Jackson Is Top Choice of Illinois Democrats To Succeed Obama in Senate
Rep. Jesse L. Jackson, Jr. is the clear favorite of Illinois Democrats among the party’s top five candidates to succeed Barack Obama as the state’s junior U.S. senator.
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December 4, 2008
December 4, 2008
Pennsylvania Senate: Specter 46% Matthews 43%
Republican Senator Arlen Specter is potentially vulnerable in his 2010 bid for re-election. A Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Pennsylvania voters finds Specter leading MSNBC pundit Chris Matthews by just three percentage points, 46% to 43%, in a match-up that may foreshadow one of the nation's most closely-watched Senate races.
December 3, 2008
74% Say Government Not Doing Enough to Secure Borders
Seventy-four percent (74%) of U.S. voters continue to believe the federal government is not doing enough to secure the country’s borders, even as President-elect Obama has named a new secretary of Homeland Security who is opposed to a border fence.
December 3, 2008
59% Say Terror Attack in U.S. Likely in Next Year
Nearly three-out-of-five U.S. voters (59%) say a terrorist attack in the United States like the one last week in India is at least somewhat likely in the next year. Twenty-three percent (23%) say it is Very Likely.
December 2, 2008
55% Confident That Obama’s Team Will Beat Back Economic Woes
Fifty-five percent (55%) of Americans are at least somewhat confident that Barack Obama’s economic team can lead the country out of its current economic problems. Twenty-five percent (25%) are Very Confident.
December 1, 2008
Just 12% Give Paulson Good or Excellent Marks for Job Performance
Only 12% of U.S. voters say Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has done a good or excellent job handling the country’s credit crisis and the bailout programs aimed at helping the economy.
December 1, 2008
Voters Divided and Unsure Over Obama’s AG Choice
Voters are evenly divided over the man Barack Obama wants to be the next attorney general of the United States, but 54% don’t know enough about him to have an opinion, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
November 29, 2008
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending November 28
America’s at war and in the midst of economic problems of an historic magnitude. We’re also at the end of one presidency and the beginning of the next, with a largely new cast of characters to lead the nation at this critical time.
November 28, 2008
68% Say Obama Politically Liberal
Sixty-eight percent (68%) of American voters see Barack Obama as politically liberal, including 41% who say he is very liberal.
November 26, 2008
47% Say Biden’s Role Will Not Be As Big as Cheney’s
Nearly half of U.S. voters (47%) say Vice President-elect Joseph Biden will not play as important a role in the Obama Administration as Vice President Dick Cheney did during the Bush years.
November 26, 2008
Defense Secretary Is Popular Holdover for Obama
Gates, who has been defense secretary for two years, is viewed favorably by 44% of U.S. voters, with 16% rating their view as Very Favorable. He is regarded unfavorably by just 21%, including seven percent (7%) who say their opinion of him is Very Unfavorable.
November 25, 2008
Voters Have Low Opinion of Congressional Democrats Key to the Economy
The key Democrats on Capitol Hill who will be working to reverse the country’s financial downturn are better known than Barack Obama’s new economic team but not better thought of by voters.
November 24, 2008
New Treasury Secretary An Unknown to 53% of Voters
Wall Street is reportedly reassured by President-elect Obama’s choice of Timothy Geithner to be secretary of the Treasury, but right now 53% of U.S. voters don’t know enough about him to have an opinion about his selection.
November 24, 2008
49% Say U.S. Should Keep Guantanamo Prison Open
Nearly half of U.S. voters (49%) say the United States should not close the terrorist prison camp at Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba, but the identical number (49%) also say Barack Obama is Very likely to close it in the first year of his presidency.
November 22, 2008
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending November 21, 2008
This time it looks like Congress is listening to the voters. Nearly half of U.S. voters (48%) told Rasmussen Reports this week that it is better for the economy to let companies like General Motors fail rather than providing government subsidies to keep them in business.
November 21, 2008
53% Give Obama Good Marks on Economy – Before He Takes Office
Over half of U.S. voters (53%) give Barack Obama good or excellent marks on how he will handle the economy, up five points since right after Election Day, although he won’t formally begin to execute his plans for another two months.
November 19, 2008
Voters Rate Hillary Second Only to Powell for Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton hasn’t made up her mind yet whether to take the job, but 28% of U.S. voters say she would make the best secretary of State for incoming President Barack Obama.
November 17, 2008
42% Say Obama’s Picks for the Supreme Court Will Be Too Liberal
Depending on voters’ political party and ideology, Barack Obama’s appointments to the U.S. Supreme Court will either be too liberal or about right. Very few, however, expect his choices for the high court to be too conservative.
November 17, 2008
Voters Say Terrorists, Iran Likely To Be Obama’s First International Test
While Russia was the first country to challenge President-elect Obama with a threat to deploy new missiles facing Europe, most U.S. voters expect terrorists or Iran to provide the new president’s first international test in office.
November 15, 2008
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending November 14, 2008
President-elect Barack Obama continues to bask in the afterglow of a big and historic election, despite an equally historic post-election slump in the stock market.
