Opposition Grows to Scrapping Electoral College
Most Americans still understand the reason the Founding Fathers established the Electoral College and are increasingly opposed to efforts to get rid of it.
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May 28, 2019
May 27, 2019
38% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Thirty-eight percent (38%) 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 23.
May 27, 2019
Americans Honor Military on Memorial Day – and the Start of Summer
Americans continue to view Memorial Day as one of the nation’s most significant holidays – and the beginning of summer.
May 25, 2019
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending May 25, 2019
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...
May 25, 2019
Why Joe Biden Is the Least Electable Democrat By Ted Rall
As one of the few pundits who correctly called the 2016 election for Donald Trump, it would be wise to rest on my laurels rather than risk another prediction, one that might turn out wrong.
May 24, 2019
Americans Aren’t Eager for Ban on Fur Sales
New York City is considering joining San Francisco and Los Angeles in banning the sale of fur, but Americans aren’t eager to extend that ban to the area where they live. Few think it’s government’s job to regulate what’s legitimately for sale to the public anyway.
May 24, 2019
White House Watch: Warren Tops Trump One-on-One
Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts edges President Trump in the latest White House Watch hypothetical 2020 matchup.
May 24, 2019
Using the Big Lie to Delegitimize Election Results By Michael Barone
The Big Lie is back in style. Wikipedia tells us that the term was invented by Adolf Hitler to describe what others did -- though he was the biggest liar of all. "The broad masses of a nation," he wrote in "Mein Kampf," "more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie."
May 24, 2019
Are We on the Ramp to Impeachment Road? By Patrick J. Buchanan
After a stroke felled Woodrow Wilson during his national tour to save his League of Nations, an old rival, Sen. Albert Fall, went to the White House to tell the president, "I have been praying for you, Sir."
May 23, 2019
Voters Are Cool to Making Post Offices Serve As Banks, Too
Voters feel good about the U.S. Postal Service but aren’t sure they want to expand its job description to include banking services as prominent Democrats are proposing.
May 23, 2019
Notes on the State of the Senate By Kyle Kondik
GOP remains favored to hold the majority overall.
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— Senate retirements are not having a dramatic effect on the partisan odds in any race so far.
— Democrats have missed on some Senate recruits, and that may (or may not) matter in the long run.
— Alabama and Colorado remain the likeliest states to flip, with the Democratic-held Yellowhammer State the likeliest of all.
— Arizona is the purest Toss-up.
— Republicans remain favored overall.
May 22, 2019
Most Still Favor Armed Guards in Schools, But Support Is Down
An armed guard is credited with dramatically limiting a school shooting in Colorado earlier this month, but while most Americans still like the idea of armed school guards, support is down from past surveying.
May 22, 2019
67% of Democrats Think U.S. Has 12 Years to Fight Global Warming - Or Else
Voters tend to agree with Senator Bernie Sanders that America will be in big trouble very soon if it doesn’t aggressively tackle climate change, even though they question the integrity of politicians who champion the issue.
May 22, 2019
In Money We Trust? By John Stossel
Look at the dollar bills in your wallet. They say they are "legal tender for all debts."
May 22, 2019
DUH: HUD Housing Should Put Americans First By Michelle Malkin
We no longer live in a constitutional republic. We live in an idiocracy.
Only in modern-day America, under the Democratic-controlled U.S. House of Representatives, is the basic proposition that federally subsidized public housing should benefit American citizens and legal residents slammed as "despicable" and "damaging."
May 21, 2019
Voters Think Feds, Not States, Should Decide Abortion Policy
Few voters think it’s too hard to get an abortion in America today, but several states are moving to make it harder. Voters still tend to think abortion policy should be set at the federal level, however.
May 21, 2019
How to Modernize Immigration Laws By Stephen Moore
When I used to talk to candidate Donald Trump about immigration, I would tell him, Make sure your "big, beautiful wall" has plenty of gates for people to come here legally. President Trump's new immigration initiative would achieve both goals -- border security and a new system to admit the immigrants America needs most.
May 21, 2019
Has the Day of the Nationalists Come? By Patrick J. Buchanan
A week from today, Europeans may be able to gauge how high the tide of populism and nationalism has risen within their countries and on their continent.
May 20, 2019
40% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Forty percent (40%) 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 16.
May 20, 2019
Voters Still See Skills-Based Legal Entry As Immigration Fix
Voters continue to believe the U.S. immigration system is broken and still tend to favor shifting to the skills-based system that President Trump is proposing.
