28% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Twenty-eight percent (28%) 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 May 26.
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May 30, 2016
May 30, 2016
Most Will Honor The Fallen This Memorial Day
A sizable number of Americans regard Memorial Day as an important national holiday, and most plan on doing something special to honor those who have given their lives for their country.
May 28, 2016
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending May 28, 2016
The Memorial Day weekend is upon us, a time to honor those who have given their lives for our country, although for most Americans it’s more about the arrival of summer.
May 27, 2016
Americans Are More Critical of Airport Security Process
Long lines of frustrated passengers at airports around the country have already prompted the removal of a top official at the struggling Transportation Security Administration (TSA). Americans still have a high opinion of airline safety but are definitely more critical of the TSA and airport security.
May 27, 2016
Trump, Clinton Tied in Polls: Were All the Wise Men Wrong? By Michael Barone
It was conventional wisdom among the political cognoscenti during most of the primary season that Donald Trump could not win the general election. The evidence seemed strong.
Over 12 months of polling from May 2015 to April 2016, Hillary Clinton ran ahead of Trump in 63 national polls, while Trump led her in only six and tied her in three. Polls in the dozen or so 2012 target states showed similar results.
May 27, 2016
'The Great White Hope' By Patrick J. Buchanan
"Something startling is happening to middle-aged white Americans. Unlike every other age group, unlike every other racial and ethnic group ... death rates in this group have been rising, not falling."
The big new killers of middle-aged white folks? Alcoholic liver disease, overdoses of heroin and opioids, and suicides. So wrote Gina Kolata in The New York Times of a stunning study by the husband-wife team of Nobel laureate Angus Deaton and Anne Case.
May 27, 2016
Most Now Think Cosby Likely to be Guilty
Comedy icon Bill Cosby is guilty in the court of public opinion.
May 26, 2016
Voters Say Parents, Students Responsible for School Success
Voters continue to have little faith in U.S. public schools and think it's mainly up to parents and the students themselves to succeed.
May 26, 2016
Most Democrats Think Clinton, Sanders Will Come Together
Things remain messy for the national Democratic party, with Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders refusing to exit the race for the presidential nomination amid clashes between his supporters and those of Hillary Clinton. But most Democrats think their party is likely to come together after its convention this summer and expect an important endorsement of Clinton from Sanders.
May 26, 2016
Why Democratic Unity Could Be Easier to Achieve This Time: Donald Trump and Barack Obama By Alan I. Abramowitz
With only a few weeks left in the 2016 primary campaign, a lot of liberal pundits and Democratic Party leaders are getting very nervous about the outlook for the general election. To almost everyone’s surprise, Donald Trump has secured the Republican presidential nomination while Hillary Clinton is still locked in a contentious battle with Bernie Sanders. Although Clinton holds a nearly insurmountable lead over Sanders in pledged delegates, Sanders continues to attack Clinton and win primaries.
May 26, 2016
White House Watch: Clinton 40%, Trump 39%
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are in a near tie in Rasmussen Reports’ latest weekly White House Watch.
May 25, 2016
Voters Don't Think High School Graduates Are Ready for College, Work
With graduation impending for most high school seniors across the country, their eyes are toward the future. But voters still aren't confident that today’s high school graduates are ready for college or the workforce.
May 25, 2016
Hillary Fights to Overcome a Sordid History By Charles Hurt
Clutching her pearls, Hillary Clinton is stricken. Horrified! Disgusted that Donald Trump would dare to remind voters about all the depraved debauchery she and her lecherous husband inflicted on the innocent American citizen for all of those years.
May 25, 2016
Enough with Hollywood's Pendulous Boobery By Michelle Malkin
From runways to red carpets to Instagram and Snapchat, celebrity overexposure is inescapable. We're drowning in underboob. Bombarded with sideboob. Nip slips. Crotch slips. Bare-bottom flashes. All of the above, all at once.
May 25, 2016
How Do Democrats Rate Bernie's Chances for the Nomination?
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders may be refusing to end his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, but most Democrats say it’s a lost cause.
May 25, 2016
Private Is Better By John Stossel
Our next president will almost certainly be Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton.
But I take heart knowing that America's founders imposed checks and balances, so there will be limits on what bad things the next president can do.
May 25, 2016
Does Hillary Clinton Have A Gender Gap Problem?
A lot of men don’t like Hillary Clinton. Or at least that’s what our polling seems to suggest.
May 24, 2016
Voters Think Trump Would Be Better for Economy - Or Would He?
The U.S. economy historically has had an average growth rate of 3.3% but has fallen short of that number in every year of Barack Obama’s presidency. Still, his fellow Democrats give the president positive marks for his economic performance and think Hillary Clinton would do more of the same. Donald Trump, on the other hand, is expected to make the economy better by all voters - except Democrats.
May 24, 2016
Commencement Season By Thomas Sowell
This is the season of college Commencement speeches -- an art form that has seldom been memorable, but has increasingly become toxic in recent times.
May 24, 2016
Clinton Policies to End Pay Gap Would Just Make It Larger By Michael Barone
Women, lamented Hillary Clinton in an April 2014 tweet, make just 77 cents on the dollar to men. As a presidential candidate she has repeated that lament again and again, updating the numbers, in line with government statistics, to 78 cents in July 2015 and 79 cents this year.
