The Nation Is Catching On!

WOW! Trump approval ratings SOAR past…

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

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President Donald Trump’s approval ratings have soared in recent weeks.

ISIS is crumbling. The Republican’s popular tax cut bill having an effect. The economy and the stock market are booming.

It’s all good news that the mainstream media is ignoring — but not average Americans. Voters are sitting up and taking notice, according to Rassmussen Reports’ daily poll.

On Friday, Feb. 23 — just after Trump’s stirring address to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, D.C. — it was announced that Trump’s approval rating was at 50 percent.

His disapproval rating is 49 percent, giving Trump the first positive approval rating in months.

Former President Barack Obama didn’t have anywhere close to this much widespread support in his first term in office.

Obama enjoyed just a 45 percent approval rating on the same date in his first term in office.

Even establishment insiders that hate Trump have begun predicting his reelection in 2020. Sunday, a former speech writer for George W. Bush wrote an article for the left-leaning Politico warning readers: “Trump is winning.”

The mainstream media may not like it, but it’s nice that they’ve come to terms: America is becoming great again.

That’s a popular notion — and it will lead to six more years of Trump.

— The Horn editorial team

Gun Laws Will Not Decrease Violent Crime By Those Intent On Doing The Deed

Americans Aren’t Convinced Stricter Gun Control Laws Will Decrease Violent Crime

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Thursday, February 22, 2018

In the wake of a school shooting in Parkland, Florida, that left 17 dead, officials and activists are calling for tighter gun control laws. But Americans aren’t convinced stricter gun laws will reduce crime and don’t trust the government to enforce those laws.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 15% of American Adults say stricter gun control laws increase violent crime, while 39% think stricter laws would decrease violent crime. Another 39% believe beefing up the country’s gun control laws would have no impact on violent crime. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

These findings are in line with previous surveys.

Only 24% of Americans trust the government to fairly enforce gun control laws. Fifty-eight percent (58%) lack trust in the government’s ability to enforce those laws, while 18% are not sure.

These findings, too, are little changed from past surveys.

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The survey of 1,000 American Adults was conducted on February 19-20, 2018 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.

Following last week's school shooting in Florida, Americans rate more gun control on the same level with treatment of the mentally ill as the best way to stop incidents of this kind. They also are a lot more concerned about how safe schools are.

Fifty-six percent (56%) of Democrats think stricter gun control laws will decrease violent crime, a view shared by only 22% of Republicans and 35% of adults not affiliated with either political party. A majority (59%) of Republicans feel tighter gun control laws will have no impact on violent crime, but only 26% of Democrats and 37% of unaffiliated Americans agree.

Still, a majority of Republicans (56%), Democrats (61%) and unaffiliated adults (55%) don’t trust the government to fairly enforce gun control laws.

Nearly half (49%) who have a gun in their household say that more gun control laws will have no impact on violent crime. Fifty-four percent (54%) of those who are not gun owners say more laws will decrease violent crime.

Among adults who trust the government to fairly enforce gun control laws, 52% think stricter gun laws will decrease violent crime. Adults who lack trust in the government to enforce gun laws are more evenly divided.

Support for more gun control has ranged from 40% to 56% in surveys since June 2008  and not surprisingly spikes after national tragedies like the Newtown shootings and the massacre last October in Las Vegas.

Sixty-six percent (66%) think the United States needs stricter enforcement of existing gun control laws.

Just 15% of voters believe most politicians raise gun-related issues to address real problems, while most (74%) think politicians publicize their views on these issues to get elected.

The shooter in the Florida incident used an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle. Most voters think there should be a ban on the purchase of semi-automatic and assault-type weapons such as the AR-15.

Fifty-one percent (51%) think it’s too easy to buy a gun in the United States.

Oprah Leads Donald In Polling, However, Her Skeletons (Weinstein) Have Not Hit The News Yet

Oprah vs. The Donald, and The Winner Is…

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Wednesday, January 10, 2018

TV personality Oprah Winfrey is the likely winner over President Trump if the 2020 election were held today, but there are a lot of undecideds.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 48% of Likely U.S. Voters would opt for Winfrey, while 38% would choose Trump. But a sizable 14% are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

Winfrey has the support of 76% of Democrats, 22% of Republicans and 44% of voters not affiliated with either major political party. The president earns 66% of the vote from Republicans, 12% of Democrats and 38% of unaffiliateds.

Twelve percent (12%) of both Republicans and Democrats are undecided given this matchup. One-in-five unaffiliated voters (19%) aren’t sure which candidate they would support.

Fifty-five percent (55%) of all voters view Winfrey favorably, including 27% with a Very Favorable view of the longtime media personality and entrepreneur. That’s little changed from 2011 after Winfrey announced she was ending her TV talk show after 25 years on the air. Thirty-four percent (34%) share an unfavorable view of her, with 18% who have a Very Unfavorable one.

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The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on January 8-9, 2018 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. 

Two-out-of-three Republicans think Trump will be elected to a second term. Among Democrats, 42% predict he will be defeated by their nominee in 2020, but a plurality (45%) thinks he is more likely to be impeached.

