15% Say U.S. Heading In Right Direction
Just 15% 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, August 14.
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August 17, 2011
August 17, 2011
New High: 62% Expect To Pay Higher Interest Rates Next Year
More Americans than ever predict they will be paying higher interest rates a year from now, despite the fact that most say they’re paying about the same in interest as they were last year.
August 17, 2011
New Low: Only 15% Now Expect Situation in Afghanistan To Improve Over Next Six Months
Voter confidence about the short-term course of the war in Afghanistan has fallen to its lowest level in nearly two years, while confidence about the direction in Iraq over the next six months has dropped to the lowest point in almost five years of surveying.
August 17, 2011
20% Now Support U.S. Military Action in Libya
Voter support for continued military action in Libya continues to fall along with the number of voters who think dictator Moammar Gaddafi will be removed from power as a result.
August 17, 2011
Perry’s Red-Hot Bernanke Slam By Lawrence Kudlow
Gov. Rick Perry scorched the political pot on Tuesday with a red-hot rhetorical attack on Fed-head Ben Bernanke. When asked about the Fed reopening the monetary spigots, Perry said, “If this guy prints more money between now and the election, I don’t know what y’all would do to him in Iowa, but we -- we would treat him pretty ugly down in Texas.”
August 17, 2011
More Voters Than Ever Worry the Government Will Not Do Enough to Help the Economy
On the heels of the downgrade of the U.S. credit rating, unhappiness with the debt ceiling debates and more unemployment and housing woes, more voters than ever worry that the federal government will not do enough to help the economy.
August 17, 2011
The Authoritarian Temptation By Tony Blankley
In the weeks during and since the debt-ceiling debate, the media, pushed by the Democratic Party, has peddled the propaganda that our government is broken -- because the Republicans in the House of Representatives negotiated a better deal than the liberals wanted.
August 16, 2011
Election 2012: Generic Republican 48%, Obama 42%
For the fifth week in a row, a generic Republican candidate edges President Obama in a hypothetical 2012 election match-up.
August 16, 2011
GOP Primary: Perry 29%, Romney 18%, Bachmann 13%
Texas Governor Rick Perry, the new face in the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, has jumped to a double-digit lead over Mitt Romney and Michele Bachmann with the other announced candidates trailing even further behind.
August 16, 2011
75% Favor Big Cuts in Mail Delivery Rather Than Give More Money to Postal Service
Americans would rather see the U.S. Postal Service dramatically cut its workforce and reduce mail delivery to three or four days a week than have the government pour more money into the financially struggling agency.
August 16, 2011
Perfect Economic Storm Leads to Record-low Sentiments
Americans' ongoing uneasiness about their finances is putting some cracks in how they feel about their retirement nest eggs. The COUNTRY Financial Security Index® dropped one point to 63.7 in June, in part because confidence in retirement reached an all-time low.
August 16, 2011
58% Want to End Small Business Administration Loan Guarantees
Small businesses are seen by many as the heart of the U.S. economy, and most voters think the best way the government can help them is by staying out of the way.
August 16, 2011
Putting England Back Together Again By Froma Harrop
Watching the riots in Britain's cities, I recalled visiting an English friend who ran a big company and had a country house grand enough to be called a "hall." (I will not disclose his identity.) Though hardly liberal, my friend was politically moderate. He was also a very decent person.
August 16, 2011
Voters See These ‘Corporate Welfare’ Programs As A Good Place To Cut Government Spending
Congress is looking for sizable spending cuts in the months ahead, and voters see three so-called “corporate welfare” programs as potential candidates for the chopping block - farm subsidies, aid to large corporations to promote export sales and funding to help other countries buy U.S.-made weapons.
August 15, 2011
Generic Congressional Ballot: Republicans 44%, Democrats 37%
Republicans have bounced back to a seven-point lead on the Generic Congressional Ballot for the week ending Sunday, August 14.
August 15, 2011
Most Americans Still Think Those in Private Sector Work Harder, Earn Less Than Government Employees
Americans still overwhelmingly believe that those employed in the private sector work harder than government workers but receive less compensation and have less job security.
August 15, 2011
71% Think Private Sector Better Than Government At Measuring Technology Potential
Voters show very little confidence in the federal government when it comes to picking winners in the technology industry.
August 15, 2011
54% Favor Repeal of Health Care Law, 46% Say Repeal Likely
While a majority of voters continue to favor repeal of the national health care law, there's slightly less confidence this month that it actually will happen.
August 15, 2011
64% Favor Lower Tax Rates With Fewer Deductions
Changes in the tax code are likely as Congress debates ways to cut the federal deficit, and most Americans are willing to sacrifice a few deductions in exchange for lower tax rates.
August 15, 2011
GOP Has Momentum, Needs Clear Direction By Michael Barone
This has been quite a week or 10 days for Republicans. As this is written, down in South Carolina Rick Perry has just announced he's running for president, while here in Ames most of the votes have been cast but none has yet been counted in the Iowa Republican straw poll.
