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May 30, 2024

Forget the National Polls – It’s the Battleground State Polls that Count! By Brian Joondeph

Election season is well underway. President Joe Biden is mumbling and stumbling his way toward his party’s nomination for a second term, the final nail in the coffin of American greatness and exceptionalism.

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May 30, 2024

Districts of Change, Part Three: When Each District Was Most Democratic (and Most Republican) By J. Miles Coleman

KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE

—Using data from Dave’s Redistricting App, we are looking at when each district has leaned most Democratic and most Republican, compared to the national popular vote, since 2008.

—By this metric, Biden’s 2020 performance represented the best Democratic showing since 2008 in a plurality of districts (145 of 435).

—Though his result was less impressive in raw terms, when adjusting for the national popular vote, John McCain was the best-performing recent Republican in 143 districts, the most on the GOP side.

—Some familiar trends, such as Mitt Romney’s strength in white collar areas and Hillary Clinton’s support from Hispanics, show up when comparing district voting across the years.

May 30, 2024

Americans Like Zelenskyy, But Don’t Think Ukraine Is Winning

Fewer than one-in-seven American voters believe Ukraine is winning its war against Russia, despite their favorable opinion of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s leadership.

May 29, 2024

38% Say Gas Prices Have Changed Their Vacation Plans

With regular gasoline selling for nearly $3.50 a gallon, more than a third say fuel prices have altered their plans for a summer vacation.

May 29, 2024

Minimum Wage Folly By John Stossel

California now leads the nation in imposing dumb wage laws.

May 29, 2024

66% of Democrats Approve FBI’s ‘Deadly Force’ in Trump Raid

Voters are sharply divided over reports that Federal Bureau of Investigation agents in the August 2022 raid of former President Donald Trump’s Florida home were authorized to use “deadly force.”

May 28, 2024

54% of Democrats Now Approve of Dumping Biden

Nearly half of voters – including a majority of Democrats – think it’s OK for the Democratic Party to replace President Joe Biden with some other candidate. 

May 28, 2024

The Free-Market Populism of Javier Milei By Daniel McCarthy

   Javier Milei is a rock star.

   The president of Argentina was, in fact, in a Rolling Stones cover band as a teen.

   But now he plays stadiums -- like Buenos Aires' 8,400-capacity Luna Park -- as a political phenomenon, a charismatic cross between Donald Trump and Milton Friedman.

May 28, 2024

5 Reasons to Make the Trump Tax Cut Permanent By Stephen Moore

   No issue defines the diametrically opposite economic philosophies of Joe Biden and Donald Trump than their position on the Trump tax cuts.

Trump wants to make those tax cuts permanent; Biden has repeatedly promised to tax America back to prosperity by repealing the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. But there are so many factual errors swirling around regarding the Trump tax cuts that it's a wonder that the "truth screeners" on the internet haven't flagged this all as "disinformation."

May 27, 2024

32% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction

Thirty-two percent (32%) 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 23, 2024.

 

May 27, 2024

Voters Don’t Trust ‘Race Card’ Politics

With racial rhetoric beginning to stir the presidential campaign, most voters still believe politicians who play the so-called “race card” aren’t really helping minorities. 

May 25, 2024

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending May 25, 2024

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

May 24, 2024

Nearly 1-in-5 Say Someone They Know Died from COVID-19 Vaccine

Four years after the COVID-19 pandemic gripped the world, many Americans believe they know someone who died from the vaccine that promised to stop the virus.

May 24, 2024

Biden Not Fooling Voters on Economy By Michael Barone

If you want to explain to a puzzled, left-leaning writer like The Atlantic's Annie Lowrey why most voters this year rate the economy during former President Donald Trump's term more favorably than the economy during President Joe Biden's, you might start with a pair of simple charts.

May 23, 2024

Veterans Value Memorial Day More

As America prepares for the holiday honoring those who died while serving in the U.S. military, veterans have a higher opinion of Memorial Day.

May 23, 2024

Safety First? More Voters Prefer Trump

On the question of which presidential candidate would do more to ensure America’s safety, voters have a clear preference for former President Donald Trump. 

May 22, 2024

GOP Now +5 on Generic Congressional Ballot

Less than six months before Election Day, Republicans have a five-point lead in their battle to maintain their narrow House majority.. 

May 22, 2024

Scaremongers By John Stossel

Have you heard about the "bee-pocalypse?" My new video explains.

May 21, 2024

Confidence in Housing Market Surges

Despite high interest rates, homeowners are now more confident in the resale value of their homes than they’ve been in nearly five years.

May 21, 2024

Trump on Trial: 53% Expect Guilty Verdict

As the so-called “hush money” trial of former President Donald Trump nears its conclusion, most voters expect the defendant to be found guilty.