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                            March 15, 2025What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending March 15, 2025
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...

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                            March 14, 2025Consumer Spending Update: Economic Confidence Slips in March
Economic confidence deccreased to 107.2 in this month’s Rasmussen Reports Economic Index, more than four points lower than February.

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                            March 14, 2025Trump Speech Scores Higher Than Democrat Reaction
President Donald Trump addressed a joint session of Congress last week, and his speech was significantly more popular with voters than the way Democrats reacted.

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                            March 14, 2025Tariffs Based on Tendentious History Could Be Political Malpractice By Michael Barone
   Will the second Trump administration come undone by an economic policy based on what the British military historian Lawrence Freedman, describing Vladimir Putin's rationale for invading Ukraine, calls "tendentious history"?

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                            March 13, 2025Most Voters See Government Shutdown as Likely
One day before a deadline for Congress to approve a new spending agreement, a majority of voters expect a shutdown of the federal government.
March 13, 2025Three Things That Usually Happen in Midterms By Kyle Kondik
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— There are at least three fairly consistent things that we see in midterms compared to presidential elections.
— The turnout of eligible voters in midterms is consistently lower than the turnout in the most recent presidential election.
— Midterm electorates are typically older, whiter, and more educated than presidential electorates.
— The non-presidential party usually wins a higher share of the two-party House vote in the midterm than that party did in the preceding presidential election.

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                            March 12, 202573% Favor Making English Official Language
Voters overwhelmingly favor legislation to make English the official language of the United States, following President Donald Trump’s recent executive order.

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                            March 12, 2025Fewer Taxpayers Expect Refund This Year
A little more than a month before the Internal Revenue Service deadline, most Americans have not yet filed their income taxes, and fewer of them expect a refund compared to last year

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                            March 12, 202548% Say Higher Tariffs Bad for U.S. Economy
As President Donald Trump wages trade wars with Canada and China, nearly half of voters believe raising tariffs on imports would hurt America’s economy.

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                            March 12, 2025Tax the Past? By John Stossel
        Climate activists have found a new way to force us to pay more for energy.

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                            March 11, 202550% Agree ‘The Future Is Female’
March is Women’s History Month, and perhaps because of Kamala Harris’s defeat in last year’s election, voters are less confident that women’s leadership will increase – at least in the short term.

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                            March 11, 2025Want to Soak the Rich? Tax University Endowments. By Stephen Moore
                  Republicans are searching for ways to "pay for" their tax cuts. Democrats want the rich to pay more tax. Here's a solution that should make everyone happy.
                  House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith is suggesting a tax on the $840 billion college endowments. These endowments will soon eclipse $1 trillion in size -- more money than the entire GDP of many countries.

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                            March 11, 2025Can Donald Trump Win a Trade War? By Daniel McCarthy
President Donald Trump knows better than to treat the "honeymoon" a president gets in his first months of office as a time to relax. He's fighting as hard now as he did at the height of last year's campaign.

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                            March 10, 2025Rasmussen Real Unemployment Rate: Back Down Again
National unemployment was 8.2% in this month’s Rasmussen Reports Real Unemployment update, down almost a point from 9.1% last month and double the 4.1% rate officially reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics today. 

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                            March 10, 2025Voters Blame Trump More Than Zelenskyy for White House Spat
Most voters view Volodymyr Zelenskyy favorably, and only a third blame the Ukrainian president for his recent dispute with President Donald Trump.

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                            March 10, 202543% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Forty-three percent (43%) 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 6, 2025.

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                            March 8, 2025What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending March 8, 2025
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...

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                            March 7, 2025Two-Thirds Agree: ‘Drain the Swamp!’
President Donald Trump’s repeated call to “drain the swamp” of bureaucracy in the nation’s capital continues to resonate with voters.

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                            March 7, 2025A Formidable President Storms Ahead By Michael Barone
Some thoughts spring to mind after President Donald Trump's 100-minute address to Congress.

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                            March 6, 202577% Think Too Much Online Time Is Damaging Kids’ Mental Health
Americans overwhelmingly believe that excessive Internet use is a factor in the mental health problems affecting young people.