Rasmussen Reports Weekly Immigration Index - Week Ending January 16, 2020

The Rasmussen Reports Immigration Index for the week of January 12-16, 2020 is at 100.5, up from 99.7 the week before.

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending January 11, 2020

In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...

Rasmussen Reports Weekly Immigration Index - Week Ending January 9, 2020

The Rasmussen Reports Immigration Index for the week of January 5-9, 2020 is at 99.7, up slightly from 98.4 the week before.

Rasmussen Reports Weekly Immigration Index - Week Ending January 4, 2020

The Rasmussen Reports Immigration Index for the week of December 29, 2019 through January 4, 2020 is at 98.4, down from 100.1 the week before.

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending January 4, 2020

In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending July 6, 2019

In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending April 6, 2019

In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending January 26, 2019

The tug of war for and against continued funding for the wall along the Mexican border led to a second missed paycheck yesterday for furloughed federal workers.

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending January 19, 2019

To quote the Bard, the Trump vs. Pelosi show is “full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” So the partial government shutdown enters a record-breaking fifth week.

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending January 12, 2019

The partial government shutdown enters day 22 and record territory today over the inability of President Trump and Democratic representatives to come to an agreement over funding for a Mexican border wall while the president mulls the possible declaration of a national emergency to fulfill his campaign promise.

6 Reasons to Still Hate Obamacare By Stephen Moore

Remember Obamacare? The fight is far from over on the future of the Obama-era health insurance overhaul. Republicans are making a last-ditch effort this year to turn the program and the money over to the state. This isn't full Obamacare repeal, but it would make a world of sense. States would be free to experiment and find ways to reduce costs and provide better services.   

Reading the Kansas 4 and Georgia 6 Tea Leaves By Michael Barone

What to make of the results of the first two of this spring's special House elections? Start off by putting them in perspective. They pose a challenge to both political parties, but especially to Republicans, who have been used to an unusually stable partisan alignment, an alignment that has become scrambled by Donald Trump.

Should Time Between Election and Inauguration Be Shorter?

President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration is still one day away, even though he officially won the presidency more than two months ago. But voters don’t seem to mind the wait.

White House Watch: Clinton 44%, Trump 40%, Johnson, 6%, Stein 3%

A post-convention bounce appears to have given Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton her biggest lead over Republican rival Donald Trump since June in our latest weekly White House Watch survey. This is the first update that includes both the Libertarian and Green Party candidates.

28% Have Switched Presidential Choice Since January 1

Voters give mixed marks to this year’s primaries and candidate debates, but a sizable number say they’ve changed horses since the first of the year.

Rasmussen Employment Index Slips in January

The Rasmussen Employment Index which measures worker confidence slipped a point in January following two months in a row of six-year highs.

At 103.3, worker confidence is down from December’s 104.2. The index fell to a recent low of 81.2 in October 2013 but gained steadily after that. After the Wall Street meltdown in the fall of 2008, the index fell dramatically, hitting an all-time low of 57.8 in July 2009.

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The survey of 9,364 working Americans was conducted in January 2015 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 1 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.

Obama’s Full-Month Approval Up Another Point in January

When tracking President Obama’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. To look at the longer-term trends, Rasmussen Reports compiles the numbers on a full-month basis, and the results can be seen in the graphics below.  

The president earned a monthly job approval of 49% in January. That’s up a point from December and up two points from the three months prior. It also ties Obama’s high for 2014 reached in February and May. His monthly approval hit a two-year low of 45% in November 2013 during the troubled rollout of the new national health care law.

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Daily tracking results are collected via telephone surveys of 400 likely voters per night. The monthly numbers in this article are based on approximately 12,000 interviews each month with likely voters. The margin of sampling error is less than +/- 1 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence.

6% Think Congress Is Doing A Good or Excellent Job

As Congress heads off on a five-week recess, voters continue to express a very low opinion of the legislators they elect.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just six percent (6%) of Likely U.S. Voters think Congress is doing a good or excellent job, while 63% rate its performance as poor. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

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The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on July 29-30, 2014 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.

6% Rate Congress’s Performance as Good or Excellent

Congress earns its lowest performance ratings in months, while fewer voters than ever think members of Congress actually listen to them.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just six percent (6%) of Likely U.S. Voters think Congress is doing a good or excellent job, its lowest positives since last June. Sixty-three percent (63%) rate Congress' job performance poorly. Still, that's down 12 points from an eight-year high of 75% last November amidst the troubled rollout of the new national health care law. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

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The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on April 15-16, 2014 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.

6% Consider St. Patrick’s Day One of the Most Important Holidays

Few Americans consider St. Patrick’s Day an important holiday, but adults under 40 are much more likely to celebrate it than their elders.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just six percent (6%) of American Adults consider St. Patrick’s Day one of our nation’s most important holidays, while 57% consider it one of the least important. Thirty-four percent (34%) consider today's holiday somewhere in between the two. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

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The survey of 1,000 Adults was conducted on March 13-14, 2014 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.