Apple's new iPad hit shelves across the country this week, and a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 12% of Americans say they're likely to purchase one. This includes four percent (4%) who are very likely to do so.
Most adults nationwide (55%) believe bullying in schools is a bigger problem today than it was in the past, according to a new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey.
Technological advances have led to a heightened realism in video games, and new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that a majority of adults believe the violence portrayed on the screen leads to more violence off the screen.
Airline passengers are feeling a little more confident about airport security than they were just after the Christmas Day terrorist bombing attempt on a plane landing in Detroit.
The federal government has launched its multi-million dollar effort to count the population of the United States, but just 25% of Americans think the final Census numbers accurately reflect the nation’s population.
As 120 million U.S. Census forms begin to arrive in mailboxes around the country, 13% of Americans say they think it is illegal not to answer all of the Census questions.
An overwhelming majority of Americans (81%) continue to believe that people learn more practical skills through life experiences and work after college rather than in college.
Daylight Saving Time begins early tomorrow morning, but, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey, 47% of Americans don’t think the time change is worth the hassle. Forty percent (40%) disagree, and 13% more aren’t sure.
Spring is almost here, and 64% of Americans say the arrival of the new season will put them in a better mood.
Sixty percent (60%) of Americans with children in elementary or secondary school say most school textbooks are more concerned with presenting information in a politically correct manner than in accuracy.
Half (50%) of American adults believe abstinence-only education programs are at least somewhat effective in preventing teen pregnancy, but that finding includes just 15% who say they are very effective.
Americans increasingly live in a world of cell phones, laptops, Blackberries, desk computers and more, all wirelessly linked to the Internet, and now automakers even plan front-seat computers in some cars.
Three-out-of-four Americans (75%) believe young children spend too much time on computers and other electronic devices, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
Authorities are preparing for a potential surge of Haitian refugees to the United States following their country’s horrific earthquake.
The heartbreaking news from Haiti is being followed closely by 78% of American adults nationwide. That figure includes 40% who are following the grim realities Very Closely in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake.
NASA plans five more space shuttle missions this year, the first in early February, and then the historic shuttle program will come to an end.
Fifty percent (50%) of Americans now say the United States should cut back on space exploration given the current state of the economy, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
For the driver already juggling a cell phone and a burger as he’s heading down the highway, it’s the next big thing: An Internet-connected dashboard computer. The perfect front-seat addition, eh?
France appears close to enacting the first law in the world that makes verbal and psychological abuse in marriages a criminal act. Supporters say it will help prevent future physical abuse; opponents fear it will fill up the courts with “he said, she said” cases.
