64% Say Border Control Top Immigration Priority
Most voters continue to support a welcoming immigration policy but also believe that border control should be the nation’s top immigration priority.
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June 20, 2011
June 19, 2011
49% Say Mother Was Most Influential Parent, 33% Name Father
Looking back, nearly half of American adults nationwide say mom influenced them more than dad when they were growing up.
June 19, 2011
73% Say Being a Father is Most Important Role for Men in Today’s World
Today is Father’s Day, and most adults will be doing something for their dad today.
June 18, 2011
45% Likely To Purchase Alternative Fuel Car During Next Decade
Despite the big jump in gas prices in recent months, Americans are no more enthusiastic than they were a year ago about buying a car that runs on alternative fuel.
June 18, 2011
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending June 18, 2011
For the third week in a row, a generic Republican candidate edges President Obama in a hypothetical 2012 matchup, but the race to become the GOP candidate remains wide open.
June 17, 2011
77% Say Two-Parent Home Very Important for Children
Americans almost universally agree that it’s better for children to grow up in a home with both their parents and feel strongly that such children have an edge over those whose parents are divorced.
June 17, 2011
61% Oppose Online State Lottery Sales
Many cash-strapped states are considering selling lottery tickets online to boost revenue. Some like Minnesota and New Jersey have already begun the process. But most Americans nationwide aren’t keen on the idea, perhaps because many think online gambling shouldn’t be legal.
June 17, 2011
Just 11% Say U.S. Should Be World’s Policeman
"Being the world's policeman" is a phrase often used to suggest America is the nation chiefly responsible for peace and the establishment of democracy in the rest of the world. But just 11% of Likely U.S. Voters think that should be America’s role.
June 17, 2011
You Make Me Feel So Young By Susan Estrich
It was about six years ago that my old friend Anne and I were sitting around daydreaming, and I started talking about my "perfect" house: three bedrooms (I have two children), convenient to my son's school, a yard for the dogs and, oh, yes, a peek at the ocean. Then I mentioned my spending limit, and we both burst out laughing. Not possible. When we stopped laughing, Anne announced that her mother would find it for me.
June 17, 2011
Washington's Deeper Immorality By Joe Conason
While the well-deserved departure of Anthony Weiner draws rapt attention in our tabloid nation, the depredations of less colorful but more powerful politicians go unnoticed, so long as no genitalia are involved.
June 17, 2011
83% of GOP Voters Intend to Vote Republican No Matter Who’s The Nominee
Mitt Romney declared in Monday night’s debate that any one of the current Republican candidates would make a better president than Barack Obama, and GOP voters overwhelmingly agree with him. More emphatically, they intend to vote Republican even if their first choice doesn’t win the nomination.
June 16, 2011
Economy, Health Care, Taxes Continue to Be Top Issues for Voters
The economy remains the number one issue on voters' minds, but the number who consider it Very Important has fallen to its lowest level since late 2007. The importance of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan also has dropped to record lows.
June 16, 2011
46% Are Okay With Keeping U.S. Troops in Iraq Past End of Year
Nearly two-out-of-three voters believe it is unlikely all remaining U.S. troops in Iraq will be brought home by the end of the year, and if the Iraqi government asks for some of those troops to stay, a plurality feels we should comply. Voters have mixed feelings about what America has accomplished in Iraq, but most feel the country is better off without Saddam Hussein in power.
June 16, 2011
45% of GOP Primary Voters Say It’s Bad for Party If Palin Enters Presidential Race
A plurality of Republican primary voters think it would be good for Texas Governor Rick Perry to jump into the party’s presidential race and bad for the party if former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin joined the field. They are evenly divided about former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
June 16, 2011
The Right Question for the Defense Budget By Froma Harrop
"Can we afford the military budget?" Not quite the right question, but one being asked these days even in hawkish circles. It reflects a break in the Republicans' traditional reluctance to cut defense spending and a declining enthusiasm for changing other societies through force. The mix includes a re-emerged isolationist strain and new recognition that wars can no longer be charged on the national credit card.
June 16, 2011
Romney, Bachmann, Cain Lead The Pack Among GOP Primary Voters
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney continues to lead the race for the Republican nomination, but Michele Bachmann has surged into second place following her Monday night entry into the campaign.
June 16, 2011
Romney in Front as Feisty Bachmann Gains on Pawlenty By Michael Barone
Barack Obama did not watch the Republican presidential candidates' debate in Manchester, N.H., on Monday night, we are told. He was busy addressing a campaign fundraising event in Miami.
June 16, 2011
Feinstein vs. Coburn-Feinstein By Debra J. Saunders
On Tuesday, the Senate voted 40-59 against an amendment by Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., to end the annual $6 billion (45-cents-per-gallon) tax subsidy for ethanol, as well as the 54-cents-per-gallon tariff on imported ethanol.
June 15, 2011
27% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Twenty-seven percent (27%) of Likely U.S. Voters now say the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey taken the week ending Sunday, June 12.
June 15, 2011
Americans Are Most Willing To Help Costa Rica, Dominican Republic On Latest List of Defense Partners
The United States has defense treaties with more than 50 nations, but Rasmussen Reports is finding that most Americans aren't willing to go to bat militarily for the majority of them. Out of the latest list of nine countries we've asked about, just Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic earn the support of a plurality of adults.
