What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending July 22, 2011
Economic confidence was down, down, down this week, and therein, for now at least, lies the tale of the next presidential election.
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July 23, 2011
July 16, 2011
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending July 15, 2011
President Obama continues to insist that tax increases be part of any deal to raise the federal debt ceiling before he agrees to the level of spending cuts Republicans are seeking. But most voters don’t see it that way.
July 9, 2011
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending July 9, 2011
There was more bad news on the unemployment front Friday, and Americans continue to express little optimism that the elected officials they have now will be able to do anything about it. They also strongly question the national security direction the country has taken.
July 2, 2011
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending July 2, 2011
As the United States prepares to celebrate its 235th birthday, Americans still overwhelmingly agree with the ideals set forth in the Declaration of Independence. Ninety percent (90%) agree that “we are all endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights, among them life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” Americans also strongly support the beliefs that we are all created equal and the government’s derive their only just authority from the consent of the governed. Men tend to be stronger supporters of these views than women, but majorities of just about all demographic groups agree.
June 25, 2011
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending June 25, 2011
Americans appear more pessimistic about the economy than they have been in months and also express little confidence that their elected leaders will do anything about it.
June 18, 2011
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending June 18, 2011
For the third week in a row, a generic Republican candidate edges President Obama in a hypothetical 2012 matchup, but the race to become the GOP candidate remains wide open.
June 11, 2011
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending June 10, 2011
Money did the talking in a lot of our surveys this past week. Just days after the government's announcement that unemployment has risen to 9.1%, short- and long-term confidence in the U.S. economy are at the lowest levels of the Obama presidency.
June 4, 2011
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending June 3, 2011Week
The government announced on Friday that the nation’s unemployment rate rose to 9.1% in May, dashing high-level hopes of an economic recovery in the near future. But most Americans aren’t surprised.
May 28, 2011
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending May 28, 2011
Voters still seem to share Ronald Reagan’s view that government is the problem, not the solution.
May 21, 2011
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending May 21, 2011
There was more muddle in the Middle East as the week came to a close.
May 14, 2011
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending May 13, 2011
President Obama received a bounce in the polls following the bin Laden news, but over this past week, the bounce has largely faded. The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll shows that the president’s ratings have slipped back into the high 40s, right where they’ve been for most of the past year-and-a-half. The number who Strongly Disapprove of the president remains a bit lower than it was before the big news and enthusiasm for the president is up among his base voters.
May 7, 2011
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending May 7, 2011
Osama bin Laden went down, and President Obama has gone up – in the polls, that is.
April 30, 2011
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending April 29, 2011
The names have it. At this stage of the presidential campaign process, name-recognition is what it’s largely all about.
April 23, 2011
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending April 22, 2011
It was a week for looking back, but when Americans did look ahead, they didn’t like much of what they saw.
April 16, 2011
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending April 16, 2011
Talk, talk, talk. That’s apparently all voters expect out of Washington, DC, because they don’t anticipate serious budget solutions any time soon.
April 9, 2011
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending April 9, 2011
It’s the economy, stupid. Remember that one? It was the political mantra that propelled Bill Clinton into the White House. President Obama would do well to remember it now that he’s declared his candidacy for a second term.
April 2, 2011
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending April 2, 2011
With America bogged down in Afghanistan, the nation’s longest-running war, President Obama made a nationally televised address Monday night to explain his decision to use U.S. military forces in Libya, too.
March 26, 2011
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending March 25, 2011
Americans began the week finding themselves in military action in yet another Islamic country.
March 19, 2011
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending March 18, 2011
Much of America’s focus this past week has been on events across the Pacific and what they mean here at home.
March 12, 2011
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending March 11, 2011
Americans don’t much like the way things are going these days.
