52% Plan To Get Flu Shots This Year
Just over half of adults (52%) say they intend to receive a flu shot this year, up from 44% last year, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
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October 8, 2008
October 8, 2008
76% Support Showing Photo ID Before Voting
Three out of four U.S. voters (76%) believe a person should be required to show photo identification at the polls before being allowed to vote, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Just 18% do not agree.
October 8, 2008
A Great Line By Susan Estrich
I'm happy to give my friend Madeleine Albright credit for the line, as Starbucks apparently has. But the truth is I've been using it for years in speeches to women about how we need to help each other get ahead in business, politics and academia.
October 8, 2008
Bafflement By Tony Blankley
There was a joke going around conservative circles during the mid-1960s that we conservatives were warned that if we voted for Barry Goldwater, America would get deeper into the Vietnam War. The punch line was that we did vote for Goldwater and America did get deeper into Vietnam.
October 8, 2008
Discover (R) U.S. Spending Monitor (SM) Down 2.2 Points to 86.5
The Discover U.S. Spending Monitor dipped 2.2 points to 86.5 in September, as consumers grew increasingly concerned about the U.S. economy and worked hard to hold-the-line on future spending plans.
October 7, 2008
Most Voters Expect Brokaw to Be Neutral at Debate
Two-thirds (67%) of U.S. voters have a favorable opinion of Tom Brokaw, the moderator of tonight’s presidential debate, and nearly as many (62%) expect him to be neutral.
October 7, 2008
Voters See Conflict Between Growth and the Environment
Fifty-four percent (54%) of Americans believe it is possible to drill offshore for oil without harming the environment, but nearly as many (48%) also acknowledge that there is a conflict between economic growth and environmental protection.
October 7, 2008
Generic Congressional Ballot Remains Steady
The Democrats’ lead has held steady this week in the latest edition of the Generic Congressional Ballot. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that, if given the choice, 45% of voters would choose their district’s Democratic candidate, while 37% would choose the Republican candidate.
October 7, 2008
Why Independents Care So Much About Health Care By Froma Harrop
Political independents now rank health care second among the issues they most want the presidential candidates to discuss, according to a Kaiser Health Tracking Poll for September. The No. 1 issue for independents, as well as for Democrats and Republicans, is the economy.
October 7, 2008
The Supersize Bailout By Debra J. Saunders
The only way Congress could pass a $700 billion economic bailout package last week was to spend an extra $110 billion that the federal government does not have.
October 6, 2008
Voters Now Trust Democrats More on All Ten Key Electoral Issues
Voters now trust Democrats more than Republicans on all ten key electoral issues tracked by Rasmussen Reports.
October 6, 2008
Most Americans Still Say U.S. Is Best Country in the World
Seventy-two percent (72%) of U.S. voters say the United States is the best nation in the world, despite the country’s economic woes and criticism of American foreign policy from abroad.
October 5, 2008
59% Would Vote to Replace Entire Congress
Congress was front and center in the national news last week and the American people were far from impressed. If they could vote to keep or replace the entire Congress, 59% of voters would like to throw them all out and start over again.
October 5, 2008
Return to Redistricting Sanity By Debra J. Saunders
As reform measures go, Proposition 11 -- the redistricting reform measure -- is hardly a transformational law likely to supercharge activists (of any political stripe) eager to make Sacramento more effective and more accountable to the public.
October 4, 2008
New Rasmussen Reports Party Weighting Targets: 39.3% Democrat 33.3% Republican
Like all polling firms, Rasmussen Reports weights its data to reflect the population at large. Among other targets, Rasmussen Reports weights data by political party affiliation using a dynamic weighting process.
October 4, 2008
45% Say Biden Won Debate, 37% Say Palin
The Vice Presidential debate on Thursday night attracted a bigger television audience than the Presidential debate a week earlier, but is not likely to have much of an impact on the results of Election 2008.
October 4, 2008
The Year of Campaign Chaos By Michael Barone
Politics ordinarily has a certain predictability. Yet presidential politics this year has often seemed to resemble what science writer James Gleick described in his book "Chaos."
October 4, 2008
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending October 3, 2008
Voters still had mixed feelings about the $700-billion financial rescue plan as it worked its torturous way through Congress last week, but for Republicans the country’s current economic mess is proving to be more and more of a drag at the polls.
October 3, 2008
The Palin-Biden Verdict By Debra J. Saunders
She passed. He passed. Palin fared better going against Joe Biden than Katie Couric.
October 3, 2008
A Heartbeat Away By Susan Estrich
For all the Republicans' complaints about Gwen Ifill, the moderator's questions were softballs compared to what Sarah Palin faced from Katie Couric. Ifill did not demand that Palin list (OK, how about just name more than one?) Supreme Court decisions. She did not push on the issue of foreign policy experience.
