Election 2024: Trump 49%, Harris 45%
Former President Donald Trump continues to lead Vice President Kamala Harris, although the Democrat has slightly narrowed the margin.
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August 15, 2024
August 14, 2024
Are Schools Doing Too Much or Not Enough for Transgender Students?
As students prepare for the beginning of another school year, Americans are clearly divided over transgender policies.
August 14, 2024
Native Truths By John Stossel
American kids are now taught that before Christopher Columbus wrecked things, peaceful Native Americans protected the environment.
August 14, 2024
Voters Trust Trump More on Middle East Crisis
The current Middle East conflict is a major crisis, according to most voters, who trust former President Trump more than Vice President Kamala Harris to deal with the crisis.
August 13, 2024
Donald Trump Has to Run Like It's 2016 Again By Daniel McCarthy
If Donald Trump wants to return to the White House, he has to get serious about winning the "ground war."
August 13, 2024
Natural Gas Is Now Cheaper Than Water By Stephen Moore
Among the great mythologies of recent years, one stands out above the rest, is that the world is in a "great energy transition." Actually, the world IS in a dramatic energy transition. But it isn't the one the Left wants it to be.
August 13, 2024
Democrats Like Tim Walz, But Other Voters? Not So Much
Democratic voters are overwhelming pleased with Kamala Harris’s choice of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her vice-presidential running mate, but Republicans and independents are less impressed.
August 12, 2024
34% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Thirty-four percent (34%) 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 8, 2024.
August 12, 2024
Most Suspect Non-Citizens Are Illegally Registered to Vote
Election integrity concerns have focused on the issue of illegal voting by non-citizens, and most voters suspect it may be happening in their state.
August 10, 2024
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending August 10, 2024
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...
August 9, 2024
Consumer Spending Update: Economic Confidence Sags in August
Economic confidence decreased to 100.9 in this month’s Rasmussen Reports Economic Index, more than four points lower than July.
August 9, 2024
Is It Fair to Call Kamala Harris a ‘DEI Hire’?
Controversy over so-called DEI (“diversity, equity and inclusion”) policies has intruded on this year’s presidential campaign, with some critics accusing Vice President Kamala Harris of being a “DEI hire.”
August 9, 2024
The Symmetrical Vice Presidential Picks: Polarized Politics Continues By Michael Barone
There is an uncanny symmetry in the two presidential candidates' choice of vice presidential running mates. There are a few superficial differences -- Republican J.D. Vance is 40, Democrat Tim Walz 60. Vance is bearded, Walz balding.
August 8, 2024
Election 2024: Trump 49%, Harris 44%, RFK Jr. 3%
Former President Donald Trump has maintained his lead over Vice President Kamala Harris, and support for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s independent campaign continues to decline.
August 8, 2024
More Americans Optimistic About Economy
Despite the recent stock market dip, optimism about the economy has increased in the past year.
August 8, 2024
In Passing on a Swing State VP, Harris Makes a Pick That Fits Recent History By Joel K. Goldstein
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— Although circumstances constricted Vice President Harris’s Veepstakes, she appears to have conducted a careful and thoughtful process that produced a good choice.
— Harris’s process was unique in its focus on Democratic governors and the selection of Gov. Tim Walz will be the first sitting governor as the Democratic vice presidential candidate in 100 years.
— Although Harris vetted candidates from competitive states, like other recent presidential candidates she chose a running mate who was not from a true swing state, demonstrating again that vice presidential candidates are chosen for reasons other than their ability to carry a competitive state.
— Harris’s focus on candidates who had demonstrated political and governmental success in competitive and even red states suggests an emphasis on candidates who can appeal to centrist voters including those beyond the Democratic base.
— The rollout tour will be important in defining Walz in the public’s eye, elevating Harris from the role of vice president to presidential candidate, and demonstrating the themes of and dynamic between the Democratic ticket.
August 7, 2024
‘One Nation Under God’? Most Still Want Pledge in Schools
A majority of Americans still support requiring school children to recite the Pledge of Allegiance daily.
August 7, 2024
Just Who Is the Real Middle-Class President? By Stephen Moore
President Joe Biden talked incessantly about his "from the middle class out" economic strategy. Given his record, it would have been more accurate to call it the "middle class down and out" plan. Inflation has eroded away any income gains under Biden's presidency.
August 7, 2024
Slavery in America By John Stossel
Today people are taught, when it comes to slavery, America was the worst.
August 6, 2024
Most See Teachers’ Unions Mainly Concerned With Job-Protection
Although public opinion of teachers’ unions have improved in the past four years, half of Americans still think the unions care less about education than about protecting their members’ jobs.
