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January 20, 2010

47% Give Obama Poor Marks for Handling of Health Care

Forty-seven percent (47%) of U.S. voters rate President Obama’s handling of the health care issue as poor, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.

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January 20, 2010

Voters Strongly Oppose Excise Tax on ‘Cadillac’ Health Plans, Even More So When Union Members Are Exempted

Voters aren’t happy with the latest tax proposed to help pay for the trillion-dollar national health care plan, and they’re even unhappier with exempting labor unions from that tax.

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January 20, 2010

New York Senate Primary: Gillibrand 48%, Ford 23%

Potential challengers to New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand have come and gone almost from the day she was appointed last year to fill the seat vacated by Hillary Clinton. Now former Tennessee Congressman Harold Ford Jr., a Manhattan investment banker, is showing interest in the race. One Ford adviser told the New York Post, "If Coakley loses or wins by less than five [in the Massachusetts Senate race], it increases the likelihood that he gets in."

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January 20, 2010

Political Tea Leaves By Susan Estrich

1. The terrorists are not all out of Afghanistan. Curt Schilling is not a Yankees fan. Martha Coakley was not a great candidate. Telling people that electing Scott Brown would kill health care didn’t necessarily help her. Of course, she still should have won.

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January 20, 2010

McCain on Top In Arizona Primary

Following news that Sarah Palin will campaign for him in Arizona, Senator John McCain has opened a significant lead in the Republican Primary campaign.

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January 20, 2010

Kangaroo Court for the Banks By Tony Blankley

As a general rule, diagnosis should precede treatment. But last week, we saw in both the legislative and executive branches examples of the "treatment before diagnosis" mentality. In Congress, the first hearings of the congressionally created Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission was held under the chairmanship of Phil Angelides, former California treasurer and former chairman of the California Democratic Party. The commission was "mandated" by law with reporting back to Congress by December 2010, "with a series of conclusions about what occurred, and recommendations as to how to avoid future market breakdowns. (Disclosure: I provide professional advice to some financial institutions.)

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January 20, 2010

North Carolina Senate: GOP’s Burr Leads But Below 50% Against Marshall

Incumbent Republican Richard Burr leads two potential leading Democratic challengers in this year’s U.S. Senate race in North Carolina. However, his numbers continue to display potential weakness.

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January 20, 2010

2010 NY Senate: Gillibrand 39%, Generic Republican 34%, Ford 10%

Democratic incumbent Kirsten Gillibrand may have a serious problem on her hands if Rudy Giuliani gets in next year’s race for the U.S. Senate in New York State.

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January 20, 2010

A Final Look at Massachusetts Election Night Poll

Republicans and Democrats will certainly spar in the coming days about what the Massachusetts election means for health care reform. The very fact that a Republican could win the Massachusetts race while campaigning against the proposed legislation in Congress is the biggest single data point, but the data shows a more complex picture.

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January 19, 2010

Brown Wins Stunning Victory in Massachusetts

For the first time since 1972, Massachusetts voters are sending a Republican to Washington as a U.S. Senator. In a stunning upset, Republican Scott Brown has narrowly defeated Democrat Martha Coakley.

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January 19, 2010

Massachusetts Voters Split on Tea Party Movement

A Rasmussen Reports Election Night survey finds that Massachusetts voters are evenly divided over the so-called Tea Party movement. Forty percent (40%) of those who voted in today's special election for the U.S. Senate have a favorable opinion of the Tea Party movement, while 41% regard it unfavorably.

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January 19, 2010

Health Care Top Issue for Massachusetts Voters

Rasmussen Reports has conducted an Election Night survey of 1,000 voters in the Massachusetts special election for U.S. Senate. Data will be released on this page throughout the evening.

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January 19, 2010

Scott Brown’s Great Tax-Cut Message By Lawrence Kudlow

I know there have been a million blog posts about the Scott Brown race for the Senate. But I want to add a couple of points to the discussion.

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January 19, 2010

26% Likely To Buy or Lease a Car This Year

Twenty-six percent (26%) of Americans say they are at least somewhat likely to buy or lease a car in the next year. Just 12% say they are very likely to do so.

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January 19, 2010

58% View Hillary Clinton Favorably

The U.S. reaction to the earthquake in Haiti again finds Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the shadow of President Obama when it comes to American foreign policy, but voters have a more favorable opinion of Clinton than they’ve had in months.

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January 19, 2010

Republicans Post Eight-Point Lead in Generic Ballot

Republican candidates still hold an eight-point lead over Democrats in the latest edition of the Generic Congressional Ballot.

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January 19, 2010

Taxing Bankers Is Only a Start By Froma Harrop

Tax the bankers' profits, tax their bonuses, tax their golf scores. I mean it. Take their windfall, and give it to the taxpayers who bailed them out. Britain and France plan a 50 percent tax on banker bonuses -- coordinated lest their financial bigwigs think of crossing the channel for a better deal. President Obama's proposal to tax the big banks' extraordinary profits fits the theme.

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January 19, 2010

2010 Texas Governor: White (D) Trails Perry, Hutchison

Texas Democrats cheered the news when Houston’s popular ex-mayor Bill White joined the race for governor, but in the first Rasmussen Reports general election survey in the state this year, he trails his two chief Republican opponents by double-digit margins.

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January 19, 2010

2010 Louisiana Senate: Vitter 53%, Melancon 35%

Incumbent Republican David Vitter now holds an 18-point lead over his likeliest Democratic opponent, Congressman Charlie Melancon, in Louisiana's race for the U.S. Senate, suggesting for now at least that concerns about the national Democratic agenda are outweighing those about Vitter's 2007 link to a prostitution ring.

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January 19, 2010

Dems' Lock on Senate Is Mixed Blessing for Obama By Michael Barone

Year One of the Obama administration ends Wednesday. Another era may come to an end the day before, when Massachusetts voters -- or at least those of them motivated enough to vote -- choose a senator to fill the three years remaining in the term of Edward Kennedy, who held the seat for 47 years.