Rasmussen Reports Daily Prediction Challenge: Hubble Telescope
The daily Rasmussen Reports Prediction Challenge for Monday looks at NASA and the expense of the Hubble telescope.
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May 18, 2009
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
Text of Representative Harman's letter to CIA General Counsel Muller
Last week's briefing brought home to me the difficult challenges faced by the Central Intelligence Agency in the current threat environment.
May 18, 2009
Obama Changes Course on Antiterrorism By Michael Barone
Step by step, Barack Obama has been reversing himself on antiterrorist policy. Last month, he announced he would not appeal a federal court decision ordering the government to release photographs of terrorist interrogations. This was in line with his decision to release on April 16 four memoranda prepared by the Bush administration Justice Department on that subject.
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
Now the Lady Doth Protest Too Much By Debra J. Saunders
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi argued at a press conference Thursday that Republicans are focusing on how much she knew about CIA enhanced interrogation techniques in 2002 and 2003 as a "diversionary tactic to take the spotlight off those who conceived, developed and implemented these policies, which all of us long opposed."
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
Time for a Choice, Not an Echo By Bill Wilson
In what has become a daily deluge of policy shifts, high-level pronouncements, and mindless personality cult trifles, it is understandable how such a small thing gets overlooked. So, for those who missed it, the Associated Press reported on Monday that the Obama Administration plans on spending another king’s ransom to prod officials to close failing schools and reopen them with new teachers, principals and facilities.
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.
May 16, 2009
Kevin Cooper Is Guilty By Debra J. Saunders
Even when the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals does the right thing -- as it did Monday in denying convicted killer Kevin Cooper a hearing on yet another of his dubious appeals -- there is always a judge, or in this case five, on the court with an overly active imagination. And those judges don't help the court's results-oriented reputation.
May 15, 2009
Rasmussen Reports Daily Prediction Challenge: Free Health Care
The daily Rasmussen Reports Prediction Challenge for Friday looks at whether healthcare should be free to all Americans.
May 15, 2009
32% Would Pay Higher Taxes to Provide Health Insurance for All
Thirty-two percent (32%) of American adults say they’d be willing to pay higher taxes so that health insurance could be provided for all Americans. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 54% say they’re not willing to pay more in taxes.
May 15, 2009
Only 37% of GOP Voters Now Say Party Is Leaderless
As the old political saying goes, you can’t beat somebody with nobody. But a plurality of national Republican voters still think nobody’s running the show for the GOP.
May 15, 2009
Public Backs Military Tribunals for Suspected Terrorists
President Obama’s decision to keep the military commission system in place for the trials of suspected terrorists moves him closer to public opinion on the topic.
May 15, 2009
35% Rate U.S. Health Care Good or Excellent
Thirty-five percent (35%) of Americans rate the nation’s health care system as good or excellent. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 34% of the nation’s adults say the health care system is fair and 30% rate it as poor.
May 15, 2009
The Speaker Speaks By Susan Estrich
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is now claiming that intelligence officials misled her about the use of waterboarding when she was briefed in 2002. Previously, it was reported that she, as the ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee at the time, had been told about waterboarding as an interrogation technique and had raised no objections to it -- a claim that obviously called into question the speaker's support for a "truth commission" to find out who (else) took that position.
May 15, 2009
Obama's 'Public' Health Plan Will Bankrupt the Nation By Lawrence Kudlow
Does anybody really believe that adding 50 million people to the public health-care rolls will not cost the government more money? About $1.5 trillion to $2 trillion more? At least.
