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                            August 6, 2025My Socialist Mayor By John Stossel
I live in New York City. "Proud Democratic Socialist" Zohran Mamdani is likely to be my next mayor.

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                            August 6, 2025Is ‘The American Dream’ Still Alive?
Voters overwhelmingly consider home ownership crucial to “The American Dream,” and many doubt that President Donald Trump is helping younger generations achieve it.

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                            August 5, 2025How to Make Sure the US Dominates 21st-Century Telecommunications By Stephen Moore
   Trump's announcement and executive order to ensure that the U.S. dominates the artificial intelligence revolution was a welcome America First policy directive. That mostly means keeping the government out of the way.

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                            August 5, 2025Will the GOP Make Liberals Generous Again? By Daniel McCarthy
   Before politics overwhelmed the word, the primary meaning of "liberal" was "generous."

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                            August 5, 2025Most Americans Don’t Expect to Buy EVs
With federal tax credits for electric vehicles set to expire soon, fewer than a third of Americans are in the market for an EV.

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                            August 5, 2025H-1B Visa Program Still Has Majority Approval
Despite criticism that H-1B visas undermine wages for American workers, most voters still favor the federal program.

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                            August 4, 202569% Agree: ‘RussiaGate’ Requires Accountability
In the wake of revelations about the so-called “RussiaGate” scandal, more than two-thirds of voters agree with Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard that there must be “accountability” for any crimes committed.

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                            August 4, 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 July 31, 2025.
 
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                            August 2, 2025What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending August 2, 2025
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...

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                            August 1, 2025Trump Approval Drops Two Points in July
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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                            August 1, 2025Heading Toward Midterm Elections, Democrats Not Up Off the Floor By Michael Barone
        Here's a clue that the off-year elections in November 2026 may not go the way conventional wisdom suggests. That conventional wisdom is that the president's party almost always loses the House and, slightly less often, Senate seats.

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                            August 1, 2025Health Care: Democrats Have Five-Point Advantage on Issue
Many voters are discontented with America’s health care system, an issue that favors Democrats.

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                            July 31, 2025Election Integrity: 73% Favor Voter ID Requirement
By more than a 3-to-1 margin, voters continue to favor an election integrity measure that President Donald Trump has openly advocated.
July 31, 2025Texas Republicans Aim for Five-Seat Gain in New Proposed Gerrymander By Kyle Kondik and J. Miles Coleman
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— A much-anticipated draft of a new Republican gerrymander of Texas emerged Wednesday morning.
— The map is designed to allow Republicans to win five new seats in Texas, which would have the effect of pushing their edge in the state delegation from 25-13 at full strength to 30-8.
— Not all the newly-drawn seats are guaranteed Republican pickups, though.
— We offer tentative possible ratings of the new map’s 38 districts below, although without knowing if the map will be enacted under this form (or at all), we are not actually making any rating changes today.

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                            July 30, 2025Public Believes RussiaGate Was Serious, But Few Expect a Reckoning By Brian Joondeph
Americans largely believe that RussiaGate was more than just smoke and mirrors or a conspiracy theory, as the media suggess. However, despite this belief, only 28 percent of likely voters expect criminal charges against intelligence or Obama-era officials involved in the scandal.

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                            July 30, 2025Just 29% Think A.I. Will Make Life Better
Despite widespread media attention to artificial intelligence (AI), most Americans have rarely or never used it, and fewer than a third of them expect AI to improve life for most people.

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                            July 30, 202560% Suspect Trump-Epstein Cover-Up
A majority of voters think the Trump administration may be trying to conceal evidence of the president’s association with the late Jeffrey Epstein.

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                            July 30, 2025Tortured by Bureaucrats By John Stossel
Americans like licenses. People think they make us safer.
We license drivers.
We license dogs.

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                            July 29, 2025Desperately Seeking a Pro-Growth Democrat By Stephen Moore
   The most recent Wall Street Journal political poll shows that Democrats have swerved into a deep ditch.

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                            July 29, 2025Democrats, Republicans About Equal in Voters’ Eyes
Six months into President Donald Trump’s second term, the two major parties are almost evenly matched in terms of voters’ approval.