Public criticism of President Obama’s health care reform plan and other actions may be growing, but most U.S. voters continue to blame the country’s economic problems on the recession that began under his predecessor, George W. Bush.
President Obama on Monday declared U.S. military action in Afghanistan as a “war of necessity,” and just 33% of voters believe it is even somewhat likely that U.S. combat troops will be removed from that country by the end of the president’s first term. Only eight percent (8%) say it is very likely.
Statements by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer in a recent article in USA Today are aimed at assuring Americans that their access to quality care will be even greater under the health care reform plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats.
Republican hopeful Mark Kirk finds himself starting out even in a Senate race against his likeliest Democratic competitor, State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias.
Thirty-five percent (35%) of American voters say passage of the bill currently working its way through Congress would be better than not passing any health care reform legislation this year.
The second week of August turned into one of the toughest yet for the still new Obama Administration.
For nearly one-out-of-three voters (32%), Jimmy Carter is the living ex-president who has done the best job since leaving the White House, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
President Barack Obama recently suggested that immigration reform might be on the legislative agenda for early 2010. But, most voters don’t see passage of legislation as likely.
Uncomfortable town hall meetings are just the tip of the iceberg for Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter. He now trails Republican Pat Toomey by double digits in his bid for reelection next year and is viewed unfavorably by a majority of the state’s voters.
Senator Arlen Specter leads Congressman Joe Sestak by 13 percentage points in an early look at the 2010 Democratic Senatorial Primary in Pennsylvania. In June, Specter had a 19-point lead.
Forty-two percent (42%) of Pennsylvania voters favor the health care reform plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. The latest Rasmussen Reports survey of voters in the state finds that 53% are opposed.
President Obama on Monday concluded a mini-summit with the presidents of Canada and Mexico, but Americans don’t look too kindly on what their neighbors had at the top of their agendas.
Former President Bill Clinton was in the news again last week, gaining the release of two American reporters from North Korea, and 26% of U.S. voters now say they have a better opinion of Clinton since he left office in January 2001.
Both are developing nuclear weapons and refuse to listen to the United Nations and other international mediators who are trying to talk them out of it. They’re also the nations that sizable majorities of Americans consider to be the biggest enemies of the United States.
The United States has been the world’s sole superpower since the fall of the Soviet Union in the early ‘90s, but as far as most Americans are concerned, we haven’t made any new friends since then.
Public support for the health care reform plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats has fallen to a new low as just 42% of U.S. voters now favor the plan. That’s down five points from two weeks ago.
Republican candidate Robert F. McDonnell has opened a nine-point lead over Democrat R. Creigh Deeds in the race for governor in Virginia.
Forty-five percent (45%) of U.S. voters now give President Obama good or excellent marks on leadership, down three points from last month and down 19 points from when he took office in January, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
Thirty-two percent (32%) of voters nationwide favor a single-payer health care system where the federal government provides coverage for everyone. A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 57% are opposed to a single-payer plan.
The United States still has a long way to go building friendships in the Middle East despite President Obama’s highly-publicized outreach to the Muslim world.
