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June 9, 2022
June 9, 2022
How the House Landscape Changed: A mild decline in competitive seats, and a spike in safe Republican ones by Kyle Kondik
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
-- The new House landscape is fairly similar to the old one.
-- However, there is a notable increase in the number of super-safe Republican seats -- and a modest decline in the overall number of competitive districts.
-- New Hampshire, the final state to complete redistricting, kept its old map basically intact, which means the state should feature a couple of competitive races.
-- Now that redistricting appears to be complete for 2022, we have brought back our traditional House rating tables, which are available at the bottom of this article and at our Crystal Ball House page.
June 8, 2022
Most Think Teens Won’t Have Trouble Finding Jobs This Summer
Americans continue to believe it’s good for young people to work during the summer, and most believe it won’t be hard for teens to find jobs.
June 8, 2022
Voters Want Roll Calls for Bills in Congress
Voters overwhelmingly support a Republican congresswoman’s demand for roll call votes in the House of Representatives, and also believe members of Congress should read the bills they pass into law.
June 7, 2022
Majority Now See Another Depression Ahead
Americans are worried about the stock market and a majority now think the U.S. could soon face another Great Depression.
June 7, 2022
Beware: 100% Green Energy Could Destroy the Planet by Stephen Moore
The untold story about "green energy" is that it can't possibly be scaled up to provide anywhere near the energy to replace fossil fuels. (Unless we are headed back to the stone ages, which is what some of the "de-growth" advocates favor).
June 6, 2022
23% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Twenty-three percent (23%) 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 June 2, 2022.
June 6, 2022
Voters Divided Over 'Assault Weapon' Ban
Proposals to ban certain types of weapons, including AR-15 rifles, in the wake of recent mass shootings have voters divided over whether such legislation would be constitutional.
June 4, 2022
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending June 4, 2022
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...
June 3, 2022
‘2000 Mules’: Documentary’s Message Resonates With Voters
The new documentary “2000 Mules,” which investigates evidence of widespread cheating in the 2020 presidential election, is hitting home with voters who have seen the film.
June 3, 2022
Republicans Expand Congressional Lead
The 2022 midterm elections are now 158 days away, and Republicans have an eight-point lead in their bid to recapture control of Congress.
June 3, 2022
Politics as the Leisure of the Theory Class Michael Barone
Politics has increasingly become, for many Americans, the leisure of the theory class. That's a phrase from the early 20th century sociologist Thorstein Veblen, which I turned on its head in a recent column. He was condemning the showy consumerism of the contemporary rich for having no economically practical purpose. I, on the other hand, was describing the political preoccupations of contemporary people, mainly high-education liberals but also low-education populists, as having no practically achievable goals.
June 3, 2022
US and Ukraine, Goals in Conflict By Patrick J. Buchanan
Among the nations aiding Ukraine in its resistance to the Russian invasion, America has been foremost. Yet the war interests of our two nations are not identical.
June 2, 2022
Most Americans Exercise Every Week
Americans consider exercise important, and the vast majority exercise at least once a week.
June 2, 2022
Do Government Workers Really Need a Raise?
Congress is considering a huge pay increase for federal employees, but a plurality of Americans think government workers are already better off than employees in the private sector.
June 2, 2022
The Outlook for the 2022 Senate Elections: A State-by-State Analysis By Alan I. Abramowitz
What a predictive model tells us about the last decade of results, as well as 2022
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— Senate elections have become firmly yoked to their state’s presidential leanings.
— Democrats now hold a tiny Senate majority in large part because of their superior performance in otherwise Republican-leaning states, a performance they may find difficult to sustain because of deepening partisan polarization.
— Based on the fundamentals of state partisanship, incumbency, and the national political environment, Republicans have a good chance to pick up at least a seat and take back control of the upper chamber. But poor candidates could hurt their chances, as they have in some other recent Senate races.
June 1, 2022
Biden Approval Unchanged in May
When tracking President Biden’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...
June 1, 2022
‘Hate Speech’ or Free Speech? Voters Divided
Most voters are concerned about “hate speech” on the Internet, but are divided about whether it can be suppressed without violating First Amendment free speech protections.
