Election Integrity: 60% Favor Requiring Paper Ballots
A majority of voters favor an election integrity measure recently advocated by President Donald Trump.
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February 28, 2025
February 28, 2025
Getting to Denmark By Michael Barone
Sooner or later, The New York Times catches on to the news. In the case of immigration policy, the news it has caught up with is that mass immigration, legal and illegal, from less-developed countries is politically toxic.
February 27, 2025
FBI Director Kash Patel Starts With 47% Favorability
By a double-digit margin, more voters have a favorable than unfavorable opinion of Kash Patel, newly confirmed as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
February 27, 2025
House District Loyalty in the Trump Era By J. Miles Coleman
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— In presidential elections since 2016, only 28 of the 435 current House districts have backed nominees of different parties.
— In next year’s House elections, districts that have been Electoral College bellwethers since 2016 could play a large role in determining whether Democrats can recapture the majority.
— Still, Republicans have some potential offensive targets in districts that have been national popular vote bellwethers.
— While House Democrats find themselves in a similar overall situation now as they did in 2017, the general contours of the House battlefield are different.
February 26, 2025
Does Everyone Hate What Trump is Doing? Far from It By Brian C. Joondeph
On social media, one might get the impression that Americans who voted for President Donald Trump now feel buyer’s remorse.
February 26, 2025
Worries About Gas Prices Have Eased
Americans are now paying about 50 cents a gallon less for gasoline than they were a few months ago, but many still think the price could go up again.
February 26, 2025
Trump Is Right -- Fire Bad Federal Employees and Reward Good Ones By Stephen Moore
All in Washington are acting like their hair is on fire in response to the Department of Government Efficiency requirement that federal employees list what they accomplished last week. Many are acting like they can't think of anything, like they may need to "phone a friend" to get an answer.
February 26, 2025
Most Voters Are Angry About Waste of Taxpayer Money
As President Donald Trump’s administration exposes wasteful federal spending, more than two-thirds of voters are angry about the situation.
February 25, 2025
Is Trump Acting Like a Dictator? 74% of Democrats Say So
While Republicans see President Donald Trump as doing the job he was elected to do, Democrats see the president’s action in a sinister light.
February 25, 2025
How Trump Makes Europe Stronger By Daniel McCarthy
President Donald Trump has a plan to save Europe, and the results of Sunday's election in Germany show it's working.
February 24, 2025
48% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Forty-eight percent (48%) 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 February 20, 2025.
February 24, 2025
62% Back Trump’s Deportation Policy
Voters strongly favor President Donald Trump’s plan to apprehend and deport illegal aliens.
February 22, 2025
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending February 22, 2025
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...
February 21, 2025
Just 29% Think Government Layoffs Would Boost the Economy
The prospect of mass layoffs of federal employees doesn’t strike most Americans as helpful for the economy.
February 21, 2025
The Policies of European Elites End in Tears By Michael Barone
If you follow these things closely, you may have seen a clip of the chairman of the Munich Security Conference breaking down in tears, unable to speak any further while reflecting on Vice President JD Vance's speech there. This breakdown is remarkable because the chairman, Christoph Heusgen, is not a minor apparatchik but a sophisticated and knowledgeable official who was former German Chancellor Angela Merkel's national security adviser from 2005 to 2017.
February 20, 2025
Early Income Tax Filing Keeps Steady
The number of American who’ve already filed their income taxes is keeping up with last year’s pace.
February 20, 2025
53% Approve Trump Ending DEI Policies
By a double-digit margin, more voters approve than disapprove of President Donald Trump’s move to end diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies in the federal government.
February 20, 2025
Trump’s Approval: Still Positive, but Overperformance with Democratic-Leaning Groups May Be Hard to Maintain By Kyle Kondik
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— As his second term enters its second month, Donald Trump retains a positive approval rating in polling averages.
— However, his numbers in polling averages are weaker now than a few weeks ago, driven more by an increase in disapproval than a decline in approval.
— Compared to his 2024 performance with certain demographic groups based on the national exit poll, Trump is overperforming the most with some typically Democratic constituencies.
