Though most voters nationwide are concerned about impending terrorist attacks on the United States, the majority (60%) says the government did a good or excellent job responding to the attempted terrorist car bombing in New York’s Times Square earlier this month.
Allegheny County Chief Executive Dan Onorato is the front-runner with 34% of the vote one week before Pennsylvania Democrats pick their candidate for governor.
Congressman Joe Sestak has moved ahead of incumbent Arlen Specter in their Senate primary match-up with just over a week left before Pennsylvania Democrats go to the polls to pick their nominee.
Politically speaking, a couple things got clearer this past week, while others just got murkier.
Fifty-five percent (55%) of Colorado voters favor a law like the one just adopted in Arizona that authorizes local police to stop individuals they suspect of being illegal immigrants, according to a new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the state. Thirty-five percent (35%) oppose such a law.
Newly chosen Republican nominee Dan Coats earns 51% support while his Democratic rival Brad Ellsworth’s attracts 36% in the first Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of the Indiana Senate race following Tuesday’s GOP Primary.
For the second month in a row, Democratic incumbent Ted Strickland and Republican challenger John Kasich are essentially even in Ohio’s hotly contested race for governor.
Lieutenant Governor Lee Fisher emerged as the victor from Tuesday’s Democratic Primary, and now he and Republican nominee Rob Portman are in a virtual tie as Ohio’s U.S. Senate race begins in earnest.
Both Democratic hopefuls have picked up support this month to move back ahead of the two leading Republican contenders for governor of Connecticut.
North Carolina Democrats are now headed toward a June 22 runoff to determine who the party’s Senate nominee will be, and the first Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of the race finds Elaine Marshall leading Cal Cunningham by just five points.
Most U.S. voters still favor offshore oil drilling, but support has fallen dramatically following the oil rig explosion and major oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico.
Just 48% of Florida voters now favor off shore oil drilling, while 35% are opposed, according to a new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the state.
Republican Senator Richard Burr’s support has fallen below 50% for the first time since January in his reelection bid for U.S. Senate in North Carolina.
Democratic Senate hopeful Richard Blumenthal continues to pull in over 50% of the vote and hold a double digit lead no matter who he’s matched against.
As New York elected officials continue to bicker over the state's projected $9 billion deficit, a new Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey shows that a majority of voters hold the state legislature responsible for failing to resolve the budget crisis.
Sixty-two percent (62%) of Florida voters favor a law like Arizona’s that authorizes local police to stop and verify the immigration status of anyone they suspect of being an illegal immigrant.
Democratic incumbent Patty Murray manages to reach 50% support against her two leading announced Republican opponents in Washington State’s U.S. Senate race. But she remains in a virtual tie with another Republican, Dino Rossi, who has yet to rule himself in or out.
Just seven percent (7%) of New York voters view politicians in their state as less corrupt than those in other states, according to a new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey.
Michigan voters aren’t thrilled with their choices for governor. Two-thirds of Democratic Primary voters are either undecided or would prefer some other candidate in the race. Undecided leads among Republican Primary voters.
Support for the candidates in Colorado's U.S. Senate race largely remains in the same narrow range it's been in for months, with all three Republicans continuing to hold modest leads over their Democratic opponents.
