Pennsylvania Senate: Toomey (R) 45%, Sestak (D) 38%
The numbers remain little changed this month in Pennsylvania’s race for the U.S. Senate, with Republican Pat Toomey continuing to maintain a slight lead over Democrat Joe Sestak.
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July 19, 2010
July 19, 2010
61% Expect Rise in Health Care Costs Under New Law, 56% Favor Repeal
Sixty-one percent (61%) of voters nationwide now expect the cost of health care to go up under the health care reform law, the highest level of pessimism measured since the law was passed in March.
July 19, 2010
Generic Congressional Ballot: Republicans 45%, Democrats 36%
Republican candidates now hold a nine-point lead over Democrats on the Generic Congressional Ballot for the week ending Sunday, July 18, the widest gap between the two parties in several weeks.
July 19, 2010
Maine Governor: LePage (R) 39%, Mitchell (D) 31%, Cutler (I) 15%
Both the Republican and Democratic nominees have lost some support from voters this month in Maine’s gubernatorial race.
July 18, 2010
70% in Mississippi Approve of Job Barbour Is Doing As Governor
Another governor on the front lines of the Gulf oil leak gets good marks from voters in his state.
July 18, 2010
22% in Ohio Say They’re Tea Party Members
While a majority of voters in Ohio don’t consider themselves members of the Tea Party movement, almost half feel the movement is good for the country.
July 18, 2010
87% Feel Media Covers Celebrities Too Much
Eighty-seven percent (87%) of Americans feel the media pays too much attention to celebrities, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. But 84% of Adults also admit that Americans pay too much attention to celebrity news and not enough attention to news that has real impact on their lives.
July 17, 2010
Betty White's In, Lindsay Lohan's Out
So how do Americans feel about some of the prominent celebrities in the news - for better or worse - in recent days?
July 17, 2010
Wisconsin Governor: Walker (R) 48%, Barrett (D) 44%
Democrat Tom Barrett receives an increase in support this month to pull closer to both his Republican opponents in Wisconsin's gubernatorial race.
July 17, 2010
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls Ending July 17, 2010
The frustration that voters are expressing in 2010 goes much deeper than specific policies. Voters just don’t believe their elected officials are listening to them.
July 17, 2010
70% in Texas Favor Offshore Oil Drilling; 66% Support Deepwater Drilling
Voters in Texas continue to show strong support for offshore oil drilling, and in contrast to findings in other states around the country, show nearly the same level of support for deepwater drilling.
July 17, 2010
Business Knows More than Obama By Lawrence Kudlow
With a bad-blood, confidence-destroying battle royale going on between Team Obama and business, you would think a highly publicized White House jobs summit would have produced some kind of positive announcement that gives a nod to the business point of view.
July 16, 2010
Colorado Governor: Hickenlooper (D) 45%, McInnis (R) 43%
Democratic candidate John Hickenlooper has inched ahead of embattled Republican Scott McInnis for the first time since February in the race for governor of Colorado.
July 16, 2010
36% Say Government Doesn't Regulate Food Enough
Americans have fairly mixed feelings about the government regulating what they eat.
July 16, 2010
Georgia Democratic Primary for Governor: Barnes 59%, Baker 16%
Former Governor Roy Barnes appears headed toward an easy win next Tuesday in Georgia's Democratic Gubernatorial Primary race.
July 16, 2010
Washington Senate: Murray Falls Behind Two GOP Challengers
Washington's Senate race looks increasingly like a referendum on incumbent Democrat Patty Murray with two Republican candidates edging past her this month.
July 16, 2010
46% In California Favor Offshore Oil Drilling, 41% Oppose
As BP appears to be making progress with capping the Gulf oil leak, 46% of voters in California say offshore oil drilling should be allowed. That's down eight points from early April, and is 14 points lower than the national average.
July 16, 2010
47% Say GOP Takeover of Congress Would Bring ‘Noticeable Change’
Most voters now believe it is at least somewhat likely that Republicans will win control of both houses of Congress in this November’s elections, and nearly half say there will a noticeable change in the lives of Americans if this happens.
July 16, 2010
MIDTERM MORSELS: WV Senate and AL Governor By Larry J. Sabato
West Virginia Senate—It is looking very likely that we’ll have a 37th Senate election to noodle about, the extra being held in the Mountain State to choose the successor to the late Senator Robert C. Byrd (D), the longest serving member of Congress in history who passed away on June 28. At first, all indications were that a gubernatorial appointee would fill the seat until November 2012, when Sen. Byrd would have come up for his tenth Senate term. The Secretary of State in West Virginia tentatively ruled so, though West Virginia law is somewhat ambiguous on the point.
July 16, 2010
23% Say U.S. Government Has the Consent of the Governed
The notion that governments derive their only just authority from the consent of the governed is a foundational principle of the American experiment.
