Daily Presidential Tracking Poll
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll shows...
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll shows...
Just weeks after far-left candidates have won surprising victories in Democratic primaries in Pennsylvania, Florida, Michigan, Colorado and New York City for the Senate and House in the United States, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has won a widely predicted victory in the election last Sunday for the legislature of Sachsen-Anhalt, one of Germany's 16 federal states.
— The key districts in the battle for the House fit into a half-dozen regions scattered across the nation.
— What follows is a path toward what Democrats need to do (or Republicans need to prevent) in order to win a bare, 218-217 majority.
— Today’s update comes with a pair of rating changes in favor of Democrats; that does not include a pair of rating changes we are planning to make in Missouri if the state ultimately reverts to its 2022 map.
An agreement to secure billions of barrels of oil reserves in Venezuela, recently announced by President Donald Trump, meets with approval from a majority of American voters.
A Massachusetts jury deadlocked in the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, but about half of Americans say she should have been found guilty.
Fewer voters see the American economy as fair than they did a year ago, and especially think the economy is unfair to low-income people.
Did you celebrate labor last Monday, Labor Day?
— This year, 26 states will hold elections for secretary of state. Currently, the GOP holds 25 secretary of state offices to 22 for the Democrats. Three states do not have a secretary of state.
— Our analysis suggests that six secretary of state races this year are competitive, including two in the Toss-up category.
— During the last election cycle that had this many secretary of state races, 2022, election denialism was a major issue, and in several purple states it helped Democrats defeat Republican nominees aligned with Donald Trump’s allegations of election fraud. With this installment, we have shifted two secretary of state races from Toss-up to Likely Democratic because Republicans nominated candidates associated with election denialism.
The world has spent $9 trillion to combat climate change since 2020. That is a World War II-type number.
American manufacturing is on the rebound, and that good news could hardly come at a better time for President Donald Trump, as Republicans gird themselves for the midterm elections just two months from now.
Pink Floyd told listeners, “We don’t need no education. We don’t need no thought control.” Yet maybe schoolchildren do need some education – specifically about Western civilization and the values that sustain it.
Views of Israel have shifted among American voters, and that could have a major impact in this fall’s midterm elections.
Thirty-nine percent (39%) 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 September 3, 2026.
Thirty-nine percent (39%) 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 September 3, 2026.
Americans are almost evenly divided between those who see Labor Day as marking the end of summer and those who consider it an acknowledgement of working people.
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...
The possibility that electronic voting machines may be vulnerable to hacking is a serious concern, voters overwhelmingly agree.
History illuminates the present. I've been reading Stephen Kotkin's widely and justly praised multivolume biography of Joseph Stalin and have encountered many passages that illuminate the present.
Most Americans don’t pay much attention to so-called “influencers” on social media, but they have more impact among young adults.