Consumer Spending Update: A Giant Leap in Consumer Confidence
The Rasmussen Reports Economic Index jumped to 144.5 in July, up over nine points from last month and just shy of its all-time high in February 2018.
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July 12, 2019
July 12, 2019
Democrats: Prisoners of the Past on the Economy By Michael Barone
We are all, to some extent, prisoners of the past. Things that have already happened -- or that we remember as having happened -- constitute the world that we know. Anything else is a product of imagination.
July 12, 2019
Are Yanks and Brits Going Their Separate Ways? By Patrick J. Buchanan
When Sir Kim Darroch's secret cable to London was leaked to the Daily Mail, wherein he called the Trump administration "dysfunctional ... unpredictable ... faction-riven ... diplomatically clumsy and inept," the odds on his survival as U.K. ambassador plummeted.
July 11, 2019
Americans Strongly Applaud America and Its Past
George Washington and Thomas Jefferson are the latest victims as the politically correct expand their war on America’s past, but a sizable majority of Americans remain proud of that past and proud of their country.
July 11, 2019
Republicans Say Perot Cost Bush Reelection, See Trump As 3rd-Party President
Mega-businessman Ross Perot who died this week ran one of the highest profile third-party presidential bids in history, and many Republicans suspect he elected Bill Clinton in the process. But a sizable number of all voters think Donald Trump, elected as a Republican, is the third-party president that Perot wanted to be.
July 11, 2019
Notes on the State of Politics By Larry J. Sabato and Kyle Kondik
Farewell Ross Perot; Senate races on the fringe of the competitive map; the curious case of Justin Amash.
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— Ross Perot, who died earlier this week, provided something of a template for Donald Trump. He also was the best-performing third-party presidential candidate since Teddy Roosevelt in 1912.
— They are not top-tier races, but there have been noteworthy Senate developments on the outer fringes of the competitive map in Kansas, Kentucky, and Virginia.
— Justin Amash’s decision to leave the GOP creates another House swing seat.
July 10, 2019
Many Still Know Someone Out of Work, Someone Who’s Given Up
Perhaps surprisingly, with unemployment rates at historic lows, more Americans say they know people who can’t find jobs, although the number is still well below findings during the Obama years. Democrats are the most pessimistic about the job market in the near future.
July 10, 2019
Epstein, Bean & Buck: The Democratic Donors' Sex-Creep Club By Michelle Malkin
Well, well, well. "Follow the facts," Democratic strategist Christine Pelosi now advises fellow liberals in the wake of billionaire and high-flying political financier Jeffrey Epstein's child sex trafficking indictment this week. Some of "our faves" could be implicated in the long-festering scandal, the Pelosi daughter warned, so it's time to "let the chips fall where they may."
July 10, 2019
Government Bullies By John Stossel
The city of Dunedin, Florida, wants Jim Ficken's home.
Ficken's mom died, so he went to South Carolina to take care of her estate. He asked a friend to look after his house.
July 9, 2019
Americans Still Aren’t Ready to Forgive All Student Loans
Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders is calling for wiping out all outstanding student loans, and just over half of his fellow Democrats like the idea. Other Americans don’t.
July 9, 2019
73% Share Trump’s Pride in America’s ‘Epic’ Past
Democrats and many in the media have been highly critical of the July 4 celebration President Trump hosted in Washington, DC, but voters strongly share the rosy view of America and the U.S. military that the president honored that day.
July 9, 2019
Busing, No; School Choice, Yes By Stephen Moore
In the first Democratic presidential debates, Sen. Kamala Harris of California defended forced busing back in the 1970s as a civil rights triumph and criticized former Vice President Joe Biden for racial insensitivity for once opposing the policy.
July 9, 2019
Are Democrats Ceding the Center to Trump? By Patrick J. Buchanan
Since the Democratic debates in June, the tide seems to have receded for the party and its presidential hopefuls.
In new polls, only Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump comfortably.
July 8, 2019
42% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Forty-two percent (42%) 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 July 2.
July 8, 2019
Voters Still See ‘Antifa’ As More Trouble Than Good
So-called “antifa” protesters are in the news again, following the recent violent beating of a gay journalist in Portland, Oregon. Voters are less critical of the antifa movement these days, but they still tend to think it’s just looking for trouble.
July 6, 2019
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending July 6, 2019
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...
July 6, 2019
Political Cartooning Was Murdered. Here's the Autopsy By Ted Rall
A century ago, newspapers employed more than 2,000 full-time editorial cartoonists. Today, there are fewer than 25. In the United States, political cartooning as we know it is dead. If you draw them for a living and you have any brains, you're working in a different field or looking for an exit.
July 5, 2019
White House Watch: Biden Still Beats Trump
Joe Biden may be finding the going a little rougher in his own party, but he’s still the most successful Democrat in a hypothetical 2020 matchup with President Trump.
July 5, 2019
Chief Justice Wisely Gets Courts out of Redistricting Politics By Michael Barone
"Partisan gerrymandering is nothing new," writes Chief Justice John Roberts near the beginning of his opinion in Rucho v. Common Cause. "Nor is frustration with it." The question is what, if anything, federal courts ought to do about it. The answer the chief justice and the four other Republican-appointed justices have endorsed, journalists have been reporting, is nothing.
July 4, 2019
Americans Still Feel Good About the Fourth of July
Most Americans still think highly of Independence Day AKA the Fourth of July and recognize what major historical event it celebrates.
