More than half (57%) of Florida voters say it is at least somewhat likely they would vote for Republican Governor Charlie Crist in the state's United States Senate race in 2010. That figure includes 23% who say they are Very Likely to do so.
Like most Americans, voters in Michigan take a dim view of federal bailouts for banks and financial companies. Just 30% think they’re a good idea while 50% disagree, according to a new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of voters in the state.
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, embroiled in a budget crisis like many state chief executives these days, may need to be thinking about another line of work.
Thirty-one percent (31%) of Texas voters say that their state has the right to secede from the United States and form an independent country.
The fallout from the Rod Blagojevich scandal continues in Illinois. Sixty-two percent (62%) of Illinois voters say Roland Burris, the man the disgraced governor named to Barack Obama’s Senate seat, should resign. Just 24% believe Burris should remain in the Senate.
Half of voters in Tennessee (50%) have an unfavorable view of President Obama’s proposed $3.6 trillion budget for 2010. A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the state finds 39% view the budget favorably.
Sixty-eight percent (68%) of Arizona voters have a favorable view of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, whose aggressive enforcement of laws against illegal immigration have triggered an investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice. Forty-six percent (46%) view the sheriff very favorably.
The botched Caroline Kennedy-for-Senate affair? Proposing a slew of unpopular new taxes? These issues and more have prompted a 26-point dive in New York Governor David Paterson’s approval ratings over the last two months.
Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty may not have ruled out running for president in 2012, but most Minnesota voters already have.
Forty-seven percent (47%) of Minnesota voters now believe Democrat Al Franken has been elected to the U.S. Senate in a race so close that it’s been working its way through the state’s court system for the last four months.
The plurality of Texas voters (47%) support Governor Rick Perry’s opposition to accepting the state’s $17 billion share of the national economic stimulus package.
Eighty-four percent (84%) of Georgia voters say it is at least somewhat likely that increased crime in their communities is due to the poor economy. Fifty-nine percent (59%) say it is Very Likely in a new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the state.
While voters across the country are opposed to the government providing additional taxpayer-backed loans to General Motors and Chrysler, 52% of voters in Michigan are in favor of it.
State Farm Mutual has announced it will no longer insure homeowners in hurricane-prone Florida after the state refused the company’s request for a 47 percent increase in premiums.
Senator Arlen Specter is one of only three Republicans to support the economic stimulus bill in Congress, and the latest Rasmussen Reports survey in Pennsylvania shows that his position is costing him support back home.
Thirty-seven percent (37%) of Massachusetts voters say terminally-ill Senator Edward M. “Ted” Kennedy should retire from the Senate, according to a new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of voters in the state.
Sixty-four percent (64%) of Illinois voters say that former Governor Rod Blagojevich received a fair impeachment trial in the Illinois Senate. A Rasmussen Reports telephone survey found that just 23% disagree and 13% are not sure.
Tennessee and Texas were safely in John McCain’s column on Election Day, but over two months later views of the new Democratic president and his agenda are surprisingly high in the two reliably Republican states.
At least in his home state of Texas, former President George W. Bush gets a little respect.
Nearly half of California voters (48%) blame state legislators for California’s current budget problems.
