NJ Governor: Christie Leads Corzine by Nine
New Jersey’s Democratic Governor Jon S. Corzine, who hopes to win a second term in November, has now fallen behind Republican challenger Christopher J. Christie by 15 points – 49% to 34%.
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May 14, 2009
May 13, 2009
NJ GOP Primary: Christie 39%, Lonegan 29%
With less than three weeks to go until New Jersey Republicans select their nominee for governor, Chris Christie attracts 39% of the state's GOP voters while Steve Lonegan earns 29%.
May 7, 2009
Texas Governor’s Primary A Toss-Up
Texas Governor Rick Perry and Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison find themselves essentially tied in an early look at their 2010 Primary battle.
April 27, 2009
GOP’s Oxendine is Early Front-runner in Georgia Governor’s Race
Forty-five percent (45%) of Georgia voters say the state’s next governor will be a Republican, while 38% predict a Democrat will capture that seat, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the Peachtree State.
April 24, 2009
Republicans Give Romney Edge Over Gingrich
Both men reportedly have their eyes on the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, but right now Mitt Romney, who ran unsuccessfully last year, has the edge over former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, one of the GOP’s most formidable strategists.
April 24, 2009
Pennsylvania Senate Primary: Toomey 51% Specter 30%
Incumbent Senator Arlen Specter trails former Congressman Pat Toomey by 21 points in an early look at Pennsylvania’s 2010 Republican Primary. Fifty-one percent (51%) of Republican voters statewide say they’d vote for Toomey while just 30% would support Specter.
April 16, 2009
GOP’s McDonnell Pulls Further Ahead in Virginia Governor’s Race
Republican Attorney General Robert F. McDonnell has a three-to-nine point lead against three hopefuls for the Democratic nomination in this year’s closely-watched Virginia gubernatorial contest.
March 12, 2009
Corzine Falls Further Behind in New Jersey Reelection Bid
New Jersey’s Democratic Governor Jon S. Corzine, who hopes to win a second term in November, has now fallen behind Republican challenger Christopher J. Christie by 15 points – 49% to 34%.
March 12, 2009
Boxer Leads Schwarzenegger, Fiorina in 2010 Senate Race
Democratic incumbent Barbara Boxer leads two potential Republican challengers in an early look at California’s 2010 race for the U.S. Senate.
February 5, 2009
GOP’s McDonnell Has Edge Over All Democrats In Virginia Governor’s Race
Republican Attorney General Robert F. McDonnell has a three-to-nine point lead against three hopefuls for the Democratic nomination in this year’s closely-watched Virginia gubernatorial contest.
January 17, 2009
California Governor: Brown 40% Whitman 38%
The race may be nearly two years away, but early match-ups for the 2010 gubernatorial election in California show that it's likely to be a close one.
January 15, 2009
New Jersey Governor: Christie 42%, Corzine 40%
Former U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Christie, the latest Republican to enter the New Jersey gubernatorial race, has a slight lead over Democratic incumbent Jon S. Corzine in a new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of voters in the state.
December 30, 2008
Stability Was The Hallmark of Election 2008
The beginning and the end of the 2008 General Election campaign were remarkably stable. Initially, after Barack Obama wrapped up the Democratic nomination, he was ahead of John McCain by four to seven points just about every night for the entire month of June. At the other end of the campaign, Obama was consistently up by about five to seven points for the last 40 days of the campaign.
December 29, 2008
Revisiting the Democratic Primaries: Analysis by Scott Rasmussen
With the country preparing to inaugurate Barack Obama as the next president of the United States next month, it’s hard to remember how improbable the notion of a President Obama seemed just a year ago. In fact, all indications are that Obama himself wasn’t really expecting to win it all in 2008.
December 8, 2008
Governor’s Race Is Wide Open In Virginia
The election is 11 months away, but the four leading candidates for the next governor of Virginia are neck-and-neck at this point, with one-third of voters in the state not aware of any of them enough to even an opinion about them.
December 5, 2008
67% of Minnesota Voters Expect Coleman to Win
Sixty-seven percent (67%) of Minnesota voters now expect incumbent Republican Norm Coleman to beat Democrat Al Franken in the state’s U.S. Senate race, according to a new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in Minnesota taken Thursday night.
December 4, 2008
Pennsylvania Senate: Specter 46% Matthews 43%
Republican Senator Arlen Specter is potentially vulnerable in his 2010 bid for re-election. A Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Pennsylvania voters finds Specter leading MSNBC pundit Chris Matthews by just three percentage points, 46% to 43%, in a match-up that may foreshadow one of the nation's most closely-watched Senate races.
November 7, 2008
69% of GOP Voters Say Palin Helped McCain
Sixty-nine percent (69%) of Republican voters say Alaska Governor Sarah Palin helped John McCain’s bid for the presidency, even as news reports surface that some McCain staffers think she was a liability.
November 6, 2008
Voters Split Over Whether D.C. Politics Will Be More Cooperative
Nearly nine out of 10 voters (88%) are glad the presidential election is over, but voters are evenly divided over whether politics in Washington will become more cooperative despite Barack Obama’s call for change from business as usual.
November 6, 2008
How Did We Do?
The final Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Election 2008 showed Barack Obama leading John McCain 52% to 46%. We are pleased to report that those figures precisely matched the actual election returns.
