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March 9, 2024

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending March 9, 2024

In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...

March 8, 2024

Consumer Spending Update: Economic Confidence Plunges in March

Economic confidence decreased to 98.1 in this month’s Rasmussen Reports Economic Index, nearly 12 points lower than February

March 8, 2024

65% of Democrats Think Trump Should Still Be Banned From X

While a majority of voters believe Elon Musk was correct to restore former President Donald Trump’s account on X – the social media platform formerly known as Twitter – two-thirds of Democrats disagree.

March 8, 2024

Are Voters Recoiling Against Disorder? By Michael Barone

The headlines coming out of the Super Tuesday primaries have got it right. Barring cataclysmic changes, Donald Trump and Joe Biden will be the Republican and Democratic nominees for president in 2024.

March 7, 2024

Election 2024: Many Voters Suspicious Toward Intelligence Agencies

A majority of voters think the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and other government spies may be trying to pick the winner in this year’s election.

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March 7, 2024

The Republican Veepstakes, Part One: Picking an Apprentice, Donald Trump’s Way By Joel K. Goldstein

KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE

— Vice presidential selection season is upon us, and the early apparent resolution of the Republican presidential nomination and the fact that former President Donald Trump will be orchestrating the 2024 Veepstakes promises to make the process a long and unique episode of that quadrennial event.

— Trump is an anomalous selector, having chosen a running mate once before. If his 2016 approach is a guide, and it may not be, the conventional wisdom that he will choose one of those who is publicly most obsequious may not be accurate.

March 6, 2024

Americans Less Worried About Another Great Depression Ahead

Even though most Americans aren’t confident that the stock market will keep rising, they are less worried about economic catastrophe in the near future.

March 6, 2024

Most Democrats Still Don’t Think Joe Biden Profited From Son Hunter’s Deals

Although a majority of Americans voters now believe Joe Biden likely profited from Hunter Biden’s foreign business deals, most Democrats still don’t think so.

March 6, 2024

The Renewable Scam By John Stossel

   "We're building a clean energy future," says President Joe Biden.

March 5, 2024

Speaker Johnson Still Most Favored Leader in Congress

Four months after he emerged as the new Speaker of the House, Louisiana Republican Rep. Mike Johnson remains the most popular leader in Congress.

March 5, 2024

Veepstakes Give Trump an Edge By Daniel McCarthy

Donald Trump is already beating Joe Biden; polls last weekend from The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CBS News and Fox News all agree.

March 5, 2024

Biden's OTHER Immigration Calamity By Stephen Moore

Recent polling shows President Joe Biden's open-border immigration policy is now ranked as the No. 1 or 2 problem facing America -- in part because of the havoc in our large cities where the millions of migrants are now residing.

March 4, 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 February 29, 2024.

March 4, 2024

Trump Seen as More Pro-Israel Than Biden

By a 13-point margin, more voters consider former President Donald Trump a stronger supporter of Israel than President Joe Biden.

March 2, 2024

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending March 2, 2024

In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...

March 1, 2024

Biden Approval Drops in February

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...

March 1, 2024

Trump’s VP Choice: Does It Matter?

Most voters think former President Donald Trump has got the Republican nomination locked up and, while they have preferences about his running mate, most say Trump’s veep pick won’t matter on Election Day.

March 1, 2024

Some Idiosyncratic Observations of the Elections So Far By Michael Barone

Herewith some idiosyncratic, perhaps eccentric, observations on the electoral contests so far in this presidential cycle.

1. Turnout is down. In the first five contests -- the Iowa and Nevada caucuses and the New Hampshire, South Carolina and Michigan primaries -- Republican turnout was down from 2016, the most recent cycle with serious contests. That's based on precincts currently reporting and the ace New York Times number crunchers' estimates of as-yet-uncounted votes.

February 29, 2024

Homeowners Still Confident in Market

Higher interest rates have had little impact on how confident American homeowners are in the resale value of their homes.

February 29, 2024

67% of N.C. Voters Favor Immigration Reduction

North Carolina has added 5 million residents since 1980, and two-thirds of voters there support reducing immigration to control the state’s explosive growth.