Of the priorities outlined by President Obama earlier this year, Democrats see health care reform as the most important. Other voters tend to see deficit reduction as the priority.
Thirty-five percent (35%) of likely voters believe the United States is heading in the right direction, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi got a bit of reprieve from the voters after a tumultuous August recess for most members of Congress.
Democratic congressional candidates have pulled within one point of Republicans this week in the latest edition of the Generic Ballot.
Sixty-seven percent (67%) of voters nationwide believe Washington politics is likely to become more partisan over the coming year. That figure is up sharply from 55% a month ago and from 40% when President Barack Obama first took office.
Sixty-seven percent (67%) of voters nationwide believe Washington politics is likely to become more partisan over the coming year. That figure is up sharply from 55% a month ago and from 40% when President Barack Obama first took office.
Just 33% of likely voters believe the United States is heading in the right direction, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
Little has changed this week on the Generic Ballot as Republican Congressional candidates continue to hold a seven-point lead over Democrats.
As Congress returns to take up the health care plan fashioned by President Obama and congressional Democrats, voters are evenly divided over which party they trust more to handle the volatile issue.
For the third straight week, just one-third (34%) of likely voters believe the United States is heading in the right direction, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 43% would vote for their district’s Republican congressional candidate while 36% would opt for his or her Democratic opponent.
While August was seen as a bad month politically for President Barack Obama and his party, the number of Americans identifying themselves as Democrats inched up by half a percentage point during that time.
Fifty-five percent (55%) of U.S. voters now expect the war in Afghanistan to get worse during the next six months, a 14-point jump since the beginning of the month. Confidence is also down in America's conduct of the War on Terror.
For the second straight week, just one-third (34%) of likely voters believe the United States is heading in the right direction, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
Seventy percent (70%) of likely voters now favor a government that offers fewer services and imposes lower taxes over one that provides more services with higher taxes, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
This summer brought a significant shift in voter preferences in the Generic Congressional Ballot. As Republican Congressional candidates once again lead Democrats by a 43% to 38% margin this week, this is now the ninth straight ballot the GOP has held a modest advantage.
Forty-nine percent (49%) of U.S. voters say working Americans should be allowed to opt out of Social Security and provide for their own retirement planning.
Only 20% of U.S. voters now say health care reform is the most important of the four budget priorities President Obama laid out early in his presidency, down four points from the end of May.
Just one-third (34%) of likely U.S. voters believe the United States is heading in the right direction, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
More voters than ever rate health care as a very important issue, but the difference in partisan emphasis helps to explain the big Democratic push for health care reform in Washington.
