NJ GOP Primary: Christie 46%, Lonegan 35%
New Jersey Republicans pick their gubernatorial candidate on Tuesday, and the latest Rasmussen Reports polling in the state shows Chris Christie leading Steve Lonegan by 11 points, 46% to 35%.
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May 28, 2009
May 28, 2009
87% Expect Sotomayor Will Be Confirmed, 45% Say She Should Be
Eighty-seven percent (87%) of the voters nationwide believe Judge Sonia Sotomayor will be confirmed as the next United States Supreme Court Justice. That figure includes 59% who believe her confirmation is Very Likely.
May 27, 2009
48% Favor Government-Mandated Paid Vacation, 42% Say it Will Hurt The Economy
Forty-eight percent (48%) of U.S. voters favor a federal law requiring companies to provide paid vacation for all full-time and part-time employees, but most don’t think it would be good for the economy.
May 26, 2009
49% Oppose Closing Guantanamo Prison Camp
Forty-nine percent (49%) of voters nationwide now disagree with President Barack Obama’s decision to close the prison camp for suspected terrorists at the Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba.
May 23, 2009
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls: Week Ending May 22, 2009
Remember, if it’s in the news, it’s in our polls. And was it ever this week.
May 22, 2009
77% See Politicians Unwillingness to Cut Government Spending as Bigger Problem Than Voter Resistance to Tax Hikes
For nearly four-out-of-five U.S. voters, the problem is not their unwillingness to pay taxes. It’s their elected representatives’ refusal to cut the size of government.
May 21, 2009
31% Say Healthy Should Be Required to Buy Health Insurance
Some Americans, generally younger adults and those in good health, decide on their own not to buy health insurance. But the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 31% of the nation’s adults believe even those who are young and healthy should be required to buy health coverage.
May 21, 2009
55% Back Higher Fuel-Efficiency Standards – Even If Car Costs More
Most Americans agree with President Obama’s push for higher fuel efficiency even if, as expected, it increases the cost of a new car.
May 21, 2009
39% Say U.S. Legal System Too Worried About Individual Rights Over National Security
In the tension between individual rights and national security, 39% of voters nationwide now believe that our legal system worries too much about protecting individual rights.
May 20, 2009
59% of Minnesota Voters Expect Pawlenty to Run For President
Most Minnesota voters like the job Governor Tim Pawlenty is doing, and even more expect him to run for president in 2012. But they don’t think he’ll get the Republican Party’s nomination.
May 20, 2009
50% Support More Taxes on Alcohol To Help Fund Universal Health Care
Fifty percent (50%) of Americans favor increasing taxes on beer, wine and other alcoholic beverages to help provide health insurance for every one in the country.
May 19, 2009
54% in Minnesota Say Coleman Should Concede Senate Race to Franken
Fifty-four percent (54%) of Minnesota voters say Republican incumbent Norm Coleman should concede the race after months of legal challenges and let Al Franken be seated in the U.S. Senate. But 41% disagree.
May 18, 2009
New York Governor: Cuomo Leads GOP, Paterson Trails
Governor David Paterson faces an uphill climb if he goes through with his announced plan to ask voters for his own four-year term in office.
May 18, 2009
50% Favor Building More Nuke Plants in U.S.
Just one-out-of-three voters (34%) now believe global warming is caused by human activity, the lowest finding yet in Rasmussen Reports national surveying. However, a plurality (48%) of the Political Class believes humans are to blame.
May 18, 2009
Michelle Obama Is Popular On Campus, Still Popular With Most Voters
Students at the newest campus in the University of California system lobbied hard to get Michelle Obama as their graduation speaker this past weekend, and that same kind of popularity is reflected in the first lady’s ratings in a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
May 18, 2009
42% Favor Free Health Care For All Americans – Unless Their Own Coverage Has To Change
Americans are evenly divided over the idea of making free health care available to every one in the country, but opposition grows dramatically when their own health insurance is involved.
May 18, 2009
54% Say Illegal Drug Use Is Primarily A Criminal Problem, Not Health Issue
Fifty-four percent (54%) of U.S. voters say illegal drug use is primarily a criminal justice issue rather than a matter of public health.
May 18, 2009
43% Say CIA May Have Misled Pelosi, 41% Disagree
Forty-three percent (43%) of voters nationwide say that it’s at least somewhat likely that the Central Intelligence Agency misled Nancy Pelosi about the use of waterboarding when interrogating prisoners.
May 17, 2009
56% of Uninsured Rate U.S. Health Care System as Poor, 26% Receive Poor Care
Most Americans without health insurance (56%) rate the U.S. health care system as poor. A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that just 20% of the uninsured believe the system as good or excellent.
May 16, 2009
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending May 15, 2009
Health care reform, one of President Barack Obama’s top priorities, was in the news a lot this past week.
