On the issue of National Security, 45% of Voters now trust Republicans more than Democrats. The latest Rasmussen Reports survey found that 44% place their trust in Democrats. That’s a net swing of eight points in the GOP’s favor since early June. Still, by standards of recent political history, it’s bad news for Republicans to be even with Democrats on the national security issue.

Democrats remain the more trusted party on nine other issues. Health Care and Social Security are the issues where Democrats enjoy the biggest advantage. National Security and taxes are the best Republican issues. A separate survey found that Democrats have a 12-point advantage on the Generic Congressional Ballot.

Among unaffiliated voters, the GOP now has a modest edge on two issues—national security and immigration. On national security, unaffiliated voters prefer the GOP by a 44% to 37% margin. On immigration, the unaffiliateds prefer Republicans by a narrow 32% to 27% margin (41% don’t trust either party on the immigration issue).

While unaffiliated voters have a narrow preference for Republicans on the issue of immigration, Democrats have the edge among all voters. That’s because Republicans are far from thrilled with their own party on this issue. Just 62% of Republican voters prefer the GOP on immigration. Twenty-five percent (25%) of Republicans don’t have a preference for either party.

At the end of May, before the immigration debate began in Congress, 47% of voters trusted Democrats more on the immigration issue. That figure has fallen to 39% in the latest Rasmussen Reports poll. Preference for Republicans remained unchanged at 33% before and after the debate in Congress. The failure of the immigration legislation in the Senate proved Scott Rasmussen’s first law of politics--that politicians aren’t nearly as important as they think they are. In the end, it’s voters who determine the nation’s fundamental policies.

On three other issues, there was little change and Democrats retain a solid advantage. On the economy, Democrats are trusted more than Republicans by a 47% to 40% margin. On the situation in Iraq, Democrats are trusted more by a 48% to 38% margin. On education, the Democratic advantage is seventeen percentage points, 44% to 27%.

Rasmussen Reports updates these tracking polls in separate banks of five issues at a time. In the previous Rasmussen Reports update, 44% of voters trusted Democrats more than Republicans on tax issues while 40% have a preference for the GOP. The Democrats preferred by four points on taxes, seven points on abortion, 25 percentage points on Health Care, by 18 percentage points on Social Security, and by 13 percentage points on Education.

Rasmussen Reports regularly tracks public attitudes towards Congress, the War on Terror, and other topics. Rasmussen Reports also continuously updates favorability ratings and general election match-ups for all Democratic and Republican Presidential candidates along with ratings for Members of Congress, Other Political Figures, and Journalists. The President’s Job Approval ratings are updated daily.

Rasmussen Reports conducts ongoing surveys measuring the attitudes of Americans on the news of the day. The latest updates can be found on the Rasmussen Reports home page.

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