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...
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May 25, 2024
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.
May 21, 2024
Trump's Sun Belt Hopes and Rust Belt Needs By Daniel McCarthy
Donald Trump's first election redrew the map of American politics; suddenly Pennsylvania and Michigan were in the Republican column for the first time since the 1980s.
But they didn't stay there: The Rust Belt states that made Trump president in 2016 sent Joe Biden to the White House in 2020.
May 20, 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 16, 2024.
May 20, 2024
Amnesty for Illegal Immigrants or Mass Deportations?
Given a choice between granting amnesty to illegal immigrants and deporting all of them, Americans voters favor deportation by a double-digit margin.
May 18, 2024
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending May 18, 2024
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...
May 17, 2024
Two-Thirds See Racism as Serious Problem
Most Americans think racism is still a serious problem in the country, and more than a quarter of them worry that they could be accused of racism.
May 17, 2024
The World's -- and the Pacific Rim's -- Disastrous Population Implosion By Michael Barone
Will the world be better off with fewer people? For years that has been a hypothetical question posed to suggest an affirmative answer. Fewer people, it was claimed, would mean less depredation of natural resources, less urban overcrowding, more room for other species to stretch their (actual or metaphorical) legs. Mankind was a parasite, a blight, and overpopulation a disease. Fewer people would mean a better Earth.
May 17, 2024
Would a Random Group of People Do Better Than Congress? 54% Say Yes
Only one-in-five voters think members of Congress listen to their constituents, and a majority say a random collection of people would do a better job.
May 16, 2024
Election Integrity: Voters Support Absentee Ballot Reforms
Two measures aimed at protecting the integrity of elections have majority support from American voters.
May 16, 2024
The State Supreme Court Skirmishes By Louis Jacobson
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— State supreme court elections are often ignored by the public and the media, but they can have a dramatic impact on public policy, especially in the post-Roe v. Wade era, when abortion policy is being sent back to the states.
— Numerically, 2024 is a very big year for such elections: They will be held in 33 states. And in several of those states, ideological control of the court could shift depending on the results.
— This year, Michigan, Ohio, Montana, North Carolina, Kentucky, Arizona, and Florida will be home to some of the most consequential supreme court elections.
May 15, 2024
Most See High School Graduates as Unprepared
Just weeks before high school seniors get their diplomas, most Americans don’t think new graduates are ready for the real world.
May 15, 2024
Is America Still a Constitutional Republic?
After the Constitutional Convention in 1787, when Benjamin Franklin was asked what kind of government the convention had created, he said, “A republic, if you can keep it.” Nearly half of voters don’t think we’ve kept it.
