28% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Twenty-eight percent (28%) of Likely U.S. Voters now think the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey for the week ending July 30.
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August 3, 2015
August 3, 2015
How Big a Third-Party Threat Is Trump?
If “The Donald” loses the Republican presidential nomination and runs as a third-party candidate, he definitely could put a crimp in GOP hopes to reclaim the White House.
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August 3, 2015
Obama’s Full-Month Approval Index Improves In July
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.
August 1, 2015
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending August 1, 2015
With less than a week to go before the first Republican debate, Rasmussen Reports’ first national presidential survey of Likely GOP Voters this year shows Donald Trump with his biggest lead yet. Now it’s up to the billionaire developer to show voters that he deserves it.
July 31, 2015
Obama Says He Could Win Again - True or False?
In a recent speech criticizing African political leaders who stay too long in office, President Obama said he could win a third term if he ran for president again but acknowledged that U.S. law does not allow it. Could Obama win again?
July 31, 2015
Desperate Dems Recycle Planned Parenthood's Mammogram Lie By Michelle Malkin
The gruesome hits keep coming for the baby butchers of Planned Parenthood. President Obama and his top health officials have one last-ditch response left: Quick, hide behind the imaginary mammogram machine!
July 31, 2015
Asymmetrical Politics: Republicans Act Like an Unruly Mob, Democrats Like a Regimented Army By Michael Barone
As the presidential campaign heats up, and we head into the first debate among the 16 declared Republican candidates, there is an asymmetry between the two political parties.
Republican voters have been seething with discontent toward their party's officeholders and have not become enchanted with any one of 15 more or less conventional politicians who are running. Democratic voters support their officeholders with lockstep loyalty and seem untroubled by the serious flaws of their party's clear frontrunner.
July 31, 2015
Hey, Fellas, How ’Bout Some Teamwork?
Voters can’t make it much clearer, but apparently President Obama and Congress still don’t get the message.
July 30, 2015
Most Still Question Accuracy of Textbooks
School textbooks remain a central issue in the cultural battle over America's past, and voters continue to strongly believe most textbooks value political correctness over accuracy.
July 30, 2015
Trump Is Well Ahead As First Debate Looms
Going into the first Republican debate of the primary season next week, it looks like Donald Trump, Scott Walker and Jeb Bush are guaranteed seats.
July 30, 2015
Voters Still Have Faith in Society
Even though voters don’t have much faith that the country’s best days lie ahead, most still believe America is a good place to live.
July 30, 2015
Eight Decades of Debate By Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley
Next week begins what has become a regular presidential primary tradition: the debates. As a way of previewing them, we decided to look back at the history of primary debates. Readers may be surprised to learn that primary debates existed before the advent of televised general election debates in 1960. Less surprising is that the number of debates has been steadily increasing over time, although it appears that both parties will have fewer in 2016 than they did in their last competitive primary seasons (2012 for Republicans, 2008 for Democrats).
July 29, 2015
Do America’s Best Days Still Lie Ahead?
Voters still tend to think America’s best days are already behind us, but a climbing optimism that they’re still to come remains.
July 29, 2015
Is the GOP on the Brink of Civil War?
Senator Ted Cruz voiced the unhappiness of many Republican conservatives when he took to the floor of the Senate last Friday and in a rare intraparty broadside accused GOP Senate leader Mitch McConnell of lying. Veteran Republican senators quickly rallied to McConnell’s defense.
July 29, 2015
Is the GOP on the Brink of Civil War?
Senator Ted Cruz voiced the unhappiness of many Republican conservatives when he took to the floor of the Senate last Friday and in a rare intraparty broadside accused GOP Senate leader Mitch McConnell of lying. Veteran Republican senators quickly rallied to McConnell’s defense.
July 29, 2015
Governed by Zealots By John Stossel
The government's environmental rules defeat even environmentalists.
July 29, 2015
Obama Cronyism + Your Personal Data = Trouble by Michelle Malkin
It's the most far-reaching scandal in Washington that no one wants to talk about: Tens of millions of federal employees had their personal information hacked as a result of Obama administration incompetence and political favoritism.
July 29, 2015
Bigger Threat - al-Qaeda or ISIS?
FBI Director James Comey recently announced that the radical Islamic State group (ISIS) now poses a bigger security threat to the United States than al-Qaeda does. Americans appear to agree.
July 28, 2015
Is America Entering a New Victorian Era? by Michael Barone
Forty-seven years ago, the musical "Hair" opened on Broadway. Elderly mavens -- the core theater audience then, unlike the throngs of tourists flocking to cheap movie adaptations today -- were instructed that America was entering an "Age of Aquarius." The old moral rules were extinct: we were entering a new era of freedom, experimentation and self-expression.
July 28, 2015
How Likely Is Justice Department Probe of Clinton’s E-mail?
Two federal inspectors general have asked the U.S. Justice Department to open an investigation into how then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton handled sensitive information on her private e-mail account. Most voters continue to have national security concerns about Clinton’s behavior but doubt that the federal government will do anything about it.
