Mixed Reviews for EPA—47% Favorable, 45% Unfavorable
Protecting the environment is a concept most Americans embrace, but they’re not so sure about the agency set up to handle that mission.
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June 21, 2011
June 21, 2011
Generic Republican Candidate 45%, Obama 43%
For the fourth week in a row, a generic Republican candidate holds a very slight advantage over President Obama in a hypothetical 2012 election matchup.
June 20, 2011
70% Say Default is Bad for Economy, 56% Say Failure to Cut Spending is Worse
Voters strongly agree that failing to raise the federal government’s debt ceiling is bad for the economy. But most see a failure to make big cuts in government spending as a bigger long- and short-term threat than the government defaulting on the federal debt.
June 20, 2011
53% Favor Repeal of Health Care Law, 49% Say Measure Bad For Country
Voters continue to support repeal of the national health care law and feel the new law will be bad for the country. But they also tend to agree that it won't force them to change their existing health insurance coverage.
June 20, 2011
64% Say Border Control Top Immigration Priority
Most voters continue to support a welcoming immigration policy but also believe that border control should be the nation’s top immigration priority.
June 18, 2011
45% Likely To Purchase Alternative Fuel Car During Next Decade
Despite the big jump in gas prices in recent months, Americans are no more enthusiastic than they were a year ago about buying a car that runs on alternative fuel.
June 18, 2011
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending June 18, 2011
For the third week in a row, a generic Republican candidate edges President Obama in a hypothetical 2012 matchup, but the race to become the GOP candidate remains wide open.
June 17, 2011
Just 11% Say U.S. Should Be World’s Policeman
"Being the world's policeman" is a phrase often used to suggest America is the nation chiefly responsible for peace and the establishment of democracy in the rest of the world. But just 11% of Likely U.S. Voters think that should be America’s role.
June 17, 2011
83% of GOP Voters Intend to Vote Republican No Matter Who’s The Nominee
Mitt Romney declared in Monday night’s debate that any one of the current Republican candidates would make a better president than Barack Obama, and GOP voters overwhelmingly agree with him. More emphatically, they intend to vote Republican even if their first choice doesn’t win the nomination.
June 16, 2011
46% Are Okay With Keeping U.S. Troops in Iraq Past End of Year
Nearly two-out-of-three voters believe it is unlikely all remaining U.S. troops in Iraq will be brought home by the end of the year, and if the Iraqi government asks for some of those troops to stay, a plurality feels we should comply. Voters have mixed feelings about what America has accomplished in Iraq, but most feel the country is better off without Saddam Hussein in power.
June 16, 2011
45% of GOP Primary Voters Say It’s Bad for Party If Palin Enters Presidential Race
A plurality of Republican primary voters think it would be good for Texas Governor Rick Perry to jump into the party’s presidential race and bad for the party if former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin joined the field. They are evenly divided about former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
June 16, 2011
Romney, Bachmann, Cain Lead The Pack Among GOP Primary Voters
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney continues to lead the race for the Republican nomination, but Michele Bachmann has surged into second place following her Monday night entry into the campaign.
June 15, 2011
Americans Are Most Willing To Help Costa Rica, Dominican Republic On Latest List of Defense Partners
The United States has defense treaties with more than 50 nations, but Rasmussen Reports is finding that most Americans aren't willing to go to bat militarily for the majority of them. Out of the latest list of nine countries we've asked about, just Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic earn the support of a plurality of adults.
June 15, 2011
45% See Gap Between Governed and Those Who Govern As Comparable to American Revolution
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 45% of Likely U.S. Voters agree with the following statement: The gap between Americans who want to govern themselves and politicians who want to rule over them is now as big as the gap between the American colonies and England during the 18th Century.
June 14, 2011
Generic Republican Candidate 46%, Obama 44%
For the third week in a row, a generic Republican candidate leads President Obama in a hypothetical 2012 election matchup.
June 14, 2011
49% Blame Bad Economy on Bush's Recession, 44% on Obama's Policies
Voters are more closely divided than they have been all year over who is more to blame for the nation’s current economic problems — President George W. Bush or President Barack Obama.
June 14, 2011
Only 49% Think U.S. Still Needs to Belong to NATO
Less than half of U.S. voters still see a need for the United States to belong to NATO, and most question whether America’s allies in the long-standing alliance will give their full support in Afghanistan and Libya.
June 14, 2011
36% Give Positive Marks to Obama Administration’s Libya Policy
Just over one-in-three voters now look positively on the Obama administration’s handling of the situation in Libya.
June 13, 2011
Just 26% Favor Continued Military Action in Libya
A plurality of voters now opposes further U.S. military action in Libya, and most say President Obama needs congressional approval to continue those operations.
June 13, 2011
54% Favor Repeal of Health Care Law, 46% Think Repeal Likely
Most U.S. voters continue to support repeal of the national health care law and believe the new law is likely to be repealed.
