58% Now Favor Health Care Repeal
While voters still favor repeal of the national health care law, concerns that the law will force them to change their existing health insurance are lower than a year ago.
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March 28, 2011
March 27, 2011
66% Hold Favorable View of Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor hadn't made a major film in years, but the movie icon who died last week is still viewed favorably by most Americans.
March 27, 2011
Gadhafi -- the Mad Dog Who Trumped the World By Debra J. Saunders
Every American should look at Libya through the prism of the 1988 Pan Am 103 terrorist bombing that left 270 people dead. Moammar Gadhafi -- the man whom Ronald Reagan called the mad dog of the Middle East -- ordered an attack that killed mostly American civilians in a bombing over British soil. Yet rather than be beaten by more powerful nations, he lived to crow about it.
March 27, 2011
18% Say 1930s-like Depression Very Likely In Next Few Years
The number of Americans who think the U.S. economy will spiral into a depression similar to the 1930’s is at its highest level in two years.
March 26, 2011
75% Say Exercise is Important in Daily Life
Most Americans agree on the importance of exercise and do at least some exercising every week.
March 26, 2011
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending March 25, 2011
Americans began the week finding themselves in military action in yet another Islamic country.
March 25, 2011
71% Rate Their Own Health as Good or Excellent
Americans continue to give their health positive ratings, but they are slightly less optimistic about the future.
March 25, 2011
21% Say Today’s Children Will Be Better Off Than Their Parents
Although today’s children are the future of our nation, most Americans continue to believe they won’t be better off than their parents.
March 25, 2011
Americans Show Little Support for Defending Some Treaty Partners
The United States has defense treaties with a number of nations around the globe, and Rasmussen Reports is asking Americans periodically how they feel about going to bat for these countries if they're attacked. On the latest list of nine countries, most Americans support the United States helping to defend just two of them militarily, Panama and the Bahamas.
March 25, 2011
28% Say Libya Important To U.S. National Security, 42% Disagree
While the Obama administration presses on with the military mission in Libya, few voters view the North African country as important to America’s own security.
March 25, 2011
Up in Smoke By Susan Estrich
I quit smoking 25 years ago. Before that, I had tried eight times, and each time I failed.
March 25, 2011
Paradox and Principle in the New Mideast By Joe Conason
Deciding whether to intervene in Libya, the United States and its allies confronted a terrible situation: the immediate imperative -- to prevent a promised massacre by the country's dictator, versus the many long-term reasons to stay away, from the uncertainty of success to the very question of what success would mean. On balance, we could not stand by and allow Moammar Gadhafi to carry out his grotesque threat.
March 25, 2011
50% Recognize that Most Americans Support Congressional Term Limits
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 50% of U.S. Likely Voters recognize that most Americans favor congressional term limits. Just 20% believe it is a view held mostly by conservatives.
March 25, 2011
Obama On Oil: More Misleading Rhetoric By Howard Rich
President Barack Obama says that Americans are “tired of talk” when it comes to rising gas prices. Unfortunately his administration continues to say one thing and do another on this critical economic front – ignoring opportunities to increase our oil supply while at the same time taking credit for production gains that he is actively seeking to dismantle.
March 24, 2011
Many Americans Plan to Clean, Garden This Spring
Spring has sprung! And with it comes spring cleaning, at least for most Americans.
March 24, 2011
45% Support U.S. Military Action in Libya, 34% Oppose, 21% Undecided
Voters have mixed feelings about President Obama's decision to use the U.S. military to help rebels in Libya and nearly half agree that he should have gotten Congress' okay first.
March 24, 2011
Only 33% Think Most Americans Blame Humans for Global Warming
President Obama, former Vice President Al Gore and the United Nations, among others, argue that global warming is chiefly caused by human activity. A plurality of voters recognize that this view is held mostly by liberals rather than by all Americans.
March 24, 2011
Why Sacramento Can't Get Cellphones Out of Prison By Debra J Saunders
California prisons confiscated more than 10,000 cellphones last year. This year, officials at Corcoran State Prison found a cellphone with a camera in possession of convicted serial killer Charles Manson. It was the second phone found on Manson in two years.
March 24, 2011
The Damning Contradictions of Obama's Attack on Libya By Michael Barone
Let's imagine that all goes well in Libya. The rebels, protected by air strikes, recapture lost territory and sweep into Tripoli. Moammar Gadhafi and his sons one way or the other disappear.
March 24, 2011
13% Give Congress Positive Grades
Ratings for the current Congress remain mostly negative among voters, and fewer voters share the belief that the legislature has passed anything to improve life in America.
