What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending February 18, 2011
Money, money, money. The conservative backlash witnessed in last November’s elections is now hitting the bottom line.
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Money, money, money. The conservative backlash witnessed in last November’s elections is now hitting the bottom line.
Let the budget battle begin.
The drama on the streets of Cairo has many Americans thinking about national security and the role our country plays in the world these days.
The Rasmussen Reports Consumer Index for the full month of November shows the highest level of economic confidence in more than two-and-a-half years. The Consumer Index monthly rating of 84.3 is the highest since February 2008 but is still well below the baseline month of October 2001, just after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
When tracking President Obama’s job approval on a daily basis, people sometimes get so caught up in the day-to-day fluctuations that they miss the bigger picture. To look at the longer-term trends, Rasmussen Reports compiles the numbers on a full-month basis, and the results can be seen in the graphics below.
President Obama and congressional Democrats seem to be doing everything in their power to revive their national health care plan, but the public still isn’t buying.
Fix it or throw it out. Americans seem to be in that kind of mood these days.
“A plague on both your houses,” Shakespeare famously wrote in “Romeo and Juliet.” That seems to be the primary message voters are sending these days.
Democrats aren’t the only ones with problems this political season.
Only 30% of U.S. voters now say the country is heading in the right direction, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports national survey. That's the lowest finding on this question since mid-February but is still 13 points higher than a year ago.
Just 14% of likely voters give Congress good or excellent ratings this month, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
Thirty-two percent (32%) of likely voters believe the United States is heading in the right direction, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
Americans have a little more confidence in the U.S. banking system than they did two months ago.
Confidence in the housing market is down again, with just 61% of Americans now saying that buying a home is the best investment most families can make.
President Obama this week continued his effort to spend the country out of recession with his first speech to Congress outlining where he wants to go and his first budget showing how he plans to pay for it.
That was the week that was, and voters didn’t like much of what they saw.
Ready or not, here they come.
President Obama is quickly learning that being president is harder than just talking about it.
When TV turns digital this February, only a quarter (25%) of adults say they are at least somewhat concerned about their reception following the transition. Just 11% are Very Concerned.
The Discover U.S. Spending Monitor steadied in February as spending intentions flattened, while pessimism about the economy increased.