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October 8, 2025

Time to Evict the UN: Americans Are Right to Back Trump’s Tough Talk By Brian C. Joondeph

President Trump’s blunt assessment of the United Nations during his September 23 address wasn’t just political theater. It reflected the growing frustration many Americans feel toward a bloated, ineffective, and increasingly hostile international organization.

October 8, 2025

Spooky Season: 51% Decorate for Halloween

Halloween is more than just one night of trick-or-treating, according to most Americans who are decorating their homes to celebrate this month.

October 8, 2025

Government Shutdown: 49% Say Democrats Did It for Illegal Aliens

Nearly half of voters agree with a top Trump administration figure on the reason for the current government shutdown.

October 8, 2025

Banning Pet Sales By John Stossel

        When Mike Ricci wanted to buy his daughter a puppy, he discovered that in his state, "There were pet stores but none that sell puppies (or kittens)."

October 8, 2025

Daily Presidential Tracking Poll

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll shows...

October 7, 2025

Middle East Peace Hopes Rise

More voters now believe that a peace deal to end the Gaza war could be close, and President Donald Trump’s Middle East policy gets better grades than his predecessor.

October 7, 2025

Why Sharpies Are Made in America Again By Daniel McCarthy

   President Donald Trump loves a Sharpie pen, and now he has all the more reason to love the company that makes them.

October 7, 2025

Spectrum Sale Enhances Economy and National Security By Stephen Moore

   A great but unheralded feature of the One Big Beautiful Bill passed in July was an authorization for the Federal Communications Commission to raise $88 billion to $100 billion through electronic spectrum auctions.

October 6, 2025

Trump Slams U.N., and Most Voters Agree

After a United Nations speech in which President Donald Trump condemned the international body for sponsoring an “invasion” of migrants, most U.S. voters agree with him.

October 6, 2025

41% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction

Forty-one percent (41%) 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 October 2, 2025.

October 6, 2025

41% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction

Forty-one percent (41%) 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 October 2, 2025.

October 4, 2025

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending October 4, 2025

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

October 4, 2025

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls

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

October 3, 2025

84% Worried Online Radicalization Driving Political Violence

Most voters believe that Charlie Kirk’s assassin acted alone, but fear that the Internet is pushing more youth toward political violence.

October 3, 2025

Donald Trump: Energy in the Executive By Michael Barone

        Whatever else you want to say about him, President Donald Trump has what Alexander Hamilton in Federalist No. 70 called "energy in the executive." Announcing a peace plan for Israel and Hamas, ordering the dispatch of federal troops to protect immigration enforcement personnel in "sanctuary" states, authorizing his budget director to use reorganization powers available after Senate Democrats shut down the government, and announcing a pediatric cancer initiative.

October 2, 2025

46% See Satan at Work in the World

The influence of supernatural evil is real, a plurality of Americans believe.

October 2, 2025

Voters Divided Over Trump’s H-1B Visa Plan

Less than half of voters favor President Donald Trump’s new policy requiring $100,000 payments for foreign immigrant workers under the H-1B visa program.

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October 2, 2025

Rating the New Missouri House Map By J. Miles Coleman

KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE

— Over the weekend, Gov. Mike Kehoe (R-MO) signed off on a mid-decade gerrymander designed to give Republicans all but one of the 8 House seats in his state.

— Aside from turning a blue district in the Kansas City area red, the map fortified the St. Louis-area MO-2, the most marginal GOP-held seat on the map.

— Though we are assuming the new map will be operative, there are some efforts to stop, or delay, the map’s implementation, including court challenges and a potential ballot measure.

— In Arizona, Rep. David Schweikert (R, AZ-1) got into his state’s gubernatorial race, which leaves open a competitive seat in the Phoenix area.

October 1, 2025

Trump Approval Gains One Point in September

When tracking President Trump’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...

October 1, 2025

Trump Approval Gains One Point in September

When tracking President Trump’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...