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                            October 16, 2025Just 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.

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                            October 16, 202546% 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, 2025Maine 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.

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                            October 15, 2025Shut Down! Do You Care? By John Stossel
        The government is "shut down."

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                            October 15, 2025Voter Support for Israel Declines
At a time when a historic peace deal has ended the Gaza War, support for Israel has significantly declined among American voters

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                            October 14, 2025Stop the UN Global Climate Tax on American Ships By Stephen Moore
        Later this week the United Nations will hold a vote on a multibillion-dollar climate change tax targeted squarely at American industry. Without quick and decisive action by the White House, this U.N. tax on fossil fuels will become international law.

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                            October 14, 2025Rasmussen Real Unemployment Rate: Remains The Same
National unemployment was 8.3% in this month’s Rasmussen Reports Real Unemployment update, remaining the same as last month. Due to the government shutdown, there is no percentage officially reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics for today. 

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                            October 14, 2025Rasmussen Real Unemployment Rate: Up Slightly
National unemployment was 8.7% in this month’s Rasmussen Reports Real Unemployment update, up slightly from last month. Due to the government shutdown, there is no percentage officially reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics for today.  

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                            October 14, 2025Distrust of Lawyers Has Increased
More Americans now say they don’t trust lawyers, and those who’ve hired an attorney before trust them even less.

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                            October 14, 2025Democrats Hold Six-Point Advantage on Health Care Issue
Democrats continue to be more trusted on the health care issue, which is central to the current government shutdown.

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                            October 13, 202552% Side With Trump on National Guard Deployment
A federal judge ruled that President Donald Trump could not deploy National Guard troops to defend offices of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, but a majority of voters back the president’s position.

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                            October 13, 202544% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Forty-four percent (44%) 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 9, 2025.

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                            October 11, 2025What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending October 11, 2025
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...

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                            October 10, 2025New Jersey: Democrat Sherrill +6 in Governor’s Race
Less than a month before Election Day in New Jersey, Democrat Mikie Sherrill holds a six-point lead over Republican Jack Ciattarelli in the closely-watched off-year contest to be governor of the Garden State.

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                            October 10, 2025Consumer Spending Update: Economic Confidence Continues Slide in October
Economic confidence decreased to 105.9 in this month’s Rasmussen Reports Economic Index, more than three points lower than September. 

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                            October 10, 2025America First: Voters Oppose Foreign Wars
Less than half of voters favor the United States going to war in defense of Ukraine, Taiwan or Israel.

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                            October 10, 2025Are Democrats the Party of Murder? By Michael Barone
        Why are so many Democrats fond of wishing death on their opponents? That's a question raised by two astonishing developments early this month. On Oct. 3, National Review's Audrey Fahlberg revealed texts Jay Jones had sent, perhaps mistakenly, to Virginia state Del. Carrie Coyner, bemoaning the cordial remarks then-Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert, a Republican, was delivering after the death of a Democrat.

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                            October 9, 2025Voter Remorse: 45% Say It Would Be Better If Kamala Harris Had Won
Many voters – including some who voted for President Donald Trump last November – now think the country would be in a better situation if Kamala Harris had won.
October 9, 2025Two New Swing Seats? Unpacking Utah’s (Possible) New Map By J. Miles Coleman
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE—In Utah, Republicans passed a new U.S. House map that could potentially be used next year, as the current map was ruled unconstitutional.
—Though the map Republicans passed retains four Trump-won districts, we would likely place two of those districts in competitive rating categories.
—The plaintiffs, who sued to have the original Utah map overturned, have submitted their own plans to a judge; both maps would almost certainly result in 3-1 GOP delegations.
—In Tennessee, the parties picked nominees for a TN-7 special election this week; we rate that contest as Likely Republican.

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                            October 8, 2025Time to Evict the UN: Americans Are Right to Back Trump’s Tough Talk By Brian C. Joondeph
President Trump’s blunt assessment of the United Nations during his September 23 address wasn’t just political theater. It reflected the growing frustration many Americans feel toward a bloated, ineffective, and increasingly hostile international organization.