Confidence in A Home As A Family’s Best Investment Down to 55%
Americans continue to show little short- or long-term confidence in the housing market, and belief in a family home as an investment has declined to its lowest point yet.
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January 12, 2010
January 12, 2010
31% Like Government Response to Airline Incident, 38% Don’t
Thirty-one percent (31%) of U.S. voters rate the government response to the attempted terrorist bombing of a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day as good or excellent, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
January 12, 2010
87% Oppose Front-Seat Computers For Drivers
For the driver already juggling a cell phone and a burger as he’s heading down the highway, it’s the next big thing: An Internet-connected dashboard computer. The perfect front-seat addition, eh?
January 12, 2010
How Harry Got His Groove Back By Debra J. Saunders
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid spent the weekend trying to finesse the news that he told "Game Change" authors Mark Halperin and John Heilemann in 2008 that he believed Barack Obama could win the White House
January 12, 2010
Why Profiling Can't Ensure Airline Security By Froma Harrop
Fifty years ago this month, a lawyer living in a posh New York suburb with his former model wife was being investigated for embezzlement. Julian Andrew Frank of Westport, Conn., took out nearly $900,000 in life insurance and then, investigators believed, boarded a National Airlines plane with a bomb and blew it up over North Carolina, killing himself and 33 others.
January 11, 2010
32% Favor Marriage Law That Punishes Verbal Abuse
France appears close to enacting the first law in the world that makes verbal and psychological abuse in marriages a criminal act. Supporters say it will help prevent future physical abuse; opponents fear it will fill up the courts with “he said, she said” cases.
January 11, 2010
Most Voters Still Say Bailouts Were a Bad Idea
Looking back, most U.S. voters still don't approve of the government bailouts of the financial industry and troubled automakers General Motors and Chrysler.
January 11, 2010
Looking Closer at the Massachusetts Senate Polls
On the surface, three recent polls on the upcoming Massachusetts special election to fill the Senate seat of the late Edward M. Kennedy seem to tell three different stories.
January 11, 2010
17% Expect Health Care Plan To Lower Costs, 57% Expect Costs to Go Up
Voter expectations that the health care legislation before Congress will become law have reached a new high, but most are still opposed to the plan.
January 11, 2010
Imagine Waugh Writing About the Christmas Bomber By Michael Barone
In Evelyn Waugh's novel "Scoop," the best book on journalism ever written, Lord Copper, proprietor of the Daily Beast, is followed around by a flunkie who responds to every statement he makes. When Lord Copper says something that is true, the flunkie says, "Absolutely, Lord Copper." When he says something that is false, the flunkie says, "Up to a point, Lord Copper."
January 10, 2010
52% Still Blame Bush for Nation’s Economic Woes
As the nation’s unemployment rate remains stubbornly high, 52% of voters nationwide continue to believe that the economic woes can still be blamed on Administration of George W. Bush. A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 41% hold the opposite view and believe the policies of Barack Obama are to blame.
January 10, 2010
Obama at War with al-Qaida By Debra J. Saunders
In the days that followed a foiled attempt to blow up Northwest Flight 253, the Obama White House clearly thought that it could bluff its way past the near disaster.
January 9, 2010
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending January 8, 2010
The week ended with unemployment still at 10%, and most of our indicators show Americans remain pretty gloomy about the country’s economic future. No wonder they’re sour on Congress and the president and what they’re up to.
January 9, 2010
Time to De-Stimulate By Lawrence Kudlow
After the arrival of a disappointing December jobs report, my thought on putting America back to work is simple: de-stimulate.
January 9, 2010
54% of Democrats Say Their Members of Congress Represent Them Well
Fifty-four percent (54%) of Democratic voters believe Democrats in Congress have done a good job representing their party’s values over the past several years.
January 8, 2010
28% Pick Colts to Win Super Bowl
As the NFL playoffs are set to begin, 28% of football fans believe the Indianapolis Colts will emerge as champions when all is said and done. A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of 719 fans found that 14% believe the Dallas Cowboys will win it all, 13% pick the Minnesota Vikings, 11% say it will be the San Diego Chargers, and 9% pick the New Orleans Saints to go all the way.
January 8, 2010
75% of GOP Voters Still Think Their Legislators Out of Touch
President Obama and congressional Democrats may be suffering these days in the polls, but Republican voters are still unhappy with the job their legislators are doing in Washington, D.C.
January 8, 2010
Partisan Hysteria Hypes (and Helps) al-Qaida By Joe Conason
The latest atrocity attempted by al-Qaida seems to be yet another example of history reprising a great tragedy as farce.
January 8, 2010
Schwarzenegger -- What Might've Been By Debra J. Saunders
Mention Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger -- you need only say his first name -- and many Californians respond with a long sigh, then with words like "squander" or "waste" or "missed opportunity." Those in the political class look at Schwarzenegger and see what might have been.
