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March 27, 2010

19% Say Their Health Is Worse Now Than A Year Ago

Roughly one-in-five American adults (19%) say their health is worse now than it was a year ago, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.

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March 27, 2010

Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854, Redux By Tony Blankley

We are now beginning to enter the Kansas-Nebraska Act stage of the socialist crisis of the Republic.

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March 26, 2010

19% Say Now Is A Good Time To Sell A House

Nineteen percent (19%) of homeowners say now is a good time for someone in their area to sell a house, a nine-point increase from a month ago and the highest finding in nearly a year of surveying on the question.

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March 26, 2010

What Really Matters By Susan Estrich

Something very scary is happening out there.

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March 26, 2010

31% Say They Owe More on Mortgage Than Their House Is Worth

The Obama administration is expected to announce today a plan that will allow those who owe more on their mortgage than their house is worth to avoid foreclosure by refinancing into a government-backed loan.

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March 26, 2010

North Dakota Senate: GOP’s Hoeven 68%, Potter 25%

For now it appears little is standing in the way of North Dakota Governor John Hoeven’s transition from the statehouse to the Capitol in Washington, D.C. Republicans gain another senator in the process, too.

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March 26, 2010

Straddling the Party Line: Health Care and the Tenuous Twenty By Isaac Wood

Looking back at last Sunday’s House vote on health care reform, it is crystal clear that the party leanings of congressional districts, not just the party identification of the congressmen, influenced the final tally. Currently, there are 46 Democrats in the House who represent districts won by John McCain in 2008.

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March 26, 2010

Hawaii Senate: Inouye 65%, Lingle 25%

Democrat Daniel Inouye has represented Hawaii in Congress since it became a state and has served as a U.S. senator since 1963. For now at least, his reelection this November seems assured.

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March 26, 2010

Hamstrung By Health Care? By Rhodes Cook

Each party in the last two decades has benefited from “big wave” elections to win control of the House of Representatives – the Republicans in 1994, the Democrats in 2006 and 2008, when they turned a distinct minority in the House into a solid majority.

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March 26, 2010

49% Support More Government Oversight of Credit Card Industry

Support for greater government oversight of the credit card industry has gone down even as a bill that includes more regulation of that industry is advancing in the U.S. Senate.

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March 26, 2010

Hawaii Governor: Two Top Democrats Well Ahead of GOP’s Aiona

 Democratic candidates Neil Abercrombie and Mufi Hannemann hold double-digit leads over their likeliest Republican opponent, Lieutenant Governor Duke Aiona, in Rasmussen Report’s first Election 2010 survey of Hawaii’s gubernatorial race.

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March 26, 2010

North Dakota Senate: GOP’s Hoeven 68%, Potter 25%

For now it appears little is standing in the way of North Dakota Governor John Hoeven’s transition from the statehouse to the Capitol in Washington, D.C. Republicans gain another senator in the process, too.

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March 25, 2010

88% Expect To Pay More for Gas in Six Months

Gas prices have increased 85 cents over the past year to nearly $3 a gallon, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), and an overwhelming majority of Americans believe they will continue to rise. But that doesn't mean most adults are driving any less.

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March 25, 2010

North Dakota House: GOP’s Berg 51%, Pomeroy 44%

Democratic Congressman Earl Pomeroy’s vote Sunday for President Obama’s national health care plan seems to have had little impact so far on North Dakota’s U.S. House race.

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March 25, 2010

35% of Air Travelers Say Security Isn’t Strict Enough

Airline passengers are feeling a little more confident about airport security than they were just after the Christmas Day terrorist bombing attempt on a plane landing in Detroit.

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March 25, 2010

25% Now Say China Is Biggest Threat to United States

U.S. voters are growing increasingly wary of China’s relationship with the United States.

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March 25, 2010

Florida Governor: McCollum 47%, Sink 36%

State Attorney General Bill McCollum maintains his double-digit advantage over Democrat Alex Sink in the latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of the Florida gubernatorial race.

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March 25, 2010

Springtime for Libya and Terrorism By Debra J. Saunders

If you want to know how Americans may look at Sept. 11 in another 10 years, look to Libya. In a luxury villa in Tripoli, Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi -- the convicted bomber of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 that left 270 dead -- has been living in style since his "compassionate release" from a Scottish prison last August, precipitated by reports that al-Megrahi had less than three months to live. You may recall the scene at the Tripoli airport, where the Lockerbie bomber received a hero's welcome before a crowd waving Libyan flags and Scottish saltires.

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March 25, 2010

The Wingers Who Cried Wolf By Joe Conason

Listening to right-wing talk radio on the day after Congress passed health care reform, Bill O'Reilly was stunned. To him, the hosts and the callers sounded "crazed" as they shrieked about "the end of the world, we're socialist now, we have to take the country back."

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March 25, 2010

70% Say U.S. Society Is Fair and Decent

Americans continue to have a rosier view of U.S. society than they have had in several years.