What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending May 23, 2020
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...
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May 23, 2020
May 23, 2020
If Trump Wins Again, Don't Blame Progressives. This Is on You, Centrists By Ted Rall
The corporate conservatives who control the Democratic Party are suffering from cheaters' remorse.
The DNC and its media allies (NPR, CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Vox, etc.) subverted the will of primary voters, undermining initial front-runner Sen. Bernie Sanders in order to install the worst candidate of the 20 centrists in the campaign.
May 22, 2020
26% Say COVID-19 Has Cost Them Tickets to a Sporting Event
One-in-four Americans have been forced to cancel tickets to a sporting event because of the coronavirus crisis and now say they are watching more sports on TV to make up for it.
May 22, 2020
Most Agree With Trump’s Temporary Cutback in Regulating Small Business
Voters come down strongly on the side of small businesses, with most in favor of President Trump’s plan to loosen government regulation on them while they recover from the coronavirus lockdown.
May 22, 2020
What Does Winning Mean in a Forever War? By Patrick J. Buchanan
When a Wall Street Journal editorial warned this week against any precipitous U.S. withdrawal that might imperil our gains in Afghanistan, an exasperated President Trump shot back:
"Could someone please explain to them that we have been there for 19 years. ... and except at the beginning, we never really fought to win."
May 22, 2020
COVID-19 Shows We're More Risk-Averse Than Post-World War II Americans By Michael Barone
Do you remember the 1957-58 Asian flu? Or the 1968-69 Hong Kong flu? I do. I was a teenager during the first of these, an adult finishing law school during the second. But even though back then I followed the news much more than the average person my age, I can't dredge up more than the dimmest memory of either.
May 21, 2020
Americans Say Fewer Out of Work Than A Month Ago
The number of Americans citing lost jobs in their immediate family thanks to the coronavirus has fallen back to the level seen earlier in the crisis.
May 21, 2020
Trump-Pence: The Ticket That Seems (Almost) Certain for a 2020 Reprise By Kyle Kondik
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— History, and the president’s own public statements, suggest that the Trump-Pence ticket will stick together in 2020.
— The last time an elected president running for reelection changed his running mate was Franklin Roosevelt way back in 1944.
— But there are some reasons to believe that Trump could revisit his running mate choice between now and the Republican National Convention.
May 20, 2020
Most Think Trump Should Release Tax Returns
The pursuit of Donald Trump’s tax returns by congressional Democrats has now made it to the U.S. Supreme Court, and most voters continue to believe Trump should hand them over. For most Democrats and unaffiliated voters, Trump’s taxes are a big voting issue. For Republicans, not so much.
May 20, 2020
Biden Tops Trump in Vote, Economic Confidence
Joe Biden still bests President Trump in a head-to-head matchup, perhaps in part because voters express slightly more confidence in the likely Democratic nominee to handle the post-coronavirus economy.
May 20, 2020
Stop Training Saudi Arabia's Jihad Pilots By Michelle Malkin
I'm glad the FBI was able to crack the iPhones of the Pensacola naval air base shooter, which confirmed that radicalized Royal Saudi Air Force second lieutenant Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani had communicated with al-Qaida to carry out a "special operation." Three young American patriots died in Alshamrani's December 2019 attack. The more information we have to prevent the needless slaughter of U.S. military members on U.S. soil the better.
May 20, 2020
Shutdown's Silver Lining By John Stossel
The government has closed most schools.
So, more parents are teaching kids at home.
May 19, 2020
Rasmussen Reports Weekly Immigration Index - Week Ending May 14, 2020
The Rasmussen Reports Immigration Index for the week of May 10-14, 2020 tumbled to 99.0, down over five points from 104.2 the week before. Are Americans growing more protective of the domestic job market?
May 19, 2020
Americans Praise Fauci But Share Trump’s Desire to Get Going
Americans give Dr. Anthony Fauci high marks for his performance during the coronavirus crisis but disagree with his continuing go-slow approach to reopening the country.
May 19, 2020
The Weird Andrew Cuomo Boomlet By Stephen Moore
Usually, when a CEO severely underperforms peers, he or she is fired or handed a gold watch and given a quick retirement party. In the Democratic Party, a rotten performance is a qualification for the presidency.
I'm referring to the bizarre infatuation inside Democratic circles with New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo as a possible replacement for Joe Biden at the top of the ticket. Democratic operatives are increasingly nervous that the party has tethered itself to a fatally flawed nominee. Cuomo is now heralded as the sure bet to beat President Donald Trump this November.
May 19, 2020
Will Americans Submit to a Second Lockdown? By Patrick J. Buchanan
On March 24, President Donald Trump said he wanted the country and the economy "opened up and just raring to go by Easter."
Easter came and went. And Trump was mocked for being aspirational and unrealistic. Yet, with Ascension Thursday at hand, 40 days after Easter, the president seems to have been ahead of his time.
May 18, 2020
Polling Data the Media Doesn’t Want You to See By Brian C. Joondeph
Polls are designed to reflect the opinions of a group of people at a moment in time. A small sample of individuals is asked for its opinion regarding a particular issue, and hopefully this small sample is representative of the larger population.
May 18, 2020
35% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Thirty-five percent (35%) 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 May 14, 2020.
May 18, 2020
Voters Break Even Over Justice’s Decision To Toss Flynn Case
Voters are evenly divided over whether the U.S. Justice Department should have dropped its crumbling case against former Trump adviser Michael Flynn, even though they tend to think his conviction was valid. But once again there’s a sharp partisan difference of opinion.
May 16, 2020
We Need a Centralized Medical System, Too By Ted Rall
The coronavirus pandemic has laid bare two fundamental flaws in the American health care system.
