As Barack Obama’s administration reaches the 100-day mark, partisans and ideologues on both sides are spinning furiously to define what has happened so far and what it means going forward.
Voters tell Rasmussen Reports this about President Obama as he reaches his 100th day in office:
For just the second time in more than five years of daily or weekly tracking, Republicans now lead Democrats in the latest edition of the Generic Congressional Ballot.
If the U.S. economy improves, it seems safe to assume that will be good for President Obama’s job approval ratings. It will probably help congressional ratings as well.
Fifty-seven percent (57%) of Americans say there is a need for more government oversight of the credit card industry, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
Twenty-one percent (21%) of American adults say that the U.S. economy is partially socialist and another five percent (5%) say generally speaking it’s already a socialist economy.
SALT LAKE CITY -- American flags and lush spring grass lined the long drive of a Mormon meetinghouse here in the desert capital of Utah. Television trucks parking outside. Utahans were gathering last week for the funeral of Bill Orton, a Democrat who had represented an especially conservative congressional district in this most Republican state for three terms.
Why do virtually all members of Congress get reelected despite the public's disapproval of the legislative body they serve in? One answer frequently heard in Washington, D.C. is that “people hate Congress but love their own congressman.”
The mantra from the left during the Bush years went something like this: The world is not black and white. Sophisticated minds should seek out different, nuanced opinions.
One-out-of-two (50%) American adults agree that drunk driving laws in the United States are not tough enough, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey. Only eight percent (8%) say the laws are too tough, and 36% believe that they’re about right.
Forty-five percent (45%) of Georgia voters say the state’s next governor will be a Republican, while 38% predict a Democrat will capture that seat, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the Peachtree State.
To be relevant in politics, you need either formal power or a lot of people willing to follow your lead. The governing Republicans in the nation’s capital have lost both on their continuing path to irrelevance.
More than half (57%) of Florida voters say it is at least somewhat likely they would vote for Republican Governor Charlie Crist in the state's United States Senate race in 2010. That figure includes 23% who say they are Very Likely to do so.
Americans are closely divided on whether it’s a good idea to establish a government health insurance company to compete with private health insurance companies.
Fifty-four percent (54%) of Americans say it is at least somewhat likely that Chrysler will once again be a profitable company. However, a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that only 14% believe that the struggling automaker is Very Likely to become profitable.
Seventy-seven percent (77%) of U.S. voters say that they prefer a free market economy over a government-managed economy. That’s up seven points since December.
Americans appear more upbeat about the direction the country is taking in the short term but are growing more pessimistic about its long-term future.
When she was a 13-year-old student at Safford Middle School in Arizona, Savana Redding was strip-searched by school officials in search of -- this is no joke -- ibuprofen. Now she is suing the district and the officials for violating her Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable searches and seizures.
Nearly 100 days into Barack Obama’s presidency, Americans are making a distinction between the man and his policies.
It's tough trying to please people who crave vengeance almost as much as Madame Defarge, the unsparing French revolutionary in Dickens' "Tale of Two Cities."
