Following last weekend’s Democratic Convention in California, the party’s newly nominated gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown has gained little ground, but support for his top Republican opponent, former eBay CEO Meg Whitman, has fallen off slightly.
The Colorado State Board of Education last week voted unanimously in support of a proposed teacher-tenure reform bill now working its way through the state legislature. The bill “would change the way teachers are evaluated and allow teachers to be stripped of their tenure if they fail to meet performance standards heavily weighted by student academic growth data.”
The Arizona legislature has now passed the toughest measure against illegal immigration in the country, authorizing local police to stop and check the immigration status of anyone they suspect of being in the country illegally.
Republican Richard Burr continues to earn at least 50% support from North Carolina voters in his reelection bid for the U.S. Senate.
Likely Democratic candidate Terry Goddard now trails two potential Republican opponents in the latest look at Arizona’s gubernatorial contest.
Texas is now one of a number of states suing the federal government to stop the recently-passed national health care plan, arguing that at least one portion of it is unconstitutional.
Colorado Governor Bill Ritter, who surprised many in January when he announced he would not seek reelection this year, remains unpopular in the Centennial State.
Fifty-nine percent (59%) of Americans now believe there is a significant disagreement within the scientific community over global warming, up seven points from early December just after the so-called “Climategate” scandal involving doctored or deliberately undisclosed scientific evidence first broke.
Voters remain concerned about Social Security and whether the system can deliver what the government has promised.
Florida’s gubernatorial race may have grown a bit more competitive this month. State Attorney General Bill McCollum now attracts support for 45% of voters statewide, while Democrat Alex Sink earns the vote from 38%.
President Obama’s scaled-back plan for the space program has divided former astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, but Colorado voters are not nearly as enthusiastic about cutting back on space exploration as Americans are nationally.
State Attorney General Tom Corbett earns nearly 50% support again this month in Pennsylvania’s race for governor, while only one of his Democratic opponents seems to be gaining any traction.
Fifty-three percent (53%) of New Jersey voters approve of the job Governor Chris Christie is doing, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of voters in the state.
Voters continue to show less worry about global warming.
Following his vote for the national health care plan, Democratic Congressman Brad Ellsworth's support remains stuck in the low 30s, while two of his Republican opponents now earn 50% or more of the vote in Indiana’s U.S. Senate race.
Thirty-three percent (33%) of likely Colorado voters consider themselves members of the Tea Party movement, according to a new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the state. That compares to 24% of U.S. voters nationwide.
President Obama soon will announce his second nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, and 56% of U.S. voters believe it is fair for a U.S. senator to oppose an otherwise qualified court nominee because of disagreements over ideology or judicial philosophy.
Support for repeal of the recently-passed national health care plan is proving to be just as consistent as opposition to the plan before it was passed.
Fresh off his resounding Republican primary victory Tuesday, Texas Governor Rick Perry now finds himself in a close general election contest with Democratic nominee Bill White.
Government bailouts are still a sore subject with most voters. But the political class remains supportive of efforts to have taxpayers bail out troubled and failing companies.
