70% Likely to Get Anti-COVID-19 Vaccine
Americans are more eager to take the COVID-19 vaccine than the usual flu shot, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey.
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May 8, 2020
May 8, 2020
Republicans Are More Willing To Risk Deaths, Illness to Get Country Going Again
Republicans are a lot more eager than Democrats to emerge from the coronavirus lockdown even if it means more sickness and death. But most voters regardless of party affiliation agree America can’t remain like this indefinitely.
May 8, 2020
Law Professors for 'Speech Control' By Michael Barone
"In the great debate of the past two decades over freedom versus control of the network, China was largely right and the United States was largely wrong." So write Jack Goldsmith and Andrew Keane Woods, law professors at Harvard and the University of Arizona, respectively, in The Atlantic.
May 8, 2020
Behind Trump's Strategic Pivot By Patrick J. Buchanan
After Pearl Harbor, FDR declared that his role of "Dr. New Deal" had been superseded, replaced by his new role, "Dr. Win the War."
Tuesday, President Donald Trump signaled that, in the war on the coronavirus pandemic, he, too, is executing a strategic pivot.
May 7, 2020
Most Republicans Want Comey Prosecuted for FBI Actions
Most Republicans still believe senior federal law enforcement officials acted illegally to try to stop Donald Trump’s election and think former FBI Director James Comey should be criminally prosecuted.
May 7, 2020
The State of the States: The Governors By Kyle Kondik and J. Miles Coleman
Vulnerable incumbents get a boost in the midst of crisis.
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— Many state governors have received high marks for their handling of coronavirus.
— Three of them on the ballot this November get a boost in our gubernatorial ratings this week.
— As of now, the open seat in Montana seems to be the seat likeliest to change hands on the relatively sparse presidential-year gubernatorial map.
May 6, 2020
Trump’s Monthly Approval Continues to Fall
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.
May 6, 2020
Reducing Federal Aid to Sanctuary Communities Is A Party Line Vote
President Trump wants to penalize sanctuary communities in future federal bailout packages. Most Republicans think it’s a good idea; most Democrats don’t.
May 6, 2020
Big Google Is Watching Your Children By Michelle Malkin
Schools remain shuttered across the country, 30 million Americans are out of work, and food banks are running low, but the edutech sector is booming. Silicon Valley companies are feasting on an exploding client base of quarantined students held hostage to "online learning." Big Google is leading the way -- and that is not OK.
May 6, 2020
Ban This! No, Never Mind! By John Stossel
Recently, many politicians were in such a hurry to ban plastic bags.
California and Hawaii banned them, then New York. Then Oregon, Connecticut, Maine and Vermont passed laws against them. More than 400 cities did, too.
May 5, 2020
Rasmussen Reports Weekly Immigration Index - Week Ending April 30, 2020
The Rasmussen Reports Immigration Index for the week of April 26-30, 2020 has fallen to 101.6 from 103.0 the week before.
May 5, 2020
Most Think America Will Be Great Again
The coronavirus has done little to dent voters’ optimism about America’s future, and most believe the country will be great again.
May 5, 2020
The Federal Government Cannot Bail Out the Blue States By Stephen Moore
Battle lines are getting drawn up between the two parties on the next round of "stimulus" for the economy. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer are demanding as much as $1 trillion more in federal money to bail out state budgets. The blue states of California, Illinois, New Jersey and New York are lining up to be first at the trough. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has said there should be "no blue state bailout," and he is right.
May 5, 2020
How Long Can Biden Stay in His Basement? By Patrick J. Buchanan
Where Barack Obama achieved notoriety for "leading from behind," Joe Biden, these last two months, has been leading from the basement.
And, one must add, doing so quite successfully.
May 4, 2020
35% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Thirty-five percent (35%) 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 30, 2020.
May 4, 2020
More Are Ready to Return to Work, Less Fearful of COVID-19 Risk
Voters are more eager to get back to work but aren’t convinced things will be returning to normal for many by next month. Most remain worried, too, that they’ll get the coronavirus if they return to the workplace.
May 2, 2020
Save America. Throw the Landlords Under the Bus By Ted Rall
We can save the economy.
We have to throw the landlords under the bus to do it.
May 2, 2020
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending May 2, 2020
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...
May 1, 2020
Only 31% Think U.S. Winning Virus War; Food Concerns Unchanged
Americans are pessimistic about the struggle against the coronavirus, although concerns about the food supply haven’t grown.
May 1, 2020
Time for Reopening By Michael Barone
Time for reopening? Let's reframe the question. Time for what to reopen? With what precautions? In which states and counties and communities? Mandatory reopening or voluntary?
And who really decides? Governors, mayors, the president? Business owners or consumers? Does anyone really expect what economist Arnold Kling calls "patterns of sustainable specialization and trade" to snap back into pre-COVID-19 shape?
