the Iranian people.
He then said he would remove the leaders but keep the government, Ã la Venezuela. “What we did in Venezuela, I think, is the perfect, the perfect scenario,” Trump said. So regime realignment but not change? He went on to say there are “three very good choices,” to take over for Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader who was assassinated early Sunday.
Later, he had to amend that suggestion. “The attack was so successful it knocked out most of the candidates,” he told Jonathan Karl of ABC News in another phone call. “It’s not going to be anybody that we were thinking of because they are all dead. Second or third place is dead.”
None of these options was accompanied by an executable plan. . . .
A lack of information breeds chaos and fear. A new CNN poll indicates that nearly six in ten Americans disapprove of the decision to go to war with Iran. Financial markets are down, and energy prices are surging. You will soon see the price of war at the pump.
Making no effort to quell fears or calm markets, Trump said the airstrikes could continue for four to five more weeks and told CNN “the big wave” is yet to come, though some reports question whether the U.S. has enough defensive weapons to sustain such a prolonged campaign. If he ever took questions from reporters in good faith, one might ask, “how is it possible that we could launch a war unprepared?”
This self-proclaimed “peace president” has ordered more strikes against other countries than any modern American leader. In just over a year he has attacked seven sovereign nations. The White House insists that Trump always exhausts diplomacy before attacking, though his brand of diplomacy looks a lot like ultimatum theater.
In the ultimate “ends justify the means” scenario, Trump believes the path to peace is paved with violence and force. About this new Iran war, the explanations are weak, the contradictions abundant, and they come from a regime that has proven to be untrustworthy in matters of life and death.
Citizens would do well to keep in mind the old saying, “The first casualty of war is the truth.”
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