Friday’s results from the Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll show a bounce for Barack Obama. After leading by just one or two points for most of August, the Democratic hopeful opened a three-point advantage over McCain last Friday—the day before he announced Joe Biden would be his running mate.
The focus at the Democratic National Convention Thursday night is on nominee Barack Obama’s historic acceptance speech, but a man who takes the stage earlier in the evening was in Obama’s place eight years ago and remains one of the party’s most popular members.
Who is Barack Obama? What have voters been telling Rasmussen Reports about the man who has energized his fellow Democrats and tonight officially becomes the first African-American presidential candidate of a major U.S. political party?
Three out of four Democrats (74%) say the party’s ongoing national convention has unified them as they roll out now in full force to put their nominee, Barack Obama, in the White House. Just 14% think the convention has not unified them.
National security is the issue of the day at the Democratic National Convention, but it wasn’t supposed to be this way. Democrats were planning on riding opposition to the highly unpopular war in Iraq right into the White House.
Bill Clinton is expected to talk about himself at the Democratic National Convention tonight and then leave town before Barack Obama’s acceptance speech. But just over half of Democrats believe there is no animosity between the two men and that the former president wants Obama to win.
Nearly half of Democratic women (47%) say Barack Obama should have chosen Hillary Clinton for his running mate instead of Senator Joseph Biden as the former First Lady prepares to speak tonight at the Democratic National Convention. Thirty-nine percent (39%) disagree.
It’s a good thing for Republicans that Colin Powell is still one of them.
Ask Democrats which of their leaders they like (other than Barack and Hillary, of course) as they gather for their national convention in Denver, and Jimmy Carter and Al Gore lead the pack.
The spotlight on the first night of the Democratic National Convention will be on Michelle Obama, who four out of 10 voters (39%) describe as Very Liberal.
On the day that Barack Obama announced Joe Biden as his running mate, 39% of voters said he made the right choice. A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 25% disagreed and another 35% are not sure.
The national party conventions will make official over the next two weeks what we already know: The presidential race is Democrat Barack Obama versus Republican John McCain. Senator versus senator, youth versus age, experience versus “change.”
Illinois Senator Barack Obama has selected Delaware Senator Joe Biden to be his Vice Presidential Running Mate. While the suspense was maintained until nearly the last minute, Biden had been the frontrunner all week.
Former Presidential hopeful and Delaware Senator Joe Biden is the frontrunner in the Democratic Vice Presidential sweepstakes. Indiana Senator Evan Bayh is a distant second.
A growing majority of Americans believe that gaining control of the border is more important than legalizing illegal immigrants, and three out of four (74%) say the government is not doing enough to make that happen.
Forty-five percent (45%) of U.S. voters are very concerned about the safety of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons following the resignation of the country’s president, Pervez Musharraf, on Monday, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
Nearly half of U.S. voters (49%) think it is at least somewhat likely that Hillary Clinton will overshadow the Democrats’ presumptive presidential nominee Barack Obama at the party’s national political convention next week. Twenty-three percent (23%) say it is Very Likely.
While confusion continues to reign in Georgia as to Russia’s intentions there and NATO prepares to get into the act, 50% of Americans believe the United Nations should send peacekeepers to the region, but only 22% say U.S. troops should be involved.
Senator Tom Coburn is unknown to most Americans, but the strange workings of the Senate Select Committee on Ethics could end up making the Oklahoma Republican far more popular than he is today.
There were more troubling numbers for the news media this week, as voters nationwide continue to tell us that trust is an issue as far as journalists are concerned.
