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                            January 9, 202547% Say Disney Has Gotten Worse
The movies and TV shows produced by the Walt Disney Company aren’t as good as they used to be, according to almost half of Americans.

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                            January 9, 2025FBI: Most Voters Still Trust Agency
Despite recent criticism of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, a majority of voters still have a positive opinion of the agency.
January 9, 2025How the Other Half Votes: The Big Counties Versus the Rest of the Country in 2024 By Kyle Kondik
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— While the nation has more than 3,100 counties, just about 150 of them cast roughly half of all presidential votes.
— In the Trump era, the gap between the biggest counties and the rest of the country is larger than it was previously, although the overall difference contracted slightly in both 2020 and then 2024 after an initial large widening in 2016.
— In improving his margin in the national popular vote by about 6 points from 2020, Donald Trump ran further ahead of his 2020 margin in the nation’s most vote-rich counties than he did in the rest of the country.

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                            January 8, 2025‘Drastic’ Cuts? Most Voters Like It
House Speaker Mike Johnson’s talk about “drastically” reducing the federal government is popular with voters, although they’re not sure the new Congress will actually follow through.

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                            January 8, 2025Victimhood U By John Stossel
Colleges went mad.

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                            January 7, 2025Another Independence Day Approaches By Brian C. Joondeph
Independence Day, celebrated on July 4 of every year, is a national holiday commemorating the ratification of the Declaration of Independence, which established the United States of America, gaining freedom from British subjugation and tyranny.

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                            January 7, 202543% Expect Better Economy This Year
A key measure of economic optimism has risen significantly since this time last year

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                            January 7, 2025Will Republicans Make Life Better? Predictably, Voters Are Divided
With Republicans now controlling both houses of Congress and Donald Trump preparing to become President, voters are divided along partisan lines about whether this will improve life for the average American.

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                            January 7, 2025Donald Trump's Worldwide Election By Daniel McCarthy
        Winning the 2024 election was only the beginning -- the Trump effect is
now sweeping the globe.

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                            January 7, 2025Why America Is in So Much Trouble By Stephen Moore
        Shortly before Milton Friedman's death in 2006, I had the privilege of

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                            January 6, 202530% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Thirty percent (30%) 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 2, 2025.

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                            January 6, 202548% Say Biden One of the Worst Presidents Ever
Most voters say nothing President Joe Biden did during the past four years helped them, and nearly half believe he ranks among America’s worst presidents.

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                            January 4, 2025What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending January 4, 2025
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...

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                            January 3, 202576% of Democrats Support NY ‘Climate Superfund’ Law
Democrats nationwide overwhelmingly favor a new state law in New York that will force oil, natural-gas and coal companies to pay the state $3 billion a year for the next 25 years for carbon emissions that contribute to climate change.

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                            January 3, 2025Toward a Political History of the Last 75 Years By Michael Barone
New Year's Day is a good time to take a long look backward with a cautious eye toward possible futures. My guide here is RealClearPolitics analyst Sean Trende's 2012 book "The Lost Majority," whose bold thesis was unduly neglected by political scientists spinning tales of a permanent New Deal Democratic majority.

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                            January 2, 2025Worries Remain High About Government Spying on Americans
Voter concerns about domestic surveillance have not decreased, as the nation prepares for a new administration under President-elect Donald Trump.

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                            January 1, 2025Biden Approval Reaches 45% in December
When tracking President Biden’s job approval on a daily basis, people sometimes get so caught up in the day-to-day fluctuations that they miss the bigger picture...

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                            January 1, 2025Biden Approval Reaches 45% in December
When tracking President Biden’s job approval on a daily basis, people sometimes get so caught up in the day-to-day fluctuations that they miss the bigger picture...

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                            January 1, 2025Americans Have High Hopes for 2025
Although 2024 didn’t rate very high in most Americans’ estimation, a majority expect much better in 2025.

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                            December 31, 2024Two-Thirds Will Celebrate New Year’s Eve at Home
Rather than heading out to New Year’s Eve parties, most Americans will be home when 2025 arrives at midnight.