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.
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March 26, 2010
March 26, 2010
Hawaii Governor: Two Top Democrats Well Ahead of GOP’s Aiona
Democratic candidates Neil Abercrombie and Mufi Hannemann hold double-digit leads over their likeliest Republican opponent, Lieutenant Governor Duke Aiona, in Rasmussen Report’s first Election 2010 survey of Hawaii’s gubernatorial race.
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 25, 2010
88% Expect To Pay More for Gas in Six Months
Gas prices have increased 85 cents over the past year to nearly $3 a gallon, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), and an overwhelming majority of Americans believe they will continue to rise. But that doesn't mean most adults are driving any less.
March 25, 2010
North Dakota House: GOP’s Berg 51%, Pomeroy 44%
Democratic Congressman Earl Pomeroy’s vote Sunday for President Obama’s national health care plan seems to have had little impact so far on North Dakota’s U.S. House race.
March 25, 2010
35% of Air Travelers Say Security Isn’t Strict Enough
Airline passengers are feeling a little more confident about airport security than they were just after the Christmas Day terrorist bombing attempt on a plane landing in Detroit.
March 25, 2010
25% Now Say China Is Biggest Threat to United States
U.S. voters are growing increasingly wary of China’s relationship with the United States.
March 25, 2010
Florida Governor: McCollum 47%, Sink 36%
State Attorney General Bill McCollum maintains his double-digit advantage over Democrat Alex Sink in the latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of the Florida gubernatorial race.
March 25, 2010
Springtime for Libya and Terrorism By Debra J. Saunders
If you want to know how Americans may look at Sept. 11 in another 10 years, look to Libya. In a luxury villa in Tripoli, Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi -- the convicted bomber of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 that left 270 dead -- has been living in style since his "compassionate release" from a Scottish prison last August, precipitated by reports that al-Megrahi had less than three months to live. You may recall the scene at the Tripoli airport, where the Lockerbie bomber received a hero's welcome before a crowd waving Libyan flags and Scottish saltires.
March 25, 2010
The Wingers Who Cried Wolf By Joe Conason
Listening to right-wing talk radio on the day after Congress passed health care reform, Bill O'Reilly was stunned. To him, the hosts and the callers sounded "crazed" as they shrieked about "the end of the world, we're socialist now, we have to take the country back."
March 25, 2010
70% Say U.S. Society Is Fair and Decent
Americans continue to have a rosier view of U.S. society than they have had in several years.
March 25, 2010
Take Student-Loan Companies Off Welfare By Froma Harrop
When the government hands money to poor people, that's welfare, Republicans say. That's taking money from productive taxpayers and encouraging dependency, they assert.
March 25, 2010
55% Favor Repeal of Health Care Bill
Just before the House of Representatives passed sweeping health care legislation last Sunday, 41% of voters nationwide favored the legislation while 54% were opposed. Now that President Obama has signed the legislation into law, most voters want to see it repealed.
March 24, 2010
Tennessee Governor: Republicans Hold Early Advantage
In the first Rasmussen Reports Election 2010 survey of the governor's race in Tennessee, all three top Republican candidates hold double-digit leads over two potential Democratic opponents, but no one earns 50% support in any of the match-ups.
March 24, 2010
26% Say U.S. Heading In Right Direction
Twenty-six percent (26%) of U.S. voters say the country is heading in the right direction, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
March 24, 2010
54% of Florida Voters Favor Suing Federal Government Over Health Care
As Florida’s attorney general, Bill McCollum is suing the federal government to prevent implementation of the newly passed health care plan.
March 24, 2010
North Carolina Senate: GOP’s Burr Feels Little Heat For Now
Little has changed in North Carolina’s U.S. Senate race, with Republican incumbent Richard Burr still well ahead of his two chief Democratic challengers.
March 24, 2010
Just 35% Say U.S. Safer Today Than Before 9/11
Confidence that America is winning the war on terror is down slightly this month, and belief that the United States is safer today than it was before 9/11 has hit its lowest level ever.
March 24, 2010
Obamacare: "The Bigger The Lie" By Howard Rich
Lost amid the partisan sniping and procedural jousting over the passage of “Obamacare” is a fundamental, unavoidable hypocrisy - one that’s worth unmasking as Washington politicians continue to ignore the will of the American people and plunge our nation deeper into full-blown socialism.
March 24, 2010
Guts and Glory By Susan Estrich
No Republicans supported Medicare in the House of Representatives until it reached the floor. It came out of the House Ways and Means and Rules committees on strict party-line votes. On the procedural vote that brought Medicare to a vote, exactly 10 Republicans voted for the bill. Only when it was clear that Democrats had the votes did it become a "bipartisan" bill, passing with the support of 70 Republicans and 237 Democrats.
