46% Favor Preferential Hiring Treatment for Veterans
Forty-six percent (46%) of Americans say military veterans should be given preferential treatment in hiring, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
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May 26, 2009
May 26, 2009
Obama's Halfway Change on Stem Cell Research By Froma Harrop
President Obama often tries to defuse divisive debates by talking of "false choices." A false choice implies that by restating the argument, both sides can get what they want.
May 26, 2009
58% Say Economy Forcing Cuts in Their Summer Vacation Spending
The number of Americans who plan to take a summer vacation has held steady from last year despite the worsening economy, but 58% of those vacation goers say economic conditions are forcing them to cut back on their holiday spending.
May 26, 2009
49% Oppose Closing Guantanamo Prison Camp
Forty-nine percent (49%) of voters nationwide now disagree with President Barack Obama’s decision to close the prison camp for suspected terrorists at the Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba.
May 25, 2009
53% Believe Intelligent Life Is Likely On Other Planets
Most of us still think they’re out there.
Fifty-three percent (53%) of U.S. voters say it’s likely that intelligent life exists on other planets, including 28% who say it is Very Likely.
May 25, 2009
53% Believe Intelligent Life Is Likely On Other Planets
Most of us still think they’re out there.
Fifty-three percent (53%) of U.S. voters say it’s likely that intelligent life exists on other planets, including 28% who say it is Very Likely.
May 25, 2009
The Death of Israel By Dick Morris
From Caroline Glick, deputy editor and op-ed writer for the Jerusalem Post, comes alarming news.
May 25, 2009
44% Rank Memorial Day As One of Nation's Most Important Holidays
Forty-four percent (44%) of Americans say Memorial Day, which honors those who gave their lives for our country, is the one of the nation's most important holidays.
May 24, 2009
A Naked Million By Debra J. Saunders
In 1992, after he stopped wearing clothes to his UC Berkeley classes, Andrew Martinez was something of a walking only-in-Bezerkeley joke as the campus' own Naked Guy. But his life was no laughing matter.
May 24, 2009
75% Have Favorable Opinion of U.S. Military This Memorial Day
As the nation prepares to celebrate Memorial Day honoring those who lost their lives in military service, 75% of Americans have a favorable opinion of the U.S. military.
May 23, 2009
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls: Week Ending May 22, 2009
Remember, if it’s in the news, it’s in our polls. And was it ever this week.
May 22, 2009
Rasmussen Reports Daily Prediction Challenge: Guantanamo & Automakers
The daily Rasmussen Reports Prediction Challenge for Friday looks at the Guantanamo prison camp and its threat to national security.
May 22, 2009
Democrats Grow Less Sure About Bipartisanship in Washington
Most U.S. voters (54%) believe politics in Washington will become more partisan over the next year, representing virtually no change from last month.
May 22, 2009
77% See Politicians Unwillingness to Cut Government Spending as Bigger Problem Than Voter Resistance to Tax Hikes
For nearly four-out-of-five U.S. voters, the problem is not their unwillingness to pay taxes. It’s their elected representatives’ refusal to cut the size of government.
May 22, 2009
No Home for Savage By Debra J. Saunders
Britain's Parliament has been mired in a political scandal so damaging that Speaker Michael Martin resigned from office Tuesday. He's the first House speaker to step down in more than 300 years. Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Labour Party is dreading the next election -- which must be held before June 2010 -- as members of Parliament have been snared in a series of Daily Telegraph stories detailing how they filed bogus claims of up to $40,000 to cover their expenses needed to maintain two homes.
May 22, 2009
Cheney and the Iraq-Torture Link By Joe Conason
Defending their record in office these past eight years, figures from the last administration seem especially touchy on the subject of torture. Led by the former vice president, Dick Cheney, they have argued that there was no torture, preferring more vague and delicate terms such as "enhanced interrogation" or simply "the program." They have insisted that any harsh tactics were used only to extract "actionable intelligence" from recalcitrant terrorists in order to save "thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands" of innocent lives.
May 22, 2009
Dick Cheney? By Susan Estrich
Come on, my Republican friends, you can do better than this.
May 22, 2009
Just 24% Favor Federal Bailout for California
Twenty-four percent (24%) of voters nationwide favor federal bailout funds for states like California that are encountering “serious financial problems.” The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 59% are opposed to such bailouts.
May 21, 2009
Why Pelosi Must Go By Dick Morris
It's obvious that either Leon Panetta, Obama's head of the CIA, or Nancy Pelosi, his party's Speaker of the House, has to go. No administration can tolerate a permanent, public civil war between two such high-ranking officials.
May 21, 2009
Only 29% in Minnesota Say Vikings Should Sign Brett Favre
Will he or won’t he? And if he does, will it matter?
