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 48%.
- Nearly two-thirds of voters suspect electronic voting machines may be vulnerable to online manipulation.
- A majority of voters under 40 favor legal limits on how much an individual can earn, including nearly a third who would set the maximum income at $1 million a year or less.
- Believing that the economy is unfair to them, a majority of voters under 40 favor legislation to confiscate “excess wealth.”
- More than half of voters think COVID-19 vaccines may have killed many people, and back Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s criticism of government health officials.
- The stabbing death of a young Ukrainian refugee on a train in Charlotte, North Carolina, has drawn nationwide attention to America’s violent crime problem.
- Economic confidence decreased to 109.4 in this month’s Rasmussen Reports Economic Index, more than two points lower than August.
- More than two-thirds of Americans say racism continues to be a problem in the country.
- Forty-four percent (44%) of Likely U.S. Voters think the country is heading in the right direction.
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