What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending October 4, 2025
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...
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October 4, 2025
October 3, 2025
84% Worried Online Radicalization Driving Political Violence
Most voters believe that Charlie Kirk’s assassin acted alone, but fear that the Internet is pushing more youth toward political violence.
October 3, 2025
Donald Trump: Energy in the Executive By Michael Barone
Whatever else you want to say about him, President Donald Trump has what Alexander Hamilton in Federalist No. 70 called "energy in the executive." Announcing a peace plan for Israel and Hamas, ordering the dispatch of federal troops to protect immigration enforcement personnel in "sanctuary" states, authorizing his budget director to use reorganization powers available after Senate Democrats shut down the government, and announcing a pediatric cancer initiative.
October 2, 2025
46% See Satan at Work in the World
The influence of supernatural evil is real, a plurality of Americans believe.
October 2, 2025
Voters Divided Over Trump’s H-1B Visa Plan
Less than half of voters favor President Donald Trump’s new policy requiring $100,000 payments for foreign immigrant workers under the H-1B visa program.
October 2, 2025
Rating the New Missouri House Map By J. Miles Coleman
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— Over the weekend, Gov. Mike Kehoe (R-MO) signed off on a mid-decade gerrymander designed to give Republicans all but one of the 8 House seats in his state.
— Aside from turning a blue district in the Kansas City area red, the map fortified the St. Louis-area MO-2, the most marginal GOP-held seat on the map.
— Though we are assuming the new map will be operative, there are some efforts to stop, or delay, the map’s implementation, including court challenges and a potential ballot measure.
— In Arizona, Rep. David Schweikert (R, AZ-1) got into his state’s gubernatorial race, which leaves open a competitive seat in the Phoenix area.
October 1, 2025
Trump Approval Gains One Point in September
When tracking President Trump’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...
October 1, 2025
Stop the Health Insurers' Raid on the Treasury By Stephen Moore
No one likes insurance companies -- trying to get them to pay a claim is like wrenching a bone out of a dog's clenched teeth -- and now we have another reason to hold them in low regard. The biggest advocate for blowing another $1 trillion hole in the federal budget is the health insurance lobby.
The giant insurance companies -- including UnitedHealthcare, Blue Cross Blue Shield and Humana are leading what Capitol Hill sources describe as "an unprecedented lobbying blitz to restore hundreds of billions in taxpayer-funded Obamacare and Medicare Advantage subsidies."
October 1, 2025
Oh, the Suffering! By John Stossel
Have you heard how young people suffer now?
Scroll TikTok, Instagram, etc., you see the same message: "Young people today can't get ahead!"
One popular meme says when baby boomers like me were young, "A family could own a home, a car and send their kids to college, all on one income."
September 30, 2025
Views on Economic Opportunity Hold Steady
There has been no substantial boost in economic optimism over the past six months.
September 30, 2025
53% Approve of ‘Terrorist’ Designation for Antifa
President Donald Trump’s designation of the left-wing Antifa movement as a “domestic terrorist organization” has majority approval.
September 30, 2025
Assata Shakur and Other Parents of Political Violence By Daniel McCarthy
As the Trump administration takes on the latest wave of left-wing violence, an obituary reminds us what happens when political killers get away with their crimes.
September 29, 2025
‘Fascism’? Many Blame Trump Threats for Jimmy Kimmel Suspension
Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel is back on TV now, but many voters blame his four-night suspension on threats from President Donald Trump’s administration.
September 29, 2025
42% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Forty-two percent (42%) 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 September 25, 2025.
September 27, 2025
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending September 27, 2025
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...
September 26, 2025
Most Still Don’t See Marijuana as Dangerous
A majority of Americans don’t think it’s dangerous to use marijuana, despite recent research findings on the subject.
September 26, 2025
Democratic Party Isolation Is Getting Worse By Michael Barone
We Americans, it seems, continue to live in two separate countries. Consider two items in the news this week and the inconsistent responses they evoked.
September 26, 2025
Vance Remains Popular
A majority of voters have a favorable opinion of Vice President J.D. Vance, and consider him qualified to assume presidential duties if needed.
September 25, 2025
Trump Raises Concerns About Tylenol Use in Pregnancy – Harvard Research Suggests He’s Right By Brian C. Joondeph
When Donald Trump raises a public health concern, the political reaction often focuses more on him than on the science. If Trump declared that drinking gasoline was dangerous, you can bet a TikTok brigade of Trump-hating liberals would be chugging unleaded gas on camera to “own the Orange Man.”
September 25, 2025
38% Would Blame Democrats for Shutdown
Just a week before the deadline for Congress to pass a spending bill to keep the federal government running, Democrats stand to be the leading scapegoat for a possible shutdown.
