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Holy crap - it happened! 🔥For the first time in our polling history A MAJORITY says the country is on the right track🔥 Don't F it up, Republicans. 7:16 AM · May 27, 2025 1.1M Views

Forty-three percent (43%) of Likely U.S. Voters think the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey for the week ending October 4. This is up three points from the previous week. This finding has been running in the 40s for most weeks this year after being in the mid- to upper 20s for much of 2016, President Obama's last full year in office.

WASHINGTON, (AP) -- Millions of people jobless. Billions of dollars in bailouts. Trillions of dollars in U.S. debt. And yet, for the first time in years, more Americans than not say the country is on the right track. In a sign that Barack Obama has inspired hopes for a brighter future in the first 100 days of his presidency, an Associated Press-GfK poll shows that 48 percent of Americans believe the United States is headed in the right direction — compared with 44 percent who disagree. The "right direction" number is up 8 points since February and a remarkable 31...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3, 2007 – The Afghan National Army is developing into a professional force, and its soldiers have the will to fight and, if need be, die for their country, the top enlisted leader in U.S. Central Command said. Marine Sgt. Maj. Jeffrey A. Morin, senior enlisted leader for U.S. Central Command, said during an interview Aug. 1 that he has been impressed with the Afghan National Army and its nascent noncommissioned officer corps. The 39,000 members of the Afghan National Army are a group of soldiers with an extreme will to fight, Morin said. “They are developing nationalism;...

<p>Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's instincts on public employee pensions are correct. The only problem with his proposal to rein in the cost of the state's retirement system is that it doesn't go far enough.</p> <p>Schwarzenegger recognizes that the state went overboard in 1999, when the Legislature and then-Gov. Gray Davis agreed to use a big projected surplus in the retirement fund to goose pensions. Lawmakers were told that the fund was so flush with stock market earnings that the benefit increase would be essentially free, and that costs to taxpayers for the overall retirement program would remain low for years.</p>

Ipsos-Reid/Cook Political Report: Close To Half (47%) Would Definitely Vote To Re-Elect Bush As War Talk Focuses Attention On Commander-In-Chief, Americans Rally To Bush; Suddenly Things Seem To Be Heading In The Right Direction For The Country Between September 16 and September 22, 2002, Ipsos-Reid US Public Affairs interviewed a representative sample of 2,000 adults nationwide, including 1,520 registered voters. The margin of error for the combined surveys is +/- 2.2% for all adults and +/- 2.6% for registered voters. WASHINGTON, D.C. — President George W. Bush has reclaimed center stage in American politics in September. With talk of war...