Voters Are Getting More Fired Up About the Election
Enthusiasm continues to grow about the upcoming presidential election, with Republicans in particular more fired up since President Trump’s latest U.S. Supreme Court selection.
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October 2, 2020
October 2, 2020
Debate Watchers Give Biden The Edge, But 20% Undecided
Even though President Trump did most of the talking, debate watchers tend to see Democrat Joe Biden as the winner, although a sizable number remain undecided.
October 2, 2020
Worst Presidential Debate Ever By Michael Barone
"Chaos." "Painful." "Dispiriting." "The worst presidential debate in American history." "The lowest point in American political culture in my lifetime."
October 2, 2020
It's Late, But There's Still Time By Patrick J. Buchanan
In their first debate, the president of the United States, challenged by the former vice president, performed poorly -- even by his own estimation.
October 1, 2020
Most Oppose ‘Packing’ Supreme Court But Favor Term Limits for Justices
Angered by President Trump’s nomination of a new U.S. Supreme Court justice just weeks before Election Day, several prominent Democrats have suggested adding more members to the high court or imposing term limits on the justices if their party regains control of the Senate. Most voters continue to favor term limits for the Supreme Court but oppose packing it with more members.
October 1, 2020
Trump Won the Debate – With his Base By Brian C. Joondeph
Presidential debate number one was a slugfest, with President Trump coming out swinging. Poor Joe Biden didn’t know what hit him. He has granted few interviews during the campaign season, with scripted questions and answers on a teleprompter but no body slams from the likes of Trump the Barbarian.
October 1, 2020
Biden Lead Looks Firmer as Midwest Moves His Way By Kyle Kondik and J. Miles Coleman
Challenger edges over 270; rating changes for Senate, House.
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— With the first debate now in the books, we have close to 20 rating changes across the Electoral College, Senate, and House.
— Joe Biden is now over 270 electoral votes in our ratings as we move several Midwestern states in his favor.
— Changes in the battle for Congress benefit Democrats almost exclusively. We’re moving two Senate races in their direction, as well as several House contests.
September 30, 2020
White House Watch: Biden Jumps Ahead
Following President Trump’s announcement of a U.S. Supreme Court nominee just weeks before Election Day, Democrat Joe Biden has jumped out to an eight-point lead in Rasmussen Reports’ weekly White House Watch survey. The survey does not include reaction to last night’s first Trump-Biden debate.
September 30, 2020
Voters Still Doubt Debate Moderators, Media Fact-Checking
Voters again this year think debate moderators are a lot more likely to help the Democrat presidential nominee over Donald Trump. They suspect the media plays favorites, too, when fact-checking what the candidates say.
September 30, 2020
Who's Funding Shady Ballot Harvesting Schemes? By Michelle Malkin
Last week, while on a business trip in Wisconsin, I learned about an insane ballot harvesting scheme that appears to be tied to a deep-pocketed liberal advocacy group subsidized by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Google, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and eBay former chairman Pierre Omidyar's Democracy Fund.
September 30, 2020
Biased Media By John Stossel
"A pioneer devoted to equality."
That was The Washington Post's headline about Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
September 30, 2020
School Choice: Public Opinion in Five Battleground States
The Manhattan Institute commissioned Rasmussen Reports to include nine questions related to school choice and charter schools in their late August–early September polling of likely voters in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan, and North Carolina. Among these states, 46%–52% of the respondents said that they believe that giving parents the right to choose their children’s school raises the overall quality of K–12 education for students; 18%–20% believe that it lowers educational quality. Black respondents were more likely to believe that school choice raises educational quality.
September 29, 2020
Rasmussen Reports Weekly Immigration Index - Week Ending October 1, 2020
The Rasmussen Reports Immigration Index for the week of September 20-24, 2020 fell to 102.2 from 104.0 the week before.
September 29, 2020
Voters Attach Less Importance to This Year’s Debates
The vast majority is likely to watch this year’s presidential debates which begin tonight, but voters say the debates are less important than they were four years ago.
September 29, 2020
State Polls Give Biden Strong Lead in Electoral College as First Debate Looms By Alan I. Abramowitz
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— There is a strong relationship between the 2020 presidential polls in the states and the 2016 results.
— This relationship makes sense given that there is an incumbent on the ballot. In these kinds of elections, we see a very high degree of consistency in the results at the state level.
— There are enough competitive states for Donald Trump to come back and win, but Joe Biden is considerably closer to the magic number of 270 than Trump, based on the polls.
September 29, 2020
No, the United States Is Not Systemically Racist By Stephen Moore
In the second half of the 20th century, from 1950 to 2000, Black people in the United States experienced much larger income gains than whites did. The group that had the largest income gains, by far, was Black women. Their incomes nearly doubled over that period (after inflation). The race gap persists, but it is much lower today than it was in 1950. Does this sound like the financial result from a systemically racist country?
September 29, 2020
Will Justice Amy Star in 'The Five'? By Patrick J. Buchanan
By nominating Federal Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, Donald Trump kept his word, and more than that.
September 28, 2020
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 September 24, 2020.
September 28, 2020
79% Think Barrett’s Senate Confirmation Is Likely
Voters aren’t convinced that federal Judge Amy Coney Barrett should sit on the U.S. Supreme Court, but a sizable majority expects her to be confirmed by the Senate.
September 28, 2020
Mail-In Balloting, the 12th Amendment and Impending Doom By Ted Rall
More than 80 million Americans are expected to cast mail-in ballots this fall, representing a 16-fold increase over mail-in ballots in the 2016 election.
This is probably going to cause a constitutional crisis of epic proportions.
