What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending February 15, 2020
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...
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February 15, 2020
February 14, 2020
Consumer Spending Update: Economic Confidence Backs Off January's Record High
After spiking to a five-year high in January, economic confidence fell back four points this month with the Rasmussen Reports Economic Index hitting 143.9. But it still remains in record high territory.
February 14, 2020
Bloomberg Edges Ahead in Democratic Presidential Race
Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has a narrow lead over Joe Biden among Democrats nationally in the race to be their party’s 2020 presidential nominee, but Biden and Bernie Sanders are the candidates seen as most likely to be nominated.
February 14, 2020
Another Year of the Interloper? By Michael Barone
It's a familiar plotline. An interloper runs for a party's presidential nomination and, with an anti-insider pitch, scores wins and near-wins in the first contests with vote pluralities.
February 14, 2020
An Establishment in Panic By Patrick J. Buchanan
From the day he entered the race, Joe Biden was the great hope of the Democratic establishment to spare them from the horrifying prospect of a 2020 race between The Donald and Bernie Sanders.
February 13, 2020
Voters Narrowly Favor Law Allowing Crime Victims to Sue Sanctuary Cities
Voters still aren’t thrilled with the idea of living in a community that protects illegal immigrants from federal authorities. But they support only narrowly a law that would allow victims of crimes by those illegal immigrants to sue sanctuary communities.
February 13, 2020
For Sanders, New Hampshire was a Glass Both Half-Full and Half-Empty By Kyle Kondik and J. Miles Coleman
The battle is breaking in his favor, even as his own performance has not been that strong.
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— There are mixed signals from Bernie Sanders’ narrow victory in New Hampshire, but for now he’s supplanted Joe Biden as a weak frontrunner for the nomination.
— Overall, though, the race remains very uncertain as the scene shifts to the more diverse states of Nevada and South Carolina.
— Center-left candidates got substantially more support than progressive ones in New Hampshire, but the center-left vote split in such a way that Sanders was able to win. Pete Buttigieg has slightly more delegates so far, though.
February 12, 2020
Most Turn Thumbs-Down on Mandatory Voting
Several countries including Australia have made voting compulsory, and California is considering a similar law that would penalize those who don’t vote. But voters nationally still don’t like that idea and tend to think worse government would be the end result.
February 12, 2020
Voters Still Want Budget Cuts, With An Eye on Entitlements
Voters agree the $4 trillion-plus the federal government now spends annually is too much and favor budget cuts, especially in entitlement programs. But most also consider it highly unlikely that spending cuts will occur.
February 12, 2020
Tyranny of the Tamiflunatics By Michelle Malkin
Beware of clickbait character assassins masquerading as "journalists."
February 12, 2020
Trump: Good, Bad, Ugly By John Stossel
President Donald Trump "saved the United States," says former Trump adviser Steve Bannon.
February 11, 2020
Rasmussen Reports Weekly Immigration Index - Week Ending February 6, 2020
The Rasmussen Reports Immigration Index for the week of February 2-6, 2020 has jumped to 105.8 from 99.7 the week before.
February 11, 2020
39% of Republicans Want to Expel Romney from GOP; 18% Undecided
Mitt Romney was the only Republican senator who voted guilty last week on one of the impeachment counts brought against President Trump by House Democrats. Many Republicans were furious at Romney, and a sizable number of GOP voters are ready to throw him out of the party.
February 11, 2020
Defusing the Debt Bomb By Stephen Moore
President Donald Trump's new budget confirms that without corrective action, trillion-dollar deficits will be with us for years and perhaps decades to come. Trump's budget plan has many smart and urgent spending reforms. But will Congress ignore them once again?
February 11, 2020
Long Before Trump, We Were a Divided People By Patrick J. Buchanan
In a way, Donald Trump might be called The Great Uniter.
February 10, 2020
42% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Forty-two percent (42%) 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 6, 2020.
February 10, 2020
Most See Impeachment As Failed Strategy, Want Democrats to Move On
Impeachment is over and done with as far as most voters are concerned. The House Democrats’ failed effort to remove President Trump has just made him stronger politically, voters say.
February 8, 2020
Democrats' Wimpy Impeachment Has Made Trump Stronger Than Ever By Ted Rall
"Many Democrats fear that Trump may be laying an impeachment trap," Stephen Collins wrote for CNN last May. "It's possible that the wider political divides get, the more Trump benefits. The spectacle would help him charge up the political base he needs to turn out in droves in 2020 with claims their 2016 votes were being stolen by political elites."
February 8, 2020
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending February 8, 2020
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...
February 7, 2020
47% of Users Under 40 Say Social Media Influences Their Politics
Social media is having a greater impact on the nation’s political debate, with nearly half of younger voters now saying it influences their opinions. But with YouTube the latest to announce censorship efforts, voters have little confidence that social media will be able to fairly weed out questionable material.
