What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports:
- President Trump ended the polling week on Friday with a daily job approval of 42%.
- An agreement to secure billions of barrels of oil reserves in Venezuela, recently announced by President Donald Trump, meets with approval from a majority of American voters.
- Fewer voters see the American economy as fair than they did a year ago, and especially think the economy is unfair to low-income people.
- Views of Israel have shifted among American voters, and that could have a major impact in this fall’s midterm elections.
- Americans are almost evenly divided between those who see Labor Day as marking the end of summer and those who consider it an acknowledgement of working people.
- Less than two months before the midterm elections, nearly a third of voters are still making up their minds.
- Economic confidence decreased to 102.1 in this month’s Rasmussen Reports Economic Index, down more than two points from August.
- A Massachusetts jury deadlocked in the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, but about half of Americans say she should have been found guilty.
- Democrat state Rep. Josh Turek has a narrow lead over U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson in the race to fill the Iowa Senate seat vacated by the retirement of Republican Sen. Joni Ernst.
- Democrat Rep. Chris Pappas has opened an 11-point lead over former Republican Sen. John Sununu in the race to fill the New Hampshire Senate seat vacated by the retirement of Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen.
- Democrat Troy Jackson has a one-point lead over Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins, who is seeking her sixth term in the Senate.
- Thirty-nine percent (39%) of Likely U.S. Voters think the country is heading in the right direction.
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