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                            November 22, 202439% Have Started Holiday Shopping Already
Even though it’s not yet Thanksgiving, many Americans have already begun buying gifts for the holidays.

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                            November 22, 2024Democrats Now Against One-Party Control
Most voters don’t mind one party controlling both the White House and Congress, but since the election, Democrats are now having second thoughts.

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                            November 22, 2024Trump Gains Among Nonwhite People: Historical Precedent and Possible Harbinger By Michael Barone
Did anyone expect, when they heard the candidate's announcement at the base of the Trump Tower escalator in June 2015, that nine years later, he would be elected to a second term with sharp increases in Republican percentages from nonwhite people -- Latinos especially, but also Black and Asian people?
November 22, 2024How Virginia Illustrates the 2024 Election By J. Miles Coleman
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— Kamala Harris carried Virginia by close to 6 points this month. This was worse than Joe Biden’s 10-point showing in the state, although it was slightly better than Hillary Clinton’s performance, even as the latter had a Virginian (Sen. Tim Kaine) on her ticket.
— Much of the state’s movement to Donald Trump can be attributed to a pronounced rightward shift in heavily Democratic Northern Virginia.
— Though she lost ground overall, Harris held on to some of Joe Biden’s 2020 gains in many of the state’s more marginal localities.
— Though it was not a Toss-up state, in some ways, such as its internal swing and voting rhythms, Virginia was in sync with the nation as a whole.

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                            November 21, 2024Trump’s Cabinet: Voters Expect Senate to Confirm Most Picks
About half of voters think President-elect Trump has done a good job of choosing Cabinet appointments, and nearly three-quarters believe the Senate will confirm most of Trump’s picks.
November 21, 2024The 2024 Senate Undervote: Not High By Historical Standards By Kyle Kondik
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— After the election, many took note of some seemingly unusual patterns in the presidential and Senate voting. Some winning Democrats in states that voted for Donald Trump, for instance, received fewer total votes than Kamala Harris, but still won while Harris lost.
— Some voters likely cast votes just in the presidential race, meaning that there were fewer votes cast in a state’s Senate contest compared to its presidential contest.
— However, there is nothing unusual about this compared to recent history. Senate races almost always have fewer votes cast than presidential races in presidential years.
— In fact, the average size of the Senate “undervote” this year was smaller than many other recent cycles.
— The third party vote was generally larger in key Senate races than in the presidential race, which likely also contributed to the outcomes in certain states. But a higher third-party vote for Senate is also not unusual—it was a feature of some of 2020’s closest Senate races, too.

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                            November 20, 2024Most Workers Expect Higher Pay Next Year
Has the election of Donald Trump boosted economic optimism? By one measurement, apparently so.

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                            November 20, 2024Democrats Still See Kamala Harris as Party Leader
Despite her defeat in this year’s presidential election, Vice President Kamala Harris is still seen by most Democrats as the best leader for their party.

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                            November 20, 2024Destructive Environmentalists By John Stossel
People eagerly give money to rich environmental groups. The Natural Resources Defense Council has $463 million in assets.

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                            November 20, 2024Breaking Up Google Will Be a Great American Catastrophe By Stephen Moore
Earlier this year, in one of the most absurd court rulings in modern times, federal judge Amit Mehta ruled that Google violated U.S. antitrust law by gaining a monopoly in the search engine markets.

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                            November 19, 2024Democrats in Denial After Defeat?
While most voters don’t think the Democratic Party did a good job during this year’s election, the party’s own voters have a different opinion.

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                            November 19, 2024Why Democrats Are Losing Tomorrow's Elections Today By Daniel McCarthy
America is outgrowing the Democratic Party.

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                            November 18, 202431% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Thirty-one percent (31%) 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 November 14, 2024.

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                            November 18, 2024Election Integrity Measures Enjoy Broad Support
A majority of voters support measures to ensure that elections are honest and that results are reported quickly.

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                            November 16, 2024What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending November 16, 2024
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...

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                            November 15, 2024Most Expect Future Terrorist Attacks
Many voters believe the danger of terrorism has increased during President Joe Biden’s term in the White House, and a majority think America is likely to face more terrorist attacks in the next four years.

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                            November 15, 2024The Democratic Gerontocracy Forgets the Lessons of Its Youth and Maturity By Michael Barone
Here's another way to look at why Republicans swept the 2024 elections: It's the fault, only partly, of course, of the gerontocracy of the Democratic Party. Going back through history, it's hard to find a time when a party's leadership was so far along in years. The founder presidents retired in their mid-sixties. Andrew Jackson retired at 69, Abraham Lincoln was murdered at 56, and Ulysses S. Grant retired at 54. Theodore Roosevelt died at age 60, Franklin Roosevelt at 63.

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                            November 14, 2024Younger Americans Are Less Religious
Although a majority of American adults are still religious, faith continues declining among those under 40.

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                            November 14, 2024Voters Expect Trump to Keep His Word on Deportations
During his winning presidential campaign, Donald Trump promised to deport illegal aliens – a plan approved by most voters, who expect him to keep his promise.
November 14, 2024The State-Level Differences Between the Presidential and Senate Races By J. Miles Coleman
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— Split outcomes between presidential and Senate results saw a resurgence in 2024, as at least four Donald Trump-won states sent Democrats to the Senate.
— Republicans still took the majority in the Senate because while Sens. Jon Tester (D-MT) and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) performed notably better than Kamala Harris, they did not do so by enough to hold their seats.
— Across most key Senate races, Senate Democrats ran better than Harris in rural parts of their states but were comparatively weak in some suburban counties.
— In one of Harris’s best states, Maryland, former Gov. Larry Hogan (R-MD) stood out as Republicans’ top overperformer, although Harris’s 26-point margin in the state was too much for him to overcome.