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April 24, 2025Generic Ballot Model Gives Democrats Strong Chance to Take Back House in 2026 By Alan I. Abramowitz
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— Just a couple of basic factors—House generic ballot polling and the number of seats the presidential party is defending—do a decent job of predicting midterm congressional election results.
— This model suggests Democrats would be favored to win the House majority even without a substantial lead in House generic ballot polling.
— The model also is bullish on Democrats in the Senate, but we urge caution on the findings, as the Senate model is historically less predictive than the House model and does not take into account this cycle’s specific Senate map.

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                            April 23, 2025Americans Still Buying More Guns
Americans are already the best-armed civilians in the world, but about one-fifth of them added more to their arsenal in the past year.

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                            April 23, 2025Voters Rate Trump Economy Barely Better Than Biden
President Donald Trump’s handling of key economic issues isn’t much better than his White House predecessor’s, according to voters. 

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                            April 23, 2025Living Hell? By John Stossel
"Climate change will make earth a living hell!" claims popular astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson.

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                            April 23, 2025Is the Bloom Fading from Trump’s Rose? By Brian C. Joondeph
Rasmussen Reports released a concerning poll last week, revealing that at the three-month mark in President Donald Trump’s second term, a slim majority of voters are unhappy with the results thus far.

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                            April 22, 2025Earth Day: Just 33% Think It’s Helping
Today is Earth Day, but only a third of Americans see it making a difference for the environment.

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                            April 22, 2025After Francis, Catholics Need a Populist Pope By Daniel McCarthy
Pope Francis was meant to be a pontiff for the age of globalization.

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                            April 22, 2025Sorry, Fannie Mae: We Won't Get Fooled Again
Anyone remember back in 2008 when the housing market collapsed and the stock market crashed, with many tens of millions of Americans seeing their lifetime savings nearly wiped out?

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                            April 21, 202566% Agree: Deport Illegals to ‘Liberate’ America
Despite criticism and court orders, President Donald Trump’s policy of deporting foreign criminals remains overwhelmingly popular with voters. 

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                            April 21, 202546% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Forty-six percent (46%) 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 April 17, 2025.
 
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                            April 19, 2025What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending April 19, 2025
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...

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                            April 18, 2025COVID-19: 48% Suspect Deliberate Release
Now that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has concluded that the COVID-19 virus came from a Chinese laboratory, nearly half of voters think the pandemic outbreak was not accidental. 

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                            April 18, 2025Why Does Union Membership Keep Declining? By Michael Barone
It hardly qualifies as news anymore, but according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, union membership declined from 2023 to 2024, going from 10% to 9.9% of wage and salary workers. Some 32% of public employees are union members compared to only 5.9% of private-sector workers, down from 6% in 2023.

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                            April 17, 2025Most Don’t Blame Rachel Zegler for ‘Snow White’ Flop
Disney’s live-action remake of “Snow White” has been a bomb at the box office, but most Americans don’t think the film’s outspoken star is mostly to blame.

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                            April 17, 2025Is This What You Voted For? 51% Say ‘No’
Less than three months since President Donald Trump took office for his second term, a majority of voters aren’t happy with the result. 

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                            April 16, 202542% Rate Trump ‘Poor’ on Trade
Although many voters don’t like how President Donald Trump is handling trade policy, a majority agree he needs to “reset” international trade. 

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                            April 16, 2025Washington's Latest Tax Assault on Economic Success By Stephen Moore
The PE and VC track records in funding small businesses and turning them into the future gazelles is almost a uniquely American success story.

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                            April 16, 2025Climate Myths By John Stossel
I guess United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres didn't think his hyping global warming risks brought him enough attention, so now he says, "The era of global boiling has arrived!"

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                            April 15, 202551% Say Lawsuits Drive Up Costs
Most Americans believe they’re paying more for goods and services because of the costs imposed by lawsuits.

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                            April 15, 2025Election Integrity: 64% Favor SAVE Act
Voters overwhelmingly consider it important to keep illegal aliens from voting in American elections, and nearly two-thirds support legislation to require proof of citizenship for voting.