A disappointing government jobs report last month shows there’s still a long road ahead to righting the nation’s economic problems, and voters are slowly shifting the blame for those problems away from the previous administration.
Washington and Wall Street talk, but Americans just want to know when they’re going to plug the darn hole.
When BP CEO Tony Hayward went to Capitol Hill this week, he got beat up on by all sides.
The Obama administration has decided to challenge Arizona’s new immigration law in federal court, but a recent Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 56% of U.S. voters oppose such a challenge.
Americans believe strongly that the United States needs to change its dependency on fossil fuels, but they have mixed feelings about whether government policies should encourage use of alternative energy sources in their place.
Democratic incumbent Kirsten Gillibrand maintains comfortable leads over all three of her Republican challengers in the race for U.S. Senate in New York.
Many Americans like the idea of developing clean, environmentally friendly sources of energy, but most aren’t willing to pay for it.
In its latest attempt to mitigate public outrage over out-of-control government growth, the administration of President Barack Obama has instructed a handful of federal agencies to cut their budgets by five percent.
The first Rasmussen Reports look at Senator Chuck Schumer’s reelection run in New York finds the Democrat running well ahead of two little-known Republican opponents.
If the right-wing chorus insists that the Deepwater Horizon blowout in the Gulf of Mexico is "Obama's Katrina," then let us hope the president will make the most of that slogan. The comparison between the utter failure of the Bush administration and the missteps and errors of the Obama White House is fundamentally false. Yet there is nevertheless a crucial parallel to be drawn as the fifth anniversary of the hurricane approaches.
The Texas gubernatorial race is a little tighter this month, with Republican Governor Rick Perry’s support dropping just below 50%.
Note to President Obama: The catastrophic Deepwater Horizon oil spill did not happen because Americans -- actually, the industrialized world -- have an "addiction to fossil fuels," as you suggested in Tuesday's Oval Office address.
Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe now earns 57% support in his bid for reelection in Arkansas, according to a new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in the state.
Forty-eight percent (48%) of those who plan to buy a new or used car in the next year say they are at least somewhat likely to buy either a Ford or a vehicle made by General Motors, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
Longtime Republican Senator Chuck Grassley continues to earn more than 50% support in his bid for reelection in Iowa against newly-chosen Democratic nominee Roxanne Conlin.
Voters are more critical than ever of President Obama's handling of the ongoing Gulf oil spill despite his Oval Office address to the nation Tuesday night laying out what the government has done and intends to do in response. In fact, they're nearly as critical of the president now as they are of BP and Transocean, the two companies responsible for the leak to begin with.
"Government in New York is too big, ineffective and expensive," the candidate's website proclaims. "We must get our state's fiscal house in order by immediately imposing a cap on state spending and freezing salaries of state public employees as part of a one-year emergency financial plan, committing to no increase in personal or corporate income taxes of sales taxes and imposing a local property tax cap."
Seventy-one percent (71%) of U.S. Voters rate the government’s response to the Gulf oil leak as at least somewhat important in terms of how they will vote in November, with 35% who say it is Very Important.
A modest proposal: The federal government should take over Louisiana. Might as well, at this point.
One problem with President Obama’s Oval Office speech was his declaration that 90 percent of the oil spill would be captured in “coming days and weeks.” Ah, if only government were that strong and powerful. Trouble is, the spill rate late yesterday afternoon was again revised upward toward 60,000 barrels per day from the prior estimate of 25,000.
