Eighty-one percent (81%) of American adults know someone who is out of work and looking for a job. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that the numbers vary little across demographic, partisan and income groups.
Taxpayers don't look at taxes the way the people who spend the tax money do. Take the battle over the extension of the "Bush tax cuts." Americans to Washington: They were tax cuts in 2001 and 2003. If Washington allows all or parts of the "Bush tax cuts" to expire at the end of the year, the result won't be to not cut taxes, as Beltway lingo and President Obama suggest, but to raise taxes.
Republican incumbent Johnny Isakson continues to hold a double-digit lead over Democrat Michael Thurmond in Georgia’s race for the U.S. Senate.
One-out-of-six working Americans (16%) consider themselves to be among the working poor.
Would you buy a used car from your congressman? A lot of voters probably wouldn’t.
Most voters in Florida support an immigration law like the one recently passed in Arizona in their state.
Seventy-six percent (76%) of Americans say it is at least somewhat likely that a terrorist group will detonate a nuclear weapon in the next 25 years, and that includes 45% who say it is Very Likely.
Coming off his razor-thin Republican Primary runoff win on Tuesday, former Congressman Nathan Deal earns better than 50% support against Democrat Roy Barnes in Georgia's race for governor.
The first Rasmussen Reports post-primary telephone survey of Likely Minnesota voters finds Democrat Mark Dayton leading Republican Tom Emmer and Independence Party candidate Tom Horner in the state’s gubernatorial race.
My friend Kath would have turned 60 this week.
Most Americans still oppose granting U.S. citizenship automatically to children born in America to illegal immigrants.
The more things “change,” the more they stay the same in Barack Obama’s Washington, D.C. – especially when it comes to government transparency.
The first Rasmussen Reports post-primary telephone survey of Likely Connecticut Voters finds that Democrat Richard Blumenthal has slipped below the 50% mark of support this month against Republican Linda McMahon in the state’s U.S. Senate race.
Prosecutors at the U.N. Special Court for Sierra Leone at The Hague interrupted the trial of former Liberian leader Charles Taylor last week with some comic relief. They put supermodel Naomi Campbell on the stand to tie Taylor to the trade of "blood diamonds."
Tom Tancredo’s entrance into the Colorado governor’s race cuts substantially into support for the two Republican hopefuls and gives Democrat John Hickenlooper a double-digit lead. But overall support for Hickenlooper remains where it’s been for months.
U.S. voters are now as pessimistic about America’s relationship with Israel as they are about relations with the Muslim world.
Seventy percent (70%) of U.S. voters now expect politics in Washington, D.C. to be more partisan over the next year. That's up four points from last month and the highest finding since President Obama took office in January 2009.
Most Americans think a nuclear weapon arsenal is critical to the country's safety, and they feel more is better.
Republican Bill Brady remains ahead of embattled Democratic Governor Pat Quinn in Illinois’ gubernatorial race.
