National unemployment was 8.6% in this month’s Rasmussen Reports Real Unemployment update, up from 8.3% last month and starkly different from the 4.0% officially reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics today.
"A sham case, and everyone knows it." So writes the iconoclastic Matt Taibbi, once counted as a left-wing writer, and he's not the only one from outside MAGA precincts who has been appalled by the Manhattan district attorney's case that produced a guilty verdict against former President Donald Trump.
Economic confidence decreased to 89.9 in this month’s Rasmussen Reports Economic Index, slightly lower than May.
Most voters view China as an enemy of the United States, and a plurality still rate President Joe Biden as doing a poor job dealing with the Asian superpower.
A majority of North Carolina voters want stricter immigration enforcement and favor former President Donald Trump in this year’s presidential election by a significant margin.
Years of transgender activism have still not convinced most Americans that there are more than two genders, and a majority don’t want teachers going behind parents’ backs on the subject.
— A persistent finding in swing state polls is that Democrats are doing better in Senate races than Joe Biden is doing in the presidential race.
— At the topline, 2016 and 2020 produced hardly any split presidential and Senate results, suggesting that perhaps the presidential and Senate polling should converge.
— However, even in those years, there still was variation from state to state between the presidential and Senate margins.
— Focusing on the Senate races in the presidential swing states distracts from the races that will truly decide the Senate majority: red state seats with Democratic incumbents, Montana and Ohio.
Nearly half of voters – and an overwhelming majority of Democrats – agree with controversial remarks by actor Robert De Niro, but are not generally enthusiastic about celebrities talking politics.
In the wake of Donald Trump’s conviction in the so-called “hush money” trial, a majority of Democrats want Judge Juan Merchan to sentence the former president to prison.
Donald Trump recently spoke at the Libertarian National Convention.
The Biden administration has spent tens of billions of dollars on green energy, yet last year the U.S. and the world used record amounts of fossil fuels.
Donald Trump became president by flipping states no Republican nominee had won in nearly 20 years.
June is here and nearly half of Americans are planning a vacation this summer.
Former President Donald Trump continues to lead President Joe Biden, although the margin has shrunk in the past month – perhaps reflecting the impact of Trump’s recent trial in New York City.
Thirty-three percent (33%) 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 May 30, 2024.
When tracking President Biden’s job approval on a daily basis, people sometimes get so caught up in the day-to-day fluctuations that they miss the bigger picture...
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...
The Rasmussen Reports Immigration Index for May increased to 91.1, up more than four points from 86.6 in April.
For three and a half years, the Biden White House has seemed remarkably leakproof. Even amid popular backlash to administration policies -- the spending splurge in 2021 that was followed by sharp inflation in 2022 and 2023, the changes in enforcement of immigration laws that have produced numbers of incoming illegal immigrants unmatched even in border boom periods in the 1980s and '90s, and the endorsement of policies allowing biological men to compete in women's sports -- top officials have stuck to talking points and avoided finger-pointing.
A firestorm of controversy was unleashed this month when Kansas City Chiefs placekicker Harrison Butker gave a graduation speech at a Catholic college, expressing traditional Catholic beliefs about marriage and family life. Most Americans aren’t offended, however
