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June 5, 2010

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.

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May 29, 2010

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending May 29, 2010

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.

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May 22, 2010

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending May 21, 2010

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.

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May 15, 2010

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Ending May 14, 2010

It’s moment of truth time again. Or more accurately this coming Tuesday is primary day in Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Arkansas and Oregon.

 

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May 8, 2010

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Ending May 8, 2010

Politically speaking, a couple things got clearer this past week, while others just got murkier.

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May 1, 2010

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending April 30, 2010

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.

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April 24, 2010

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Ending April 24, 2010

Now that Congress has finished the health care debate, the Obama administration is turning its attention to the financial industry.

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April 10, 2010

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Ending April 9, 2010

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.

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April 3, 2010

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Ending April 3, 2010

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.

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March 27, 2010

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - March 27, 2010

How long can Americans hold a thought? That will be the political test for the next seven-and-a-half months.

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March 13, 2010

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Ending March 13, 2010

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.

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March 6, 2010

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Ending on March 6, 2010

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.

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February 27, 2010

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending February 27, 2010

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.

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February 20, 2010

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending February 19, 2010

Fix it or throw it out. Americans seem to be in that kind of mood these days.

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February 13, 2010

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending February 12, 2010

“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.

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February 6, 2010

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls: February 6, 2010

Democrats aren’t the only ones with problems this political season.