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                            February 22, 2025What 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...

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                            February 21, 2025Just 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.
 
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                            February 21, 2025The 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.

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                            February 20, 2025Early Income Tax Filing Keeps Steady
The number of American who’ve already filed their income taxes is keeping up with last year’s pace.

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                            February 20, 202553% 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, 2025Trump’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.

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                            February 19, 2025What's On Your Plate? By John Stossel
   I tried meat grown in a lab.

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                            February 19, 2025Trump 2028? Many Think He Could Win a Third Term
More than a third of voters favor altering the Constitution to allow President Donald Trump to run for re-election again – and a majority think he could win in 2028.

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                            February 18, 2025The Civil Service's Partisanship Problem By Daniel McCarthy
   Here's a dirty secret about the federal government many Americans are just learning:

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                            February 18, 2025Get Ready for America's 'Little Tech' Revolution By Stephen Moore
The spectacular dominance of America's Magnificent Seven tech firms -- with $1 trillion-plus market caps -- has been a marvel to behold and a genuine source of American pride. This is a theme that both President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance have in celebration of American business prowess.

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                            February 18, 2025Many Think Federal Judges Are Abusing Their Authority
Most voters agree with a Republican congressman’s complaint about federal judges blocking President Donald Trump’s policies.

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                            February 18, 2025Consumer Spending Update: Economic Confidence Jumps in February
Economic confidence increased to 111.3 in this month’s Rasmussen Reports Economic Index, nearly eight points higher than January.

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                            February 17, 202546% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Forty-six percent (46%) 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 13, 2025.

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                            February 17, 2025Presidents Day: Trump Is Best (and Also the Worst)
Today is Presidents Day, and a plurality of Americans consider President Donald Trump to be both the best and worst of recent leaders.

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                            February 15, 2025What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending February 15, 2025
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...

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                            February 14, 2025Valentine’s Day: Dinner for Two, Please
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 63% of American Adults say what they’d like most for Valentine's Day is dinner with someone special. Just 16% prefer chocolate candy and only 13% would like flowers the most. These findings have scarcely changed since last year. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

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                            February 14, 2025Trump’s Leadership Scores Higher in Second Term
Although he’s still widely seen as too confrontational, President Donald Trump’s leadership is now rated much better than it was during his first term in the White House.

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                            February 14, 2025Why Were Hopes of the 1990s Dashed? By Michael Barone
As one who shared the hope, after the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, that representative government, guaranteed liberties and global capitalism laced with some measure of welfare state protections would spread across the globe, I naturally look back over the intervening long generation and ask what went wrong.

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                            February 13, 202555% Approve of Elon Musk Running DOGE
Most voters like President Donald Trump’s decision to put Elon Musk in charge of his cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). And they like the new agency’s mission even more than they like Musk – or Trump, for that matter.

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                            February 13, 2025Rasmussen Reports Immigration Index - Data Ending January 21, 2025
The Rasmussen Reports Immigration Index for January increased to 96.6, up more than four points from 92.4 in December.