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May 14, 2024
May 13, 2024
28% 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.
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.
May 11, 2024
What 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...
May 10, 2024
Moving 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.
May 10, 2024
46% 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.
May 10, 2024
Consumer 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.
May 10, 2024
Polls 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?
May 9, 2024
Rasmussen 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.
May 9, 2024
Moms Still Matter for Most Americans
Mother’s Day is this Sunday, and most Americans believe being a mom is an important job.
May 9, 2024
GOP 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, 2024
Districts 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.
May 8, 2024
'Drain the Swamp' By John Stossel
Presidential candidate Donald Trump promised to "drain the swamp!"
May 8, 2024
That '70s Show -- Is Biden Taking America Back to the Age of Jimmy Carter? By Stephen Moore
Everything that is happening in our fractured nation today seems so worrisomely reminiscent of America's last lost decade -- the 1970s.
May 8, 2024
Have Campus Protests Backfired?
If the goal of students in recent campus protests was to make American voters more sympathetic to Palestinians, they’ve clearly failed.
May 7, 2024
Greetings, Earthlings: 37% Think Space Aliens Have Visited Planet
Most Americans intelligent life exists somewhere else in the universe, and many believe the Earth has had visitors from outer space.
May 7, 2024
‘Preserve, Protect and Defend’: How’s Biden Doing?
In terms of upholding his oath of office – to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States" – many voters don’t think President Joe Biden is doing better than his predecessor.
May 7, 2024
The Vietnam Era Never Ended for Biden's Party By Daniel McCarthy
"This may be Biden's Vietnam."
May 6, 2024
29% 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 May 2, 2024.
May 6, 2024
71% Want Disney to Return to Family-Friendly Entertainment
While LGBTQ activists are happy with Disney’s gay “inclusion” agenda, most Americans wish the entertainment giant would go back to it’s family-friendly roots.
