What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending January 9, 2021
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...
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January 9, 2021
January 8, 2021
Most Voters Want Congress to Work With Biden
Americans don’t expect the new Congress to be better than the last one, but most say it would be better for Congress to work with President-elect Joe Biden than to oppose him.
January 8, 2021
Consumer Spending Update: Economic Confidence Continues Post-Election Decline
The Rasmussen Reports Economic Index dropped by three points this month, the second consecutive monthly decline since Joe Biden was elected President. The index fell to 111.5 from 114.5 in December, continuing the decline from 126.4 just before Election Day, amid a climate of public concern about new lockdowns to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
January 8, 2021
Will Democrats Ditch a Policy That's Produced More Equal Incomes? By Michael Barone
The policies of defeated one-term presidents are not as easily reversed as their victorious successors, suffused with campaign rhetoric, sometimes suppose they will be. Even when, as now, the winning party has majorities in both houses of Congress.
January 8, 2021
The Worst of Days for Trump & Trumpists By Patrick J. Buchanan
President Donald Trump, it turns out, was being quite literal when he told us Jan. 6 would be "wild."
January 8, 2021
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending January 8, 2022
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...
January 7, 2021
Republicans Expect Crime to Increase Under Biden
More Americans expect crime to rise than to decline under President-elect Joe Biden, and Republicans overwhelmingly expect a nationwide crime increase during the Biden administration.
January 6, 2021
Trump Closes With Monthly Approval at 47%
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. To look at the longer-term trends, Rasmussen Reports compiles the numbers on a full-month basis, and the results for Trump’s presidency can be seen in the graphics below.
January 6, 2021
GOP Voters Strongly Support Senators Challenging Biden’s Election
More than a dozen senators say they will challenge Joe Biden’s election when Congress meets today to certify the results, and Republican voters overwhelmingly support the challenge.
January 6, 2021
More Good News By John Stossel
Islamic terror has been trending down for five years.
January 5, 2021
Rasmussen Reports Weekly Immigration Index - Week Ending December 30, 2020
The Rasmussen Reports Immigration Index for the week of December 27-30, 2020 fell to 97.2 from 99.7 the week before. The Index has closed below its baseline for the past four weeks and seven out of the last eight weeks, indicating voters are looking for tighter immigration control from the incoming Biden administration.
January 5, 2021
70% Worry About Government Spying on Americans
Most voters are concerned about the government spying on U.S. citizens, and many are worried such surveillance will increase under the incoming administration of President-elect Joe Biden.
January 5, 2021
Coronavirus for Dummies By Stephen Moore
We are now almost one year from the dark days when the coronavirus first hit these shores. Why are the politicians' making the same policy mistakes today that they made nine months ago? The 300,000+ deaths are an act of nature, but the virus's death and despair have been compounded by acts of man -- i.e., foolish politicians.
January 5, 2021
Family Brawl in the House of Trump By Patrick J. Buchanan
A week from today, Joe Biden will still be on his inexorable course to become the 46th president of the United States.
January 4, 2021
26% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Twenty-six percent (26%) 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, 2020.
January 4, 2021
68% Say Second COVID-19 Stimulus ‘Essential’
While Congress continues debating whether to send Americans as much as $2,000 in a second round of coronavirus stimulus payments, voters overwhelmingly say a new round of stimulus checks is necessary to help the country recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.
January 2, 2021
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending January 2, 2021
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...
January 1, 2021
The Year America Went Crazy By Michael Barone
Did America go crazy in 2020? I suspect observers years hence will think so because of the responses, of both elite officials and ordinary Americans, to the COVID-19 pandemic starting last February and to the shocking video from Minneapolis police officers released over Memorial Day weekend.
January 1, 2021
Who Speaks for the Unborn in Massachusetts? By Patrick J. Buchanan
In its most recent exercise of liberal democracy, the state senate of Massachusetts voted 32-8 to override Gov. Charlie Baker's veto of what is called the Roe Act.
One day earlier, Monday, the state house had voted to override.
January 1, 2021
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - January 1, 2022
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...
