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                            January 16, 2025Nearly Half Still Blame Trump for Bad Media
President-elect Donald Trump’s hostile relationship with the news media hasn’t changed, and many voters still see it as mainly Trump’s fault.
January 16, 2025The 2024 Crossover House Seats: Overall Number Remains Low with Few Harris-District Republicans By Kyle Kondik
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— Just 16 districts voted for one party for president and the other for House, which is the same historically-low total as 2020.
— But there are 13 Democrats in Donald Trump-won districts compared to just 3 Republicans in Kamala Harris-won districts.

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                            January 15, 202554% Favor Legalizing Doctor-Assisted Suicide
As more states consider legalizing physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients, just over half of Americans support such a law.

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                            January 15, 2025Ukraine: Biden Gets Low Ratings, 43% Think Trump Will Be Better
President Joe Biden has made the defense of Ukraine against Russia a central focus of his foreign policy, but most voters don’t think he’s handled it well.

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                            January 15, 2025Anarchists Versus Libertarians By John Stossel
        "Donald Trump will be a tyrant!"

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                            January 14, 2025Rasmussen Real Unemployment Rate: Down Significantly
National unemployment was 8.4% in this month’s Rasmussen Reports Real Unemployment update, down 0.7% from last month’s 9.1% last month but more than double the 4.1% rate officially reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics today. 

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                            January 14, 2025Europe Takes a Bite Out of America's Apple By Stephen Moore
Envy is an ugly thing -- one of the seven deadly sins.

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                            January 14, 2025L.A. Wildfires: 77% of Democrats Blame Climate Change
A majority of voters – including more than three-quarters of Democrats – think climate change explains the wildfire that has devastated Southern California.

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                            January 14, 2025Democrats Aren't Democracy's Party By Daniel McCarthy
When Donald Trump is sworn in next week, America will have a president for the first time in four years.

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                            January 13, 202529% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Twenty-nine percent (29%) 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 January 9, 2025.

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                            January 13, 2025GOP Voters Back Trump on Greenland, Panama Canal
President-elect Donald Trump’s suggestions of acquiring Greenland and taking over the Panama Canal are wildly popular with Republican voters, but less so with others.

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                            January 11, 2025What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending January 11, 2025
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...

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                            January 10, 2025Consumer Spending Update: Economic Confidence Declines in January
Economic confidence decreased to 103.4 in this month’s Rasmussen Reports Economic Index, nearly four points lower than December.

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                            January 10, 202554% Approve of Trump Transition
As he prepares for his second term in the White House, most voters think Donald Trump is doing a good job with the presidential transition.

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                            January 10, 2025Facebook Embraces Free Speech: The Masses Win, the Experts Lose By Michael Barone
        The times, they are a-changing. The balance of power in the perhaps

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                            January 10, 2025Rasmussen Reports Immigration Index - Data From December 19-20, 2024
The Rasmussen Reports Immigration Index for December increased to 92.4, up nearly two points from 90.6 in November.

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                            January 9, 202547% Say Disney Has Gotten Worse
The movies and TV shows produced by the Walt Disney Company aren’t as good as they used to be, according to almost half of Americans.

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                            January 9, 2025FBI: Most Voters Still Trust Agency
Despite recent criticism of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, a majority of voters still have a positive opinion of the agency.
January 9, 2025How the Other Half Votes: The Big Counties Versus the Rest of the Country in 2024 By Kyle Kondik
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— While the nation has more than 3,100 counties, just about 150 of them cast roughly half of all presidential votes.
— In the Trump era, the gap between the biggest counties and the rest of the country is larger than it was previously, although the overall difference contracted slightly in both 2020 and then 2024 after an initial large widening in 2016.
— In improving his margin in the national popular vote by about 6 points from 2020, Donald Trump ran further ahead of his 2020 margin in the nation’s most vote-rich counties than he did in the rest of the country.

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                            January 8, 2025‘Drastic’ Cuts? Most Voters Like It
House Speaker Mike Johnson’s talk about “drastically” reducing the federal government is popular with voters, although they’re not sure the new Congress will actually follow through.