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 November 10. Two out of the five nights in the survey follow Republican Donald Trump's election as the next president of the United States.
Most voters are confident in the outcome of last week's election, but few trust the media coverage that led up to it.
President-elect Donald Trump in a “60 Minutes” interview on CBS last night made it clear that Obamacare and the U.S. Supreme Court are high on his list of action items, and voters think that’s a good place to start.
Misperceptions, misleading reporting and mistakes all around – that seems to be a large part of the surprise story of Donald Trump’s victory.
Maybe it was lucky for Donald Trump that he was running against Hillary Clinton or he wouldn't be president-elect today.
Most voters are reassured by the first post-election speeches President-elect Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton gave, but Democrats are apparently in a less forgiving mood.
Pulse Opinion Research conducts the field work and provides the methodology for all Rasmussen Reports surveys. Pulse did a number of state tracking surveys during the presidential election season for the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers and the Entertainment Software Association.
Here’s the Auto Alliance’s analysis of those survey results.
"In victory, magnanimity!" said Winston Churchill.
Astounding. That's the best word to describe the tumultuous election night and the (to most people) surprise victory of Donald Trump. Hillary Clinton hoped to win with votes of Northeasterners, including those who have moved south along Interstate 95 to North Carolina and Florida (44 electoral votes). Instead, Trump won with votes along the I-94 and I-80 corridors, from Pennsylvania through Ohio and Michigan to Wisconsin and Iowa (70 electoral votes).
With Hillary Clinton holding a 0.9% lead over Donald Trump in the popular vote, 2016 appears to be the fourth time in U.S. history that the president-elect lost the overall vote but won the Electoral College to take the White House. Even before the election results came in, a majority of voters said the Electoral College needs to go.
California, Massachusetts and Nevada are the latest states to legalize recreational use of pot, and nearly half of voters favor such a law where they live.
Voters are pretty critical of the news coverage they got this election cycle, particularly those who relied on social media.
Voters tend to think both presidential candidates ran mostly negative campaigns this year but feel President-elect Donald Trump's was far more negative than Hillary Clinton’s.
Well, what can we say — we blew it.
While most voters said the candidates’ policy positions were more important than their character, voters still place it high on the list of issues that influenced their vote in the presidential election.
Here is what eight years of President Obama's "post-racial" reign have wrought.
Voters were a lot less certain how they were going to vote this year compared to the last two presidential elections, with one-in-four waiting until the final week to make up their minds.
NEW YORK — Yes, Hillary, this revolution is real.
Tens of millions of voters cast ballots Tuesday for Hillary Clinton. Except for a relative handful of wealthy and connected people, nobody actually wanted to vote for her.
The media created a false narrative about the 2016 presidential campaign, and most polling reinforced it.
After months of bitter campaigning, decision day is finally here. So which issues are driving voters’ decisions this presidential election year?
