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                            January 14, 2025Democrats Aren't Democracy's Party By Daniel McCarthy
When Donald Trump is sworn in next week, America will have a president for the first time in four years.

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                            January 13, 202529% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Twenty-nine percent (29%) 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 January 9, 2025.

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                            January 13, 2025GOP Voters Back Trump on Greenland, Panama Canal
President-elect Donald Trump’s suggestions of acquiring Greenland and taking over the Panama Canal are wildly popular with Republican voters, but less so with others.

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                            January 11, 2025What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending January 11, 2025
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...

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                            January 10, 2025Consumer Spending Update: Economic Confidence Declines in January
Economic confidence decreased to 103.4 in this month’s Rasmussen Reports Economic Index, nearly four points lower than December.

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                            January 10, 202554% Approve of Trump Transition
As he prepares for his second term in the White House, most voters think Donald Trump is doing a good job with the presidential transition.

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                            January 10, 2025Facebook Embraces Free Speech: The Masses Win, the Experts Lose By Michael Barone
        The times, they are a-changing. The balance of power in the perhaps

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                            January 10, 2025Rasmussen Reports Immigration Index - Data From December 19-20, 2024
The Rasmussen Reports Immigration Index for December increased to 92.4, up nearly two points from 90.6 in November.

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                            January 9, 202547% Say Disney Has Gotten Worse
The movies and TV shows produced by the Walt Disney Company aren’t as good as they used to be, according to almost half of Americans.

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                            January 9, 2025FBI: Most Voters Still Trust Agency
Despite recent criticism of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, a majority of voters still have a positive opinion of the agency.
January 9, 2025How the Other Half Votes: The Big Counties Versus the Rest of the Country in 2024 By Kyle Kondik
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— While the nation has more than 3,100 counties, just about 150 of them cast roughly half of all presidential votes.
— In the Trump era, the gap between the biggest counties and the rest of the country is larger than it was previously, although the overall difference contracted slightly in both 2020 and then 2024 after an initial large widening in 2016.
— In improving his margin in the national popular vote by about 6 points from 2020, Donald Trump ran further ahead of his 2020 margin in the nation’s most vote-rich counties than he did in the rest of the country.

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                            January 8, 2025‘Drastic’ Cuts? Most Voters Like It
House Speaker Mike Johnson’s talk about “drastically” reducing the federal government is popular with voters, although they’re not sure the new Congress will actually follow through.

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                            January 8, 2025Victimhood U By John Stossel
Colleges went mad.

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                            January 7, 2025Another Independence Day Approaches By Brian C. Joondeph
Independence Day, celebrated on July 4 of every year, is a national holiday commemorating the ratification of the Declaration of Independence, which established the United States of America, gaining freedom from British subjugation and tyranny.

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                            January 7, 202543% Expect Better Economy This Year
A key measure of economic optimism has risen significantly since this time last year

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                            January 7, 2025Will Republicans Make Life Better? Predictably, Voters Are Divided
With Republicans now controlling both houses of Congress and Donald Trump preparing to become President, voters are divided along partisan lines about whether this will improve life for the average American.

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                            January 7, 2025Donald Trump's Worldwide Election By Daniel McCarthy
        Winning the 2024 election was only the beginning -- the Trump effect is
now sweeping the globe.

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                            January 7, 2025Why America Is in So Much Trouble By Stephen Moore
        Shortly before Milton Friedman's death in 2006, I had the privilege of

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                            January 6, 202530% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Thirty percent (30%) 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 January 2, 2025.

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                            January 6, 202548% Say Biden One of the Worst Presidents Ever
Most voters say nothing President Joe Biden did during the past four years helped them, and nearly half believe he ranks among America’s worst presidents.