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October 24, 2024Rating Changes: Pushing House Toss-ups, Nebraska Senate to Leans Republican By Kyle Kondik and J. Miles Coleman
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— We are pushing a few House Toss-ups out of that category this week, leaving revised ratings that show 212 House seats at least leaning Republican, 209 at least leaning Democratic, and 14 Toss-ups.
— Just like in the presidential race, there’s still no favorite in the House.
— We also are moving Sen. Deb Fischer’s (R-NE) race from Likely Republican to Leans Republican, as the Republican cavalry has had to ride in to help her in her contest against independent Dan Osborn.

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                            October 23, 2024Trump-mentum Peaking with the Autumn Leaves By Brian C. Joondeph
Election Day is rapidly approaching, and Donald Trump is teaching a master class in campaigning and peaking at the right time. Fortunately, he is still the Republican candidate despite efforts to remove him from the ballot through lawfare and several failed assassination attempts.

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                            October 23, 202461% Say Homelessness Has Gotten Worse
A solid majority of Americans believe that the country’s homeless problem has gotten worse.

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                            October 23, 2024Vote-by-Mail: Does It Make Cheating Easier?
A majority of voters suspect that the expansion of mail-in voting has made it easier to cheat in elections.

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                            October 23, 2024Election 2024: Trump Back to +3 Over Harris
Two weeks before Election Day, former President Donald Trump has regained a three-point lead over Vice President Kamala Harris in the latest daily tracking poll of the 2024 presidential election.

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                            October 23, 2024Play Time/Jail Time By John Stossel
What does it take for a parent to get arrested?

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                            October 22, 2024Election 2024: Trump Lead Over Harris Down Slightly
Two weeks before Election Day, former President Donald Trump has a two-point lead over Vice President Kamala Harris in the latest daily tracking poll of the 2024 presidential election.

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                            October 22, 2024Are We Our Own Worst Enemy?
When asked to identify America’s biggest enemy, most voters don’t name a foreign country, and more than four-in-10 think we could be facing a civil war in the near future.

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                            October 22, 2024Vibes Turn Bad for Kamala Harris By Daniel McCarthy
Kamala Harris is running a campaign against herself.

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                            October 22, 2024Will Blacks and Hispanics Vote Their Pocketbooks? Trump Should Hope So! By Stephen Moore
In the one debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, the vice president attacked Trump for having a racist record, citing his statements in response to the protests In Charlottesville back in 2017.

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                            October 21, 202434% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Thirty-four percent (34%) 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 October 17, 2024.

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                            October 21, 2024Election 2024: Trump Widens Lead Over Harris
Former President Donald Trump has a three-point lead over Vice President Kamala Harris in the latest daily tracking poll of the 2024 presidential election.

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                            October 21, 2024Trustworthy News Harder to Find, Most Voters Say
A majority of voters say it’s gotten harder to find political news they can trust, and a third now trust independent online sources the most.

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                            October 19, 2024Election 2024: Trump 49%, Harris 47% in Nevada
Former President Donald Trump has a narrow lead over Vice President Kamala in the battleground state of Nevada.

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                            October 19, 2024What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending October 19, 2024
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...

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                            October 18, 2024Election 2024: Moreno 45%, Sherrod 44% in Ohio Senate Race
In the battle to control the U.S. Senate, Republican challenger Bernie Moreno has a slight lead over Ohio’s incumbent Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown.

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                            October 18, 2024Competence Matters More Than Caring, Voters Say
By nearly a 2-to-1 margin, voters say a candidate’s competence matters more than caring when it comes to this year’s presidential election.

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                            October 18, 2024Election 2024: Trump Now +2 Over Harris
Former President Donald Trump has regained a two-point lead over Vice President Kamala Harris in the latest daily tracking poll of the 2024 presidential election.

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                            October 18, 2024Are Minorities Voting Increasingly Like Normies? By Michael Barone
Not everything significant politically is happening just in the target states.

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                            October 17, 2024Election 2024: Trump Leads Harris in Wisconsin, Tied in Michigan
Former President Donald Trump has gained a two-point lead over Vice President Kamala Harris in the battleground state of Wisconsin, while the two candidates are still tied in Michigan.