48% Say It’s Too Easy To Sue Doctors, 44% Favor Caps on Jury Awards
Forty-eight percent (48%) of U.S. voters say it is too easy to sue a doctor for medical malpractice in the United States today.
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June 17, 2009
June 17, 2009
The Fourth Estate By Susan Estrich
Matt Drudge is obviously not happy: "ABC TURNS PROGRAMMING OVER TO OBAMA; NEWS TO BE ANCHORED FROM INSIDE WHITE HOUSE," his headline screams, in even bigger type than that.
June 17, 2009
Just 31% Say America Will Be On Top At End of the Century
Voters have very mixed feelings about America’s place in the world in the years ahead.
June 17, 2009
A Fine Madness in the Washington Air By Tony Blankley
To borrow Niall Ferguson's metaphor, if finance is an evolutionary process, then regulation is its intelligent design -- which, I would add, is a cognate of faith, not science.
June 16, 2009
Rasmussen Reports Daily Prediction Challenge: Car Dealerships
The daily Rasmussen Reports Prediction Challenge for Tuesday focuses on General Motors and Chrysler dealerships.
June 16, 2009
Generic Ballot Remains a Tie for Second Straight Week
Democratic and Republican candidates are tied for the second straight week in the latest edition of the Generic Congressional Ballot.
June 16, 2009
64% Say Comedians Shouldn't Joke about Children of Public Figures
The feud between late-night talk show host David Letterman and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is no laughing matter. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telelphone survey finds that nearly two-thirds of American adults (64%) say it’s inappropriate for comedians like Letterman to joke about the children of public figures.
June 16, 2009
80% Want Government To Sell Stake In GM, Chrysler Right Now
Eighty percent (80%) of U.S. voters want the government to sell its stake in General Motors and Chrysler as soon as possible.
June 16, 2009
Deficit Worry Is the Greenest Shoot By Froma Harrop
Never mind firmer retail sales, rising stock prices and moderating job losses. The greenest shoot is Americans' changing economic fixation. There's less panic over collapsing banks, home foreclosures and the prospect of another Great Depression. Attention has moved to budget deficits and the resulting federal debt. These are worries of a more stable time, when people had the luxury of looking at the long-term.
June 16, 2009
When Detainees Get Rights They Don't Deserve By Michael Barone
It shouldn't come as a complete surprise that, as Stephen Hayes reported in The Weekly Standard, detainees in Afghanistan are now being advised of their Miranda rights by American interrogators -- that they have a right to be silent, a right to a lawyer, a right to have that lawyer paid for, etc.
June 16, 2009
Most Americans Are Concerned About Gas Prices But Not Enough to Stop Taking Their Own Car To Work
The vast majority of Americans drive to work, but even the threat of higher gas prices doesn’t seem to be encouraging them much to carpool, take public transportation or buy an energy-efficient hybrid car.
June 15, 2009
Rasmussen Reports Daily Prediction Challenge: Cap for Medical Malpractice Lawsuits
The daily Rasmussen Reports Prediction Challenge for Monday focuses on medical malpractice lawsuits.
June 15, 2009
North Korea Now Tops List of Threats to U.S. National Security
U.S. voters are becoming increasingly concerned about North Korea's development of nuclear weapons and its long-range missile capabilities. In the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey, 38% think North Korea is the biggest threat to U.S. national security, surpassing Iran by a more than two-to-one margin on voters' worry list.
June 15, 2009
Defending America’s First Amendment By Howard Rich
As limited government advocates fight to preserve individual liberties amid the onrush of President Barack Obama’s “Era of Obscenely Big Government,” one fundamental American freedom that we must be increasingly vigilant in protecting is the freedom of speech.
June 15, 2009
83% Now Say More U.S. Troops Likely in Afghanistan
Voters for now rule out the idea of negotiating directly with the Islamic fundamentalist Taliban in Afghanistan and feel more strongly that President Obama will have to send more U.S. troops there.
June 15, 2009
41% Favor Public Sector Health Care Option, 41% Disagree
Forty-one percent (41%) of American adults believe it would be a good idea to set up a government health insurance company to compete with private health insurance companies. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that an identical number (41%) disagree.
June 15, 2009
51% Say More Government Regulation Likely To Help Reduce Smoking
Fifty-one percent (51%) of Americans say more government regulation of tobacco is at least somewhat likely to reduce the number of smokers in this country. That figure includes 18% who say it is very likely to do so.
June 14, 2009
Armed and Extreme, but Buried in Briefs By Debra J. Saunders
After the shooting deaths of abortion provider Dr. George Tiller last month and security guard Stephen T. Johns at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum last week, I knew it was only a matter of time before I would receive an e-mail like one sent from Ann Pinkerton of Oakland:
June 13, 2009
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls: Week Ending June 12, 2009
To paraphrase an old slogan in Washington, D.C., government is on the grow these days - whether voters like it or not.
