Virginia Turns Toward Trump By Daniel McCarthy
Donald Trump became president by flipping states no Republican nominee had won in nearly 20 years.
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June 4, 2024
June 4, 2024
49% Plan on Summer Vacation
June is here and nearly half of Americans are planning a vacation this summer.
June 4, 2024
Election 2024: Trump +5 Over Biden
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.
June 3, 2024
33% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
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.
June 3, 2024
Biden Approval Improves Slightly in May
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...
June 1, 2024
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending June 1, 2024
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...
May 31, 2024
Rasmussen Reports Immigration Index - Data Ending May 23, 2024
The Rasmussen Reports Immigration Index for May increased to 91.1, up more than four points from 86.6 in April.
May 31, 2024
Why Doesn't the Biden White House Ditch Its Unpopular Border Policy? By Michael Barone
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.
May 31, 2024
Most Americans Support NFL Kicker Harrison Butker
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
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.
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.
