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?
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.
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.
– 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.
Chicago native Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost made history this month as Pope Leo XIV became the first American to lead the Catholic Church.
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.
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.
Here's an economics lesson that belongs in the textbooks.
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.
When a nation bears the blame for more than 7 million deaths worldwide, what is Washington going to do?
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.
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.
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."
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...
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.
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.
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
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.
Dear Readers: Today, we are leading off with some observations from Omaha’s recent mayoral election. The city makes up the better part of Nebraska’s 2nd District, a rare Kamala Harris-won but GOP-held district that is perpetually high on both parties’ House wish lists. Then, we will look at recent turnout patterns in New Jersey and Virginia, which will each host closely-watched gubernatorial contests in November.
— The Editors
Last month, President Donald Trump proudly announced, "Liberation Day! ... The day American industry was reborn!"
