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                            January 8, 2026Consumer Spending Update: Economic Confidence Steady in January
Economic confidence increased slightly to 109.2 in this month’s Rasmussen Reports Economic Index, a fraction higher than December.  The index hit a four-year high of 115.9 in July.  

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                            January 8, 2026Income Inequality Issue Favors Democrats
Most voters are worried about the problem of income inequality, and the Democratic Party has a slight advantage on the issue.

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                            January 8, 2026Daily Presidential Tracking Poll
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll shows...
January 8, 2026Low Gas Prices Don’t Seem to be Moving the Needle for Trump—and He’s No Exception Historically By Kyle Kondik
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— The price of a gallon of gasoline in President Trump’s first year in office has been relatively low, with gas recently dipping under $3 a gallon on average for the first time in half a decade, when the pandemic was having a major effect on the economy and society at large.
— That said, Trump’s overall approval rating remains underwater, and it is weaker now than it was a few months ago. Trump’s approval numbers on the economy and inflation—the latter of which would seem to be most connected to the price of gasoline—are weaker than his overall approval.
— There is some connection, historically, between gas prices and presidential approval, but that connection has been weaker lately.

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                            January 7, 2026Minnesota ‘Tip of the Iceberg’ for Fraud, Most Voters Say
The scandal that has rocked Minnesota probably signals that fraud is widespread in federally funded benefit programs nationwide, according to a majority of American voters.

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                            January 7, 2026Hollywood vs. Individualism By John Stossel
        Many popular movies make a constructive point: If you work hard enough and push through tough times, you can achieve your dreams.

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                            January 6, 202629% Say Big Inheritance Is Their Main Hope
Only one-in-five Americans say their financial situation improved in the last year, and more than a quarter of them say they can’t expect to be comfortable unless they get a hefty inheritance.

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                            January 6, 2026Why Hasn't Trump Repealed Biden's $50 Billion Backdoor Business Tax Increase? By Stephen Moore
   The Trump administration took a well-deserved victory lap last week for repealing more than 100 Biden-era rules for every new regulation. This will save U.S. businesses potentially hundreds of billions of dollars of unnecessary costs. Gone are discriminatory racial preferences, Green New Deal mandates and electric vehicle mandates -- to name a few.

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                            January 6, 2026Venezuela: 48% Approve U.S. Seizing Oil Tankers
Even before the dramatic raid that captured Venezuela’s president Nicolas Maduro, a plurality of American voters favored President Donald Trump’s policy of seizing Venezuelan oil shipments.

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                            January 6, 2026Tim Walz Personifies Democrats' Decline By Daniel McCarthy
   Tim Walz is going away, but the Democratic Party's Tim Walz crisis isn't.

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                            January 5, 2026Trump Approval Declines Slightly in December
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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                            January 5, 2026Trump Approval Declines Slightly in December
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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                            January 5, 202640% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Forty percent (40%) 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 December 30, 2025.

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                            January 5, 202640% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Forty percent (40%) 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 December 30, 2025.

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                            January 3, 2026What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...

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                            January 3, 2026What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending January 3, 2026
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...

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                            January 2, 2026On Immigration and Citizenship, Listen to George Washington By Michael Barone
        As news reports proliferate of multimillion-dollar -- and possibly billion-dollar -- fraudulent diversions of government funds involving Minnesota's Somali immigrant community, it may be time at one year's end and the next one's beginning to take a longer look at America's experience with immigration, and to seek the guidance of the first and one of its two greatest presidents.

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                            December 31, 2025New Year’s Eve: 45% Expect to Welcome 2026 With a Kiss
Most Americans will be at home when the clock strikes midnight to bring in the New Year, and nearly half say they’ll be kissing someone on the occasion.

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                            December 31, 2025Americans Optimistic for 2026
Most Americans don’t think 2025 was a very good year, but expect the year ahead to be better.

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                            December 31, 2025Doomed? By John Stossel
   While campaigning, President Donald Trump said, "We're a nation in decline."