31% Say Bad Economy Has Brought Their Families Closer Together, 28% Say Opposite
Americans have mixed reactions when asked how the struggling economy is impacting their families.
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May 28, 2011
May 28, 2011
Eric Cantor's 5 Percent Growth Strategy By Lawrence Kudlow
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor turned the policy temperature down on austerity this week by rolling out a strong economic-growth agenda. Headlined by a 25 percent top tax rate for individuals and business, the Cantor package includes regulatory relief, free trade and patent protection for entrepreneurs. It's job creation and the economy, stupid.
May 28, 2011
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending May 28, 2011
Voters still seem to share Ronald Reagan’s view that government is the problem, not the solution.
May 28, 2011
Baby's Fall By Susan Estrich
I was bouncing back and forth between worrying about my daughter flying to Ukraine (very far away, 4 connections, 1 airline I'd never heard of, very far away) and worrying about what I was going to say to a very smart, tough federal judge who was about to keep me on my feet for hours arguing on behalf of my client.
May 28, 2011
In Cyberspace, Everyone's a Critic; Business Laments By Froma Harrop
On the prowl for a good dinner in a Florida town we didn't know well, I went on Yelp. Yelp is a social networking website that lets anyone review a business. One Italian restaurant looked promising, with mostly positive reviews and few grumbles. We went there, had a fine meal and told the chef-owner so. But on mentioning that we had seen the reviews on Yelp, a cloud crossed his face.
May 27, 2011
63% Say U.S. Society is Fair and Decent
Voters still believe U.S. society is fair and decent and tend to think President Obama doesn't agree with them.
May 27, 2011
53% Say Politics Involved in Government Response to Specific Disasters
While voters recognize the importance of the federal government’s role in disaster relief, many believe the response to a particular disaster may be politically motivated. There is also little confidence the government does a good job making sure relief money is distributed to all areas of need.
May 27, 2011
In New Jersey, It’s Obama 49%, Christie 44%
In Democratic-leaning New Jersey, both home state Governor Chris Christie and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney are within single digits of President Obama in hypothetical 2012 election match-ups.
May 27, 2011
On To The Senate, With A Detour In The House By Larry J. Sabato
Right now, first-term Rep. Rick Berg (R-ND) looks likely to be elected to the Senate seat left open by the retirement of Kent Conrad (D) in November 2012. The Crystal Ball wondered: How rare is it for someone to get such a fast elevation from the House to the Senate? (We realize some House members will insist it is a demotion.) We've scoured the records and identified nine members of the Senate in this category. Only senators in office sometime in the previous 50 years were included.
May 27, 2011
Where Are The Obama Scandals? By Brendan Nyhan
One of the least remarked upon aspects of the Obama presidency has been the lack of scandals. Since Watergate, presidential and executive branch scandal has been an inescapable feature of the American presidency, but the current administration has not yet suffered a major scandal, which I define as a widespread elite perception of wrongdoing. What happened, and what are the odds that the administration's streak will continue?
May 27, 2011
60% Plan to Honor Memorial Day
Just one-out-of-five American Adults have served in the U.S. military, but most of their fellow citizens plan on doing something special on Memorial Day to honor those who gave their lives for their country.
May 27, 2011
Will Obama Need To Find His Inner "Wilson"? By Rhodes Cook
Take a poll of political pundits about next year's presidential election, and most at this point would probably predict that President Barack Obama would win reelection, but with a reduced margin from 2008 in both the popular and electoral vote. Yet if that actually happens, it would be an historical rarity of the first order.
May 26, 2011
38% Plan to Take a Summer Vacation This Year
Summer may be just around the corner, but over half of Americans do not plan on taking any trips this season.
May 26, 2011
49% Consider Themselves Pro-Choice, 41% Pro-Life
A plurality of voters considers themselves pro-choice on the issue of abortion, but most still consider abortion morally unjust most of the time.
May 26, 2011
50% Expect U.S. Government To Go Bankrupt Before Budget Is Balanced
Voters clearly aren’t confident that their elected officials will wrestle federal spending under control. In fact, many now think the government’s more likely to go belly up.
May 26, 2011
Are Voters As Stupid As Insiders Think? By Debra J. Saunders
Do Americans have the will to cut government spending in order to curb the rampant growth in government debt and liabilities? Not if the politicians they send to Washington have anything to do with it.
May 26, 2011
All Eyes on the Storm By Froma Harrop
In 1954, E.B. White wrote a piece in The New Yorker about a hurricane hitting his part of Maine. The moment it left Boston, he notes in "The Eye of Edna," the radio voices declared the violent storm over -- even as it continued barreling toward the coast of Maine. When the wind "began to tear everything to pieces, what we got on the radio was a man doing a whistling act and somebody playing the glockenspiel."
May 26, 2011
GOP Voters Still More Critical of Their Congressmen Than Democrats Are
Republican voters are slightly less critical of the job their representatives in Congress are doing, but most still think the legislators are out of sync with the party base. Democratic voters, by contrast, are not as happy with the performance of their congressmen as they were a year ago.
May 26, 2011
Obama Skirts Rule of Law to Reward Pals, Punish Enemies By Michael Barone
Question: What do the following have in common? Eckert Cold Storage Co., Kerly Homes of Yuma, Classic Party Rentals, West Coast Turf Inc., Ellenbecker Investment Group Inc., Only in San Francisco, Hotel Nikko, International Pacific Halibut Commission, City of Puyallup, Local 485 Health and Welfare Fund, Chicago Plastering Institute Health & Welfare Fund, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee, Teamsters Local 522 Fund Welfare Fund Roofers Division, StayWell Saipan Basic Plan, CIGNA, Caribbean Workers' Voluntary Employees' Beneficiary Health and Welfare Plan.
May 25, 2011
29% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
For the third week in a row, 29% of Likely U.S. Voters say the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey taken the week ending Sunday, May 22.
