What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending December 5, 2015
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December 5, 2015
December 4, 2015
Do Not Be Impressed By Mark Zuckerberg's Phony Generosity By Ted Rall
CEO Mark Zuckerberg promises to give 99 percent of his Facebook shares to charity -- eventually.
December 4, 2015
Trump Change: Trump’s Chances Continue To Improve
Donald Trump’s message still appears to resonate with Republican voters with his perceived chances to clinch the GOP presidential nomination up for the second straight survey. Belief among all voters that he will be the nominee is also up to its highest level since mid-October.
December 4, 2015
The State of Play in the Republican Race by Michael Barone
There are just eight-and-a-half weeks to go until the Iowa caucuses, with two of those weeks devoted to holidays during which polling is ordinarily not conducted, and the race for the Republican presidential nomination seems to be taking perceptible shape. And it continues to defy conventional wisdom.
December 4, 2015
Were the Planned Parenthood Shootings A Terrorist Act?
Some politicians have charged that last week’s shootings at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado were politically motivated. Were the killings a domestic terrorist act? Americans say no.
December 4, 2015
The CAIR Effect: See Something, Do Nothing By Michelle Malkin
As news of the San Bernardino jihadist shootings blared on airport TVs, I spotted a TSA monitor flashing the now ubiquitous message:
"If you SEE something, SAY something."
December 3, 2015
Congress Still Ranks Low in the Public's Eyes
Congress never comes close to ranking on Americans’ list of favorites, and this month is no different.
December 3, 2015
Expecting A Drone From Santa This Year?
All I want for Christmas is - my very own drone?
One-in-five American Adults (19%) say they or an immediate family member is at least somewhat likely to purchase an unmanned drone for personal use in the next year, including 11% who say they are Very Likely to do so. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 78% are unlikely to purchase a drone in the near future, with 56% who say that is Not At All Likely to happen.
December 3, 2015
Guns or Terrorism – What’s the Call?
Domestic Islamic terrorism or another random mass shooting? Authorities still aren’t sure or at least aren’t saying as the investigation in San Bernardino, California continues.
December 3, 2015
Three’s Company By Larry J. Sabato and Kyle Kondik
Republican presidential polling leader Donald Trump signed a pledge earlier this year agreeing to support the eventual GOP nominee, but that agreement is certainly not legally unenforceable. If Trump wants to run as a third-party or independent candidate, there’s nothing stopping him. Trump is aware of this: The weekend before Thanksgiving, he retreated to his pre-pledge position, saying that he needs to be “treated fairly” by the GOP in order to rule out an independent bid. Some senior Republicans naturally wonder if the only outcome Trump will regard as fair is his installation as the party nominee.
December 2, 2015
Which Matters More: Internet Freedom or Security?
With increasing reports that terrorists regularly use the Internet to coordinate their actions, Americans think preventing potential criminal activity online is more important than maintaining complete Internet freedom, but they are sharply divided as to who should be doing the policing.
December 2, 2015
Has the president lost his ability to discharge the powers and duties of office? By Charles Hurt
Is it now time to invoke Section 4 of the 25th Amendment?
Has our president officially lost his ability to discharge the powers and duties of his office?
December 2, 2015
The Smear by John Stossel
This week my TV show is on gun control. I interviewed activist Leah Barrett, who wants stricter gun laws.
December 2, 2015
Most Oppose Obama Acting On His Own Against Global Warming
Most voters now think global warming requires urgent attention but still believe President Obama and Congress need to decide together on the course of action.
December 2, 2015
Deadly D.C.: The Land of No Consequences By Michelle Malkin
In life and leadership, accountability means consequences for bad behavior.
December 2, 2015
Obama’s Full-Month Approval Hits New 2015 Low
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.
December 1, 2015
Voters Think Islamic Religious Leaders Need to Speak Out More for Peace
Unlike President Obama, U.S. voters think the United States is at war with radical Islamic terrorism and remain wary of the Islamic religion as a whole.
December 1, 2015
History Returns Violently in the Mediterranean and Beyond By Michael Barone
Sometimes you can learn something about today's world from a history book -- even a book about obscure characters in a long-ago time in a far-away corner of the planet, featuring conflicts between regimes that ceased existing at least a century ago. For me, one such book has been "Agents of Empire," by the Oxford historian Noel Malcolm, gaudily subtitled "Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits and Spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World."
December 1, 2015
A Resurgence of Intolerance by Thomas Sowell
Storm trooper tactics by bands of college students making ideological demands across the country, and immediate preemptive surrender by college administrators -- such as at the University of Missouri recently -- bring back memories of the 1960s, for those of us old enough to remember what it was like being there, and seeing first-hand how painful events unfolded.
December 1, 2015
Voters Still Want Changes in Obamacare
The Republican-controlled U.S. Senate is set to vote this week on whether to repeal the national health care law, but voters tend to think a piecemeal approach to fixing Obamacare is a better route than scrapping it altogether.
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The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on November 29, 2015 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.
