26% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Twenty-six percent (26%) of Likely U.S. Voters now think the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey for the week ending September 24.
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September 28, 2015
September 28, 2015
How Big An Issue Is Obamacare in the Next Election?
President Obama’s health care law might have taken a back seat to other issues like immigration in the early stages of the presidential campaign season, but will it impact how voters choose their candidates next year?
September 28, 2015
Voters Remain Critical of Obamacare’s Lack of Choices
Obamacare still hasn’t won over most voters who continue to say the health care law doesn’t offer them enough choices when it comes to health insurance.
September 26, 2015
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending September 26, 2015
Pope Francis’ visit this week to the United States is likely to have put religion on the minds of many more Americans.
September 25, 2015
Let VW Face the Same Penalties as Us -- Or Let Us Go Unpunished, Too By Ted Rall
If you did it once, you'd be fired.
If you did it hundreds of times, you'd go to prison.
Why should a corporation worth billions of dollars be treated more leniently than we individuals?
September 25, 2015
Trump Change: Is Trump Slip Slidin’ Away?
“The Donald” continues his downward slide, with this week’s Trump Change survey at its lowest level since we started the regular feature in mid-August.
September 25, 2015
"Bacha Bazi": Obama's Silence on Afghan Military's Child Rape By Michelle Malkin
American soldiers are being punished for blowing the whistle on the systematic rape and enslavement of young boys at the hands of brutal Afghan Muslim military officials.
Honorable men in uniform risked their careers and lives to stop the abuse. Yet, the White House -- which was busy tweeting about its new feminism-pandering "It's On Us" campaign against an alleged college rape crisis based on debunked statistics -- is AWOL on the actual pedophilia epidemic known as "bacha bazi." On Thursday, Obama administration flacks went out of their way to downplay Afghan child rape as "abhorrent," but "fundamentally" a local "law enforcement matter."
September 25, 2015
Voters Reject Election Advice from the Pulpit
Pope Francis addressed a joint session of the U.S. Congress yesterday emphasizing his views on immigration, climate change and political cooperation, among others. Voters have mixed feelings about the impact religious leaders have on government policy but are quite clear they don't want someone in the pulpit telling them how to vote.
September 25, 2015
Walker Withdrawal Shows Changes in Republican Contest by Michael Barone
Scott Walker's abrupt withdrawal from the Republican presidential race Monday afternoon shows how different, in ways noticed and unnoticed, this campaign cycle is from those of recent years.
September 24, 2015
Few Would Vote for a Muslim President
Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson has been criticized by other candidates and the media for saying he could not support a Muslim for president of the United States. But guess what? Over half of U.S. voters agree.
September 24, 2015
Republicans 2016: Two Down, 14 to Go By Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley
Whatever else it is, the Republican presidential contest has become a full employment act for reporters and analysts. With the largest (though gradually shrinking) field of any major party in U.S. history and a Republican electorate that appears mad as hell and isn’t going to take it anymore, the GOP caravan is careening down the highway with drivers hurling insults at one another and racing recklessly to get into position for the voting that begins in a little over four months.
September 24, 2015
VW Still More Popular Than GM, Chrysler
Volkswagen has confessed to equipping millions of diesel cars with software intended to fool emissions tests, especially in the United States, but so far the German auto company is hanging in there popularity-wise.
September 23, 2015
Syria Matters More To Voters
Increased media attention on the Syrian migrant crisis has undoubtedly raised new concerns about the global impact of that country’s ongoing civil war, and U.S. voters are listening. But does that mean the United States should take a more active role in stemming the violence?
September 23, 2015
Pope Francis threatens legacy of Pope John Paul II, Ronald Reagan By Charles Hurt
Speaking under the hateful gaze of Che Guevara in Havana’s Plaza of the Revolution — a shrine to ruthless communism — Pope Francis scolded us to “serve people, not ideas.”
September 23, 2015
Americans Value Religious Faith But Doubt Government Agrees
With Pope Francis being welcomed to the United States by President Obama and other government officials, it’s clear most Americans still see an essential place for religion in this country. But there’s been a sizable jump in the number who don’t think the government agrees.
September 23, 2015
Another Cynical Democratic "Citizenship USA" Voter Drive by Michelle Malkin
There's only one time when you can depend on the chronically backlogged, recklessly inefficient Department of Homeland Security to perform smoothly: election season.
September 23, 2015
Government: Here to Help! By John Stossel
Government wants you to think it helps you at every turn. Every time you make a decision, a purchase, government wants to be there, looking essential.
September 23, 2015
Most Say No to Federal Control of Guns
Most voters still don't think the federal government should have the final say on gun ownership and don't like a country in which only the government has guns.
September 22, 2015
The Left Has Its Pope By Thomas Sowell
Pope Francis has created political controversy, both inside and outside the Catholic Church, by blaming capitalism for many of the problems of the poor. We can no doubt expect more of the same during his visit to the United States.
September 22, 2015
Few Support Bringing More Syrian Refugees To U.S.
The Obama administration announced this week plans to increase the total number of worldwide refugees accepted into the United States to 100,000 by 2017 in response to the ongoing migrant crisis from parts of the Middle East into Europe. Few U.S. voters agree with this decision, perhaps in part because a sizable majority have national security concerns.
