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April 2, 2021

Fewer Americans Will Attend Church This Easter

Perhaps because of the COVID-19 pandemic, most Americans don’t expect to celebrate this Easter Sunday in church.

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April 2, 2021

Too Much Risk Aversion Is Too Risky by Michael Barone

"This is not politics," President Joe Biden said last week. "Reinstate the mandate if you let it down." Give him credit for consistency: When Gov. Greg Abbott ended Texas' mask mandate last month, Biden called it "Neanderthal thinking."

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April 2, 2021

Joe Biden's Bid to Remake America By Patrick J. Buchanan

If Joe Biden's American Jobs Program, outlined in Pittsburgh, is enacted, then the federal government will take a great leap forward toward irreversible control of the destiny of the Republic.

April 1, 2021

Most Americans Believe in Resurrection of Jesus

As Easter weekend approaches, Americans overwhelmingly believe Jesus was the son of God and was raised from the dead.

April 1, 2021

44% of Voters Approve ‘Vaccine Passport’

The Biden administration is reportedly working to develop a COVID-19 “vaccine passport,” but fewer than half of voters think it's a good idea to require proof of vaccination against the coronavirus.

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April 1, 2021

Demographics and Expectations: Analyzing Biden and Trump’s Performances By Lakshya Jain

KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE

— The predictive power of demographics makes county margins strongly correlated and thus inferable from each other. Comparing the actual results to the expected results based on county demographics gives us a better idea of candidate performance.

— In the 2020 presidential election, Democrats overperformed in states with high numbers of educated white voters, such as Texas, Arizona, and Georgia. They also began to show signs of hitting their electoral floors in much of Appalachia.

— Strong Republican showings with evangelicals, non-college whites, and Hispanics helped Trump overperform in Florida, Iowa, and Ohio.

March 31, 2021

Voters Say Cost Is Top Health Care Problem, Favor Free-Market Solutions

Cost is by far the number one problem with America’s health care system, according to voters, but most don’t think more government regulation is the solution.

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March 31, 2021

Woke Colleges by John Stossel

Did you take the SATs to try to get into college? Your kids may not have to.

March 30, 2021

Americans Expect Gas Prices to Keep Rising

Gasoline prices have risen sharply in recent months, and most Americans expect the price to keep going up.

March 30, 2021

41% Favor Getting Rid of Senate Filibuster

Democrats are threatening to change the rules of the U.S. Senate to eliminate the filibuster, and voters are divided over whether this is a good idea.

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March 30, 2021

Are Democrats Dangerous to Your Health? by Stephen Moore

Rep. Jack Kemp used to say that minority voters "don't care what you know until they know that you care." Democrats have cleaned up with Black and Hispanic voters (although a little less so with each passing election) by professing how much they care.

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March 30, 2021

Autocracy vs. Democracy or China vs. America? By Patrick J. Buchanan

"I've known Xi Jinping for a long time. ... He doesn't have a democratic -- with a small 'd' -- bone in his body," said Joe Biden in his first press conference as president, and then he ambled on:

March 29, 2021

37% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction

Thirty-seven percent (37%) 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 March 25, 2021.

March 29, 2021

Voters Support Second Amendment Rights

President Joe Biden promised new gun-control measures in the wake of two recent mass shootings, but voters overwhelming believe their right to own guns is protected by the Constitution.

March 27, 2021

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending March 27, 2021

In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...

March 26, 2021

Americans See Less Economic Opportunity

Confidence in the nation’s economic future has declined in the past two years, and fewer Americans now expect their own income to increase.

March 26, 2021

Most Voters Don’t Think Gun Control Can Prevent Mass Shootings

In the wake of two mass shootings, President Joe Biden called for Congress to pass new gun-control laws, but nearly two-thirds of voters don’t believe such tragedies are preventable.

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March 26, 2021

Can the Biden Administration Stop China? by Michael Barone

The acrid atmosphere last week at the Captain Cook Hotel in Anchorage, Alaska, with its vivid murals of the 18th-century British seafarer James Cook's discoveries throughout the Pacific, sounds very much like the acrid atmosphere almost exactly 60 years ago in the Beaux-Arts American and Soviet embassies in Vienna: grim, at least for the United States.

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March 26, 2021

Why Putin's Pipeline Is Welcome in Germany By Patrick J. Buchanan

During a joint interview with Jens Stoltenberg, the Norwegian secretary-general of NATO, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, fresh from his bout with the Chinese in Anchorage, took on Angela Merkel and the Germans.

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March 25, 2021

Biden’s Handling of COVID-19 Wins Majority Approval

Many of his policies have stirred controversy, but when it comes to how Joe Biden has handled the coronavirus pandemic, most voters approve of the job the new president is doing.