What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls Ending June 5, 2010
Oil and water don’t mix, and Americans made that quite clear this past week as the massive oil rig leak continues to pollute the Gulf of Mexico.
Oil and water don’t mix, and Americans made that quite clear this past week as the massive oil rig leak continues to pollute the Gulf of Mexico.
From Kandahar to the banks of the Rio Grande - as we approached the Memorial Day weekend, a lot of the talk in our surveys was about the U.S. military.
Tuesday was a big day for American political junkies with a number of key primaries on the agenda. In Pennsylvania, Arlen Specter was defeated in the Democratic Party. A year earlier, he had left the Republican Party after a Rasmussen Reports poll showed he couldn’t win that party’s primary competition. Specter led the Democratic Primary until a month ago when Rasmussen Reports was the first to show that Joe Sestak had caught him. The final Rasmussen poll in the race showed Sestak winning by five. He won by eight.
It’s moment of truth time again. Or more accurately this coming Tuesday is primary day in Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Arkansas and Oregon.
Politically speaking, a couple things got clearer this past week, while others just got murkier.
Arizona’s unhappiness with the federal government’s continuing failure to secure the border with Mexico finally prompted the state to pass a bill authorizing local police to enforce federal immigration law.
Now that Congress has finished the health care debate, the Obama administration is turning its attention to the financial industry.
For some people, no means yes.
Fresh off his health care victory, President Obama is moving ahead on a number of other fronts, whether the public’s with him or not.
Following passage of health care legislation in Congress, the reviews are starting to come in. From the White House perspective, the results are mixed at best.
How long can Americans hold a thought? That will be the political test for the next seven-and-a-half months.
Here it comes, ready or not.
Are national Democrats on a kamikaze mission to pass their health care reform plan and destroy themselves at the polls in November? That’s what it seems like to many political commentators, and our latest numbers here at Rasmussen Reports aren't too encouraging for the president's party at this point.
Spring’s not far away, but for many Americans, it’s going to be winter for a lot longer than that it says on the calendar.
President Obama and congressional Democrats seem to be doing everything in their power to revive their national health care plan, but the public still isn’t buying.
Fix it or throw it out. Americans seem to be in that kind of mood these days.
“A plague on both your houses,” Shakespeare famously wrote in “Romeo and Juliet.” That seems to be the primary message voters are sending these days.
Democrats aren’t the only ones with problems this political season.
Is it really over?
Is it really over?