Trump 2024? Former President Leads With GOP Voters
Nearly half of Republican voters pick former President Donald Trump as the candidate they want for 2024, with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as the only strong alternative.
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February 24, 2022
February 24, 2022
Redistricting and Competition in Congressional Elections Forces beyond gerrymandering explain rising number of districts that strongly favor one party by Alan I. Abramowitz
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
-- Based on presidential voting patterns, a much larger proportion of U.S. House districts strongly favor one party and a much smaller proportion are closely divided than 50 years ago.
-- However, gerrymandering is not the major reason for this trend. Partisan polarization has increased dramatically in U.S. states and counties, whose boundaries have not changed.
-- Moreover, despite the growing partisan divide evident in presidential voting, the competitiveness of House elections has changed very little over the past 5 decades because the personal advantage of incumbency has declined sharply during this period.
February 23, 2022
Most Americans Favor Raising Minimum Wage
More than four out of five Americans believe the minimum wage – currently $7.25 an hour – should be raised to at least $9.50, but fewer than half believe a minimum wage increase would help the economy.
February 23, 2022
Democrats Want Party More Like Biden, Not Harris
Democratic voters don’t seem very impressed with Vice President Kamala Harris, and want their party to be more like President Joe Biden.
February 23, 2022
The Woke AMA By John Stossel
The American Medical Association now tells doctors: Use woke language! It's issued a 54-page guide telling doctors things like, don't say "equality"; say "equity." Don't say "minority"; say "historically marginalized."
February 22, 2022
Rasmussen Reports Immigration Index - Week Ending February 17, 2022
The Rasmussen Reports Immigration Index for the week of February 13-17, 2022, decreased to 86.4, down nearly four points from 90.2 two weeks earlier
February 22, 2022
83% of Voters Expect Crime to Be Important Issue in November
Two-thirds of voters say crime is getting worse in America and even more expect the issue to be important in the midterm congressional elections.
February 22, 2022
In the End, Sweden Did It Right by Stephen Moore
What if two years ago, when COVID-19 first hit these shores, our politicians hadn't panicked?
February 22, 2022
Are Democrats Kicking Away Their Future? By Patrick J. Buchanan
Not so long ago, Democrats seemed the party of the future.
February 21, 2022
29% 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 February 17, 2022.
February 21, 2022
Most Americans Say One President’s Day Is Enough
George Washington’s birthday (February 22, 1732) has been a federal holiday since 1879, but is colloquially known as President’s Day to include Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809). Despite their admiration for Lincoln, most Americans don’t think Honest Abe deserves a separate holiday.
February 19, 2022
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending February 19, 2022
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...
February 18, 2022
Republicans Expand Lead on Congressional Ballot
The 2022 midterm elections are now 263 days away, and Republicans have a 13-point lead in their bid to recapture control of Congress.
February 18, 2022
Must Government Be a 'Big, Waddling, Sluggish Beast'? by Michael Barone
Itinerant policy journalist Ezra Klein, now with the New York Times, has highlighted something interesting about the Biden Democrats' now-defunct Build Back Better package -- something beyond its huge cost (trillions) and its failure to get majority support in the Democratic Congress, just like the single-payer health care bill that recently failed to pass in California's Democratic supermajority legislature.
February 18, 2022
Has Putin Won Round One in Ukraine? By Patrick J. Buchanan
When NBC's Lester Holt asked President Joe Biden what might prompt him to send U.S. troops to rescue Americans fleeing Ukraine, Biden replied: "There's not. That's a world war when Americans and Russia start shooting at one another."
February 17, 2022
Worse Than Watergate? Most Voters Believe Clinton Campaign Scandal ‘Very Important’
A majority of voters think special counsel John Durham’s accusations against Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign are very important, and agree with former President Donald Trump that it’s a scandal worse than Watergate.
February 17, 2022
66% Of Voters Believe Biden Should Take Mental Test
Most voters believe that President Joe Biden’s mental abilities have declined since he took office, and two-thirds agree with GOP members of Congress who have urged the president to take a cognitive test and release the results.
February 17, 2022
The “Big Sort” Continues, with Trump as a Driving Force By Rhodes Cook
Number of blowout counties spiked in 2016, endured in 2020.
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— More than 20% of the nation’s counties gave 80% or more of its 2-party presidential votes to either Donald Trump or Joe Biden.
— Trump won the vast majority of these counties, but because Biden’s blowout counties are much more populous, he got many more votes out of his “super landslide” counties than Trump got out of his.
— Trump’s blowouts were concentrated in white, rural counties in the Greater South, Interior West, and Great Plains, while Biden’s were in a smattering of big cities, college towns, and smaller counties with large percentages of heavily Democratic nonwhite voters.
February 16, 2022
COVID-19: Democrats Still Support Mask Requirements
Nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, many Americans have grown tired of mandatory mask policies, but Democratic voters remain convinced that masks are effective and should be required in public places, including schools.
