Democrat Dan Malloy has extended his advantage over Republican Thomas Foley in Connecticut's gubernatorial contest, according to the first Rasmussen Reports survey following the state conventions in which both candidates received their party's endorsement.
Voters strongly believe that the ongoing oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico will have a significant long-term impact on the environment, and they want the companies involved to pay for it.
Forty-six percent (46%) of U.S. voters say the Tea Party movement is good for the country, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Thirty-one percent (31%) disagree and say it’s bad for the country. Another 13% say it’s neither.
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.
With South Dakota’s Republican Primary just a week away, the three top GOP hopefuls are now all running closely competitive races with Democratic Congresswoman Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin.
As the battle to contain the massive oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico goes on, most voters continue to favor offshore oil drilling, but that support is down. Voters also remain critical of how President Obama and the companies involved are responding to the disaster.
Just after his big Republican Primary win last month, Rand Paul led his Democratic opponent Jack Conway by 25 points in Kentucky’s U.S. Senate race. Now Paul’s lead is down to just eight points.
Former Senator Lincoln Chafee and Democratic State Treasurer Frank Caprio now earn the same level of support from voters in Rhode Island’s gubernatorial election.
Just as in the case of President Obama’s first Supreme Court nominee, Sonia Sotomayor, there’s little question in voters’ minds at this point that Elena Kagan will be confirmed by the Senate. Both of Obama’s nominees run well ahead of where President George W. Bush’s choices were early in the process.
New Hampshire Governor John Lynch runs slightly stronger this month in his bid for reelection against his three chief Republican opponents but still falls short of 50% in a match-up with former state Health and Human Services Commissioner John Stephen.
The latest weekly Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey on the recently passed national health care bill finds that 60% of U.S. voters now want to see it repealed.
Voters in recent months have been increasingly skeptical of the idea that global warming is chiefly caused by human activity, but the number who blame long term planetary trends instead has now fallen back to its lowest level in nearly a year.
From Kandahar to the banks of the Rio Grande - as we approached the Memorial Day weekend, a lot of the talk in our surveys was about the U.S. military.
With just over a week to go until South Dakota Republicans pick their gubernatorial nominee, two GOP hopefuls hold sizable and near equal leads over Democratic contender Scott Heidepriem. No Democrat has been elected governor of South Dakota since 1974.
Alabama’s gubernatorial contest remains wide open, with no candidate in either party earning 50% support from the state’s voters. Both Democratic hopefuls trail three of the top Republicans in the race again this month but run neck-and-neck if former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore is the GOP contender.?
Sixty-seven percent (67%) of U.S. voters say military troops should be sent to the Mexican border to prevent illegal immigration. A new Rasmussen Reports nationwide telephone survey finds that just 18% are opposed and another 15% are not sure.
Forty-two percent (42%) of U.S. voters now say the United States will not be the most powerful nation in the world at the end of the 21st Century. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 32% disagree and believe the United States still will be the world’s number one superpower at the century’s end. Twenty-six percent (26%) more are not sure.
Only 28% of voters in Pennsylvania are confident their representatives in Congress are representing their best interests.
Democratic Lieutenant Governor Diane Denish now runs virtually even with county District Attorney Susana Martinez in a striking turnaround of the race for governor of New Mexico.
Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker, coming off last weekend’s state Republican Convention endorsement, now holds a slight lead over Democratic opponent Tom Barrett after the two ran virtually even a month ago in the contest for Wisconsin governor.
