What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending April 18, 2020
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...
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April 18, 2020
April 17, 2020
Most Democrats Want Woman, Person of Color As VP Nominee But Have No Favorite
If Joe Biden ends up as the Democrats’ presidential nominee, most voters in his party think he should choose a woman or person of color as his running mate, but there’s no clear favorite.
April 17, 2020
Colleges and Universities Threatened By COVID-19 By Michael Barone
Some of America's most beautiful spaces -- our colleges and university campuses -- are closed and empty these days. Schools have canceled their spring semesters and commencements because of the COVID-19 virus; classrooms, dormitories and athletic facilities have been closed.
Students at many institutions are told that they can continue to access instruction online. But exams and grades have been canceled in many cases, and one suspects that online viewership will be sporadic and concentration intermittent.
April 17, 2020
Will COVID-19 Retire the World's Policeman? By Patrick J. Buchanan
For declaring in March that the U.S. economy might be reopened by Easter, President Donald Trump was roundly mocked.
Yet, it appears his political instincts were correct. He was more in tune with his country than were his critics.
April 16, 2020
Voters Say Most Politicians Want Bigger, More Expensive Government
Voters still agree most politicians are intent on growing the size of government but aren’t as worried about that as they used to be.
April 16, 2020
36% Say It’s Time for America To Get Back to Work
A sizable number of voters are ready for America to begin returning to normal and think another six weeks is the most we can afford to remain closed down. Most worry, though, that they will get the coronavirus if they return to work.
April 16, 2020
Wisconsin’s Supreme Court Race: Don’t Project it Forward to the Fall By Kyle Kondik and J. Miles Coleman
Wisconsin is one of perhaps the two or three likeliest states to vote for the winning presidential candidate this fall, so it is no surprise that anything that happens politically in the Badger State attracts widespread attention.
April 15, 2020
Beware the Left's 'Degrowth' Movement By Stephen Moore
It would be natural to believe that nearly everyone on the planet is horrified by the death and economic destruction wrought from the COVID-19 pandemic. But some see the body bags and the shutdown of economic production as a weird kind of blessing in disguise.
April 15, 2020
Voters Prefer Trump, Biden Leadership to Hillary’s In Fighting Coronavirus
Voters agree America would not be better off with Hillary Clinton in the White House during the coronavirus pandemic but think Joe Biden would do just as good a job as President Trump.
April 15, 2020
Phyllis Schlafly: Godmother of America First By Michelle Malkin
Anti-patriot hatred never rests. Hollywood has launched a new character assassination vehicle targeting the late great Phyllis Schlafly. "Mrs. America" debuts on FX on Hulu this week with liberal actress Cate Blanchett starring as the traditionalist Catholic conservative activist who defeated the so-called Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s and went on to helm the influential Eagle Forum until her death at 92 in 2016.
April 15, 2020
China's Tech Totalitarianism John Stossel
The media tell us China "beat coronavirus."
I don't believe it. The Chinese government lies. AEI's Derrek Scissors argues that they've underreported the number of COVID-19 cases by millions.
April 14, 2020
Rasmussen Reports Weekly Immigration Index - Week Ending April 9, 2020
The Rasmussen Reports Immigration Index for the week of April 5-9, 2020 stands at 102.6, up from 98.7 the week before and the first time in a month that the Index has risen above the baseline.
April 14, 2020
65% of GOP Voters Say Coronavirus Reporters Chiefly Out to Get Trump
Democrats are quite happy with the ongoing media coverage of the coronavirus. But Republicans continue to put their faith in President Trump and see the media coverage as just another tool to attack him.
April 14, 2020
Has the Lockdown Worked? By Dennis Prager
Why are governments the world over rendering hundreds of millions of their citizens jobless, impoverishing at least a billion people, endangering the family life of millions (straining marriages, increasing child and spousal abuse, and further postponing marriage among young people), bankrupting vast numbers of business owners and workers living paycheck to paycheck, and increasing suicides?
April 14, 2020
What Price Victory -- in the Coronavirus War? By Patrick J. Buchanan
The same day the number of U.S. dead from the coronavirus disease hit the 15,000 mark, we also crossed the 15 million mark on the number of Americans we threw out of work to slow its spread and "bend the curve."
April 13, 2020
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 April 9, 2020.
April 13, 2020
Americans Play Politics With Their Lives – Even When It Comes to COVID-19
Few Americans have been personally affected healthwise by the coronavirus so far, but politics is a factor when it comes to potential treatment.
April 11, 2020
Progressives Decide: Dignity and Freedom, or Voting for Biden By Ted Rall
Bernie Sanders is out of the race, and with him goes the last chance for progressivism to take over the Democratic Party for a generation.
April 11, 2020
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending April 11, 2020
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...
April 10, 2020
Consumer Spending Update: Economic, Spending Confidence Plunges – But It Depends on Who You Ask
As the coronavirus closes many businesses and takes the stock market on a thrill ride, confidence in the U.S. economy plunged, dropping a staggering 45 points from last month to 94.6 in the Rasmussen Reports Economic Index. This is the lowest finding in six years of surveying and four points below the April 2014 baseline.
