Weekly Updates

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls Ending October 23, 2010

What a difference four years make.

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending October 15, 2010

Election Day is little more than two weeks away, and the political landscape is the same as it’s been for months.

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending October 8, 2010

As Election Day draws near, Rasmussen Reports shifted the ratings of four key Senate races in our Election 2010 Balance of Power summary. Three of the changes favored the Republicans while one favored the Democrats.

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls Week Ending October 1, 2010

A number of pundits have praised this session of Congress as one of the most activist in U.S. history, and yet it’s fascinating to find how few members of Congress are running for reelection on this record of accomplishment.

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls Ending September 24, 2010

The president and his party had another tough week. But, let’s face it, it’s a tough season for incumbents in general.

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls Ending September 17, 2010

The Tea Party’s brewing a heady mix these days, throwing the political establishment and the media class into a tizzy.

The Tea Party’s brewing a heady mix these days, throwing the political establishment and the media class into a tizzy.

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls Ending September 10, 2010

President Obama declared in a press conference on Friday that his job is to stimulate the economy. The problem for he and many of his fellow Democrats appears to be that voters don't like how he's going about doing that.

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls Ending September 3, 2010

Labor Day is upon us marking both the unofficial end of summer and the start of the fall campaign season. All indications are that the voters are prepared to do the same thing they did in 2006 and 2008, vote against the party in power.

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending August 27, 2010

Strange days have found us, indeed.

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls Ending August 20, 2010

This past week new unemployment claims hit their highest level since last November, but regular Rasmussen Reports readers have seen the economic bad news worsening in a number of our new surveys.

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls Ending August 14, 2010

Would you buy a used car from your congressman? A lot of voters probably wouldn’t.

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls Ending August 7, 2010

Money talks. This November, money’s likely to vote, too - with the economy front and center in most Americans’ minds.

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls Ending July 31, 2010

Does a nation have the right to secure its own borders? Most Americans think so, but they don’t think the federal government is doing a very good job of it. Enter Arizona.

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls Ending July 24, 2010

One of the key issues in the political debate now roiling the country is how big a part government should play in our lives.

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls Ending July 17, 2010

The frustration that voters are expressing in 2010 goes much deeper than specific policies. Voters just don’t believe their elected officials are listening to them.

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls Ending July 10, 2010

Politically speaking, only an improved economy is likely to trump health care and immigration in voters’ minds this November, but the latest findings on the economic front are far from reassuring.

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls Ending July 3, 2010

As the United States prepares to celebrate the nation’s birthday, concerns about the economy continue to grow and the stock market has turned decidedly sour.

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending June 26, 2010

After just dealing with an out-of-the-blue case of military insubordination, President Obama has another tough week ahead.

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending June 19, 2010

Washington and Wall Street talk, but Americans just want to know when they’re going to plug the darn hole.

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending June 12, 2010

The buck stops at the president’s desk, but voters aren’t blaming President Obama for everything that goes wrong these days.