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December 3, 2009

Letter to Tiger: Fess Up, Clear the Air, And Seek Redemption By Lawrence Kudlow

Fess up, Tiger. If you don't, the tabloids are gonna kill ya.

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December 3, 2009

62% Oppose Single-Payer Health Care System

Only 27% of voters nationwide favor a single-payer health care system where the federal government provides coverage for everyone. That’s down five points from August.

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December 3, 2009

2010 Arkansas Senate: Lincoln Runs Behind Four GOP Challengers

Another Democratic senator may be at-risk in 2010. Arkansas' Blanche Lambert Lincoln trails all four of her leading Republican challengers in the first Rasmussen Reports Election 2010 survey in the state.

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December 3, 2009

After the Thanksgiving Disaster, Will Christmas Be an Encore? By Cherie Bennett

Hey, Cherie!

I am writing this after the world's worst Thanksgiving. By the way, I am a 15-year-old girl who now lives in what I call a blended family. I have two little brothers, and my mom and dad divorced a few years ago. They are both married to other people who each had kids our age, too. To make things worse, everyone now lives in the same town. You would think this would make things better. It doesn't.

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December 2, 2009

67% Say White House Party Crashers Should Be Punished

Were they or weren’t they invited to last week’s White House state dinner with the prime minister of India? That’s what the authorities are trying to find out.

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December 2, 2009

Voters More Skeptical of Town Hall Protestors' Motives

Thirty-seven percent (37%) of voters nationwide now believe protests at congressional town hall meetings on the health care reform plan were phony efforts drummed up by special interest groups and lobbyists, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey.

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December 2, 2009

Just 21% Favor Bernanke’s Reappointment As Fed Chairman

Ben Bernanke begins the formal process tomorrow for confirmation to a second term as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, but 41% of Americans think President Obama should name someone new to the post.

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December 2, 2009

Obama Is Following Bush’s Playbook By Lawrence Kudlow

Speaking as a big skeptic of U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan, and as a major critic of nation-building, I basically liked President Obama’s surge speech last night. I think he did himself some good with it. I notice today that General McChrystal spoke positively about both the speech and the policy.

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December 2, 2009

Voters Favor Tort Reform by Two-to-One Margin

Fifty-seven percent (57%) of voters nationwide favor limiting the amount of money a jury can award a plaintiff in a medical malpractice lawsuit. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that only 29% disagree and 14% are not sure.

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December 2, 2009

Nothing Is Inevitable, but Anything Is Possible By Tony Blankley

Regularly reading the Financial Times (Britain's leading financial daily) can put an American in a fighting spirit. At least, it puts this American (transplanted former Englishman and naturalized American citizen that I am) in such a disposition.

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December 2, 2009

30% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction, Lowest Level Since February

Only 30% of U.S. voters now say the country is heading in the right direction, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports national survey. That's the lowest finding on this question since mid-February but is still 13 points higher than a year ago.

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December 2, 2009

Afghanistan and Obama - By The Numbers

President Obama detailed his plan for winning – and ending – the war in Afghanistan in a long-awaited speech last night at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Eighty-nine percent (89%) of U.S. voters have been following recent news about Afghanistan, including 51% who say they’ve been following the news Very Closely.

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December 2, 2009

59% Think A Home Is A Family’s Best Investment

For many Americans, a house still doesn’t look like a safe bet for a home.

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December 2, 2009

Holiday Remnants By Susan Estrich

The last Thanksgiving of my childhood started out promisingly enough. It was 1969, and we were going to my parents' best friends' house. I had a crush on their second oldest son, and with luck (a lot of it), we'd end up in his room listening to Led Zeppelin. He was much cooler than I was, but I was who would be there on Thanksgiving.

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December 1, 2009

Discover(R) Small Business Watch(SM): Small Business Confidence Plunges

Economic confidence among America's small business owners plummeted in November, as more owners cited serious concerns about cash flow and saw economic conditions for their own businesses getting worse. The Discover(R) Small Business Watch(SM)index fell 12 points in November to 76.5 from 88.5 in October.

December 1, 2009

Number of Democrats Falls to Four-Year Low

The number of Americans identifying themselves as Democrats fell by nearly two percentage points in November. Added to declines earlier in the year, the number of Democrats in the nation has fallen by five percentage points during 2009.

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December 1, 2009

42% Say Their Own Congressman Deserves Reelection, 42% Disagree

Congress, beware. Voters are now evenly divided over whether their own congressman deserves another term in office.

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December 1, 2009

Obama Approval Index Month-by-Month: November 2009

When tracking President Obama’s job approval on a daily basis, people sometimes get so caught up in the day-to-day fluctuations that they miss the bigger picture. To look at the longer-term trends, Rasmussen Reports compiles the numbers on a full-month basis, and the results can be seen in the graphics below.

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December 1, 2009

The Inquisition of Global Warming By Debra J. Saunders

This just in from the Times of London: After the leak of highly embarrassing e-mail messages from the University of East Anglia's influential Climatic Research Unit, CRU has been forced to admit that it dumped "the original raw" climate data used to bolster the case for human-caused global warming, while retaining only the "value-added" -- read: massaged -- data.

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December 1, 2009

Those Finished With Holiday Shopping Doubles After Black Friday

Black Friday was obviously a busy Friday for many Americans, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. They’re also a little more willing to spend on gifts now.