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                            February 15, 2025What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending February 15, 2025
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...

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                            February 14, 2025Valentine’s Day: Dinner for Two, Please
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 63% of American Adults say what they’d like most for Valentine's Day is dinner with someone special. Just 16% prefer chocolate candy and only 13% would like flowers the most. These findings have scarcely changed since last year. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

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                            February 14, 2025Trump’s Leadership Scores Higher in Second Term
Although he’s still widely seen as too confrontational, President Donald Trump’s leadership is now rated much better than it was during his first term in the White House.

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                            February 14, 2025Why Were Hopes of the 1990s Dashed? By Michael Barone
As one who shared the hope, after the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, that representative government, guaranteed liberties and global capitalism laced with some measure of welfare state protections would spread across the globe, I naturally look back over the intervening long generation and ask what went wrong.

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                            February 13, 202555% Approve of Elon Musk Running DOGE
Most voters like President Donald Trump’s decision to put Elon Musk in charge of his cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). And they like the new agency’s mission even more than they like Musk – or Trump, for that matter.

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                            February 13, 2025Rasmussen Reports Immigration Index - Data Ending January 21, 2025
The Rasmussen Reports Immigration Index for January increased to 96.6, up more than four points from 92.4 in December. 
February 13, 2025Our Initial Senate Ratings: Republicans Start as Strong Favorites to Hold Majority By Kyle Kondik and J. Miles Coleman
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— While Republicans, who will be defending 22 of the 35 Senate seats up in 2026, may have the political environment working against them next year, they are still favored to retain the chamber.
— Part of the reason for this is that Democrats hold two of our three initial Toss-up races, Georgia and Michigan, while GOP-held North Carolina will likely see another hotly-contested Senate race.
— We are giving Maine’s Susan Collins (R) a degree of deference by starting her race as Leans Republican, although as the only Republican representing a Kamala Harris-won state, it is hard to see Democrats getting close to a majority without her seat.
— If Democrats were to be on track to regain the Senate by the end of the decade, they would almost certainly have to come out of the 2026 cycle with a net gain of seats.

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                            February 12, 2025Is Black History Month Good for America?
February is Black History Month, but many Americans don’t believe this annual recognition is helpful.

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                            February 12, 2025Rasmussen Real Unemployment Rate: Up Slightly
National unemployment was 8.8% in this month’s Rasmussen Reports Real Unemployment update, up 0.4% from last month’s 8.4% last month but more than double the 4.10% rate officially reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics today. 

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                            February 12, 2025Birthright Citizenship: Majority Want Limits
Amid talk of limiting so-called “birthright citizenship,” there is a clear majority for some limits on the practice of granting automatic citizenship for the U.S.-born children of foreigners.

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                            February 12, 2025The Power of Self-Interest By John Stossel
Politicians bash businesses.

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                            February 11, 202579% of Republican Voters Say Trump Has Been Good for GOP
Voters have differing opinions of President Donald Trump, but Republicans overwhelmingly view him as beneficial to their party.

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                            February 11, 2025What Kind of a Populist Is Elon Musk? By Daniel McCarthy
   Can the world's richest man be a populist?

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                            February 10, 202545% 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 February 6, 2025.

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                            February 10, 2025Democrats Should Work With Trump, Most Voters Say
Many Democrats in Congress appear committed to totally opposing President Donald Trump, but most voters think cooperation would be better.

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                            February 8, 2025What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending February 8, 2025
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...

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                            February 7, 2025Voters Rate Trump More Aggressive on Trade Policy
After the Trump administration moved swiftly to put tariffs on foreign goods, voters are divided over the policy, but most agree that Donald Trump is more aggressive on trade issues than most of his predecessors.

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                            February 7, 2025Trump Rides the Vibes, for Better or Worse By Michael Barone
        After a flurry of activity -- the president's tariff threats and showdowns

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                            February 6, 2025Super Bowl LIX: Is It ‘Rigged’ for the Chiefs?
The Kansas City Chiefs are favored to beat the Philadelphia Eagles in Sunday’s Super Bowl, but many fans believe accusations that the NFL has been “rigging” the outcomes of games.

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                            February 6, 202554% Still Agree Media Are the ‘Enemy of the People’
Six years after he first said it, most voters still agree with President Donald Trump’s harshest condemnation of the news media.