82% Hold Favorable View of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Most Americans continue to hold civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. in high regard while holding mixed views about the state of race relations in this country.
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January 17, 2011
January 16, 2011
Undecided Is The Leader Among Golden Globe Watchers
The curtain is set to rise on tonight’s 68th annual Golden Globe awards, and there are no clear favorites to win the top film awards among those who intend to watch.
January 16, 2011
Voters Hold Less Fear of Government Health Care Decisions
Voters for the first time are slightly less fearful of having their health care decisions made by the federal government than by private insurers.
January 16, 2011
What Makes Brown Think He Can Get a Tax Increase? By Debra J. Saunders
Can Jerry Brown do it?
January 15, 2011
Americans Show Little Confidence in U.S. Race Relations
As the nation prepares to honor civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday, Americans show little confidence in the state of race relations in the country today and into the future.
January 15, 2011
38% Say America's Best Days Are In The Future
With the start of the New Year, voters are slightly more optimistic about the future of America than they have been for most of 2011.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 38% of Likely Voters say the country's best days are in the future, up from 32% last month and the highest level measured since mid-February of last year. Forty-four percent (44%) feel America's best days are in the past, while another 18% are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
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The national survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on January 11-12, 2012 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.
January 15, 2011
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending January 14, 2011
It’s back to business for the new Congress this coming week following the tragic shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and the killing of six others in Arizona. First up in the House is a vote to repeal the national health care bill passed last year by Democrats in the previous Congress.
January 14, 2011
Just 33% of Football Fans Following NFL Labor Negotiations Closely
No NFL football in 2011? This is a possibility, but professional football fans don’t appear to be paying much attention and they have mixed feelings on whether it will actually happen.
January 14, 2011
Patriots Still Favored to Win Super Bowl
Only eight National Football League teams are left heading into this weekend’s divisional playoff round, and the New England Patriots remain the top pick among fans to win the Super Bowl.
January 14, 2011
75% Want Health Care Law Changed
Voters overwhelmingly want to see last year’s health care law changed, but there is substantial disagreement about how best to do it.
January 14, 2011
Going Down in an Up Economy By Froma Harrop
In the typical economic downturn, Americans thrown out of work make a deal with Euthenia, the Greek goddess of prosperity. They say (in their heads): We will get through this. We'll move in with family, find any part-time job. All we want is an assurance that good times will eventually return for hardworking people like us.
January 14, 2011
55% Say America Is Not Yet A Land of Equal Opportunity
Americans tend to think their fellow citizens talk too much about race, but most agree that we have yet to achieve a level playing field for all races in this country.
January 14, 2011
Blood Libel By Susan Estrich
Alan Dershowitz isn't offended. He says it's OK for Sarah Palin to invoke one of the most anti-Semitic images of our time in attacking those who have been critical of her putting crosshairs over the name of the congresswoman who was later shot.
January 14, 2011
How We Enable Crimes of Insanity By Joe Conason
The deranged expression on the face of Jared Lee Loughner in the mug shot released by the police -- taken within hours after he allegedly killed six innocent people and wounded 14 more, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords -- suggests that we may never fully understand whatever illness afflicts him. The law requires us to assess his mental state and motivations, but we might do better to analyze our own craziness.
January 13, 2011
Voters Continue To Believe Congress Can Always Make Things Worse
Despite the change of control in the House, voters continue to believe Congress can screw things up worse than they already are.
January 13, 2011
Most Voters Still See Congressional Democrats As More Liberal Than They Are
Voters continue to believe the average Democrat in Congress is more liberal than they are, but remain more evenly divided about Republicans.
January 13, 2011
Most Say Stricter Gun Laws Would Not Help Prevent Shootings
Most Americans say stronger gun control laws are not the answer to the shootings last weekend of a U.S. congresswoman and the killing of six others.
January 13, 2011
Systematic Assassinations Not Part of Our Politics By Michael Barone
The steam seems to be going out of the move to "deftly pin this" -- the shooting of Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 13 others -- "on the tea partiers," as one unidentified senior Democratic operative put it to Politico.
January 13, 2011
No Off Button on Sarah Palin By Debra J. Saunders
This is a free country. If Sarah Palin wants to run for president in 2012, she is free to try. But she will not win the GOP nomination because Republican voters are not going to choose a middle-aged version of Britney Spears -- a figure whose most evident talent is to attract attention to herself -- to challenge Barack Obama.
January 13, 2011
Just 29% Believe Health Care Repeal Will Increase Deficit
Some supporters of the national health care law say its repeal will drive up the federal budget deficit, but most voters believe repeal will either reduce or have no impact on government spending and the deficit.
