Early Voting: How Early Is Too Early?
Most voters have taken advantage of the early in-person voting option before, but believe it should be limited to two weeks or less before Election Day.
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October 24, 2025
October 24, 2025
The Trends in New Jersey and Virginia By Michael Barone
No two states voted more alike and closer to the national average in last year's presidential election than the two states that have gubernatorial elections in this odd-numbered year: New Jersey and Virginia. New Jersey voted 51.8% for Kamala Harris and 45.9% for Donald Trump. Virginia voted 51.8% for Harris and 46.1% for Trump. Aside from the seven target states and Democratic underperformance in New Hampshire and Minnesota, these were the two closest states in the country.
October 23, 2025
Did Hospital Protocols Make COVID Outcomes Worse? By Brian C. Joondeph, M.D.
A new Rasmussen Reports survey reveals an unsettling reality: nearly one-third of American adults say someone they know died of COVID-19 while hospitalized, and almost half believe hospital treatment protocols likely contributed to that death.
October 23, 2025
Jay Jones Scandal Worse Than Young Republicans Scandal?
Voters seem to have a clear view about which of two scandals involving text messages – one affecting a Democratic candidate, the other involving Republicans – is worse.
October 23, 2025
Notes on the State of Politics: MN-SEN to Likely Democratic; Watching Voter Dropoff in VA-AG Race By Kyle Kondik
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— Republicans have a couple of open-seat Senate targets in Kamala Harris-won New Hampshire and Minnesota.
— History suggests Democrats should be able to hold both races, but Minnesota has clearly become a less attractive target for Republicans than New Hampshire.
— In Virginia’s closely-watched attorney general race, we are curious to see how many voters skip the AG contest entirely. Typically, the amount of dropoff from the gubernatorial race to the AG race is quite low.
October 22, 2025
Many Suspect Hospital Treatment Contributed to COVID-19 Deaths
Nearly a third of Americans say someone they know died while being treated for COVID-19, and many think hospital treatment protocols may have been a factor in those deaths.
October 22, 2025
70% of Democrats Want Amnesty for Illegal Immigrants
Voters are almost evenly divided over America’s immigration policy, and the division falls largely along party lines.
October 22, 2025
To Lower Health Costs, Legalize Catastrophic Health Insurance Plans for All By Stephen Moore
The following column is coauthored by Stephen Moore and David M. Simon.
October 22, 2025
Free Speech By John Stossel
The Constitution's First Amendment protects free speech for good reason.
If people can't say what they want, we don't have honest debate.
I was relieved when Donald Trump, campaigning for the presidency, said, "If we don't have free speech, then we just don't have a free country!"
October 21, 2025
How To Make the Americas Great Again By Daniel McCarthy
President Donald Trump is in a fight for the destiny of the Americas.
October 21, 2025
51% Want Government Shutdown to Continue
A narrow majority of voters – including two-thirds of Democrats – are in favor of having the current government shutdown continue.
October 20, 2025
Democrats Fall Behind GOP in Favorability
Nine months into President Donald Trump’s second term, voters now have a slightly less favorable view of the Democratic Party than they do of Republicans.
October 20, 2025
43% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Forty-three percent (43%) 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 October 16, 2025.
October 18, 2025
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending October 18, 2025
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...
October 17, 2025
67% Support Ending ‘Corporate Welfare’
A solid majority of voters of every political persuasion are opposed to government subsidies for business.
October 17, 2025
Trump Defies Conventional Wisdom ... So Far By Michael Barone
"What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass." That was the mordant comment of Lord Melbourne, Queen Victoria's first prime minister, on the failure of a liberal reform to achieve the results promised with great assurance by the articulate liberal eminences of the day.
October 16, 2025
Just 19% Report Improvement in Their Personal Finances
Most Americans continue to see their financial situation as stagnant or worsening, and fewer than 1-in-5 report it’s getting better.
October 16, 2025
46% See Politics Behind Indictments of Comey, James
A plurality of voters believe the recent federal indictments of former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James are about getting revenge on enemies of President Donald Trump.
October 16, 2025
Maine Senate Primary Tests Whether Democrats Will Keep Deferring to Their Leaders By J. Miles Coleman and Kyle Kondik
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— Gov. Janet Mills’s (D-ME) Senate run sets up an intriguing primary that will test Democratic voters’ willingness to go along with the preferences of party leaders.
— Mills’s most prominent rival, oyster farmer Graham Platner (D), is already attacking her, and the primary illustrates several fissures in the party, including insider vs. outsider and older vs. younger.
— There are several instances of sitting governors losing Senate primaries in the postwar era, but these are generally from decades ago.
