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                            May 6, 202429% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Twenty-nine percent (29%) 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 2, 2024.
 
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                            May 6, 202471% Want Disney to Return to Family-Friendly Entertainment
While LGBTQ activists are happy with Disney’s gay “inclusion” agenda, most Americans wish the entertainment giant would go back to it’s family-friendly roots.

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                            May 4, 2024What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending May 4, 2024
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...

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                            May 3, 2024Most Americans See Retail Theft as a Serious Problem Where They Live
The problem of shoplifting and retail theft is a major concern for Americans, and more than a fifth say stores have closed in their community because of the problem.

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                            May 3, 2024Election 2024: Trump Now +10 Over Biden
Despite being on trial in New York City, former President Donald Trump has widened his lead over President Joe Biden during the past month.

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                            May 3, 2024Campus Riots and a Chicago Convention: Deja Vu All Over Again? By Michael Barone
As the philosopher and baseball player Yogi Berra once (supposedly) said, it's deja vu all over again. Student protesters are occupying campuses of famed universities across the country. In New York, Columbia University protesters occupied administrative offices in Hamilton Hall and were cleared out by police, exactly 56 years to the day after student protesters occupied and were thrown out of that building in 1968.

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                            May 2, 2024Civil War 2? Many Voters Think It’s Likely
The possibility that America could face another civil war soon is not too far-fetched for a lot of voters.
May 2, 2024Districts of Change, Part One: How All 435 Congressional Districts Voted from 2008-2020 By J. Miles Coleman
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— One of the most useful tools that the Crystal Ball employs on a regular basis is Dave’s Redistricting App, which helps us make sense of redistricting and includes a plethora of data.
— Using some of DRA’s newly-released data, we are looking back at how the 2008 election compares to 2020 by congressional district.
— Despite doing several points worse nationally than Barack Obama did in 2008, Joe Biden performed better than Obama in nearly half (211) of the current 435 House districts.
— Our home state of Virginia illustrates several of the broader national swings that have taken hold since 2008.
— Most districts cast more raw votes in 2020 than they did in 2008, though there are some interesting exceptions.

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                            May 1, 2024Election 2024: Has NYC Trial Hurt Trump?
Most voters don’t see the current trial of former President Donald Trump in New York City as a deal-breaker in terms of voting for him in November.

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                            May 1, 2024'Make Government Work' By John Stossel
   President Joe Biden says, "I know how to make government work!"

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                            April 30, 2024Four Radical Reforms to Shrink the Federal Budget By Stephen Moore
   It was nearly 50 years ago that a liberal Congress completely dominated by Democrat big spenders passed a new set of budget rules -- the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974.

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                            April 30, 202444% View Speaker Johnson Favorably
Clinging to a one-vote Republican majority in the House of Representatives, Speaker Mike Johnson’s popularity with voters has actually increased in recent weeks.

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                            April 30, 2024Nationalists of the World, Unite? By Daniel McCarthy
        The historian John Lukacs used to say all the old "isms" of politics were defunct.

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                            April 29, 202430% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Thirty percent (30%) 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 25, 2024.
 
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                            April 29, 2024Nevada Voters Want Slower Growth, Less Immigration
The population of Nevada has more than tripled in the past four decades, and most voters in the state support policies to limit growth and restrict immigration.

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                            April 27, 2024What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending April 27, 2024
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...

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                            April 26, 2024Election 2024: More Voters View Trump Win Likely
Instead of asking who voters want to win the presidential election, what happens when we ask who they think actually will win in November?

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                            April 26, 2024A Turning Point for American Foreign Policy? By Michael Barone
        Was the passage by the House last Saturday and the Senate on Tuesday of the foreign aid package with money for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan a turning point in American foreign policy?

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                            April 26, 2024Is the GOP the Stupid Party? By Brian Joondeph
The Republican Party has the reputation and hence the name, “The Stupid Party." They nominate weak candidates, fight with each other in a circular firing squad, give good concession speeches and, if somehow elected, then govern against the will of the people they supposedly represent.

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                            April 25, 2024Americans Cite Self-Defense for Buying More Guns
More Americans are exercising their Second Amendment rights these days, and most see self-defense as the best reason for firearms ownership.