Reality Has a Vote, in Politics as in Entertainment By Michael Barone
Reality has a vote. That is one lesson administered to the body of politics in the first 100 days of President Donald Trump's second administration.
Reality has a vote. That is one lesson administered to the body of politics in the first 100 days of President Donald Trump's second administration.
While Republicans and Democrats are almost equally trusted by voters on economic issues, immigration remains a big advantage for the GOP.
Voters are divided over whether the deportation of illegal immigrants should be halted by concerns about constitutional protections.
— Just a couple of basic factors—House generic ballot polling and the number of seats the presidential party is defending—do a decent job of predicting midterm congressional election results.
— This model suggests Democrats would be favored to win the House majority even without a substantial lead in House generic ballot polling.
— The model also is bullish on Democrats in the Senate, but we urge caution on the findings, as the Senate model is historically less predictive than the House model and does not take into account this cycle’s specific Senate map.
Americans are already the best-armed civilians in the world, but about one-fifth of them added more to their arsenal in the past year.
President Donald Trump’s handling of key economic issues isn’t much better than his White House predecessor’s, according to voters.
"Climate change will make earth a living hell!" claims popular astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson.
Rasmussen Reports released a concerning poll last week, revealing that at the three-month mark in President Donald Trump’s second term, a slim majority of voters are unhappy with the results thus far.
Today is Earth Day, but only a third of Americans see it making a difference for the environment.
Pope Francis was meant to be a pontiff for the age of globalization.
Anyone remember back in 2008 when the housing market collapsed and the stock market crashed, with many tens of millions of Americans seeing their lifetime savings nearly wiped out?
Despite criticism and court orders, President Donald Trump’s policy of deporting foreign criminals remains overwhelmingly popular with voters.
Forty-six percent (46%) 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 April 17, 2025.
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...
Now that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has concluded that the COVID-19 virus came from a Chinese laboratory, nearly half of voters think the pandemic outbreak was not accidental.
It hardly qualifies as news anymore, but according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, union membership declined from 2023 to 2024, going from 10% to 9.9% of wage and salary workers. Some 32% of public employees are union members compared to only 5.9% of private-sector workers, down from 6% in 2023.
Disney’s live-action remake of “Snow White” has been a bomb at the box office, but most Americans don’t think the film’s outspoken star is mostly to blame.
Less than three months since President Donald Trump took office for his second term, a majority of voters aren’t happy with the result.
Although many voters don’t like how President Donald Trump is handling trade policy, a majority agree he needs to “reset” international trade.
The PE and VC track records in funding small businesses and turning them into the future gazelles is almost a uniquely American success story.