Friday, January 06, 2017
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 58% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Obama's job performance. Forty-one percent (41%) disapprove.
The latest figures include 38% of who Strongly Approve of the way Obama is performing as president and 31% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of +7 (see trends).
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Even most Democrats want Donald Trump to succeed as president, but voters are far less confident that things will play out that way.
A new session of Congress has begun. Will it be better or worse than the last one? Should it work with or against Trump? We’ll tell you what voters think at 10:30 a.m. EST.
The U.S. intelligence community and senators from both parties now insist that Russian hackers did try to influence the election. Among voters who think outside factors caused Hillary Clinton to lose the election, 21% blame Russian interference.
These conclusions are sure to impact the upcoming Senate confirmation hearings on Rex Tillerson, Trump’s choice for secretary of State. Only 19% of voters consider Tillerson’s business ties to Russia and to Russian leader Vladimir Putin good for America.
With Republicans set to control both Congress and the White House, more voters than ever are expecting significant cuts in government spending.
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France recently instituted a so-called "right to disconnect" law that gives those working for companies with 50 or more employees the right to "unplug" from work-related communications during their time off. Most Americans now say they work 40 hours or more a week and want their off-duty hours to be free of anything work-related.
A surprising number of Americans know someone who has been murdered.
As recently as a year ago, only 49% thought it was safer to live in the United States than in most other countries. Fifteen percent (15%) considered it more dangerous to live here.
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Some readers wonder how we come up with our job approval ratings for the president since they often don’t show as dramatic a change as some other pollsters do. It depends on how you ask the question and whom you ask.
To get a sense of longer-term job approval trends for the president, Rasmussen Reports compiles our tracking data on a full month-by-month basis.
Rasmussen Reports has been a pioneer in the use of automated telephone polling techniques, but many other firms still utilize their own operator-assisted technology (see methodology).
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