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                            May 17, 2024The 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.

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                            May 17, 2024Would 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.

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                            May 16, 2024Election Integrity: Voters Support Absentee Ballot Reforms
Two measures aimed at protecting the integrity of elections have majority support from American voters.
May 16, 2024The 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.

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                            May 15, 2024Most 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.

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                            May 15, 2024Is 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.

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                            May 15, 2024Censorship: A Global Pandemic By John Stossel
   "Palestine will be free!" chant the protesters. "From the river to the sea.

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                            May 14, 2024Biden 2.0 -- Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid By Stephen Moore
   Could a second Biden term be more injurious to the economy than his first term? It seems unimaginable given the first three years gave us 20% inflation, a $2,000 loss in average real incomes for the middle class, 6 million added illegal immigrants, a war on American energy that has caused gas prices to rise by more than 40% to $3.64 a gallon, the collapse of our many major cities, another $6 trillion added to the national debt, the unaffordability of new homes, and the chaos on college campuses.

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                            May 14, 2024What Trump Sees in Doug Burgum By Daniel McCarthy
   Donald Trump knows how to run a talent show.

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                            May 13, 202428% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Twenty-eight percent (28%) 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 9, 2024.
 
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                            May 13, 2024‘Are You Better Off Than You Were Four Years Ago?’
Republicans are trusted more than Democrats on voters’ top issues and, in what may be the worst omen for President Joe Biden’s reelection bid, most answer “no” to a key question. 

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                            May 11, 2024What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending May 11, 2024
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...

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                            May 10, 2024Moving Away From the Template of 'Oppressor vs. Oppressed' By Michael Barone
The violent campus takeover by protesters -- some of them students, many not -- has had the unintended effect of discrediting the premise underlying the protest. That premise is that the world is divided between oppressors and the oppressed, and that the oppressors are always evil and their victims already virtuous.

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                            May 10, 202446% Rate Media ‘Poor’ in Covering Most Important Issues
Inflation and illegal immigration top the list of issues voters consider the most important in the presidential election, and the news media don’t get very good grades for their coverage of those issues. 

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                            May 10, 2024Consumer Spending Update: Economic Confidence Drops Again in May
Economic confidence decreased to 90.7 in this month’s Rasmussen Reports Economic Index, nearly seven points lower than April. This marks the third consecutive monthly decline.

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                            May 10, 2024Polls Have Been Popping for Trump By Brian Joondeph
The 2024 presidential election is less than six months away. Corporate media outlets are calling it a “tight race.” It probably is, as have been most recent presidential elections, but what do the polls say?

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                            May 9, 2024Rasmussen Real Unemployment Rate: Twice the Official Rate
National unemployment was 8.3% in this month’s Rasmussen Reports Real Unemployment update, starkly different from the 3.9% official reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics this month.

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                            May 9, 2024Moms Still Matter for Most Americans
Mother’s Day is this Sunday, and most Americans believe being a mom is an important job.

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                            May 9, 2024GOP Widens Advantage on Crime Issue
Less than six months before Election Day, the Republican Party has widened its lead over Democrats in terms of who voters trust more to deal with the issue of crime. 
 
May 9, 2024Districts of Change, Part Two: Looking Beyond the Straight-Party Districts By J. Miles Coleman
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— Most districts in the House, 379 of the 435, have exclusively backed nominees from only one of the major parties in presidential elections since 2008.
— This leaves 56 districts that have voted at least once for both parties.
— Districts that backed Barack Obama twice and then did the same for Donald Trump make up the most numerous non-straight party group, and most of those districts have Republicans in Congress.
— Democrats, however, hold four of the five “bellwether” districts that have backed the winners of the last four presidential elections.