What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending September 7, 2024
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports:
- President Biden ended the polling week with a daily job approval of 43%.
- Just two months before Election Day, the race for the White House is now a dead heat, as former President Donald Trump’s lead over Vice President Kamala Harris has shrunk to a single point.
- While Kamala Harris is now disavowing some of President Joe Biden’s unpopular policies, most voters say the vice president shares the blame for his failures – and shares credit for Biden’s successes.
- Tulsi Gabbard used to be a Democratic congresswoman, but she’s a Republican favorite now that she has endorsed Donald Trump.
- Most voters suspect politics was involved in the overestimate of job creation that the federal government recently admitted.
- Vice President Kamala Harris recently came out in favor of building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, but a majority voters see President Donald Trump as more consistent on border security.
- National unemployment was 8.4% in this month’s Rasmussen Reports Real Unemployment update, the same as the rate last month and starkly different from the 4.2% officially reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics today.
- Even as the cost of attending some universities nears $100,000 a year, only about 1-in-5 Americans believe the value of college education has increased.
- The president earned a monthly job approval of 44% in August, unchanged from July.
- The Rasmussen Reports Immigration Index for August decreased to 84.9, down more than three points from 88.5 in July.
- Thirty-six percent (36%) of Likely U.S. Voters think the country is heading in the right direction.
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