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May 22, 2025

Democrats Have Slim Lead in Early 2026 Congressional Forecast

Although the next midterm elections are still more than a year away, a slender plurality of voters now favor the Democratic Party, which hopes to recapture a House majority in November 2026.

 

May 22, 2025

Democrats Have Slim Lead in Early 2026 Congressional Forecast

Although the next midterm elections are still more than a year away, a slender plurality of voters now favor the Democratic Party, which hopes to recapture a House majority in November 2026.

 

May 22, 2025

Daily Presidential Tracking Poll

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll shows...

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May 22, 2025

How the New Catalist Report on 2024 Compares to the Exit Polls By Kyle Kondik and J. Miles Coleman

KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE

– A new report from the Democratic data firm Catalist provides a fresh look at the 2024 presidential election results.

– There are key differences among the two Election Night exit polls, from Edison Research and from VoteCast, and the Catalist report, but they by and large tell a similar story about the election.

– All three sources show Trump making big improvements compared to 2020 among young and nonwhite voters.

May 21, 2025

28% Think New Pope Will Be Better Than Francis

Chicago native Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost made history this month as Pope Leo XIV became the first American to lead the Catholic Church.

May 21, 2025

72% Say Cover-Up of Biden Decline a ‘Serious’ Scandal

Efforts by White House officials to conceal former President Joe Biden’s cognitive impairment constitute a serious scandal, according to a majority of voters who also believe the news media were part of the cover-up.

 

May 21, 2025

School Choice By John Stossel

Now that Texas and South Carolina have passed school choice bills, parents will be able to choose the best school for their kids in 17 states.

May 20, 2025

Biden Forgives Student Loans and ... Behold, Defaults Skyrocket By Stephen Moore

Here's an economics lesson that belongs in the textbooks.

May 20, 2025

Ukraine: 50% Expect Trump to Get Peace Deal

Voters are almost evenly divided over how President Donald Trump is handling the war between Russia and Ukraine, with half saying he’s likely to succeed in getting a peace deal to end the war.

May 20, 2025

China's Power Is a Virus By Daniel McCarthy

When a nation bears the blame for more than 7 million deaths worldwide, what is Washington going to do?

May 19, 2025

‘Preserve, Protect and Defend’: How’s Trump Doing?

Like every president before him, President Donald Trump took an oath to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States," and most voters think he’s doing it.

May 19, 2025

47% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction

Forty-seven percent (47%) 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 15, 2025.

May 19, 2025

47% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction

Forty-seven percent (47%) 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 15, 2025.

May 19, 2025

Biden’s Prostate Cancer – Malpractice or Coverup? By Brian Joondeph

On the heels of the release of audio of Special Counsel Robert Hur’s interview with Former President Joe Biden, this news has emerged. Biden has been diagnosed with an "aggressive" form of prostate cancer, “with metastasis to the bone."

May 17, 2025

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

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

May 17, 2025

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending May 17, 2024

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

May 16, 2025

Records on Election Fraud, Epstein Scandal Should Be Released, Voters Say

A majority of voters think it’s important for President Donald Trump to keep his promises of releasing records about convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and about allegations of fraud in the 2020 election.

 

May 16, 2025

On Education, Mississippi Shows the Way By Michael Barone

Mississippi leads the nation. That's not a typographical error. And it's not just a gotcha phrase, preparing the reader for learning that Mississippi leads the nation on all sorts of negative things.

May 15, 2025

41% Report Their Personal Finances Are Worse

Fewer than one-in-five Americans say their financial situation has improved, and are more than twice as likely to say it’s gotten worse 

May 15, 2025

Despite U.K. Trade Deal, 50% Rate Trump Policy Failure

Most voters approve of the recently announced trade deal with the United Kingdom (U.K.), but overall, half still consider President Donald Trump’s tariff policy to be a failure.