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January 27, 2020

41% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction

Forty-one percent (41%) 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 January 23, 2020.

January 27, 2020

Most Say Impeachment No Problem for Trump in Upcoming Election

Most voters think President Trump’s impeachment won’t hurt him at the polls in November and don’t share House Democrats’ concern that the upcoming election may be unfair if Trump is one of the candidates.

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January 25, 2020

If This Is a Democracy, Why Don't We Vote for the Vice President, Too? By Ted Rall

Let's say you owned a house and needed extra cash to make ends meet, so you decided to rent two of your bedrooms. Would you agree to lease those rooms to two people under the condition that you could only run a credit check on and meet one of them? Would you allow an anonymous rando to move into your second room, no questions asked, not even what their name is?

January 25, 2020

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending January 25, 2020

In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...

January 24, 2020

Americans Show More Hope About Race Relations

Americans are more optimistic about race relations in this country than they have been in several years.

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January 24, 2020

Hillary Puts Bernie Into Her Basket of Deplorables By Patrick J. Buchanan

"Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him, he got nothing done. He was a career politician." So says Hillary Clinton of her former Senate colleague and 2016 rival for the Democratic nomination, Bernie Sanders.

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January 24, 2020

Historians Say New York Times Gets History Wrong By Michael Barone

We live in history-making times. Not so much because of the impeachment trial going on in the Senate, which will make history only if it routinizes impeachments of impolite presidents when their opposition party gets control of the House, but because of what looks like an ongoing battle for control of the central narrative of American history.

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January 23, 2020

Sorry, Hillary, But Voters Prefer Bernie Over You

Hillary Clinton made headlines earlier this week when she told an interviewer that no one in Congress likes Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders. But their fellow Democrats – and voters in general – like Bernie more than Hillary.

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January 23, 2020

POTUS Popping in the Polls By Brian C. Joondeph

Watch cable news, particularly CNN or MSNBC, and hear how the “walls are closing in” on President Trump. Impeachment is underway, a solemn and sober process, celebrated by House Speaker Pelosi handing out autographed pens during the impeachment article signing ceremony. One would think she was signing landmark legislation like the Civil Rights Act given the pomp and circumstance.

January 23, 2020

Most Are Dubious About Talks to End Failed War in Afghanistan

The clock is still ticking on America’s longest-running war. But few voters think the war in Afghanistan has accomplished its mission, and most think it’s unlikely to have a happy ending.

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January 23, 2020

Trump Not Immune to the Usual Down-Ballot Presidential Penalty By Louis Jacobson

But the Senate remains a bright spot for Republicans amidst decline elsewhere.

KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE

— After just three years in the White House, Donald Trump is seeing a significant erosion of down-ballot seats held by his party.

— This erosion puts Trump in good company — at least since World War II, presidents typically experience at least some erosion across his party’s numbers of U.S. Senate, U.S. House, gubernatorial, and state legislative seats.

— The best news for Trump and Republicans is that they have held their own in the category of races that is arguably most politically important: the Senate.

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January 22, 2020

55% Favor Calling New Witnesses for Senate Impeachment Trial

Most voters think the U.S. Senate should allow new witnesses to supplement the House’s party-line impeachment case before deciding whether to remove President Trump from office.

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January 22, 2020

Illegal Immigrant Caravans and Criminal Catholics By Michelle Malkin

The latest, lawless migrant caravan hurtling from Honduras to our southern border is as organic as AstroTurf.

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January 22, 2020

Everything on Demand By John Stossel

Reporters complain about business. We overlook the constant improvements in our lives made possible by greedy businesses competing for your money. Think about how our access to entertainment has improved.

January 21, 2020

Rasmussen Reports Weekly Immigration Index - Week Ending January 16, 2020

The Rasmussen Reports Immigration Index for the week of January 12-16, 2020 is at 100.5, up from 99.7 the week before.

January 21, 2020

Once Again, Party Line Defines Views of Trump China Trade Deal

President Trump has just signed the first phase of an historic trade agreement with China, although both countries are still keeping their recently imposed tariffs in place for now. Voters tend to think the deal will be good for America and are more upbeat on how it will impact them personally. But as usual, party line makes a difference.

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January 21, 2020

Working Hard Versus Hardly Working By Stephen Moore

Almost all of us know (because President Trump boasts of it in nearly every speech) that our 3.5% unemployment rate has reached a 50-year low. But this official decline in joblessness doesn't tell the entire story of the improvement in the job market in the United States. And it doesn't fully capture the change in direction between what happened under President Barack Obama and Trump.

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January 21, 2020

Is Mass Civil Disobedience Our Future? By Patrick J. Buchanan

On the holiday set aside in 2020 to honor Martin Luther King, the premier advocate of nonviolent Gandhian civil disobedience, thousands of gun owners gathered in Richmond to petition peacefully for their rights.

January 20, 2020

45% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction

Forty-five percent (45%) 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 January 16, 2020.

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January 20, 2020

26% Say Bernie Thinks Like They Do; 37% Say Same of Trump

For many Democrats, Bernie Sanders is the candidate who can beat Joe Biden for the party’s 2020 presidential nomination. But voters are less in sync with Sanders’ avowedly socialist views than those of his potential campaign rival, President Trump.