68% Oppose Year-Round Schooling
Communities across the country have been toying with the idea of shifting to year-round schooling for educational and budget reasons, but 68% of Americans oppose extending the school year to a 12-month calendar.
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August 5, 2009
August 4, 2009
Generic Ballot: Republicans 43%, Democrats 38%
Support for Republican and Democratic congressional candidates changed little this week in the latest edition of the Generic Ballot.
August 4, 2009
53% Have Favorable Opinion of Clinton
Fifty-three percent (53%) of U.S. voters have a favorable opinion of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. That figure includes 30% with a Very Favorable view of the former U.S. senator and first lady.
August 4, 2009
Clinton 51%, Palin 39%
If America elects a woman president soon, right now her name appears to be Hillary Clinton.
August 4, 2009
54% Oppose More Money for ‘Cash for Clunkers’ Program
Fifty-four percent (54%) of Americans oppose any further funding for the federal “cash for clunkers” program which encourages the owners of older cars to trade them in for newer, more fuel-efficient ones.
August 4, 2009
Rasmussen Reports Daily Prediction Challenge: Swine Flu
The daily Rasmussen Reports Prediction Challenge for Monday focuses on the tax cuts.
August 4, 2009
Cash for Clunkers Means 'Ca-Ching' for Detroit By Froma Harrop
This is what I told my friend Frank: Under the "cash for clunkers" program, you could get more money for your '93 Mercury Grand Marquis than it was worth -- up to $4,500 if you used it to buy a new vehicle with much better gas mileage.
August 4, 2009
71% Oppose Teacher Pay Cuts and Furloughs To Help Budgets
Only 17% of Americans say teachers should be asked to take furloughs or pay cuts to help deal with the budget crises that are facing many school systems nationwide.
August 3, 2009
Rasmussen Reports Daily Prediction Challenge: Tax Cuts
The daily Rasmussen Reports Prediction Challenge for Monday focuses on the tax cuts.
August 3, 2009
Only 22% Expect Things To Improve in Afghanistan
In a survey taken just before North Korea conducted a series of Fourth of July missile tests, 38% of likely voters say the rogue Communist nation remains the biggest threat to U.S. national security.
August 3, 2009
28% Say U.S. Will Be Number One At End of Century, 37% Disagree
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 37% say America will not be the world’s most powerful nation by then, and nearly as many (35%) are not sure.
August 3, 2009
54% Say Tax Hikes Bad for the Economy
Just 16% of U.S. voters believe that tax increases help the economy. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds most voters (54%) say tax increases hurt the economy, a number that has been fairly consistent for more than a decade. Fourteen percent (14%) say tax increases have no impact, and 16% are not sure.
August 3, 2009
Confidence in U.S. Health Care System Has Grown in Recent Months
Forty-eight percent (48%) of U.S. voters now rate the U.S. health care system as good or excellent. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that just 19% rate it as poor.
August 3, 2009
Beware the High Cost of Unintended Consequences By Michael Barone
A teachable moment last Thursday night -- no, I'm not referring to the beer-in-the-garden session featuring Professor Henry Gates and Sgt. James Crowley and the shirtsleeved president and vice president. We didn't learn anything more about the Gatesgate controversy except that only the least experienced of these four men -- Sgt. Crowley -- was the only one willing to speak at length before the cameras.
August 2, 2009
Keep Life Without Parole, Life After Death By Debra J. Saunders
Because courts can sentence murderers to life without parole, why not get rid of the death penalty? It's a frequent question posed by readers and advocates who oppose the death penalty. For years, my answer has been: If death-penalty opponents ever succeed in eliminating capital punishment, their next target for elimination will be life without parole --or as lawyers call it, LWOP.
August 1, 2009
Partisan Trends: Democrats Down Two Points in July
The number of Americans identifying themselves as Democrats fell by two percentage points in July with Republicans and the number of unaffiliateds each gaining a point.
August 1, 2009
Most Oppose Cash for Clunkers, but Many Willing to Take the Money if Offered
A Rasmussen Reports survey conducted in mid-June showed that 17% of Americans were Very Likely to take advantage of the “Cash for Clunkers” program. Another 18% said they were Somewhat Like to do so.
August 1, 2009
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending August 1, 2009
President Obama had perhaps his roughest week yet as Congress put his chief legislative initiative on hold and he tried to put an unexpected racial controversy to rest with the so-called “beer summit.”
August 1, 2009
Are The Top Journalists Insiders Or Outsiders? By Larry Sabato
Something truly astonishing appeared in a Washington Post column on July 25, 2009. It was written by Frank Mankiewicz, former press secretary to Senator Robert F. Kennedy (D-NY) and the man who is perhaps most widely remembered for announcing RFK's death in June 1968. Mankiewicz was also the political director of Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern's losing 1972 campaign. The column contained a two-fold revelation about the just-deceased Walter Cronkite, the longtime CBS News anchorman. Here are the disclosures, in Mankiewicz' own words:
July 31, 2009
48% Say Obama Is Very Liberal
Seventy-six percent (76%) of U.S. voters now think President Obama is at least somewhat liberal. Forty-eight percent (48%) say he is very liberal, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
