21% Say Today’s Children Will Be Better Off Than Their Parents
Although today’s children are the future of our nation, most Americans continue to believe they won’t be better off than their parents.
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March 25, 2011
March 25, 2011
Americans Show Little Support for Defending Some Treaty Partners
The United States has defense treaties with a number of nations around the globe, and Rasmussen Reports is asking Americans periodically how they feel about going to bat for these countries if they're attacked. On the latest list of nine countries, most Americans support the United States helping to defend just two of them militarily, Panama and the Bahamas.
March 25, 2011
28% Say Libya Important To U.S. National Security, 42% Disagree
While the Obama administration presses on with the military mission in Libya, few voters view the North African country as important to America’s own security.
March 25, 2011
50% Recognize that Most Americans Support Congressional Term Limits
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 50% of U.S. Likely Voters recognize that most Americans favor congressional term limits. Just 20% believe it is a view held mostly by conservatives.
March 24, 2011
45% Support U.S. Military Action in Libya, 34% Oppose, 21% Undecided
Voters have mixed feelings about President Obama's decision to use the U.S. military to help rebels in Libya and nearly half agree that he should have gotten Congress' okay first.
March 24, 2011
Only 33% Think Most Americans Blame Humans for Global Warming
President Obama, former Vice President Al Gore and the United Nations, among others, argue that global warming is chiefly caused by human activity. A plurality of voters recognize that this view is held mostly by liberals rather than by all Americans.
March 23, 2011
44% Rate Obama’s Leadership As Good or Excellent, 37% Say It’s Poor
Voters’ views of President Obama’s leadership style have rebounded from last month’s all-time low.
March 22, 2011
Voters Continue to Blame Recession Under Bush For Poor Economy
Voters continue to blame the current economic problems on the recession which began under the Bush administration. At the same time, the number who trust themselves more than President Obama to handle these issues has fallen to its lowest level in a little over a year.
March 22, 2011
34% Now Support U.S. Involvement in Libya
With the U.S. military now actively involved in Libya, voters are more supportive of an American role in the Libyan crisis but also are more critical of President Obama’s handling of the situation.?
March 21, 2011
40% Recognize That Most Americans See Government As the Problem, 46% Say That’s Mostly a Conservative View
There are certain statements that politicians and those in the political arena make every day as if they are things that everyone agrees on. The problem is, in many cases, people don’t agree on them – or do they?
March 20, 2011
Just 31% Now Give Obama Positive Marks for the Economy
The number of voters nationwide who give President Obama good or excellent marks for his handling of economic issues has fallen to a new low.
March 19, 2011
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending March 18, 2011
Much of America’s focus this past week has been on events across the Pacific and what they mean here at home.
March 18, 2011
48% At Least Somewhat Confident Japan is Fully Disclosing Nuclear Danger, 44% Are Not
Voters are closely divided over whether Japan is giving the world the straight story about its nuclear plant problems, but there’s little change in the level of concern about leaked radiation reaching this country.
March 18, 2011
60% Say Japanese Earthquake Will Hurt U.S. Economy
Voters believe the recent earthquake in Japan will damage the U.S. economy and just over one-in-four plan to donate money to help the stricken island nation.
March 17, 2011
40% Still Support New Nuclear Plants In U.S., 38% Oppose
Voters are now evenly divided when asked if more nuclear power plants should be built in this country.
March 16, 2011
43% Are At Least Somewhat Concerned Japanese Radiation May Reach United States
A sizable number of voters now worry that radiation released by the ongoing Japanese nuclear disaster may come to our shores.
March 15, 2011
16% View Interior Secretary Salazar Favorably
With gas prices soaring, the pressure's on the Obama administration to increase the number of permits for deepwater oil drilling. Right now, just 16% of Likely U.S. Voters have a favorable opinion of the man who'll grant those permits, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, with a scant one percent (1%) who regard him Very Favorably.
March 15, 2011
Public Employee Union Members More Hostile to Republicans than Private Sector Union Workers
Members of public employee unions prefer Democrats over Republicans on the Generic Congressional Ballot by a 28-percentage-point margin. Among private sector union members, the gap is half that size.
March 15, 2011
11% Say Communism Better Than U.S. System of Politics and Economics
Communism as an ideological force largely died with the collapse of the Soviet Union 20 years ago, but even with many of its horrors increasingly forgotten, U.S. voters overwhelmingly reject the ideology that contended for world dominance for much of the 20th Century.
March 14, 2011
Most Voters Still Support Guantanamo Prison, Military Tribunals for Terrorists
President Obama announced as one of his first acts in office that he planned to close the Guantanamo prison camp for terrorists in Cuba, but political and legal complications have brought that effort to a halt. The president announced recently that the facility will remain open indefinitely and that trials of the inmates by military tribunals will resume there. Voters continue to support both decisions.
