If it's in the News, it's in our Polls. Public opinion polling since 2003.

Public Content

Most Recent Releases

White letter R on blue background
May 26, 2022

Redistricting: The Overall Picture, Plus a Look at NY and MO By Kyle Kondik and J. Miles Coleman

Median House seat will still sit a couple of points to the right of the nation

KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE

— With the national House map nearly complete, it appears that the overall map still leans toward Republicans.

— However, this GOP bias is not nearly as strong as it was a decade ago.

— We rate and analyze the new Missouri and New York congressional maps.

May 25, 2022

Coffee: How Many Cups Is Enough?

Americans love their coffee, and most coffee drinkers consume at least two cups a day.

May 25, 2022

Election Integrity: Most Voters Still Suspect Cheating

Protecting the integrity of elections remains a high priority for American voters, most of whom still suspect there was cheating in the 2020 presidential election.

White letter R on blue background
May 25, 2022

Government Delays Flights By John Stossel

Planning to fly this summer? Good luck.

May 24, 2022

Can Gun Control Stop Mass Shootings? Most Voters Say ‘No’

In the aftermath of a teenage gunman’s deadly spree in Buffalo, most voters remain unconvinced that more gun control laws can prevent such mass shootings.

May 24, 2022

Our Increasingly Unpopular President By Brian C. Joondeph

President Joe Biden, now in the second year of his presidency, is becoming increasing unpopular in the country that supposedly elected him with a record-setting 81 million votes.

White letter R on blue background
May 24, 2022

Democrats' Latest Phony Inflation Scapegoat: Credit Cards by Stephen Moore

In this administration, it's always someone else's fault. Inflation is now the No. 1 concern of voters, so the White House first blamed COVID. Then Donald Trump's tax cuts. Then Vladimir Putin. Then meatpackers and the poultry industry, Big Oil and pharmaceutical companies.

White letter R on blue background
May 24, 2022

Will Midterms Be Biden's Last Hurrah? By Patrick J. Buchanan

For half a decade now, America's media elite have been obsessed with former President Donald Trump and the Republican Party's conversion to Trumpism.

May 23, 2022

24% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction

Twenty-four percent (24%) 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 19, 2022.

May 23, 2022

Can the Class of ’22 Get Hired?

With the economy still struggling, most Americans believe this year’s class of college graduates face a tough job market.

May 21, 2022

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending May 21, 2022

In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...

May 20, 2022

GOP Widens Lead on Congressional Ballot

The 2022 midterm elections are now 172 days away, and Republicans have a nine-point lead in their bid to recapture control of Congress.

White letter R on blue background
May 20, 2022

It's Not Exactly Trump's Republican Party by Michael Barone

Is it Donald Trump's Republican Party? You can make the case it is, as partisan Democrats do, from the victories of various candidates endorsed by the former president in Republican primaries. But it's not an airtight case, and Trump's batting average is inflated by the dozens of endorsements he has made of incumbents with no significant primary opposition.

White letter R on blue background
May 20, 2022

Quo Vadis, Mother Russia? By Patrick J. Buchanan

"The demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century," said Russia's new ruler Vladimir Putin in his 2005 state of the nation address.

May 19, 2022

Do Traditional Values Still Matter in School?

Many schools are embattled by controversies around race, gender and sexuality, while most Americans think teaching traditional values is an important task.

May 19, 2022

Most Voters Think Hillary’s Campaign Broke the Law

With the first trial of Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation now in a D.C. courtroom, a majority of voters believe Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign acted illegally by encouraging federal agencies to spy on Donald Trump's campaign.

White letter R on blue background
May 19, 2022

The Battle for State Legislatures By Louis Jacobson

Looking for competition in sorted statehouses.

KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE

– In addition to usually facing midterm headwinds in federal races, the presidential party also often struggles in state legislative races in those years.

– However, Republicans have already made such impressive state legislative gains over the past dozen years that they do not have a ton of Democratic-held chambers to target.

–Republicans could plausibly flip chambers in states like Maine and Minnesota, while a better redistricting map could help Democrats in Michigan, a key battleground.

White letter R on blue background
May 18, 2022

Pumping Up Prices by John Stossel

The price of gas keeps rising.

May 18, 2022

53% Think World Leaders See Biden as Weaker Than Trump

Voters don’t see President Joe Biden as having good relationships with most world leaders, and more than half believe those world leaders view him as weaker than his predecessor.

May 17, 2022

Rasmussen Reports Immigration Index - Week Ending May 12, 2022

The Rasmussen Reports Immigration Index for the week of May 8-12, 2022, increased to 92.5, up more than three points from 89.3 two weeks earlier.