What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending May 16, 2020
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...
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May 16, 2020
May 15, 2020
Consumer Spending Update: Americans Question Economy But Still Have Faith in Their Own Wallets
As parts of the country slowly emerge from coronavirus lockdown, economic confidence has slowed from April’s rapid descent, dropping just one point to 93.7 in May. But this is the lowest finding in six years of surveying and six points below the April 2014 baseline.
May 15, 2020
Who Sent COVID-19 Positive Patients Into Nursing Homes? By Michael Barone
On a multicountry trip to South America, President Ronald Reagan couldn't restrain himself from the inane observation that every tourist finds himself saying about such trips. "Every country is different." So, it seems, is every virus capable of spreading into pandemic.
The influenza pandemic of 1918-19, for example, tended to kill otherwise healthy people in the prime of life, ages 20 to 40. COVID-19 tends to kill people age 70 and above, especially those with comorbidities.
May 15, 2020
Fauci vs. Trump -- Who's Right? By Patrick J. Buchanan
"We have met the moment and we have prevailed," said President Donald Trump Monday, as he supported the opening of the U.S. economy before the shutdown plunges us into a deep and lasting depression.
Tuesday, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the nation's leading expert on infectious diseases, made clear to a Senate committee his contradictory views.
May 14, 2020
Most Voters Stand By FBI, Don’t Want to Dump Wray
Despite increasing reports of high-level FBI complicity in attacks on the Trump campaign and the early Trump presidency, voters still view the federal police agency favorably and aren’t ready to dump its current director.
May 14, 2020
23% of Republicans Think GOP Should Nominate Someone Other Than Trump
Republicans overwhelmingly expect President Trump to be their nominee this fall, but nearly one-in-four GOP voters would prefer someone else.
May 14, 2020
Why 2020’s Third Party Share Should Be Lower Than 2016 By Kyle Kondik and J. Miles Coleman
When sizing up the 2020 election, it is natural for campaign pros and analysts to consider the kinds of voters who might defect from their 2016 selection. Can Joe Biden claw back some small but important share of the Barack Obama voters who defected to Donald Trump? Can Trump stop his party’s slide in the suburbs?
May 13, 2020
Most Democrats Favor $2,000 Monthly Government Checks To Boost Coronavirus Economy
Voters agree government money isn’t enough to counter the coronavirus economic crash, but most Democrats think $2,000 monthly payments to Americans who earn less than $120,000 a year are necessary even as the lockdown begins to break down.
May 13, 2020
Protect Your Family From Fearmonger Fauci By Michelle Malkin
This Mother's Day weekend, my family defied government pandemania. We drove out east from Colorado Springs to the tiny town of Calhan for a lovely little hike in the purple-and-gold-hued Paint Mines archeological district. Unmasked, we basked in the sunshine, fresh air and freedom. The park was teeming with moms like me who put family bonding over "social distancing."
May 13, 2020
You'll Freeze in the Dark! By John Stossel
Last Sunday, Mother's Day, made me think how my mom warned me, as a young teen: "Work hard! Or you'll freeze in the dark!"
Sometimes, the warning ended, "Or you'll starve in the cold."
May 12, 2020
Rasmussen Reports Weekly Immigration Index - Week Ending May 7, 2020
The Rasmussen Reports Immigration Index for the week of May 3-7, 2020 has risen to 104.2 from 101.6 the week before.
May 12, 2020
Only 54% of Democrats Want Biden As Nominee
Joe Biden has the support of just over half of Democrats, although the vast majority still expect the former vice president to be their party’s presidential nominee.
May 12, 2020
Coexistence with China or Cold War II? By Patrick J. Buchanan
Under fire for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, President Donald Trump, his campaign and his party are moving to lay blame for the 80,000 U.S. dead at the feet of the Communist Party of China and, by extension, its longtime General Secretary, President Xi Jinping.
May 12, 2020
Grading the Governors on Economic Response to COVID-19 By Stephen Moore
The U.S. economy is at last moving into the recovery stage from the coronavirus, at least in most states.
One definite pattern has emerged: Republican states are reopening much more swiftly than Democratic states. A most notable case in point is the revival strategies of the four largest states. California and New York are closed for weeks to come; Florida and Texas are getting back in business now.
May 11, 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 7, 2020.
May 11, 2020
Voters Rate State, Local Virus Response Highly But Worry Government May Go Too Far
Voters generally approve of the way their state and local governments have handled the coronavirus pandemic, but they’re also more worried that government may be making things worse rather than better.
May 9, 2020
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending May 9, 2020
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...
May 9, 2020
So Far, There Is No Reason Not to Believe Tara Reade By Ted Rall
Did Joe Biden finger-rape Tara Reade in the Capitol in 1993? No one knows but the two of them. (Given the former vice president's obviously fragile mental state, he might not remember.)
May 8, 2020
70% Likely to Get Anti-COVID-19 Vaccine
Americans are more eager to take the COVID-19 vaccine than the usual flu shot, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey.
May 8, 2020
Republicans Are More Willing To Risk Deaths, Illness to Get Country Going Again
Republicans are a lot more eager than Democrats to emerge from the coronavirus lockdown even if it means more sickness and death. But most voters regardless of party affiliation agree America can’t remain like this indefinitely.
