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 43%.
- The announced plan to execute a mass murderer by firing squad is more popular with American voters than the death penalty in general.
- Democrats are more trusted than Republicans to handle energy policy, and nearly half of voters think President Donald Trump’s energy policy is worse than his predecessor’s.
- Eight months into the war against Iran, less than half of voters think America is winning, and one-third see the conflict as a stalemate.
- Concerns about foreign terrorist attacks have increased among American voters in the wake of the war with Iran.
- A majority of voters believe non-citizens are illegally registered to vote in their state, and consider it likely this could have an impact on this year’s midterm elections.
- October 31 hasn’t arrived yet, but most Americans are already celebrating the “spooky season.”
- Americans remain concerned about gasoline prices, which remain higher than before the U.S. began its war with Iran.
- Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed still holds a narrow lead over former Republican Rep. Mike Rogers in Michigan’s U.S. Senate race.
- The Democratic Party has expanded its lead over Republicans to five points in the battle to control the House of Representatives.
- Thirty-three percent (33%) of Likely U.S. Voters think the country is heading in the right direction.
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