A new Rasmussen Reports survey reveals that 40% of Americans now believe the minimum wage should be at least $15 an hour, up from 36% a year ago. That’s a strong sentiment. After all, who doesn’t want working Americans to earn more? But compassion and sound economics are two very different things.
If school choice vouchers were available, more than half of parents with children in public school would take advantage of the programs to send their kids to private school.
Support for socialist policies and socialist candidates is now a majority position among younger voters in America.
— As the post-Labor Day sprint to the November gubernatorial races begins, we are upgrading Democrats in Virginia, moving that race to Likely Democratic. New Jersey remains as Leans Democratic.
— For the 2026 races, open seats in Iowa and Maine get more competitive in our ratings.
— Republicans should be able to easily win a new seat in Missouri as the result of a new proposed gerrymander, the latest development in the fast-moving redistricting wars.
In the aftermath of last week’s shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis, more voters see a need for new gun control laws.
"Mental health is declining," says psychologist Jonathan Haidt.
When tracking President Trump’s job approval on a daily basis, people sometimes get so caught up in the day-to-day fluctuations that they miss the bigger picture...
By a 10-point margin, Democrats are more likely than Republicans to believe that their own party’s members of Congress agree with them.
The Elizabeth Warrens of the world have long complained about how the rules in Washington and on Wall Street are rigged in favor of the rich.
Forty-five percent (45%) 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 August 28, 2025.
While many Americans see Labor Day as marking the end of summer, more view it as an acknowledgement of working people.
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...
The Constitution of the United States lays out a complex scheme of governance that has mostly worked for the 237 years since it became effective with the ratification of the ninth state, New Hampshire, in 1788.
Americans overwhelmingly believe kids should be taught traditional values, and many don’t think schools are doing a good job of it.
After four years of Joe Biden dodging media scrutiny, a majority of voters recognize that President Donald Trump is more available to questions from the press.
In the aftermath of FBI raids on former National Security Adviser John Bolton’s home and office, most voters don’t believe it was about national security.
— In Iowa, Democrats continued to rack up special election overperformances by flipping a Trump-won state Senate seat that is based in Sioux City.
— Democrats have broken the GOP’s supermajority in the state Senate, although Republicans still hold comfortable majorities in both chambers of the legislature.
— A judge threw out Utah’s current House map, a GOP gerrymander, ruling that it does not fit with the guidelines set by a 2018 voter-approved state ballot issue.
— A fairer map of Utah would probably have one blue seat and three red ones, instead of four red ones, though Utah Republicans may try to delay a new map’s implementation.
Support for raising the national minimum wage continues to raise, with 4-in-10 Americans now saying it should be at least double what current federal law requires.
Opposition to ending the U.S. Senate’s filibuster rule has softened, now that Republicans hold the majority in the upper chamber of Congress.
