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                            August 14, 2020Consumer Spending Update: Economic Confidence Stalls in August
Economic confidence slowed this month, dropping four points from July to 110.8 in this month’s Rasmussen Reports Economic Index.

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                            August 14, 2020Democrats Give Thumbs Up to Harris But Are Black Voters On Board?
Earlier this week, Joe Biden named Kamala Harris as his running mate. Democrats overwhelmingly like the California senator and have their eye on her to hold the top spot in 2024 if the Democratic ticket loses this time around, but a third of black voters say the announcement makes them less likely to throw their support behind the Democratic ticket despite their more favorable view of her.
August 14, 2020Is Biden-Harris on Tom Dewey's Path? By Patrick J. Buchanan
Accused of being a serial harasser in 2019, Joe Biden did what comes naturally. He apologized for perceived past misbehavior, and, to appease his accusers, pledged to choose a woman for a Biden ticket.
August 14, 2020Biden-Harris/Trump-Pence Race 'Tightening' By Michael Barone
Just as Joe Biden announced Kamala Harris as his vice presidential nominee, and a week before the Democrats' virtual national convention is scheduled to begin at various sites, the basement strategy he's been pursuing, hailed as the political equivalent of "The Emperor's New Clothes," was starting to look tattered and torn.

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                            August 13, 2020Voters Favor Crackdown on Violent Protests; Most Democrats Disagree
Voters are ready for the police to put an end to the continuing violent protests nationwide. Most also say the protests will be important to their vote in the upcoming elections.
August 13, 2020Biden-Harris: A Predictable Pairing By Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik, and J. Miles Coleman
The presumptive Democratic nominee plays it safe.
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— Kamala Harris, long seen as a frontrunner to be Joe Biden’s running mate, represents a vetted, qualified, and safe VP choice.
— Harris is the latest in a long line of Democratic senators who have become running mates. If she becomes vice president, Democrats should not have any real obstacles to keeping her seat.
— Biden’s new running mate has only been in the Senate for less than four years, but she was California’s statewide elected attorney general before that — though she almost lost in 2010.

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                            August 12, 2020White House Watch: Biden Lengthens Lead
Hot on the heels of announcing Kamala Harris as his running mate, likely Democratic nominee Joe Biden has taken a six-point lead over President Trump in the latest Rasmussen Reports’ weekly White House Watch survey.

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                            August 12, 2020Most See No Impact From Kasich’s Jump to Biden
Former Ohio governor and unsuccessful GOP presidential candidate John Kasich has defected to Democrat Joe Biden. But most voters say it will have no impact on the upcoming election.
August 12, 2020Is Biden-Loving Comcast Meddling in Loomer's Campaign? By Michelle Malkin
There's bad blood between President Donald Trump and Comcast. It's no secret.
August 12, 2020Anti-Racist Racists By John Stossel
Black Lives Matter protests led many people to want to do something useful to reduce racial injustice. Racial justice groups are being flooded with money.
Big companies made multimillion-dollar donations.

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                            August 11, 2020Rasmussen Reports Weekly Immigration Index - Week Ending August 6, 2020
The Rasmussen Reports Immigration Index for the week of August 2-6, 2020 inched up to 103.2 from 102.3 the week before.

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                            August 11, 2020Americans Grow More Critical of Teachers’ Unions
Most parents want their kids to go back to school in the fall, but teachers’ unions nationwide are fighting efforts to reopen. Americans, especially those with children, are now more critical of those unions and suspect that they have too much influence over local school operations.
August 11, 2020Investor Immigrants Will Stimulate the Economy By Stephen Moore
One way President Donald Trump built the best economy in 30 years was by attracting nearly $1 trillion of foreign capital to these shores. This money got invested in new business startups and expanded existing Made-in-America businesses. This "repatriation tax holiday" worked like a charm. Millions of jobs were created -- and this was a major contributing factor to the American economic sonic boom.
August 11, 2020The Real World Reasserts Itself By Patrick J. Buchanan
Since the death of George Floyd beneath the knee of a cop in Minneapolis on Memorial Day, the nation has been instructed by its cultural elites that this is the daily reality that a racist America has too long ignored.

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                            August 10, 202028% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Twenty-eight percent (28%) 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 August 6, 2020.
August 10, 202059% Think Biden Unlikely to Finish A Four-Year Term in White House
Likely Democrat nominee Joe Biden is expected to announce his vice presidential running mate any day now, and most voters think it’s likely that person will be president within the next four years if Biden is elected in November.
August 8, 2020Delay the Election? Presidents Often Do Things They Can't Do By Ted Rall
The stock response to President Donald Trump's suggestion that the general election might be delayed because voting during a pandemic would involve a record number of mail-in ballots, a format he argues is unreliable and susceptible to fraud, is that he doesn't have that power.

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                            August 8, 2020What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending August 8, 2020
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...
August 7, 2020Ticket Balancing May Be Risky for Joe Biden By Michael Barone
If the presidential nominating process is the weakest part of our political system -- and, perhaps not coincidentally, one not referenced by the founders -- the vice presidential selection process comes solidly in second place. Some might even argue it's a contender for the top spot.

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                            August 7, 2020Trump’s Monthly Approval Moves Up in July
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.