What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending January 29, 2022
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports:
- President Biden ended the polling week with a daily job approval of 41%.
- A majority of voters think congressional Democrats are too liberal, and agree with the Senate GOP leader that voters don’t want to “fundamentally transform America.”
- With Russia threatening to invade Ukraine, less than a third of voters want American troops deployed to defend against such an attack.
- Most voters are happy with last week’s defeat of Democrat-backed election reform legislation, and support a GOP senator’s call for a bipartisan bill.
- Voters increasingly see the U.S. economy as being unfair, and think it is especially unfair to blacks and Hispanics.
- A majority of voters expect President Joe Biden to keep his campaign promise to nominate a black woman to the Supreme Court, but they don’t like the idea of choosing justices on the basis of race and gender.
- Fewer Americans approve of how the media are covering the COVID-19 pandemic, and half now think the threat of the virus is being exaggerated.
- American workers are now less optimistic they’ll get a raise soon, but most plan to hold on to the job they’ve got.
- The Rasmussen Reports Immigration Index for the week of January 16-20 2022, The Immigration Index has been under the baseline in every survey since Election Day last year, and reached a record low of 82.3 in late March 2021.
- Twenty-eight percent (28%) of Likely U.S. Voters think the country is heading in the right direction.
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