76% Say Americans Becoming More Rude, Less Civilized
Alice Cooper said it best: “No more Mr. nice guy.”
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August 4, 2011
August 4, 2011
39% Say Health Insurance Companies Should Be Required to Cover Contraceptives
The Obama administration on Monday announced a new set of standards that require health insurance companies to cover all government-approved contraceptives for women, without co-payments or other fees for the patient. A plurality of Americans nationwide opposes this requirement and would like to have the option of picking their health plans based on cost and what coverage they need.
August 4, 2011
Vote for Bailouts Could Hurt Potential GOP Presidential Candidates
It’s been three long years since the Bush Administration told voters that the government needed $700 billion right away to avoid a financial industry meltdown. That legislation, known in the political world as TARP, remains very unpopular with voters nationwide and is a potentially potent factor in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.
August 4, 2011
The Rasmussen Report Radio Show Returns for Second Week to Washington, DC and Chicago
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Chicago, IL/ Washington DC– August 3, 2011 – Public opinion pollster and analyst Scott Rasmussen hosts his second broadcast of The Rasmussen Report radio show this Sunday on WMAL 630AM in Washington, DC and WLS 890AM in Chicago, two of the nation’s top news talk radio stations. The show will be streamed live online as well.
August 4, 2011
29% Favor Automatic Spending Cuts If Congress Doesn’t Reduce Spending By $1.5 Trillion
Although voters are skeptical that federal spending will actually be cut following the debt ceiling debate, a majority opposes automatic spending cuts if Congress doesn’t reach its reduction goals. A so-called Super Committee has been tasked with finding cuts of $1.5 trillion over a decade and recommending those cuts to the full Congress. If no cuts are agreed upon, automatic cuts are supposed to go into effect.
August 4, 2011
Chasing Votes by Promising to Do Impossible Things By Michael Barone
"Leading from behind." That's what an unnamed White House aide told the New Yorker's Ryan Lizza that Barack Obama was doing on Libya.
August 4, 2011
No Recession: Strong Profits, Easy Money and Tea Party Gains Argue Against It By Lawrence Kudlow
Stocks and bond yields are sinking as Wall Street disses the debt deal and instead focuses on a likely double-dip recession.
August 4, 2011
62% Would Vote to Replace Entire Congress
Congress just can’t win. Most voters still lack confidence even their own local representative and want to replace every single one of them.
August 3, 2011
14% Say U.S. Heading In Right Direction, Lowest Level Since November 2008
Just 14% of Likely U.S. Voters now say the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey taken the week ending Sunday, July 31. That finding is the lowest measured since November 2, 2008, just before Barack Obama was elected president.
August 3, 2011
68% Say U.S. Society is Fair and Decent
Voters continue to believe U.S. society is fair and decent, while the number who believes immigrants should adopt American culture hovers around the all-time low.
August 3, 2011
69% Say It’s Likely Scientists Have Falsified Global Warming Research
The debate over global warming has intensified in recent weeks after a new NASA study was interpreted by skeptics to reveal that global warming is not man-made. While a majority of Americans nationwide continue to acknowledge significant disagreement about global warming in the scientific community, most go even further to say some scientists falsify data to support their own beliefs.
August 3, 2011
Just 22% Approve of Debt Ceiling Deal, Most Doubt It Will Cut Spending
Most Americans disapprove of the debt ceiling agreement reached by the president and Congress earlier this week and most doubt it will actually reduce government spending.
August 3, 2011
Debt Status Quo Triumphs Over Future -- Again. By Tony Blankley
The debt deal, if it sticks, is a triumph for the bipartisan, status quo-clinging Washington establishment. Here is a prediction: Between now and January 2013, total actual spending cuts will be minimal. That will result from the following: (1) The $900 billion deficit reduction is almost all back-loaded to the years beyond 2012. (2) The select committee created by the budget deal will fail to pass a "second tranche" deficit-cut package of an additional $1.5 trillion. (3) The "trigger" will be pulled that will identify an additional $1.2 trillion. (4) The pulled trigger won't require any more deficit reductions to go into effect until 2013, when a new Congress and either a new president or a re-elected President Obama will be able to re-decide (or repeal) all these decisions. That president will also have to decide what to do with the expiring Bush tax cuts, which if extended would be scored to increase deficit by $3.5 trillion over ten years. (5) The debt ceiling will not need to be raised until 2013.
August 3, 2011
72% Favor Inclusion of 9/11 Cross in World Trade Center Memorial
Americans think the Constitution calls for a separation of church and state, but they overwhelmingly believe that separation is not violated by plans to include the so-called 9/11 cross in a memorial on the site of the World Trade Center.
August 2, 2011
Election 2012: Generic Republican 47%, Obama 42%
A generic Republican candidate now leads President Obama by five points in a hypothetical 2012 election match-up.
August 2, 2011
Only 32% Say America’s Best Days Are In The Future
Voter confidence in the future of the country has returned to the lowest levels found in nearly five years of surveys.
August 2, 2011
Rasmussen Employment Index Down Sharply: Just 18% Report Their Firms Are Hiring
The Rasmussen Employment Index, which measures workers’ perceptions of the labor market each month, fell nearly eight points in July to the lowest level since March.
August 2, 2011
Voters Favor Pay Cuts for Congress, President Until Budget Is Balanced
An overwhelming majority of voters nationwide want members of Congress to take a pay cut until the federal budget is balanced, and a plurality also thinks the president should chop his salary in half until that time.
August 2, 2011
Democrats Also Need a Presidential Primary in 2012 By Froma Harrop
Ed Rendell, do you have plans for 2012? Hillary Clinton? If you, the former Democratic governor of Pennsylvania, or you, the secretary of state, are free next year and wouldn't mind, would you please launch a primary challenge against President Obama?
August 2, 2011
Three-Way Race: Romney 34%, Bachmann 27%, Perry 26%
Candidates will fall by the wayside as the primary battle for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination gets under way. If the race were already down to just the three top candidates, Mitt Romney would still be just slightly ahead.
