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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.

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                            October 8, 2025Spooky Season: 51% Decorate for Halloween
Halloween is more than just one night of trick-or-treating, according to most Americans who are decorating their homes to celebrate this month.

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                            October 8, 2025Government Shutdown: 49% Say Democrats Did It for Illegal Aliens
Nearly half of voters agree with a top Trump administration figure on the reason for the current government shutdown.

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                            October 8, 2025Banning Pet Sales By John Stossel
        When Mike Ricci wanted to buy his daughter a puppy, he discovered that in his state, "There were pet stores but none that sell puppies (or kittens)."

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                            October 7, 2025Middle East Peace Hopes Rise
More voters now believe that a peace deal to end the Gaza war could be close, and President Donald Trump’s Middle East policy gets better grades than his predecessor.

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                            October 7, 2025Why Sharpies Are Made in America Again By Daniel McCarthy
   President Donald Trump loves a Sharpie pen, and now he has all the more reason to love the company that makes them.

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                            October 7, 2025Spectrum Sale Enhances Economy and National Security By Stephen Moore
   A great but unheralded feature of the One Big Beautiful Bill passed in July was an authorization for the Federal Communications Commission to raise $88 billion to $100 billion through electronic spectrum auctions.

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                            October 6, 2025Trump Slams U.N., and Most Voters Agree
After a United Nations speech in which President Donald Trump condemned the international body for sponsoring an “invasion” of migrants, most U.S. voters agree with him.

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                            October 6, 202541% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Forty-one percent (41%) 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 2, 2025.

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                            October 4, 2025What 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 3, 202584% 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.

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                            October 3, 2025Donald 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.

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                            October 2, 202546% See Satan at Work in the World
The influence of supernatural evil is real, a plurality of Americans believe.

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                            October 2, 2025Voters 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, 2025Rating 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.