What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending December 18, 2021
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports:
- President Biden ended the polling week with a daily job approval of 41%.
- The 2022 midterm elections are now 327 days away, and Republicans maintain a strong lead in their bid to recapture control of Congress.
- An overwhelming majority of voters are increasingly concerned about violent crime and, by a wide margin
- Fewer than 1-in-4 Maine voters are in favor of an amnesty provision for illegal immigrants in the “Build Back Better” legislation, and most would vote against a member of Congress who supports the measure.
- Nearly two-thirds of voters in New Hampshire oppose an amnesty provision for illegal immigrants in the “Build Back Better” legislation, which is supported by the state’s Democratic senators.
- Fewer than a third of voters have a favorable opinion of Congress, and most don’t support the “Build Back Better” legislation now pending in the Senate.
- Most Americans believe religious faith makes the world a better place, and are overwhelmingly in favor of allowing Christmas celebrations in schools.
- A religious holiday has become an occasion for shopping sales and watching holiday specials on TV, and nearly half of Americans think stores start the Christmas season too soon.
- The Rasmussen Reports Immigration Index for the week of December 5-9, 2021, increased to 87.8 up nearly two points from 86.2 two weeks earlier.
- Thirty-one percent (31%) of Likely U.S. Voters think the country is heading in the right direction.
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