What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending July 30, 2016
The national political conventions are over. Now the real dirty work begins.
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July 30, 2016
July 28, 2016
White House Watch: Clinton 43%, Trump 42%
Apparently conventions don’t mean much. The major party nominees remain deadlocked in our latest weekly White House Watch survey.
July 26, 2016
Nevada: Trump 43%, Clinton 38%, Johnson 8%
Following last week’s Republican National Convention, Donald Trump has a slight lead over his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in the key state of Nevada.
July 26, 2016
Nevada Senate: Heck (R) 46%, Cortez Masto (D) 37%
Republican Joe Heck holds a nine-point lead over Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto in our first look at the race to replace retiring U.S. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid.
July 25, 2016
24% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Twenty-four percent (24%) of Likely U.S. Voters think the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey for the week ending July 21.
July 23, 2016
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending July 23, 2016
Just 21% of U.S. voters think the country is headed in the right direction, the lowest finding in nearly three years of surveying. No wonder, with cops being shot, racial tension growing, terrorist incidents increasing here and abroad, the economy bumbling along and the two major political parties nominating presidential candidates whom a lot of Americans suspect don’t have the answers.
July 21, 2016
White House Watch: Trump 43%, Clinton 42%
Hillary Clinton has rebounded into a virtual tie with Donald Trump in Rasmussen Reports’ latest White House Watch survey.
July 18, 2016
Three-year Low: 21% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Twenty-one percent (21%) of Likely U.S. Voters think the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey for the week ending July 14.
July 16, 2016
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending July 16, 2016
The national political conventions begin next week, with Trump up, Clinton down and Obama still hanging in there.
July 14, 2016
White House Watch: Trump 44%, Clinton 37%
Just days before the Republican National Convention is expected to formally nominate him for president, Donald Trump has taken his largest lead yet over Hillary Clinton.
July 11, 2016
26% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Twenty-six percent (26%) of Likely U.S. Voters think the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey for the week ending July 7.
July 9, 2016
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending July 9, 2016
The presidential race remains too close to call, even with a third-party candidate in the mix, and now we can add the murder of five Dallas police officers to the issues weighing on voters’ minds.
July 8, 2016
Voters Still Down on Congress
Voters still don't think much of Congress, and that includes the members they elect themselves.
July 7, 2016
White House Watch: Trump 42%, Clinton 40%
The presidential race has grown a bit tighter in this week’s White House Watch survey.
July 5, 2016
Obama's Full-Month Approval Remains At Recent High
When tracking President Obama’s job approval on a daily basis , people sometimes get so caught up in the day-to-day fluctuations that they miss the bigger picture. To look at the longer-term trends, Rasmussen Reports compiles the numbers on a full-month basis, and the results can be seen in the graphics below.
July 4, 2016
29% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Twenty-nine percent (29%) of Likely U.S. Voters think the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey for the week ending June 30.
That’s unchanged from last week and up three points from the previous week just after the terrorist massacre at an Orlando nightclub. Thirty percent (30%) or more said the country is heading the right way for five out of the first seven weeks this year after tracking in the mid-20s nearly every week during the second half of last year. But the weekly finding has now been back in the 20s since mid-February.
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The national telephone survey of 2,500 Likely Voters was conducted by Rasmussen Reports from June 26-30, 2016. The margin of sampling error for the survey is +/- 2 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.
July 2, 2016
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending July 2, 2016
Is Hillary Clinton in hotter water at week’s end?
June 30, 2016
White House Watch: Trump 43%, Clinton 39%
The tables have turned in this week’s White House Watch. After trailing Hillary Clinton by five points for the prior two weeks, Donald Trump has now taken a four-point lead.
June 27, 2016
29% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Twenty-nine percent (29%) of Likely U.S. Voters think the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey for the week ending June 23.
June 27, 2016
Voters Still Value Cost Reduction Over Universal Health Care Coverage
House Republicans last week unveiled a long awaited proposal for an alternative health care law to replace Obamacare that would, among other things, eliminate the health insurance requirement and aim to reduce health care costs. Most voters still say lowering costs is more important than universal coverage.
