The botched Caroline Kennedy-for-Senate affair? Proposing a slew of unpopular new taxes? These issues and more have prompted a 26-point dive in New York Governor David Paterson’s approval ratings over the last two months.
America has a case of low self-esteem. And it’s not getting any better.
New Jersey’s Democratic Governor Jon S. Corzine, who hopes to win a second term in November, has now fallen behind Republican challenger Christopher J. Christie by 15 points – 49% to 34%.
Sixty-one percent (61%) of U.S. voters now have a favorable opinion of First Lady Michelle Obama, including 41% whose view of her is Very Favorable, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
Forty-one percent (41%) of U.S. voters worry that America’s preoccupation with the ongoing economic crisis will make us more vulnerable to a terrorist attack, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
Democratic incumbent Barbara Boxer leads two potential Republican challengers in an early look at California’s 2010 race for the U.S. Senate.
Fifty-two percent (52%) of U.S. voters agree with President Obama’s decision to lift the ban on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research.
Less than a quarter of Americans (23%) believe the federal government truly reflects the will of the people. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that most adults (63%) disagree, while another 14% are undecided.
Sixty-eight percent (68%) of Republican voters say their party has no clear leader, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Another 17% are undecided.
Beyond the front-page political debate and the falling stock market, Rasmussen Reports this past week got further evidence of how far-reaching the country’s economic problems have become.
Edward C. Johnson III, chairman of Fidelity Investments, said recently of government efforts to jump-start the economy, “We can only hope that the government’s cure doesn’t further sicken the patient.”
Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty may not have ruled out running for president in 2012, but most Minnesota voters already have.
Forty-one percent (41%) of voters nationwide have a favorable opinion of the $3.6-trillion budget proposed by President Obama in the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
George Lakoff, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, recently stated that “the moral mission of government is simple: no one can earn a living in America or live an American life without protection and empowerment by the government.”
Forty-seven percent (47%) of Minnesota voters now believe Democrat Al Franken has been elected to the U.S. Senate in a race so close that it’s been working its way through the state’s court system for the last four months.
Seventy-five percent (75%) of Americans believe the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right of an average citizen to own a gun, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
Just four years ago, voters said national security was the most important political issue facing the nation. During Election 2008, the economy became their top priority, and national security was a distant second.
The plurality of Texas voters (47%) support Governor Rick Perry’s opposition to accepting the state’s $17 billion share of the national economic stimulus package.
Despite efforts by the Obama political team and its surrogates to link Rush Limbaugh to the Republican Party, just 11% of GOP voters say the conservative radio commentator is the party’s leader.
Forty-three percent (43%) of Americans say it is Very Likely that the Obama Administration will try to implement stricter gun control laws even though 47% see no need for such laws.
