Sunday marks the 15th anniversary of the Islamic terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 that killed 3,000 Americans and injured another 6,000. But a sizable number of Americans feel their fellow countrymen have forgotten the horrors of that day. Interestingly, more are saying Muslims in this country have been mistreated ever since, even as they fear a domestic terror attack more than ever.
As with virtually every major issue we survey on these days, political party affiliation determines a voter’s views about America’s relationship with the rest of the world. Democrats think it’s great; Republicans and unaffiliated voters are a lot more skeptical.
Despite the increasing alarm expressed by the Obama administration over dangers to the election system from foreign hackers, voters are confident that things will work out fine.
Voters continue to feel that their vote counts.
Most U.S. voters think U.S. foreign policy should focus on what's best for America but believe President Obama is more interested in what's best for the world.
Confidence in the federal government remains low, and most voters still consider the feds a threat to their constitutional rights.
Voter anger at the government, an important driver in this year’s presidential race, remains high. Republicans continue to be far angrier at the government than Democrats and unaffiliated voters are, but all three groups are equally mad at Congress.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a mega-trade deal involving the United States and 11 other Pacific Rim countries. President Obama is hoping to get it through Congress before he leaves office because Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have both vowed to stop it. Do voters care?
Americans are more negative than ever about the internet’s impact on journalism and politics.
Most voters continue to oppose the U.S. government’s decision to cede its last vestige of control over the internet to an international authority and worry that some countries may try to censor web content.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump says he would put an end to “nation building," a term that in recent years has been used to describe stepped-up efforts to establish democracies in the Middle East by use of the U.S. military and U.S. taxpayer dollars. Few voters believe the government's nation-building efforts have been a success, and most agree with Trump that they should be ended.
Following news reports that federal investigators are taking a deeper look at the charitable foundation established by Bill and Hillary Clinton, voters are even more suspicious that the Democratic presidential nominee traded favors to donors while she was secretary of State.
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The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on August 11 and 14, 2016 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.
Are the stakes higher this election season? Voters seem to think so.
Voters don’t share President Obama’s upbeat assessment of the nation and strongly believe the United States is coming apart. Even the majority of his fellow Democrats share that gloomy assessment.
New Jersey last week moved a step closer to making striking union workers eligible for unemployment benefits, but most voters don't welcome that idea where they live.
Republicans are again asking questions about Hillary Clinton's health, while Democrats continue to insist that Donald Trump release his tax returns. Most voters still believe major White House hopefuls should make public recent tax returns, but now most also think they should release their medical records, too.
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Most voters – including those who are now or have been union members - believe the majority of union leaders are out of touch with their membership nationwide.
President Obama and Hillary Clinton still won't say it, but most voters continue to believe the United States is at war with radical Islamic terrorism.
Voters are more confident in the federal government these days to protect its secrets, but many, particularly Democrats, think the media shouldn’t publish the private e-mails of public officials even if they’re leaked to them.
Voters are very suspicious about the 30,000 e-mails Hillary Clinton and her staff chose to delete and not turn over to the FBI and aren’t all together sure it would be a bad thing if Russia returned those e-mails to investigators here.
