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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                            January 6, 2026Why Hasn't Trump Repealed Biden's $50 Billion Backdoor Business Tax Increase?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, 2026Daily Presidential Tracking Poll
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll shows...

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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."

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                            December 30, 2025Why Christmas Is America’s Favorite Holiday Again By Brian C. Joondeph, M.D.
A recent Rasmussen Reports national survey shows that Christmas has once again regained its status as America’s most important holiday, with 55% of American adults saying it’s among the nation’s top celebrations and another 30% placing it “somewhere in between.” 

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                            December 30, 2025Rules Rigged to Favor Incumbents, Most Voters Say
The reason most members of Congress keep getting reelected isn’t because they’re doing a good job, according to a majority of voters.

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                            December 30, 2025The Economists Got 2025 All Wrong By Stephen Moore
   Well, Donald Trump has done it again!

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                            December 30, 2025Harvard Says Yes to Discrimination, No to Western Civ By Daniel McCarthy
   At Harvard University today, professors who teach Western history are history.