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March 17, 2022Gas Prices and Presidential Approval By Kyle Kondik
There is some connection historically, but that connection is getting weaker.KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— President Joe Biden and his party are struggling amidst myriad challenges, including high gas prices. Gas prices have spiked in recent weeks following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
— There is some association between higher gas prices and lower presidential approval, although the connection is not particularly strong.
— This association has been weaker over the past decade than it was previously.

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                            March 16, 2022Voters Approve ‘Open Arms’ for Ukrainian Refugees
President Joe Biden’s declaration that the United States will welcome refugees from Ukraine “with open arms” is overwhelmingly popular with voters.
March 16, 2022A Principled Politician By John Stossel
I dislike politicians. I don't trust people who are so desperately eager to run others' lives.

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                            March 15, 2022Most Don’t Blame Police for Shootings
Americans generally have a high opinion of their local police, and barely one-in-five think cops are mostly at fault when a suspect gets shot.

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                            March 15, 2022Gas Prices Force Americans to Drive Less, Cut Spending
Soaring fuel prices have caused a majority of Americans to drive less and reduce spending in other areas of their household budgets.
March 15, 2022And That's Why They Call It 'the Swamp' by Stephen Moore
With $30 trillion of debt -- which has grown by $5 trillion in just the last two years, with another $2 trillion of red ink expected to get spilled this year -- you might have expected Congress at least to pretend it will temper its reckless spending proclivities.
March 15, 2022Is There a Peace Deal Putin and Zelensky Can Accept? By Ptrick J. Buchanan
In an interview with Reuters, Dmitry Peskov, Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman for decades, made a startling offer. Moscow could end the Ukraine war immediately, said Peskov, if four conditions were met.

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                            March 14, 202229% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Twenty-nine percent (29%) 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 March 10, 2022.
March 14, 2022Will Russia Use Nukes in Ukraine? Most Voters Concerned
A majority of voters are concerned that Russia will use nuclear weapons in its war against Ukraine, but are less worried that the U.S. could be a target of a Russian nuclear attack.

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                            March 12, 2022What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending March 12, 2022
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...

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                            March 11, 2022Consumer Spending Update: Economic Confidence Rises in March
Economic confidence rose to 97.6 in this month’s Rasmussen Reports Economic Index, about one point higher than February. This month’s gain follows two months of declines that in February brought the index to its lowest point since May 2020.

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                            March 11, 2022Americans Find Politics Least Interesting in Ukraine War Coverage
Most Americans are OK with the way the news media have been covering the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and aren’t interested in discussions of the war’s impact on domestic politics.
March 11, 2022Ukraine Shows We Live in a Nationalist World by Michael Barone
It turns out that we live in a nationalist world. That's one of the lessons people are learning from the surprise early results of the Russo-Ukrainian war.
March 11, 2022How Solid Are US War Guarantees? By Patrick J. Buchanan
When several NATO nations revealed that they had dozens of Russian-made MiG-29s, the idea arose to fly them to Ukraine and turn them over to Ukrainian pilots familiar with the MiGs.

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                            March 10, 2022Ukraine: Did Biden Do Enough to Stop Russia?
A majority of voters think President Joe Biden could have done more to stop Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and many believe former President Trump would have prevented the Russian invasion.
March 10, 2022Abortion Battlefields in a Potentially Post-Roe Political World By Louis Jacobson
Watch these states in the event of a landmark Supreme Court decision later this year.KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— If the Supreme Court overturns Roe vs. Wade later this year, it could hypothetically energize Democratic voters in the 2022 midterms. But it’s unclear whether abortion will become a big enough motivator for Democrats to overcome the historical pattern of unfavorable midterms for the party controlling the White House, particularly if concern about the coronavirus pandemic and inflation remains high.
— Our analysis suggests that 7 states are the likeliest to experience political tensions over abortion, because they have majorities or pluralities of voters who favor abortion rights but have GOP-led legislatures who may feel driven to restrict abortion access if the Supreme Court overturns Roe.
— Each of these 7 states has a highly competitive gubernatorial or Senate race on tap for this fall, and several of them have 2 such races.

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                            March 9, 202244% Have Already Filed Their Taxes
Americans are ahead of last year’s pace in filing their income taxes, but fewer expect a refund from the Internal Revenue Service.

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                            March 9, 2022Another Great Depression? Many Think It’s Likely
Most Americans don’t expect the stock market to rise in the next year, and more than half worry that the U.S. could face another Great Depression.
March 9, 2022Cowards and Leaders by John Stossel
Russia's invasion revealed big differences in how politicians deal with threats.

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                            March 8, 2022Rasmussen Reports Immigration Index - Week Ending March 3, 2022
The Rasmussen Reports Immigration Index for the week of February 27-March 3, 2022, increased to 92.0, up more than five points from 86.4 two weeks earlier.