Women share a more favorable opinion of Winfrey than men do. Fifty-two percent (52%) of women prefer the TV host in a matchup with Trump, compared to 43% of men.

Those under 40 are far more likely to choose Winfrey over Trump as the nation’s next president than their elders are.

Winfrey leads among whites, blacks and other minority voters but has her widest victory margin among the black community.

Sixty-nine percent (69%) of self-identified conservative voters choose Trump in a matchup with Winfrey. But she leads with 58% support among moderates and 80% of the liberal vote.

Love him or hate him, voters agree Trump is charting the course for the country, and no one else is even close.

Most Democrats think the key to success moving forward is to stonewall Trump, but few Democrats think that strategy has paid off thus far.

Democrats hungry for a challenger with the firepower to match Trump’s in 2020 seized on Winfrey following her impassioned speech about sexual harassment at Sunday night’s Golden Globes ceremony. In mid-November, long before the Oprah boomlet began, former Vice President Joe Biden was the first choice for Democrats in 2020, with Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont a distant second.

Seventy-five percent (75%) of all Americans said in 2011 that Winfrey has been influential in shaping people’s opinions of products and people, with 35% who said she has been Very Influential.

In early December 2016, still reeling from Hillary Clinton’s upset loss to Trump the month before, 72% of Democrats said their party should look for a fresh face to be their nominee.

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Could Americans Be Catching Onto Our Unique President?

WOW! Trump’s approval rating SKY ROCKETS

DECEMBER 28, 2017

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President Donald Trump’s approval rating has followed the stock market’s fate to close out 2017 — up, up, up.

According to Rasmussen Reports latest poll, Trump’s approval rating has gradually risen since Oct. to close out 2017 at a near six-month high.

Trump’s rise is hard to swallow for some. The president’s popularity is the exact opposite of what the mainstream media reports on the White House, which Pew researchers discovered is historically biased and unfair.

“About six-in-ten stories on Trump’s early days in office had a negative assessment, about three times more than in early coverage for Obama and roughly twice that of Bush and Clinton,” Pew found. “Coverage of Trump’s early time in office moved further away from a focus on the policy agenda and more toward character and leadership.” Only five percent of the mainstream media’s coverage of Trump was positive, compared to 42 percent of the media’s coverage on Obama’s job performance.

That’s not all. Compared to Democrat approval ratings, Trump is untouchable.

Only 37% of Americans have a favorable view of Democratic politicians, significantly less than Trump’s 45% approval rating. Meanwhile, a staggering 54% of American voters have an unfavorable opinion of Democrats.

That translates to millions of votes in national elections, which are coming up in 2018.

It turns out the American people are tuning out the media, and tuning into reality. The economy is booming, illegal immigration is near historic lows, ISIS has been defeated, jobs are returning, America is respected again throughout the world, and Hillary Clinton still isn’t president.

Trump’s approval rating reflects that.

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Monday, November 13, 2017

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 46% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Fifty-three percent (53%) disapprove.

The latest figures include 30% who Strongly Approve of the way the president is performing and 44% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -14. (see trends)

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The government jobs report for October showed the hurricane-hit U.S. economy rebounding strongly, with the unemployment rate down now to 4.1%, the lowest level since 2000. We’ll tell you at 10:30 how Americans view the job market these days.

Economic confidence remains high. The latest Rasmussen Reports Consumer Spending Updateshows that Americans are ready to spend for the holidays.

Interestingly, however, while all these indicators have been rising since Trump’s election, voters are evenly divided over whether the economic boom is due to the new president or his predecessor, Barack Obama. 

Find out tomorrow if voters think there will be an economic payoff from Trump’s visit to China.

The Air Force has acknowledged that it failed to alert law enforcement authorities about the violent behavior of the man who massacred 26 people in a Texas church. Such notification would have limited his ability to get firearms. Sixty-six percent (66%) of voters think the United States needs stricter enforcement of existing gun control laws. 

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Alcohol-induced deaths on college campuses are back in the news, and many Americans continue to question whether schools are doing enough to prevent them. 

Fifty-seven percent (57%) approve of keeping the legal drinking age at 21. Twenty-four percent (24%) favor lowering it to 18, the age of most incoming college freshmen.

See “What They Told Us” in surveys last week. 

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Some readers wonder how we come up with our job approval ratings for the president since they often don’t show as dramatic a change as some other pollsters do. It depends on how you ask the question and whom you ask.

To get a sense of longer-term job approval trends for the president, Rasmussen Reports compiles our tracking data on a full month-by-month basis.

Rasmussen Reports has been a pioneer in the use of automated telephone polling techniques, but many other firms still utilize their own operator-assisted technology (see methodology).

Daily tracking results are collected via telephone surveys of 500 likely voters per night and reported on a three-day rolling average basis. To reach those who have abandoned traditional landline telephones, Rasmussen Reports uses an online survey tool to interview randomly selected participants from a demographically diverse panel. The margin of sampling error for the full sample of 1,500 Likely Voters is +/- 2.5 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Results are also compiled on a full-week basis and crosstabs for full-week results are available for Platinum Members.