What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending June 19, 2021
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...
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June 19, 2021
June 18, 2021
44% of Voters Rate Biden’s European Trip a Success
President Joe Biden just completed a weeklong trip to Europe that included the G7 summit and a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, but less than half of voters think his European trip was successful.
June 18, 2021
TikTok: Most Americans Have Privacy Concerns
Nearly half of Americans watch videos on TikTok, but a majority worry that the popular app is a risk to user privacy.
June 18, 2021
Father’s Day: 86% Say Two-Parent Homes Important for Children
With Father’s Day approaching, Americans overwhelmingly still believe it’s important for children to grow up in two-parent homes, and think fatherhood is the most important role for men.
June 18, 2021
This Juneteenth, Remember Americans Who Put Slavery on the Path to Extinction By Michael Barone
This week, the Senate unanimously passed a bill declaring Juneteenth a national holiday, commemorating June 19, 1865, when a Union general informed the last enslaved people in Texas that, thanks to the 13th Amendment, they were free. This was the denouement of a long process, begun more than four score years before and cruelly delayed for many decades.
June 18, 2021
Who Is Really Killing American Democracy? by Patrick J. Buchanan
By a vote of 30-1 in the House, with unanimous support in the Senate, Juneteenth, June 19, which commemorates the day in 1865 when news of Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation reached Texas, has been declared a federal holiday
June 17, 2021
GOP Voters Suspect Critical Race Theory Will Make U.S. Race Relations Worse
Republicans have followed the news about Critical Race Theory (CRT) more closely than other voters, and two-thirds of GOP voters think teaching it in schools will lead to worse race relations.
June 17, 2021
The New York City Mayoral Primary By Kyle Kondik and J. Miles Coleman
Breaking down the political geography of the nation’s largest city as voters digest a crowded and sometimes crazy campaign.
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— New York City’s mayors have struggled in their recent efforts to win higher office, but they often become national figures anyway on account of their high-profile position.
— Ranked-choice voting as well as the many twists and turns of the race makes it difficult to predict a winner in next week’s Democratic primary.
— Republicans can win mayoral elections in New York, but the Democratic primary may very well end up being tantamount to election.
June 16, 2021
Most Democratic Voters Happy With Party Leadership
While sizeable numbers of both Democratic and Republican voters are discontented with their party’s leadership, Democrats are significantly more satisfied with their current leaders.
June 16, 2021
61% of Voters Reject Rep. Ilhan Omar's Anti-American Rhetoric, Half Support Censure
Some Republicans in Congress want to censure Rep. Ilhan Omar for comments comparing the United States to terrorist groups, and most voters reject the Minnesota Democrat’s rhetoric.
June 15, 2021
Rasmussen Reports Immigration Index - Week Ending June 10, 2021
The Rasmussen Reports Immigration Index for the week of June 6-10, 2021, rose to 90.9, up from 89.9 two weeks earlier. The index is now as high as it’s been since late January; it reached a record low of 82.3 in late March.
June 15, 2021
Crime: Voters Don’t Trust Media Reporting
As America’s cities experience a surge of criminal violence, less than a quarter of voters trust the media to report the facts about crime.
June 15, 2021
The Insurrection in Chicago by Stephen Moore
Almost exactly a year ago, race riots paralyzed more than a dozen of America's great cities, from New York to Seattle. The smoke hasn't gone away.
June 15, 2021
All Is Hype for the Biden-Putin Summit By Patrick J. Buchanan
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce.
June 14, 2021
38% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Thirty-eight percent (38%) 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 June 10, 2021.
June 14, 2021
‘Greatest Threat’? Most Voters Reject Biden’s Global Warming Claim
Less than a third of voters agree with President Joe Biden’s recent claim that global warming is America’s “the greatest threat,” and few are willing to pay more taxes to fight such a threat.
June 14, 2021
Adolescents Need Constraints, Not Indulgence by Michael Barone
Letting adolescents have their way." That's one way to describe two public policies, advocated vociferously by woke liberals, opposed surely by most. One primarily affects young men, the other primarily young women.
June 11, 2021
Consumer Spending Update: Economic Confidence Declines in June
Economic confidence fell to 118.8 in this month’s Rasmussen Reports Economic Index, down nearly five points from May, the first decline following three consecutive months of rising confidence.
June 11, 2021
Americans Say Summer Jobs Important for Teens
Most Americans believe it’s important for young people to work during the summer, and don’t think it will be very difficult for teens to find jobs in the current economy.
