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With Father's Day coming this weekend, the overwhelming majority of Americans remain quite clear that being a dad is serious business.
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June 19, 2009
June 18, 2009
Voters Closely Divided Over Cause of Global Warming
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 42% of U.S. voters now believe human activity is the cause of global warming, while 40% say it is caused by long-term planetary trends.
June 18, 2009
Rasmussen Reports Daily Prediction Challenge: Financial System
The daily Rasmussen Reports Prediction Challenge for Thursday focuses on the financial system.
June 18, 2009
Pennsylvania 2010 Senate Match-ups: Specter, Sestak Top Toomey
Likely Republican nominee Pat Toomey trails both of the Democrats who are vying for their party’s nomination – Senator Arlen Specter and Rep. Joe Sestak – in potential match-ups for next year’s U.S. Senate race in Pennsylvania.
June 18, 2009
28% Likely To Feel Impact of Closed GM, Chrysler Dealerships
Twenty-eight percent (28%) of Americans say it’s at least somewhat likely that they will be personally impacted by the closing of General Motors and Chrysler dealerships across the country. But just nine percent (9%) say it’s very likely, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
June 18, 2009
All Politics Is Turnout -- and Enthusiasm Is Key By Michael Barone
Many psephologists -- derived from the word for pebbles, which the ancient Greeks used as ballots -- study who wins and loses elections. Lately, I've been looking more closely at turnout. For we live, though most psephologists haven't stopped to notice it lately, in a decade of vastly increased voter turnout.
June 18, 2009
Timid Obama Succumbs to Old Politics By Froma Harrop
This has been a tough week for the hopeful ones who believed President Obama's vow to break with the old politics. Every day, it seems, the president caved in to another Democratic interest group working against the public weal.
June 18, 2009
32% See Better U.S. Relationship With Muslim World
With surprising democratic election turmoil in Iran just days after President Obama’s outreach to Muslims in a speech in Egypt, U.S. voters are slightly more conflicted about America’s relationship with the Muslim world.
June 18, 2009
The Fed in Charge of Systemic Risk? What a Mess By Lawrence Kudlow
The big winner of the Obama financial-regulation plan appears to be the Federal Reserve, which becomes the consolidated supervisor of large, systemically important banks.
June 17, 2009
Healthcare: Obama's Waterloo? By Dick Morris
To quote the esteemed Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the chickens that were hatched in the stimulus package are coming home to roost in the healthcare proposal.
June 17, 2009
Pennsylvania Senate Primary: Specter 51% Sestak 32%
Senator Arlen Specter leads Congressman Joe Sestak by 19 percentage points in an early look at the 2010 Democratic Senatorial Primary in Pennsylvania.
June 17, 2009
Rasmussen Reports Daily Prediction Challenge: Iran & National Security
The daily Rasmussen Reports Prediction Challenge for Wednesday focuses on Iran and national security in the United States.
June 17, 2009
38% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Thirty-seven percent (37%) of U.S. voters say America is heading in the right direction this week.
June 17, 2009
Little Change in Perceptions of Sotomayor
A plurality of voters nationwide believe Judge Sonia Sotomayor should be confirmed as the nation’s next Supreme Court justice, and 90% say it’s likely that she will be. That figure includes 63% who say her confirmation is very likely.
June 17, 2009
48% Say It’s Too Easy To Sue Doctors, 44% Favor Caps on Jury Awards
Forty-eight percent (48%) of U.S. voters say it is too easy to sue a doctor for medical malpractice in the United States today.
June 17, 2009
The Fourth Estate By Susan Estrich
Matt Drudge is obviously not happy: "ABC TURNS PROGRAMMING OVER TO OBAMA; NEWS TO BE ANCHORED FROM INSIDE WHITE HOUSE," his headline screams, in even bigger type than that.
June 17, 2009
Just 31% Say America Will Be On Top At End of the Century
Voters have very mixed feelings about America’s place in the world in the years ahead.
June 17, 2009
A Fine Madness in the Washington Air By Tony Blankley
To borrow Niall Ferguson's metaphor, if finance is an evolutionary process, then regulation is its intelligent design -- which, I would add, is a cognate of faith, not science.
June 16, 2009
Rasmussen Reports Daily Prediction Challenge: Car Dealerships
The daily Rasmussen Reports Prediction Challenge for Tuesday focuses on General Motors and Chrysler dealerships.
June 16, 2009
Generic Ballot Remains a Tie for Second Straight Week
Democratic and Republican candidates are tied for the second straight week in the latest edition of the Generic Congressional Ballot.
