Plurality, For First Time, Says Iraq War Will Be Judged A Success
For the first time since Rasmussen Reports began polling on the issue, a plurality of voters in September say the U.S. mission in Iraq will be viewed as a success in the long term.
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September 30, 2008
September 30, 2008
Walking is Top Activity on Fall Weekends
Now that autumn is officially upon us, the top weekend activity for most Americans is simply a long walk outside.
September 30, 2008
Just 26% Have Confidence That Lawmakers Know What They’re Doing in Economic Crisis
Just 26% of American adults have even a little bit of confidence that the nation’s policy makers know what they’re doing when it comes to the current problems on Wall Street.
September 30, 2008
Voters Divided On Whether Wall Street Should Clean Up its Own Mess
Voters are evenly divided over whether Congress should take action to help the troubled financial industry or just let Wall Street work out its problems on its own, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
September 30, 2008
Supreme Parody: Biden versus Palin By Debra J. Saunders
Want a preview of Thursday's veepstakes debate between running mates Joe Biden and Sarah Palin? Pick up a copy of Christopher Buckley's latest satirical novel, "Supreme Courtship," that begins when a very unpopular American president decides to tweak Senate solons by nominating to the U.S. Supreme Court America's most popular TV judge, the "sassy, flippant, sexy," no-nonsense, gun-toting hottie from Texas, Pepper Cartwright.
September 29, 2008
The End of the U.S. Financial System as We Know It? By Lawrence Kudlow
A number of Republican House members and staff, along with others who are plugged in, are telling me that Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats will come back with a new bill that includes all the left-wing stuff that was scrubbed from the bill that was defeated today in the House.
September 29, 2008
Obama Gets Post-Debate Boost in Voter Trust on All Issues
While the results for the first presidential debate Friday were mixed, voters in surveys this weekend gave a boost in trust to Barack Obama over John McCain on a cross-section of issues.
September 29, 2008
Discover (R) Small Business Watch (SM): Small Business Economic Confidence Falls Sharply
Economic confidence among small business owners declined sharply in September amid rising concerns about economic conditions for their businesses and a bleak vision of where the economy is headed. The Discover(R) Small Business WatchSM fell to 74.6 in September, down 12.3 points from August.
September 29, 2008
Opposition to Bailout Plan Falls Dramatically
As Congress prepares to vote on a proposed economic rescue plan, opposition to the measure has declined significantly. A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey conducted Sunday found that 33% of Likely Voters now favor the plan while 32% are opposed and 35% are not sure.
September 28, 2008
Voters Divided on Whether America’s Best Days Are in the Future or the Past
In the midst of an economic crisis and an historic presidential election, voting Americans are evenly divided as to whether the nation’s best days lie ahead or in the past. Still, the current results are among the most optimistic of the past two years.
September 28, 2008
The Sheriff and the Professor By Debra J. Saunders
Before getting to Friday night's debate, let us look at what happened before the debate.Yes, John McCain's suspension of his campaign earlier in the week and call for a delay of Friday's debate were campaign stunts.
September 27, 2008
New Rasmussen Reports Party Weighting Targets: 39.0% Democrat 33.4% Republican
Like all polling firms, Rasmussen Reports weights its data to reflect the population at large. Among other targets, Rasmussen Reports weights data by political party affiliation using a dynamic weighting process.
September 27, 2008
Winner of the First Debate: Jim Lehrer
The winner of the first Presidential debate was moderator and PBS television personality Jim Lehrer. After earlier polls showing that most voters expect the moderators to be biased, 76% say Lehrer was neutral.
September 27, 2008
51% Say Bailout Plan Is A Power Grab
Fifty-one percent (51%) of Americans think politicians are more interested in gaining additional power than in fixing the economy with the proposed $700-billion taxpayer-backed financial rescue plan.
September 27, 2008
Support for Bailout Plan Now Down to 24%
The more voters learn about the proposed $700-billion taxpayer-backed Wall Street rescue plan, the less they like it. Most voters remain largely unworried about their own money, too.
September 27, 2008
Are We at an Inflection Point? By Michael Barone
You can sum up much of 20th century history by saying that in the 1930s Americans decided that markets didn't work and government did, and that in the 1970s Americans decided that government didn't work and markets did.
September 27, 2008
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending September 27, 2008
Official Washington and the two major presidential candidates seem more shook up by Wall Street’s mounting woes than the average taxpayer and voter.
September 26, 2008
A Paulson-Cantor Plan Is a Win-Win for Taxpayers By Lawrence Kudlow
The single-biggest mistake in the Paulson bank-rescue-plan marketing effort has been the failure to explain clearly how taxpayers are going to recoup $700 billion used to buy toxic assets at auction in order to unfreeze the banking system.
September 26, 2008
Rasmussen Markets Update: Bailout Bill Likely to Pass
At 1:00 p.m. Eastern on Friday afternoon, Rasmussen Markets data suggested there was a 68% chance the federal bailout bill will pass Congress by the end of this month. Expectations soared as high as 93% yesterday before sinking to a low of 60% early Friday morning.
September 26, 2008
The Brilliance of McCain's Move By Dick Morris
McCain has transformed a minority in both houses of Congress and a losing position in the polls into the key role in the bailout package, the main man around whom the final package will take shape. He arrived in Washington to find the Democrats working with the Bush Administration to pass an unpopular $700 billion bailout.
