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                            February 9, 2024Consumer Spending Update: Economic Confidence Jumps in February
Economic confidence increased to 110.0 in this month’s Rasmussen Reports Economic Index, eight points higher than January. This is the fourth consecutive monthly increase in the index.

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                            February 9, 2024Toward a Demotic Republican Party By Michael Barone
   What happens when a political party becomes demotic? Before answering the question, note that the word in question is not demonic, from the Greek word daimon, meaning a deity (remember that the Greek gods were notoriously jealous and greedy), but demotic, from the Greek word demos, meaning the people -- the same root as democratic.

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                            February 8, 2024Most Voters See Middle East as ‘Major Crisis,’ Blame Biden
There is a “major crisis” in the Middle East, according to a majority of voters who agree with a former Trump administration official who blames President Joe Biden’s policy for the problem.
February 8, 2024The Race for the House, Part Two By Kyle Kondik
Rating changes in 7 districts a mixed bag for each party; previewing the NY-3 special.KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— We are making 7 House rating changes this week, with 4 benefiting Democrats and 3 benefiting Republicans.
— Republicans continue to be closer to the magic number of 218 in our ratings than Democrats, but there are enough Toss-up races that we broadly consider the race for the House to be a Toss-up overall.
— The NY-3 special remains highly competitive less than a week before the election.

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                            February 7, 202443% Still See Opioid Problem Getting Worse
By a 3-to-1 margin, more Americans say the problem of opioid drug abuse has gotten worse in the past year than think it's gotten better..

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                            February 7, 202455% View Genocide Charge Against Israel as ‘Outrageous’
American voters now have a less favorable view of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu than they did a few months ago, but agree with him that it is “outrageous” to accuse Israel of genocide against Palestinians.

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                            February 7, 2024AI Is Coming for Your Job? By John Stossel
The media warn, "Artificial intelligence will replace millions of jobs."

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                            February 6, 202452% of Voters Approve of Mayorkas Impeachment
As the House of Representatives prepares to vote on impeaching Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, a narrow majority of voters favor the impeachment.

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                            February 6, 2024Is Taylor Swift Trouble for Trump?  By Daniel McCarthy
   She's just won the Grammy for album of the year.

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                            February 6, 2024Biden's War Against the Internet By Stephen Moore
It's a miracle of private sector innovation and the magic of the free enterprise system that technologies that were only the playthings of the super-rich a generation ago are now available and affordable to almost all Americans.

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                            February 5, 202433% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Thirty-three percent (33%) 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 1, 2024.

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                            February 5, 202459% See Biden in Mental Decline
A majority of voters think President Joe Biden is losing mental sharpness, and most suspect the media are trying to cover up the president’s cognitive decline.

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                            February 3, 2024What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending February 3, 2024
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...

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                            February 2, 2024Only 15% Think Race Relations Are Getting Better
February is Black History Month, and when considering the current state of race relations in the country, most Americans aren’t too optimistic

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                            February 2, 2024Systemic Lying Corrodes Once-great Institutions By Michael Barone
The last six or seven months have been a couple of tough seasons for public policies based on lies. Two examples come to mind.

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                            February 2, 2024Lost Trust in Healthcare Experts – What Happened? By Brian Joondeph
Trust is foundational in relationships, whether between two individuals or between individuals and institutions.
A Gallup survey from last summer found, “Americans’ faith in major societal institutions hasn’t improved over the past year following a slump in public confidence in 2022."

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                            February 1, 2024Biden Approval Mostly Unchanged in January
When tracking President Biden’s job approval on a daily basis, people sometimes get so caught up in the day-to-day fluctuations that they miss the bigger picture...

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                            February 1, 2024GOP Primary: Trump Leads Haley by 33 Points
After winning the New Hampshire primary. former President Donald Trump maintains a wide lead over former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley among GOP primary voters.
February 1, 2024A Deeper Dig into the Granite By J. Miles Coleman and Kyle Kondik
The Trump, Haley, and Biden coalitions in the New Hampshire primary.KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE—With a lull in the primary calendar, we thought we’d take a closer look at last week’s New Hampshire primary.
—Nikki Haley’s town-level victories were confined almost exclusively to places that Joe Biden carried in the 2020 general election.
—Although Biden showed some weakness in a few of the state’s larger cities, he carried nearly every town in the state.
—The GOP primary saw the most raw votes cast of any New Hampshire primary contest, but that was driven in part by participation from voters who likely won’t be voting Republican for president in the fall.

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                            January 31, 2024Democrats Trust Health Experts More
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, a majority of Americans think it’s more important to research health issues than simply trusting experts – although Democrats trust experts more.