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                            September 10, 2025Wasted Land By John Stossel
        The federal government owns about a third of America.

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                            September 9, 2025Limits on ‘Maximum Income’ OK With Most Under-40 Voters
A majority of voters under 40 favor legal limits on how much an individual can earn, including nearly a third who would set the maximum income at $1 million a year or less.

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                            September 9, 2025Who's Accountable for Autopen Pardons? By Daniel McCarthy
        There are too many politicians in America today who think a man like Decarlos Brown belongs on the streets and not behind bars or in a padded cell.

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                            September 8, 2025Struggling and Discouraged, Many Young Voters Turn Radical
Believing that the economy is unfair to them, a majority of voters under 40 favor legislation to confiscate “excess wealth.”

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                            September 8, 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 September 4, 2025.
 
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                            September 5, 2025Rasmussen Real Unemployment Rate: Up Slightly
National unemployment was 8.2% in this month’s Rasmussen Reports Real Unemployment update, up slightly from 7.9% last month and significantly more than the 4.3% rate officially reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics today. 

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                            September 5, 2025American Students First: Voters Reject Trump’s Chinese Student Idea
Voters overwhelmingly think American students should get priority over foreigners at U.S. colleges, after President Donald Trump floated the idea of allowing student visas for 600,000 Chinese.

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                            September 5, 2025Britain, Land of the Unfree By Michael Barone
        When the Irish comedian Graham Linehan arrived at London Heathrow Airport this past weekend, he was greeted by five armed British police officers who arrested him for -- get this -- three rude tweets.

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                            September 5, 2025What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending September 6, 2025
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...

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                            September 4, 2025Minimum Wage Hikes – Compassion or Economic Folly? By Brian Joondeph
A new Rasmussen Reports survey reveals that 40% of Americans now believe the minimum wage should be at least $15 an hour, up from 36% a year ago. That’s a strong sentiment. After all, who doesn’t want working Americans to earn more? But compassion and sound economics are two very different things.

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                            September 4, 202556% of Public School Parents Would Use Vouchers
If school choice vouchers were available, more than half of parents with children in public school would take advantage of the programs to send their kids to private school.

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                            September 4, 2025Most Under-40 Voters Favor Socialism
Support for socialist policies and socialist candidates is now a majority position among younger voters in America.
September 4, 2025The 2025-2026 Gubernatorial Races: Rating Changes in Virginia, Iowa, and Maine By Kyle Kondik and J. Miles Coleman
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— As the post-Labor Day sprint to the November gubernatorial races begins, we are upgrading Democrats in Virginia, moving that race to Likely Democratic. New Jersey remains as Leans Democratic.
— For the 2026 races, open seats in Iowa and Maine get more competitive in our ratings.
— Republicans should be able to easily win a new seat in Missouri as the result of a new proposed gerrymander, the latest development in the fast-moving redistricting wars.

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                            September 3, 202552% Think New Gun Laws Would Help Prevent School Shootings
In the aftermath of last week’s shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis, more voters see a need for new gun control laws.

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                            September 3, 2025Moral Panic? By John Stossel
        "Mental health is declining," says psychologist Jonathan Haidt. 

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                            September 2, 2025Trump Approval Holds Steady in August
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...

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                            September 2, 2025Republicans Feel Less Represented in Congress
By a 10-point margin, Democrats are more likely than Republicans to believe that their own party’s members of Congress agree with them.

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                            September 2, 2025Trump's Share-the-Wealth Retirement Plan Will Help All Americans By Stephen Moore
        The Elizabeth Warrens of the world have long complained about how the rules in Washington and on Wall Street are rigged in favor of the rich.

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                            September 1, 202545% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Forty-five percent (45%) 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 August 28, 2025.
 
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                            September 1, 202547% Say Labor Day Celebrates Workers
While many Americans see Labor Day as marking the end of summer, more view it as an acknowledgement of working people.