What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending February 25, 2017
In this corner, the President of the United States. In the other corner, the Washington press corps. When you hear the bell, both come out swinging.
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February 25, 2017
February 24, 2017
Most Still Say Transgender Bathroom Policy Not A Federal Issue
President Trump is rolling back a recent Obama administration policy that allows transgender students to use the school bathrooms of their choice. Most Americans still agree that local school bathroom policy is not the responsibility of the federal government.
February 24, 2017
Is Secession a Solution to Cultural War? By Patrick J. Buchanan
As the culture war is about irreconcilable beliefs about God and man, right and wrong, good and evil, and is at root a religious war, it will be with us so long as men are free to act on their beliefs.
February 24, 2017
Most Favor Trump's Litmus Test for Potential Immigrants
Most Americans favor screening out immigrants to this country who don’t share our values or a belief in our basic constitutional freedoms.
February 24, 2017
Trump Has a Grating Style but Significant Substance By Michael Barone
Substance and style -- it's easy to get them confused or mistake one for the other. And they're never entirely unconnected, though exactly how much so is a matter of debate.
February 23, 2017
Americans Say Media Needs to Look More Before It Leaps
Most Americans still think the media is in too big a hurry.
February 23, 2017
Surprise! Cable Viewers Watch the Hosts They Trust
Trust drives viewership, or vice versa, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey.
February 23, 2017
2018 Governors: The Battle Lines for Drawing the Lines By Geoffrey Skelley and Kyle Kondik
Given the Democrats’ poor down-ballot performances in the Obama years, and the Republican dominance of redistricting following the GOP’s success in the 2010 midterm, it’s somewhat fitting that arguably the Democrats’ most marquee victory in 2016 will not help them in the redistricting battles to come after the 2020 census.
February 23, 2017
Most GOPers Favor Trump's Criticism of Media; Democrats Disagree
Critical of the press coverage he has been getting, President Trump has called some in the media "enemies of the people." Most Republicans remain angry at the media and strongly support calling out specific members of the press by name, while Democrats and unaffiliated voters are far less critical of the media than they've been in the past.
February 22, 2017
Voters Are Less Critical of Media for Publishing Secrets
Voters are a lot less critical of news organizations that publish top secret government information.
February 22, 2017
Fake News by John Stossel
"Fake News!" shouts our president, calling out CNN, The New York Times and others.
February 22, 2017
Unlike Obama, Voters Say Media No Help to Trump
If there’s one thing voters across the partisan spectrum agree on, it’s that the media isn’t trying to help President Trump. That’s a big change from the Obama years.
February 22, 2017
Trump's War on 'Fake News' Offers a Great Civics Lesson By Charles Hurt
President Trump is lashing out against “fake news” in what is quite possibly the greatest civics-journalism course ever publicly taught in America.
February 22, 2017
Fighting for the Falsely Accused By Michelle Malkin
Former Fort Worth, Texas, police officer Brian Franklin is finally free. But he is still fighting to clear his name.
February 22, 2017
Most Say White House Leakers Deserve Prosecution
Following numerous leaks of secret information intended to embarrass President Trump to the news media, most voters think the leakers should be punished.
February 21, 2017
Voters Lean Toward Two-State Solution for Israelis, Palestinians
President Trump last week appeared to back away from the longstanding U.S. policy position that a separate Palestinian state is essential to any peace settlement between the Israelis and Palestinians. But voters here tend to see that as key to any successful agreement.
February 21, 2017
Support for Deportations Plummets
Voters have long complained that President Obama was not sending illegal immigrants home fast enough. Now with President Trump in office, they’re worried that too many people are being deported.
February 21, 2017
Is a Trump-Putin Detente Dead? by Patrick J. Buchanan
Among the reasons Donald Trump is president is that he read the nation and the world better than his rivals.
February 20, 2017
46% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Forty-six percent (46%) 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 16.
February 20, 2017
Most See Russia as Likely Influence on Trump
Most voters think Russia is a likely influence on President Trump’s foreign policy but also tend to think critics of fallen National Security Adviser Michael Flynn are more interested in scoring political points than in U.S. national security.
