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 45%.
- Inherited wealth hasn’t affected most Americans’ lives, and few see any chance it will happen in the future.
- Most voters are worried about the problem of income inequality, and the Democratic Party has a slight advantage on the issue.
- The scandal that has rocked Minnesota probably signals that fraud is widespread in federally funded benefit programs nationwide, according to a majority of American voters.
- Even before the dramatic raid that captured Venezuela’s president Nicolas Maduro, a plurality of American voters favored President Donald Trump’s policy of seizing Venezuelan oil shipments.
- The president earned a monthly job approval of 45% in December, down one point from November.
- Economic confidence increased slightly to 109.2 in this month’s Rasmussen Reports Economic Index, a fraction higher than December.
- Forty percent (40%) of Likely U.S. Voters think the country is heading in the right direction.
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