Texas Media Coverage Favors White Over Perry
The Rasmussen Reports Media Meter shows that media coverage in Texas is far more favorable for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bill White than for incumbent Republican Governor Rick Perry.
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March 29, 2010
March 29, 2010
One Week Later, 54% Favor Repeal of Health Care Bill
One week after the House of Representatives passed the health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats, 54% of the nation's likely voters still favor repealing the new law. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 42% oppose repeal.
March 29, 2010
Rhode Island Governor: Chafee Still Leads
Former Senator Lincoln Chafee remains the leader in the race to be Rhode Island’s next governor, with State Treasurer Frank Caprio the strongest Democrat in the contest for now.
March 29, 2010
Obama Slights Our Friends, Kowtows to Our Enemies By Michael Barone
Barack Obama's decision to postpone his trip to Indonesia and Australia -- to a democracy with the world's largest Muslim population and to the only nation that has fought alongside us in all the wars of the last century -- is of a piece with his foreign policy generally: attack America's friends and kowtow to our enemies.
March 28, 2010
Only 27% Say U.S. Will Remain Most Powerful Nation
Just 27% of U.S. voters now think the United States will still be the most powerful nation in the world at the end of the 21st century, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
March 28, 2010
Most Say Tea Party Has Better Understanding of Issues than Congress
In official Washington, some consider the Tea Party movement a fringe element in society but voters across the nation feel closer to the Tea Party movement than they do to Congress.
March 28, 2010
The Power of Meg's Money By Debra J. Saunders
Former Congressman Tom Campbell swears that former eBay CEO and gubernatorial hopeful Meg Whitman did not squeeze him out of the GOP primary for governor and prompt him to switch to the race to unseat Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer. Whitman spokesperson Sarah Pompei also denied that Whitman Inc. was involved in Campbell's decision.
March 27, 2010
New Mexico Governor: Denish Tops Five GOP Hopefuls
Lieutenant Governor Diane Denish leads each of five possible Republican opponents by anywhere from 10 to 22 points in the first Rasmussen Reports Election 2010 telephone survey of the New Mexico gubernatorial race.
March 27, 2010
Bond Markets Reflect the True Cost of Obamacare By Michael Barone
Not many people noticed amid the Democrats' struggle to jam their health care bill through the House, but in recent weeks U.S. Treasury bonds have lost their status as the world's safest investment.
March 27, 2010
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - March 27, 2010
How long can Americans hold a thought? That will be the political test for the next seven-and-a-half months.
March 27, 2010
19% Say Their Health Is Worse Now Than A Year Ago
Roughly one-in-five American adults (19%) say their health is worse now than it was a year ago, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
March 27, 2010
Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854, Redux By Tony Blankley
We are now beginning to enter the Kansas-Nebraska Act stage of the socialist crisis of the Republic.
March 26, 2010
19% Say Now Is A Good Time To Sell A House
Nineteen percent (19%) of homeowners say now is a good time for someone in their area to sell a house, a nine-point increase from a month ago and the highest finding in nearly a year of surveying on the question.
March 26, 2010
31% Say They Owe More on Mortgage Than Their House Is Worth
The Obama administration is expected to announce today a plan that will allow those who owe more on their mortgage than their house is worth to avoid foreclosure by refinancing into a government-backed loan.
March 26, 2010
North Dakota Senate: GOP’s Hoeven 68%, Potter 25%
For now it appears little is standing in the way of North Dakota Governor John Hoeven’s transition from the statehouse to the Capitol in Washington, D.C. Republicans gain another senator in the process, too.
March 26, 2010
Straddling the Party Line: Health Care and the Tenuous Twenty By Isaac Wood
Looking back at last Sunday’s House vote on health care reform, it is crystal clear that the party leanings of congressional districts, not just the party identification of the congressmen, influenced the final tally. Currently, there are 46 Democrats in the House who represent districts won by John McCain in 2008.
March 26, 2010
Hawaii Senate: Inouye 65%, Lingle 25%
Democrat Daniel Inouye has represented Hawaii in Congress since it became a state and has served as a U.S. senator since 1963. For now at least, his reelection this November seems assured.
March 26, 2010
Hamstrung By Health Care? By Rhodes Cook
Each party in the last two decades has benefited from “big wave” elections to win control of the House of Representatives – the Republicans in 1994, the Democrats in 2006 and 2008, when they turned a distinct minority in the House into a solid majority.
March 26, 2010
49% Support More Government Oversight of Credit Card Industry
Support for greater government oversight of the credit card industry has gone down even as a bill that includes more regulation of that industry is advancing in the U.S. Senate.
