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                            May 7, 202548% Blame Trump for Dividing America
Most voters believe the nation has become more divided since President Donald Trump was inaugurated for a second term in the White House, and nearly half say it’s his fault.
 
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                            May 7, 2025Useless Government By John Stossel
I have a conflict.
I don't much like Linda McMahon, President Donald Trump's new Education Secretary. I sued her once.
She and her sleazy husband, Vince, owned a circus called World Wrestling Entertainment.
When I did a silly ABC news video on how the matches are staged, one of their 280-pound actors beat me up. A wrestler said Vince told him to do it.

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                            May 7, 2025COVID-19: Did the Experts Get It Right?
Five years after the COVID-19 virus emerged, Americans remain divided over whether health experts were right or wrong in their advice on dealing with the pandemic.

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                            May 6, 2025Voters See Civility Declining, Expect More Political Violence
The level of civility in American political life has declined, according to  a majority of voters, who expect political violence to increase in the next few years.

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                            May 6, 2025Trump's Rumble on Sesame Street By Daniel McCarthy
President Donald Trump has fought plenty of political heavyweights, but now he's up against a foe far tougher than Hillary Clinton or Kamala Harris: Big Bird.

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                            May 6, 2025The New Surprising Trump Constituency By Brian C. Joondeph
Conventional wisdom, meaning corporate media, portrays President Donald Trump’s supporters as white supremacists, xenophobes, and racists. They are extras in the movie Deliverance, with two teeth and a below room temperature IQ.

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                            May 6, 2025Yes, Let's Attract the Best and the Brightest By Stephen Moore
Situated on the outskirts of Sacramento is California's largest master-planned community, McClellan Park. It has homes, offices, restaurants, a hotel and even a 2-mile-long runway that serves jets. But 30 years ago, the location was a starkly different story: an Air Force base that had just been shuttered, costing 11,600 jobs.

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                            May 5, 202569% Agree: Immigration System ‘Broken’
At a time when President Donald Trump’s policy of deporting illegal aliens is highly controversial, most voters still agree with an earlier president’s criticism of America’s immigration system.

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                            May 5, 202545% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Forty-five percent (45%) 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 1, 2025.
 
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                            May 3, 2025What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending May 3, 2025
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...

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                            May 2, 2025AG Pam Bondi at 42% Favorability
Three months into her tenure as America’s top law enforcement official, Attorney General Pam Bondi has made a more favorable impression on voters than her predecessor.

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                            May 2, 2025Trump's Push for Equal Rights and Against Quotas By Michael Barone
   "It is the policy of the United States to eliminate the use of disparate-impact liability in all contexts to the maximum degree possible to avoid violating the Constitution, Federal civil rights laws, and basic American ideals."
May 1, 2025The Governors, Part Two: Familiar Battlegrounds Dot 2026 Map, but Watch for Upsets in Open Seats By Kyle Kondik
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— Many of 2024’s top presidential battlegrounds will feature high-profile gubernatorial elections in 2026.
— Arizona and Michigan start as the only two Toss-ups in our initial ratings.
— Be on the lookout for upsets thanks to the high number of open seats, perhaps coming from the long list of races that start rated as Likely for one side or the other.

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                            May 1, 2025GOP Is The Man’s Party
While most voters believe the Democratic Party represents women’s interest, by an even wider margin, they think Republicans are the party of men.

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                            May 1, 2025Trump Approval Down Two Points in April
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...

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                            April 30, 2025Rasmussen Reports Immigration Index - Data From April 22-23, 2025
The Rasmussen Reports Immigration Index for April increased to 109.3, up more than 12 points from 96.6 in January.

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                            April 30, 2025Rasmussen Reports Immigration Index
The Rasmussen Reports Immigration Index for April increased to 109.3, up more than 12 points from 96.6 in January.

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                            April 30, 2025Some Voters Confused About President’s Authority to Enforce Immigration Laws
Despite the clear language of the Constitution – Article II, Section 3 says the president "shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed” – many voters seem to believe this doesn’t apply to immigration laws.

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                            April 30, 2025Good Intentions: Bad Results By John Stossel
Government makes most things worse.

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                            April 30, 2025Trump's FTC Is Putting American Companies Last By Stephen Moore
President Donald Trump's record as the deregulation president is nearly unparalleled. In his first 100 days in office, he has already identified hundreds of billions of dollars of potential deregulation savings in the areas of energy, education and housing.