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                            May 26, 202548% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Forty-eight percent (48%) 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 22, 2025.

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                            May 24, 2025What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending May 24, 2025
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...

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                            May 23, 2025High School Grads Unprepared for Jobs, College, Most Say
As high school seniors across the country get ready to collect their diplomas, less than a third of Americans believe new graduates are prepared for the future.

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                            May 23, 2025Trump Rated Better on National Security
Voters rate President Donald Trump’s handling of national security issues much higher than they rated the previous White House occupant.

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                            May 23, 2025The Democrats: Leadership Discredited, Party Off Kilter By Michael Barone
How does a political party with overwhelming advantages, including increasing support from the growing bloc of highly educated and affluent voters, almost monopoly support from the press and broadcast media, and with burgeoning financial and high-tech sectors of the economy, manage to lose just about everything across the board?

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                            May 22, 2025Democrats 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.
 
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                            May 22, 2025Democrats 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, 2025How 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.

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                            May 21, 202528% 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.

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                            May 21, 202572% 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.
 
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                            May 21, 2025School 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.

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                            May 20, 2025Biden Forgives Student Loans and ... Behold, Defaults Skyrocket By Stephen Moore
Here's an economics lesson that belongs in the textbooks.

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                            May 20, 2025Ukraine: 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.

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                            May 20, 2025China'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?

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                            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.

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                            May 19, 202547% 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.

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                            May 19, 2025Biden’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."

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                            May 17, 2025What 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...

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                            May 16, 2025Records 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.
 
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                            May 16, 2025On 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.