New Year’s Day Ranks Low on Holiday List
As America prepares to wave goodbye to 2009, only 11% of adults believe New Year’s Day is one of the nation’s most important holidays, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
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December 31, 2009
December 31, 2009
58% Favor Waterboarding of Plane Terrorist To Get Information
Fifty-eight percent (58%) of U.S. voters say waterboarding and other aggressive interrogation techniques should be used to gain information from the terrorist who attempted to bomb an airliner on Christmas Day.
December 31, 2009
It's a Wonderful Life Working for the Government By Michael Barone
It looks like a happy new year for you -- if you're a public employee.
December 31, 2009
52% Fear They Could Be Forced to Change Insurance If Health Plan Passes
From the beginning of the health care debate, one of the challenges facing reform advocates has been the fact that most Americans have insurance and are generally happy with their coverage.
December 31, 2009
Let House Prices Do What They Must By Froma Harrop
To paraphrase Yogi Berra, the bubble's not over till the last drop splatters. That is certainly the case with the housing bubble. Home prices that seemed to be strengthening over the summer have again slipped, according to the S&P Case-Shiller index. Neither low interest rates nor a fat tax credit for homebuyers has changed this reality.
December 31, 2009
As 2009 Becomes 2010, 21% Will be Asleep
At midnight on New Year’s Eve, 62% of American adults say they’ll be awake to welcome in the new year.
December 31, 2009
Market-Based Variables Point to a Mini Boom in 2010 By Lawrence Kudlow
Despite the historic expansion of the federal government’s involvement in, intervention in, and control of the economy — including Bailout Nation; takeovers of banks, car companies, insurance firms, Fannie, Freddie, AIG, GM, Chrysler, and GMAC; large-scale tax threats; overregulation; an attempted takeover of the health-care sector; ultra-easy money; a declining dollar; and unprecedented spending and debt creation — despite all the things that would be expected to destroy the economy — all this socialism lite and the degrading of incentives and rewards for success — despite all this, the U.S. economy has not been destroyed.
December 30, 2009
Just 29% Still Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Just 29% of U.S. voters now say the country is heading in the right direction, the lowest level measured since early February, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
December 30, 2009
Confidence in War in Afghanistan Down Again
Following President Obama's speech outlining his new strategy, there was a bounce in optimism about the war in Afghanistan. But the bounce has ended and confidence has fallen again. Confidence has also fallen in the broader War on Terror.
December 30, 2009
Voter Attitudes Towards Health Care Plan Harden - 58% Opposed
Many have questioned whether those who favor or oppose the health care plan in Congress really know what’s in it. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey suggests that they have a decent understanding of the bill and that voter attitudes towards the legislation have hardened.
December 30, 2009
“Plato O Plomo” – Washington’s Gangster Way By Howard Rich
During the 1980’s, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar built a global cocaine cartel of unrivaled power and influence based on a simple philosophy, Plato O Plomo.
December 30, 2009
Plane Attack Spooks Public Confidence in War on Terror
Belief that the bad guys are winning the War on Terror is now at its highest level in over two years, and nearly half of U.S. voters say America is not safer than it was before 9/11.
December 30, 2009
Fear of Flying By Susan Estrich
Now is the time for those of us on vacation to start talking ourselves back onto the planes we have to board to get home. Here I am in paradise -- actually, the Grand Wailea in Maui, which looks like paradise to me -- and around the pool and on the beaches, almost everyone is squinting into BlackBerries and iPhones trying to figure out exactly what is going wrong in the rest of the world.
December 30, 2009
78% Believe Health Care Plan Will Cost More Than Projected
Seventy-eight percent (78%) of voters nationwide say it’s at least somewhat likely that the health care reform legislation working its way through Congress will cost more than projected. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 14% believe the costs are not likely to exceed projections.
December 30, 2009
Afghan War Policy Fractured By Tony Blankley
Franklin Roosevelt was famous for being able to give people on all sides of a policy dispute the impression that he supported each person's position. Such artfulness helped him manage domestic politics for 12 years in the presidency. Similarly, President Obama wrote in his book "The Audacity of Hope" that "I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views. As such, I am bound to disappoint some, if not all, of them."
December 29, 2009
GOP Lead Slips to Five on Generic Ballot
Republican candidates now lead Democrats by five points in the latest edition of the Generic Congressional Ballot.
December 29, 2009
Health Care Vote Puts Nelson 30 Points Down in Reelection Bid
The good news for Senator Ben Nelson is that he doesn’t have to face Nebraska voters until 2012.
December 29, 2009
74% Say Congress’ Current Work Will Have ‘Significant’ Impact
Voters feel far more strongly than they have in over two years that legislation currently being debated in Congress would have a significant impact on their lives, and they’re well aware of which party is in charge.
December 29, 2009
We'd Be Happy to Do This 'Strip Tease' By Froma Harrop
U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz proudly championed a measure last spring that bans whole-body imaging as a primary screening technique at airports. "You don't have to look at my wife and 8-year-old daughter naked to secure an airplane," the Utah Republican said.
December 29, 2009
Economy, Government Ethics Tops on Voters’ Minds
After being knocked out of first place last month for the first time in nearly two years, the economy is back as the issue voters view as most important.
