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%.
- Support for socialist policies and socialist candidates is now a majority position among younger voters in America.
- In the aftermath of last week’s shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis, more voters see a need for new gun control laws.
- By a 10-point margin, Democrats are more likely than Republicans to believe that their own party’s members of Congress agree with them.
- While many Americans see Labor Day as marking the end of summer, more view it as an acknowledgement of working people.
- Voters overwhelmingly think American students should get priority over foreigners at U.S. colleges, after President Donald Trump floated the idea of allowing student visas for 600,000 Chinese.
- National unemployment was 8.2% in this month’s Rasmussen Reports Real Unemployment update, up slightly from 7.9% last month and significantly more than the 4.3% rate officially reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics today.
- If school choice vouchers were available, more than half of parents with children in public school would take advantage of the programs to send their kids to private school.
- The president earned a monthly job approval of 48% in August, unchanged from July.
- Forty-five percent (45%) of Likely U.S. Voters think the country is heading in the right direction.
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