Most Voters Still Don’t Like Pelosi
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi remains America’s best-known – and least-liked - congressional leader, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
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July 28, 2009
July 28, 2009
54% Expect Interest Rates To Rise In Next Year
Fifty-four percent (54%) of Americans now say interest rates will be higher a year from now, a 20-point jump from April.
July 28, 2009
Just 23% Believe Health Care Costs Will Go Down if Reform Passes Congress
Americans are fairly evenly divided on the health care reform proposals working their way through Congress, but most remain convinced that the plans will raise costs and hurt the quality of the care they receive.
July 28, 2009
All-American Kooks By Debra J. Saunders
The video features an angry woman in red, armed with a birth certificate and a small American flag, scolding Rep. Mike Castle, R-Del., at a town meeting. She is angry, she said, because President Obama "is not an American citizen. He is a citizen of Kenya."
July 28, 2009
Pot Could Be Gold for California By Froma Harrop
The popular TV series "Weeds" is about a widowed suburban mother who deals pot to preserve her family's cushy California dream. Not a few Californians would like to see the theme writ large for their state. California has legalized medical marijuana, its cannabis crop is valued at $17 billion a year, and people there smoke pot openly. But the state can't collect a penny of revenues from the enormous enterprise.
July 28, 2009
51% Lack Confidence In U.S. Banking System
Confidence in the U.S. banking system has fallen again despite billions in federal bailout funds and record profits being declared by two of Wall Street’s top financial firms.
July 27, 2009
Voters Give Supreme Court Highest Rating in Over Two Years
With President Obama’s nominee Sonia Sotomayor expected to soon join its ranks, the U.S. Supreme Court is enjoying its highest performance ratings from voters in over two years.
July 27, 2009
Rasmussen Reports Daily Prediction Challenge: Bernanke
The daily Rasmussen Reports Prediction Challenge for Monday focuses on Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.
July 27, 2009
Ford Favorables Hold Steady, GM, Chrysler Down
Most Americans still have a much higher opinion of the one Big Three automaker who didn’t ask for a government bailout, while views of the two companies that did get bailed out continue to go down.
July 27, 2009
46% More Likely To Buy Ford ‘Cause It Didn’t Get A Bailout
Public opposition to the auto bailouts may translating into consumer buying decisions, with 46% of Americans now saying they are more likely to buy a car from Ford because it did not take government money to stay in business.
July 27, 2009
Stumbling Governors Signal Trouble for Dems By Michael Barone
With polls showing a drop in Barack Obama's job rating and sinking support for the Democrats' health care plans, there is evidence of collateral damage where you might not expect to find it: in the standing of Democratic governors. Pennsylvania's Ed Rendell suddenly is getting negative job ratings in both the Quinnipiac University and the Franklin & Marshall College polls -- his lowest marks in seven years as governor.
July 27, 2009
Arizona Voters Give Legislature, Governor Poor Marks on Budget Crisis
Arizona voters aren’t thrilled with their lawmakers’ handling of the state’s budget crisis.
July 27, 2009
Most Arizona Voters Put Immigration Over Health Care as More Important Reform Goal
Fifty-one percent (51%) of Arizona voters say it is more important for Congress to pass immigration reform than health care reform. A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the state shows that 45% hold the opposite view and think health care reform is more important.
July 26, 2009
26% Say Obama Response Good or Excellent on Cambridge Cop Question
Twenty-six percent (26%) of voters nationwide say President Obama did a good or excellent job answering a press conference question about an incident involving a white Cambridge, Massachusetts policeman and a black Harvard professor.
July 26, 2009
It Won't Cost Anything! -- And It Won't Change Anything By Debra Saunders
In May, President Obama touted $17 billion in cuts he had planned for a budget of more than $3 trillion. Obama was quite proud of these cuts. Really. He told reporters that while $17 billion in cuts was considered "trivial" inside the beltway, "outside of Washington, that's still considered a lot of money."
July 25, 2009
54% Still Blame Bush for Nation’s Economic Woes
Most Americans—54%--still blame President George W. Bush for the nation’s economic woes. A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 39% say the policies of President Barack Obama are to blame.
July 25, 2009
Help Wanted. Not. By Susan Estrich
I got my first job when I was 15. Before that, I baby-sat, did piece work for a leather company that didn't care how old you were and worked at a dusty day camp.
July 25, 2009
What They Told Us: Week Ending July 24, 2009
President Obama’s key policy initiative – a massive overhaul of health care in America – appears stalled in Congress, and the likelihood of both the House and Senate approving it this month as hoped is virtually nil.
July 24, 2009
Obama's Dwindling Power By Dick Morris
Superficially, the United States appears to have a presidential system, but in fact it more and more resembles a parliamentary form of government.
July 24, 2009
California Senate: Boxer 45%, Fiorina 41%
Democratic incumbent Barbara Boxer leads former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina in an early look at California’s 2010 race for the U.S. Senate.
