Following Hillary Clinton's surprise loss to Donald Trump, most voters think it's time for her to quit the public arena, but her fellow Democrats disagree. Still, Democratic voters now believe their party should go more in the direction of Clinton's primary opponent, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.
Half of working Americans expect a raise in the coming year, and they think the best place to get it is where they are employed now.
Voters still support punitive action against so-called sanctuary cities that refuse to enforce immigration laws, although Democrats and unaffiliated voters are more protective of these cities than they have been in the past.
Now that we’ve had a week to digest the results of the 2016 election, here are some observations about what happened and what the results might tell us about the future:
The outsider candidate may have won this year’s presidential election, but most voters still don't expect the government to be looking out what's best for them. Republicans are more hopeful than other voters, though.
It’s flu season again, and that’s left most Americans running out to get their flu shots.
Voters are closely divided over whether the street protests against Donald Trump’s election are the product of genuine concern or just being staged by troublemakers. But most agree the protests won’t achieve anything good.
For eight years after America elected her first black president, Americans were accused of being racist for pointing out President Obama’s insufferable arrogance.
President-elect Donald Trump in a TV interview Sunday night appeared to back away from a campaign vow to name a special prosecutor to investigate defeated Democratic rival Hillary Clinton for her handling of classified information while secretary of State. Most voters think he should drop the idea, but a sizable majority of Republicans disagree.
News flash, kids: Things aren't free. Things cost money. And "free" things provided to you by the government cost other people's money.
Rasmussen Reports’ final White House Watch daily tracking poll survey was posted Monday morning. It showed Democrat Hillary Clinton with a two-point advantage over Republican Donald Trump – 45% to 43%. To be precise, it was Clinton 44.8% to Trump 43.1%, a difference of 1.7%.
However Donald Trump came upon the foreign policy views he espoused, they were as crucial to his election as his views on trade and the border.
Most voters like the way President Obama has responded to the election of Donald Trump but don’t think the early public peace between the two men says much about the future.
The good news is that we dodged a bullet in this election. The bad news is that we don't know how many other bullets are coming, or from what direction.
Most voters think Democrats should work with Donald Trump once he’s in the White House, but Democrats strongly disagree. Still, voters are more hopeful about the parties cooperating than they’ve been since President Obama’s inauguration in 2009.
One of the issues President-elect Donald Trump says he wants Congress to act on is immigration. That's not entirely surprising, given that he spotlighted just that issue, in incendiary terms, after gliding down that escalator in the Trump Tower and announcing he was running 17 months ago.
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.
