By a two-to-one margin, voters in Colorado oppose the U.S. Department of Justice’s challenge of the recently enacted immigration law in Arizona. Similarly, voters in the state favor such legislation in their own state by the same margin.
Like Americans across the country, voters in Illinois aren’t too optimistic about economic conditions in the United States.
Just 27% of Likely Voters in Florida say the $787 billion dollar economic stimulus plan enacted by Congress and President Obama last year helped the economy.
While a majority of Pennsylvania voters believe offshore oil drilling should be permitted, not nearly as many support deepwater drilling.
Although the plurality of Illinois voters feel the $787 billion economic stimulus plan enacted last year by Congress and the president helped the economy, the plurality doesn’t believe it created new jobs.
Just 28% of Florida voters agree with the U.S. Department of Justice’s decision to challenge the legality of Arizona’s recently enacted immigration law.
Fifty-seven percent (57%) of Likely Voters in Pennsylvania favor an immigration law similar to the one passed in Arizona in their state, according to a recent Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey. Twenty-eight percent (28%) oppose such a law.
West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin thinks there should be a special election to replace the late Robert Byrd in the U.S. Senate, and a solid majority of the state’s voters agree with him.
Sixty percent (60%) of voters in Pennsylvania now disapprove of the job Democrat Ed Rendell is doing as governor, the highest level of disapproval measured since early October 2009.
In the face of strong voter opposition to tax cuts of any kind, New York’s state legislature continues to resist efforts to cut the budget down to size, forcing Governor David Paterson to veto what little he can to reduce the sticker shock for voters.
Forty-seven percent (47%) of New York voters favor passage of an immigration law like Arizona’s in their state, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the Empire State.
Arizona legislators are already being criticized for another tough measure they are considering to combat illegal immigration – denying birth certificates to children born to illegal immigrants in the state.
Seventy-four percent (74%) of Louisiana voters now approve of the job being done by Governor Bobby Jindal, a 10-point jump from April for the already–popular chief executive.
Even as oil washes up on their shores from the still-spewing oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, 79% of Louisiana voters believe offshore oil drilling should be allowed, and nearly as many support deepwater drilling.
Sixty-nine percent (69%) of Likely Voters in Texas believe the military should be sent to the Mexican border to prevent illegal immigration, according to a new Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey.
Seventy percent (70%) of Likely Voters in Texas now say offshore oil drilling should be allowed, according to a new Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey.
Thirty-five percent (35%) of Likely Voters in New York now approve of the job Governor David Paterson is doing, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey.
New York voters are slightly less supportive of offshore oil drilling than their peers nationally.
New Jersey voters are now evenly divided over whether Senator Robert Menendez should be recalled from office, with support for recall unchanged from two months ago.
Most New Jersey voters still approve of the job that Governor Chris Christie is doing, and he earns solid support for his handling of the state’s contentious budget situation.
