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April 14, 2009

Predict Our Poll Results: Summer Gas Prices

From April 14-15, 2008, Rasmussen Reports will ask 1,000 adults how high gas prices will go this summer. We’d like you to predict what percentage of people think gas prices will be under $2.00 throughout the course of the summer.

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April 14, 2009

Predict Our Poll Results: Would You Be Willing to Spend More on a Hybrid Car In Order to Help the Environment?

From April 14-15, 2008, Rasmussen Reports will ask 1,000 adults if they would be willing to spend more for a hybrid car in order to help the environment. We’d like you to predict what percentage of people will say “yes”, they'd willing to spend more for a hybrid car to help the environment.

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April 14, 2009

Latest Generic Ballot Shows Republicans and Democrats in a Dead Heat

Support for Democratic Congressional candidates hit a new low this week, resulting in a tie between Republicans and Democrats in the latest edition of the Generic Congressional Ballot.

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April 14, 2009

Voters Are A Little Less Confident Obama Is Bringing The Troops Home

Voters seem to be a little less sure this month that President Obama will bring U.S. combat troops home from Iraq by the end of his first term as he has long promised.

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April 14, 2009

On Immigration, Large Gap Remains Between Mainstream America and Political Class

Sixty-six percent (66%) of likely voters nationwide say it is Very Important for the government to improve its enforcement of the borders and reduce illegal immigration. However, the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that just 32% of America’s Political Class agrees.

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April 14, 2009

85% Worry About Inflation, 34% Expect Interest Rates To Rise

Eighty-five percent (85%) of Americans say they are concerned about the possibility of inflation in the current economy, with 55% Very Concerned, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.

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April 14, 2009

Economic Anxiety: Like Rats in a Cage By Froma Harrop

One day last week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average shot up 246 points. On CNBC, Jim Cramer punched the Sousa March button. NPR's "Marketplace" boomed, "We're in the Money."

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April 14, 2009

Voters Don't Rank Immigration As A Priority Issue

Despite reports that President Obama plans to begin a push for immigration reform, voters rank it fifth out of five priorities he has proposed this year in the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.

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April 14, 2009

Some Get the Tea, Others Get the Bag By Debra J. Saunders

In December 1773, Bostonians held a Tea Party in Boston Harbor to protest excessive British taxes. "No taxation without representation" was their message.

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April 13, 2009

Republicans Close The Gap With Democrats on Several Key Issues

After a month of major legislation by the White House and Congress to try to fix the struggling economy, more voters trust the Democratic Party to handle economic issues than they did a month ago.

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April 13, 2009

48% Say They Will Owe Less Money In A Year Than They Do Now

Many Americans, it appears, expect to keep their financial house in order despite the troubled U.S. economy.

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April 13, 2009

36% Favor Lifting U.S. Embargo on Cuba, 35% Disagree

U.S. voters are evenly divided over whether the United States should lift its long-standing economic embargo of Cuba as President Obama prepares to meet with Latin American leaders this week in part to discuss U.S.-Cuban relations.

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April 13, 2009

War on Terror Confidence Rebounds As SEALS Rescue Captain

In a survey taken the weekend U.S. Navy SEALS rescued an American ship captain from Somali pirates, voter confidence in America’s handling of the War on Terror has rebounded slightly.

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April 13, 2009

45% Say Most Get Involved in Politics to Protect Themselves From Government

Forty-five percent (45%) of Americans adults say most people get involved in politics to protect themselves from what the government might do, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.

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April 12, 2009

Who Wants To Free Mumia Now? By Debra J. Saunders

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal seeking a new trial for death-row inmate and former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal, who was convicted in the 1981 shooting of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner.

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April 11, 2009

About What Happened in Jerusalem By Susan Estrich

I was in elementary school in Swampscott, Mass., when I learned that the Jews had killed Christ. Or so we were told, right around this time of year. Most of the kids in the class just nodded when they heard. It seems they already knew. I was shocked.

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April 11, 2009

79% Believe Jesus Christ Rose from the Dead

As Christians gather to celebrate Easter this Sunday, the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 88% of adults nationwide think the person known to history as Jesus Christ actually walked the earth 2,000 years ago.

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April 11, 2009

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending April 10, 2009

It’s all about taxes this time of year.

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April 11, 2009

Unions Can't Move the World By Michael Barone

If you have a long enough lever, you can move the world. That's an old saying attributed to Archimedes. But what Archimedes didn't add is that a long enough lever may splinter in your hands if the material is not strong enough. You may end up not moving the world where you wanted it to go and finding yourself in a position you didn't want to be in.

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April 10, 2009

Most See $50,000 As Middle Income

Wealth, it appears, is in the eye of the beholder.