30% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Thirty percent (30%) of Likely U.S. Voters think the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey for the week ending September 8.
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September 12, 2016
September 12, 2016
Voters Put Less Weight on Candidates’ Religious Faith
While Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is still making efforts to win over the support of Evangelical Christian voters, the percentage of all voters who consider a candidate’s faith important to their vote continues to decline.Voters put even less stock into a candidate’s appearance or racial background.
September 12, 2016
Confidence About America’s Safety From Terrorism Remains Low
Americans continue to question the country’s safety from terrorism and are skeptical of the government’s ability to prevent domestic terror attacks in the future.
September 10, 2016
What Obama Doesn't want you to Know About Uzbekistan by Ted Rall
Death is usually a sad event. The passing of a world leader, particularly one who brought stability to a tense part of the Muslim world for several decades, is typically cause for concern.
September 10, 2016
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending September 10, 2016
Tomorrow marks the 15th anniversary of the Islamic terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 that killed 3,000 Americans and injured another 6,000. How quickly we forget. Or did we learn anything to begin with?
September 9, 2016
Many Question Whether Americans Remember 9/11
Sunday marks the 15th anniversary of the Islamic terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 that killed 3,000 Americans and injured another 6,000. But a sizable number of Americans feel their fellow countrymen have forgotten the horrors of that day. Interestingly, more are saying Muslims in this country have been mistreated ever since, even as they fear a domestic terror attack more than ever.
September 9, 2016
Why the Polls Are Tightening Up By Michael Barone
Maybe Hillary Clinton isn't going to be elected president after all. That's a thought that's evoking glee in some, nausea in others, terror in some and relief at the removal of an increasingly tedious figure from public view in still more.
September 9, 2016
How Does the World Feel About Obama and the U.S.?
As with virtually every major issue we survey on these days, political party affiliation determines a voter’s views about America’s relationship with the rest of the world. Democrats think it’s great; Republicans and unaffiliated voters are a lot more skeptical.
September 9, 2016
Is Tide Going Out on Hillary? by Patrick J. Buchanan
Were the election held today, Hillary Clinton would probably win a clear majority of the Electoral College.
September 8, 2016
Voters Trust Their Local Electoral System
Despite the increasing alarm expressed by the Obama administration over dangers to the election system from foreign hackers, voters are confident that things will work out fine.
September 8, 2016
Democrats Agree Candidate Health Important But Not Hillary’s
All voters strongly agree that a candidate’s health is an important voting issue, but while most Republicans and unaffiliated voters think the state of Hillary Clinton’s health is worth exploring, the majority of Democrats disagree.
September 8, 2016
Governors 2016: Are We in for a Repeat of 2014’s Odd Results? By Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley
They aren’t getting much national attention because of the races for the presidency and Congress, but this year’s gubernatorial contests seem to be just as confounding as the ones from 2014 — and they could produce some equally head-scratching results.
September 8, 2016
White House Watch: Clinton 43%, Trump 39%, Johnson 9%, Stein 2%
The seesaw battle between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump finds the Democratic nominee back in the lead.
September 7, 2016
Voters Still Believe In Their Vote
Voters continue to feel that their vote counts.
September 7, 2016
Sicko Terrorist Lynne Stewart: Still Hating Cops by Michelle Malkin
Old age and illness have not dulled the tongue or treasonous soul of convicted jihad-enabling lawyer Lynne Stewart.
September 7, 2016
Voters See Trump As Safer Bet Against Terrorism
Voters tend to think Donald Trump would do a better job protecting them from terrorists.
September 7, 2016
Free Speech By John Stossel
Donald Trump tells reporters, "We're going to have people sue you like you never got sued before."
September 7, 2016
Trump Calls for More High-Skill Immigration By Michael Barone
Would he go hard or go soft? That was the mainstream media template for judging Donald Trump's speech on immigration in Phoenix last Wednesday. The verdict: hard. "How Trump got from Point A to Point A on immigration," was the headline in the Washington Post's recap.
September 7, 2016
Most Think Americans Watch Too Much TV
Do you watch too much TV? Your fellow Americans seem to think so.
September 6, 2016
Obama’s Approval Rating Up Again in August
When tracking President Obama’s job approval on a daily basis, people sometimes get so caught up in the day-to-day fluctuations that they miss the bigger picture. To look at the longer-term trends, Rasmussen Reports compiles the numbers on a full-month basis, and the results can be seen in the graphics below.
The president earned a monthly job approval of 50% in August, up one point from July and tying the recent high he earned in April, May and June. In 2015, the president’s full-month approval ranged from 46% to 49%. Since 2013, the president's monthly job approval rating has typically improved slightly at the beginning of each year and then fallen back. That hasn’t been the case in the final year of his presidency. Obama's monthly approval hit a recent low of 45% in November 2013 during the troubled rollout of the national health care law.
