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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.

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                            August 30, 2025What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending August 30, 2025
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...

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                            August 29, 2025Governance by Threat, Not Constitutional Order  By Michael Barone
        The Constitution of the United States lays out a complex scheme of governance that has mostly worked for the 237 years since it became effective with the ratification of the ninth state, New Hampshire, in 1788.

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                            August 29, 2025Two-Thirds Still Want Traditional Values in School
Americans overwhelmingly believe kids should be taught traditional values, and many don’t think schools are doing a good job of it.

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                            August 29, 2025Trump More Accessible to Media Than Biden, Most Voters Say
After four years of Joe Biden dodging media scrutiny, a majority of voters recognize that President Donald Trump is more available to questions from the press.

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                            August 28, 2025Trump’s Revenge? 48% See John Bolton as Victim
In the aftermath of FBI raids on former National Security Adviser John Bolton’s home and office, most voters don’t believe it was about national security.
August 28, 2025Notes on the State of Politics: Iowa Special Elections, Utah Redistricting By J. Miles Coleman
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— In Iowa, Democrats continued to rack up special election overperformances by flipping a Trump-won state Senate seat that is based in Sioux City.
— Democrats have broken the GOP’s supermajority in the state Senate, although Republicans still hold comfortable majorities in both chambers of the legislature.
— A judge threw out Utah’s current House map, a GOP gerrymander, ruling that it does not fit with the guidelines set by a 2018 voter-approved state ballot issue.
— A fairer map of Utah would probably have one blue seat and three red ones, instead of four red ones, though Utah Republicans may try to delay a new map’s implementation.

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                            August 27, 202540% Say Minimum Wage Should Be at Least $15
Support for raising the national minimum wage continues to raise, with 4-in-10 Americans now saying it should be at least double what current federal law requires.