25% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Twenty-five percent (25%) 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 June 11, 2020.
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June 15, 2020
June 15, 2020
40% of GOP Voters Think Civil War Likely
With race-driven anti-police protests nationwide, one-in-three voters continue to believe America is on the brink of another civil war. Blacks are the least optimistic that the protests will lead to positive change but the most supportive of removing Confederate symbols from public display.
June 13, 2020
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending June 13, 2020
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...
June 12, 2020
Economic, Consumer Confidence Rebound to 2016 Election Levels
As more of the country exits the lockdown and the stock market climbs to pre-pandemic levels, economic confidence is on the rebound, jumping 16 points from last month to 109.8 in June. This finding is comparable to the level of confidence Americans held just prior to President Trump’s 2016 election.
June 12, 2020
The New Religion of Woke Anti-Racism By Michael Barone
It's all about religion, isn't it? "(W)e have the cult of social justice on the left," Andrew Sullivan wrote in New York Magazine, "a religion whose followers show the same zeal as any born-again Evangelical."
Linguist John McWhorter elaborated on that theme in The Atlantic. "(A)ntiracism," he wrote, "is a profoundly religious movement in everything but terminology."
June 12, 2020
Will Churchill's Statue Be Next to Fall? By Patrick J. Buchanan
On Gen. George Washington's orders, the Declaration of Independence, signed in Philadelphia, was read aloud to his army. On hearing it, the troops marched to Bowling Green, decapitated and pulled down the statue of George III, and sent the remnants to be melted down into musket balls.
It was a revolutionary act, a symbolic statement. These once-loyal American subjects were now rebels and no longer owed allegiance to the king. They would fight to end his rule in America.
June 11, 2020
Trump’s Monthly Approval Rebounds in May
When tracking President Trump’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. To look at the longer-term trends, Rasmussen Reports compiles the numbers on a full-month basis, and the results for Trump’s presidency can be seen in the graphics below.
June 11, 2020
Only 16% Think A Police-Free Society Is Likely
Most voters have a high regard for the police and think they’re likely to be around for a long time to come.
June 11, 2020
Notes on the State of Politics By Kyle Kondik and J. Miles Coleman
VP omissions; recapping Tuesday’s primaries
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms (D) seems to be rising in the Biden veepstakes.
— Late Wednesday, Jon Ossoff (D) apparently captured the Democratic nomination to face Sen. David Perdue (R-GA), thus avoiding a runoff.
— Primaries in South Carolina and West Virginia saw protest voting in some key races.
June 10, 2020
Popularity of Black Lives Matter Jumps to 62%
The popularity of the Black Lives Matter movement has climbed dramatically after several days of protest following the police killing of an unarmed black man in Minneapolis.
June 10, 2020
The Monumental Campaign to #CancelAmerica By Michelle Malkin
Across our looted plain, statues are under siege. Smashed. Spray-painted. Shrouded. Expunged. In the name of social justice, we are witnessing the systematic eradication of history. Edifice vigilantes will not rest until all monuments of Western civilization fall.
June 10, 2020
Let Them Risk Their Lives By John Stossel
Deaths from COVID-19 are dropping, but we probably can't resume normal life until someone develops a vaccine. Experts say it will take at least 12 to 18 months.
Why so long?
June 9, 2020
Rasmussen Reports Weekly Immigration Index - Week Ending June 4, 2020
The Rasmussen Reports Immigration Index for the week of May 31-June 4, 2020 has climbed to 104.6, up from 101.4 the week before, as the economy roars back despite nationwide racial protest.
June 9, 2020
Most Reject Calls for Defunding Police
Despite the high-profile anti-police protests nationwide, few Americans believe there are too many cops in this country, and most reject the push by the political left to defund police departments.
June 9, 2020
The Clear Differences Between the Left and the Right By Stephen Moore
The crisis of the coronavirus-induced economic lockdown and now the violent protests in the streets have unleashed a depression-level financial crisis and unprecedented human suffering -- especially in our inner cities. These events have also exposed a Grand Canyon-sized chasm that now separates how the left and the right see America today.
June 9, 2020
The Left's Coming War on Cops By Patrick J. Buchanan
Newly painted in huge yellow letters on 16th Street, just north of the White House, is the slogan: "Defund the Police."
That new message sits beside the "Black Lives Matter" slogan, also in huge letters, painted there at the direction of D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser.
June 8, 2020
27% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Twenty-seven percent (27%) 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 June 4, 2020.
June 8, 2020
Voters See More Racial Discrimination By Cops, Less Concerned With Inner City Crime
Belief that blacks are treated unfairly by police and that police discrimination is a bigger issue than inner city crime have jumped to new highs.
June 6, 2020
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending June 6, 2020
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...
June 6, 2020
Did I or Didn't I Have COVID-19? Blundering Through Unknowable Truths By Ted Rall
Few things are more terrifying than the unknown, as we are discovering as we struggle to navigate, avoid and (if we fail to avoid) survive a mysterious new virus. That goes double when reliable information is hard to come by; it is unquantifiably worse without credible leadership.
