16 For ’16 By Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik, and Geoffrey Skelley
Now that we’ve had a week to digest the results of the 2016 election, here are some observations about what happened and what the results might tell us about the future:
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November 17, 2016
November 17, 2016
Few Think Government Has Their Best Interest In Mind
The outsider candidate may have won this year’s presidential election, but most voters still don't expect the government to be looking out what's best for them. Republicans are more hopeful than other voters, though.
November 16, 2016
Most Intend to Get A Flu Shot This Year
It’s flu season again, and that’s left most Americans running out to get their flu shots.
November 16, 2016
Voters Don’t See Anti-Trump Protests Going Anywhere
Voters are closely divided over whether the street protests against Donald Trump’s election are the product of genuine concern or just being staged by troublemakers. But most agree the protests won’t achieve anything good.
November 16, 2016
Arrogant Obama Blames Deplorable Racists, Says Democrats ‘Have Better Ideas’ By Charles Hurt
For eight years after America elected her first black president, Americans were accused of being racist for pointing out President Obama’s insufferable arrogance.
November 16, 2016
Should Trump Still Investigate Clinton?
President-elect Donald Trump in a TV interview Sunday night appeared to back away from a campaign vow to name a special prosecutor to investigate defeated Democratic rival Hillary Clinton for her handling of classified information while secretary of State. Most voters think he should drop the idea, but a sizable majority of Republicans disagree.
November 16, 2016
The Slacker Mandate and the Safety Pin Generation by Michelle Malkin
News flash, kids: Things aren't free. Things cost money. And "free" things provided to you by the government cost other people's money.
November 15, 2016
How We Did
Rasmussen Reports’ final White House Watch daily tracking poll survey was posted Monday morning. It showed Democrat Hillary Clinton with a two-point advantage over Republican Donald Trump – 45% to 43%. To be precise, it was Clinton 44.8% to Trump 43.1%, a difference of 1.7%.
November 15, 2016
So Far, So Good, Voters Say of Obama-Trump Truce
Most voters like the way President Obama has responded to the election of Donald Trump but don’t think the early public peace between the two men says much about the future.
November 15, 2016
A Trump Doctrine -- 'America First' By Patrick J. Buchanan
However Donald Trump came upon the foreign policy views he espoused, they were as crucial to his election as his views on trade and the border.
November 15, 2016
What Now? By Thomas Sowell
The good news is that we dodged a bullet in this election. The bad news is that we don't know how many other bullets are coming, or from what direction.
November 15, 2016
Most Democrats Don’t Want Their Party To Work With Trump
Most voters think Democrats should work with Donald Trump once he’s in the White House, but Democrats strongly disagree. Still, voters are more hopeful about the parties cooperating than they’ve been since President Obama’s inauguration in 2009.
November 15, 2016
The New Key to Immigration Reform: More High-Skilled Immigrants by Michael Barone
One of the issues President-elect Donald Trump says he wants Congress to act on is immigration. That's not entirely surprising, given that he spotlighted just that issue, in incendiary terms, after gliding down that escalator in the Trump Tower and announcing he was running 17 months ago.
November 14, 2016
32% Say U.S. is Heading in Right Direction
Thirty-two percent (32%) 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 10. Two out of the five nights in the survey follow Republican Donald Trump's election as the next president of the United States.
November 14, 2016
Democrats More Dubious Than Others About Election Results
Most voters are confident in the outcome of last week's election, but few trust the media coverage that led up to it.
November 14, 2016
What Should Trump Do First?
President-elect Donald Trump in a “60 Minutes” interview on CBS last night made it clear that Obamacare and the U.S. Supreme Court are high on his list of action items, and voters think that’s a good place to start.
November 12, 2016
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending November 12, 2016
Misperceptions, misleading reporting and mistakes all around – that seems to be a large part of the surprise story of Donald Trump’s victory.
November 11, 2016
Did Voters Vote for Trump or Against Clinton?
Maybe it was lucky for Donald Trump that he was running against Hillary Clinton or he wouldn't be president-elect today.
November 11, 2016
Most Say Trump, Clinton Set Right Post-Election Tone
Most voters are reassured by the first post-election speeches President-elect Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton gave, but Democrats are apparently in a less forgiving mood.
November 11, 2016
Wrapping Up Some Related State Surveys
Pulse Opinion Research conducts the field work and provides the methodology for all Rasmussen Reports surveys. Pulse did a number of state tracking surveys during the presidential election season for the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers and the Entertainment Software Association.
Here’s the Auto Alliance’s analysis of those survey results.
