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May 30, 2017

Confidence in High School Graduates Remains Low

It's just about graduation time for many high school seniors in this country, but most voters still don't think those graduates are ready for college or the workforce.

May 29, 2017

37% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction

Thirty-seven percent (37%) 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 25.   

May 27, 2017

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending May 27, 2017

Most of the major news came from abroad this week, as Donald Trump made his first foreign trip as president and England suffered the deadliest terror attack on its soil since 2005.

May 22, 2017

34% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction

Thirty-four percent (34%) 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 18.  

May 20, 2017

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending May 20, 2017

Americans appear to be buying some of the allegations against President Trump despite the lack of any hard evidence so far. Predictably, however, as with most things Trump, there’s an enormous partisan difference of opinion.

May 16, 2017

Voters Still Support Allowing Health Insurance To Be Sold Across State Lines

There’s even stronger support for House Republicans’ proposal to allow Americans to purchase health insurance across state lines, but voters remain divided on proposed reforms for medical liability and malpractice.

May 15, 2017

37% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction

Thirty-seven percent (37%) 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 11.  

May 13, 2017

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending May 13, 2017

Given the passage of the Republican bill to repeal and replace Obamacare in the House last week, one might have thought that health care would dominate the headlines this week. But news moves fast in the Trump administration.

May 10, 2017

Voters Like Their Health Care, But Still Want Law Fixes

As President Trump and the Republicans’ new health care plan makes its way through the Senate, voters admit they like the health care they’re currently receiving but still see the need to fix Obamacare.

May 8, 2017

39% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction

Thirty-nine percent (39%) 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 4.  

May 6, 2017

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending May 6, 2017

The unemployment rate on Friday fell to a 10-year low, but Americans still suspect there’s more to be done.

May 2, 2017

Trump’s Approval Slips Slightly in April

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. To look at the longer-term trends, Rasmussen Reports compiles the numbers on a full-month basis, and the results for Trump’s presidency can be seen in the graphics below.

May 1, 2017

38% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction

Thirty-eight percent (38%) 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 April 27.  

April 29, 2017

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending April 29, 2017

Today marks the 100th day of Donald Trump’s presidency. It’s an unofficial and somewhat arbitrary marker held over from the FDR presidency, but one the media and presidential administrations fixate on nonetheless.

April 24, 2017

42% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction

Forty-two percent (42%) 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 April 20.  

April 22, 2017

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending April 22, 2017

America First was high on the Trump administration’s agenda this past week.

April 17, 2017

41% 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 April 13.  

April 15, 2017

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending April 15, 2017

Foreign policy dominated the news cycle for the second straight week, thanks to the chilling relations between the United States and Russia, escalating tensions with North Korea and the U.S. decision to drop the biggest ever conventional bomb on an ISIS enclave in eastern Afghanistan.

April 10, 2017

36% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction

Thirty-six percent (36%) 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 April 6.  

April 8, 2017

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending April 8, 2017

President Trump ended the week with a bang – first with an airstrike against a Syrian military airfield suspected of launching a chemical weapons attack and then with the confirmation of his first U.S. Supreme Court nominee.