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Scott Rasmussen's Number of the Day for January 16, 2025
The Number of the Day columns published on Ballotpedia reflect the views of the author.
January 16, 2025: Twenty-four percent (24%) of voters say their personal finances are getting better. A Napolitan News Service national survey conducted by RMG Research found 33% say their finances are getting worse. The number saying their finances are getting worse has fallen 8 points from 41% since the election.
Since Election Day, Main Street Americans have become much less pessimistic about their own personal finances. Main Street Americans are defined as those who earn less than $150,000 a year, do not have a postgraduate degree, and do not live in an area with a high population density.
In contrast to Main Street Americans, those with at least one of those elite attributes have become less confident about their personal finances since Election Day.
Methodology
The survey of 1,000 registered voters was conducted online by Scott Rasmussen on January 2-3, 2025. Fieldwork for the survey was conducted by RMG Research, Inc. Certain quotas were applied, and the sample was lightly weighted by geography, gender, age, race, education, internet usage, and political party to reasonably reflect the nation’s population of registered voters. Other variables were reviewed to ensure that the final sample is representative of that population. The margin of sampling error for the full sample is +/- 3.1 percentage points.
Scott Rasmussen is the president of RMG Research, Inc.
Survey questions
Are your personal finances getting better or worse these days?
- 5%-Much better
- 19%-Somewhat better
- 42%-About the same
- 22%-Somewhat worse
- 11%-Much worse
- 1%-Not sure
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