A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of voters in Illinois finds that 47% favor giving local police the authority to stop and check the immigration status of persons they suspect of being in the country illegally.
With the Iowa Republican Primary just five weeks away, former GOP Governor Terry Branstad still attracts much more support than either of his party rivals in the race against current Democratic Governor Chet Culver.
Republican Senator Charles Grassley continues to enjoy more than 50% support in match-ups with three potential Democratic challengers.
Thirty-eight percent (38%) of New York voters now approve of the job Democratic Governor David Paterson is doing, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the state. Just nine percent (9%) Strongly Approve.
Americans have felt little, if any, impact yet from the newly-passed plan to reform health care, and the majority of U.S. voters continue to give the current system positive ratings.
Most U.S. voters continue to believe the health care plan passed by Congress in late March will be bad for the country, and they favor its repeal.
Trey Grayson and Rand Paul both continue to earn more potential votes than either of their Democratic rivals in Kentucky’s race for the U.S. Senate, but both Republicans have dropped to their lowest levels of support since February.
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.
Ford’s the favorite among the state’s Big Three automakers as far as Michigan voters are concerned, while Chrysler’s the one they think is most likely to bite the dust.
Arizona’s unhappiness with the federal government’s continuing failure to secure the border with Mexico finally prompted the state to pass a bill authorizing local police to enforce federal immigration law.
Two Chicago lawmakers have urged Illinois Governor Pat Quinn to send in National Guard units to help fight the growing level of violence in the city.
The U.S. Senate race in Delaware is virtually unchanged over the past two months, with Republican Mike Castle continuing to draw strong support from the state’s voters.
Voter support for both major party candidates for governor of Illinois remains basically unchanged since the contest began.
Republican Congressman Mark Kirk has earned a modest pick-up in support, while his Democratic opponent, Alexi Giannoulias, appears stalled in the first Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in the state following the government's seizure of the failed Broadway Bank, the institution owned by Giannoulias' family.
Democratic hopeful Rory Reid still can’t raise his level of support out of the 30s in Nevada’s race for governor unless he’s pitted against the state’s unpopular Republican chief executive Jim Gibbons.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s support remains frozen again this month around 40%, while two of his chief Republican opponents continue to draw over 50% of the vote in Nevada’s U.S. Senate race.
This year’s race for governor of Oregon is a free-for-all at this stage, with a former Democratic governor who’s the best known of the candidates running slightly ahead.
State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo continues to draw strong support from New York voters in the state’s gubernatorial contest - even though he's yet to officially declare his candidacy.
Forty-nine percent (49%) of U.S. voters now believe relations between whites and Hispanics in America are getting worse, up 15 points from 34% in December.
Like voters across the nation, most Arizona voters (57%) favor an immigration policy that welcomes all immigrants except “national security threats, criminals and those who would come here to live off our welfare system.” A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Arizona voters finds that just 27% oppose such a welcoming policy.
