Thirty-six percent (36%) of Americans say road rage is increasing in the United States, while 42% say it’s staying about the same.

Just eight percent (8%) believe road rage is decreasing, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Fourteen percent (14%) aren’t sure.

Women are slightly more inclined than men to think road rage is increasing. Men, in fact, are twice as likely as women to think it is decreasing.
Adults ages 18 to 29 see more road rage than their elders. Nearly half of those age 40 and older say it’s staying about the same.

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In a survey last September, 53% of adults agreed with a new report from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety urging lawmakers to raise the legal driving age to 18.

Fifty percent (50%) of Americans also say drunk driving laws in the United States are not tough enough.

Thirty-seven percent (37%) of U.S. voters now say the country is heading in the right direction, but 58% say it’s heading down the wrong track.

Fifty percent (50%) of Americans believe hate is growing in America following the murders of a doctor who performed late-term abortions, a military recruiter and a guard at the U.S. Holocaust Museum. Thirty-five percent (35%) disagree.

Last December, 61% of adults nationwide said life in the United States would be better if more Americans lived as Christians.

Sixty-nine percent (69%) of U.S. voters say it is more important to do volunteer work for church and community organizations than it is to get involved in politics and political campaigns.

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