What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending May 14, 2022
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...
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May 14, 2022
May 13, 2022
Consumer Spending Update: Economic Confidence Plummets in May
Economic confidence fell to 87.7 in this month’s Rasmussen Reports Economic Index, more than 20 points lower than April.
May 13, 2022
‘Fake News’ Still a Media Problem, Voters Say
The news media don’t question President Joe Biden as aggressively as they questioned former President Donald Trump, according to a majority of voters who say “fake news” is still a major problem.
May 13, 2022
Progressives' Version of 'Democracy': 2 Plus 2 Equals 5 by Michael Barone
They may or may not have been playing the song "The World Turned Upside Down" when Lord Charles Cornwallis's troops surrendered to Gen. George Washington at Yorktown in 1781, but there's good reason to sing it now.
May 13, 2022
Are All Court-Created Rights Now in Peril? By Patrick J. Buchanan
In the storm that erupted over the leaked draft opinion of Justice Samuel Alito, which would overturn Roe v. Wade, a secondary alarm has arisen among our elites.
May 12, 2022
Voters More Worried About Inflation Than Abortion Rights
Despite news reports that the Supreme Court may be ready to overturn Roe v. Wade, abortion rights haven’t displaced inflation at the top of the list of issues most concerning to voters.
May 12, 2022
The Kinds of Seats that Flip in Midterms By Kyle Kondik
Looking back on past recent waves to assess Republicans’ potential in November.
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— While increasingly salient issues like abortion could change the political environment, Republicans still appear on track for a strong showing in the U.S. House.
— Recent midterms have hollowed out the presidential party’s holdings of districts where the president either did the same or worse than he did nationally or only a little better.
— Republicans likely will have trouble winning districts where Joe Biden won more than 55% of the vote, but that still leaves them dozens of Democratic-held targets below that mark as redistricting is finalized.
May 11, 2022
Organic BS by John Stossel
Activists have convinced Americans that "organic" food is better -- healthier, better-tasting, life-extending.
May 11, 2022
Homeowners Still Expect Strong Housing Market
Despite inflation and other economic concerns, most homeowners still expect the strong housing market to continue.
May 11, 2022
Pelosi Remains Widely Unpopular
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is still the least popular congressional leader, and even a third of Democratic voters have an unfavorable view of the San Francisco Democrat.
May 10, 2022
War in Ukraine: Who’s Winning?
More than two months into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a plurality of voters see the conflict as a stalemate, and fears of a wider war in Europe remain high.
May 10, 2022
Beware the Popping of the Housing Bubble by Stephen Moore
Washington never learns. Never. Politicians are like collective Alzheimer's disease patients. They have no short-term memories.
May 10, 2022
Is Ukraine's War Now America's War? By Patrick J. Buchanan
Last week, sources leaked to The New York Times that, in Ukraine's targeting and killing of Russian generals and the sinking of Russia's Black Sea flagship, the Moskva, U.S. intelligence played an indispensable role.
May 9, 2022
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 5, 2022.
May 9, 2022
Voters More Worried About Gas Prices Than Climate Change
A majority of voters are concerned about rising energy costs and favor increased drilling for oil and gas, although most Democratic voters consider reducing climate change a higher priority.
May 7, 2022
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending May 7, 2022
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...
May 6, 2022
Americans Have Mixed Views About Job Market
Pessimism about the current employment situation has faded since last year, even as concerns for the future of the job market remain high.
May 6, 2022
Inflation: Voters Expect Issue Will Matter in November
Most voters rate President Joe Biden poor for his handling of the economy, and say inflation will be a very important issue this fall in the midterm elections.
May 6, 2022
Redistricting Proved To Be Much Ado About Not Very Much by Michael Barone
The congressional redistricting wars are mostly over. Much of the hoopla surrounding it is proving overheated.
May 6, 2022
Alito 5 Must Stay the Course By Patrick J. Buchanan
Whoever leaked Alito's draft, it was a violation of an oath, an unethical act and a betrayal that ought to see the perpetrator fired in disgrace and disbarred permanently from the practice of law.
