[Drlee]

I guess I will give it another try.

Here goes.

President Trump last week ended Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), the so-called Obama-era “Dreamers” program, and has given Congress six months to develop an immigration reform package if it wants to protect “Dreamers" from deportation. But most voters think passage of such legislation is unlikely in the near future. In a Tweet Thursday, Trump said “No deal was made on DACA” and that “Massive border security would have to be agreed to in exchange for consent.”

This is simply a ploy to end chained arrivals. That will be the bargain. Dreamers stay, family unification goes.

Voters are also not convinced that illegal immigrants take jobs away from Americans and tend to favor the continuation of DACA, which protects from deportation the illegal immigrants who came here as children.

Voters are partially right as usual. It is not that immigrants take away jobs. It is that they drive down wages.

Despite their failure to advance President Trump’s agenda, congressional Republicans aren’t happy about his outreach to Democrats in the House and Senate, but most voters think it’s a great idea.

Meanwhile, Democrats are beginning to line up to challenge President Trump in 2020, and many now embrace Senator Bernie Sanders’ plan to offer taxpayer-funded Medicare to all Americans. Voters are evenly divided over whether Medicare for all is the way to go, even though they expect it to drive up health care costs.

Medicare is as close to an ideal plan as we have. Care under medicare is much cheaper than care under private insurance. Factor out insurance premiums and administration costs in favor of the moderate tax increases necessary to fund universal medicare and the cost of health care plummets.

A majority of voters lack faith they’ll receive all their promised Medicare benefits, but they remain conflicted over how to ensure the program stays afloat.

Typical Rasmussen. Meaningless partisan statement.

President Trump on September 8 signed a $15 billion disaster relief package for Hurricane Harvey and in anticipation of Hurricane Irma, and more voters than ever now agree the clean-up and recovery efforts in situations like these should be the federal government’s responsibility. However, voters are leery of other types of relief.

Drop in the bucket. If we are very lucky we might be able to get by with 20 times that amount. Katrina cost $215 billion in uninsured losses not including the hit to the economy. This is MUCH bigger.

Hartford, the state capital of Connecticut, is close to declaring bankruptcy, saying it won't be able to pay all its bills within 60 days. But just as they did when Detroit was nearing bankruptcy in 2013, Americans oppose bailout funding for cities with serious financial problems.

Of course they oppose it. They should. The city built a stadium with cost overruns to $120 million. Some retired police officers earn more than they earned when working. They gave corporations massive tax breaks to move there. The average salary for a police sergeant is nearly $90K per year. The city is spectacularly mismanaged.

The president and Congress are also focusing on tax reform.

No they are not. Barely a peep from them on this. Just a few Trump tweets.

Congress is currently debating whether online retailers like Amazon should charge sales tax on purchases, even if the seller and buyer aren’t in the same state. A majority of Americans do at least some shopping online, and 66% of American Adults oppose such a sales tax.

Well I thought we were a democracy. IF 66% of the people oppose something congress should be working on something else. OF course the people are forgetting the huge impact online shopping has had on local tax revenues. But republicans oppose tax increases. Right?

Americans still think sales tax is the fairest type of tax they pay, but they’re nearly as likely to see income tax as both the most and least fair type of tax today.

That statement was written by an intern.

President Trump has promised to cut taxes, and voters are generally on board, with 45% of voters say tax cuts help the economy.

Trumps tax cuts would make him the biggest spending president in history. Do republicans favor big spending? Rasmussen would never phrase it that way.

Fewer voters think the president will raise taxes compared to when he was on the campaign trail. But slightly more voters see a Trump White House with more government spending.

See the above. Trump is a big-spender. Huge.

Trump last week expressed his desire to slash the U.S. corporate tax rate from a high of 35% to 15% in order to boost job growth and help middle-class Americans.

This is an outright lie. The corporate tax rate will not boost job growth. But even if it did. No time like now when there is virtually no unemployment to boost job growth. The problem is not that there are no new jobs. The problem is that jobs do not pay enough and lack benefits. Meanwhile at Mar Largo, Trump is importing overseas workers to work there. Lots of them on work visas.

The United States currently has the highest corporate tax rate in the industrial world.

Yes. But not the highest effective tax rate. Trump wants to lower ours not to be even with others but to make our corporate tax rate the third lowest in the OECD.

-- Government employees aren't always the model of perfection and have been the subject of many a scandal. Most recently, in February of this year, a handful of Transportation Security Agency agents were arrested for allegedly smuggling massive amounts of cocaine in through the TSA airport security system in Puerto Rico for decades.

This is a news item not a poll. Why is it here? Because Rasmussen.

[Pants-of-dog]

Oh, I don't know, maybe little things like the Daily Prophets' attempt to create a vast Russia/Trump conspiracy out of thin air, or its meltdown because the First Lady wore heels onto the airplane taking the Trumps to see the Texas devastation, or the way the Daily Prophets have whitewashed the fascist Antifa violence when they haven't outright ignored it while focusing like a laser on the powerless White racist fringe. Little things like that.

You have not answered a single question about this supposed conspiracy by the press to divide the country.

I have no idea what heels thing you are talking about. Perhaps a news outlet mentioned something and you decided that this was a huge conspiracy by the news to do something which you have not explained.

I know that people have already cited studies on this forum showing that the media is actually oublishing as many editorials about the violence of the alt oeft as they are about the alt right. Even though the alt-left does not exist. Apparently, the media is a conspiracy because they do not spread your brand of dishonesty.

Anyway, since this media conspiracy of yours seems to have no set goals that you can describe, and there is no evidence of the media actually lying, let us assume that Rasmussen deliberately twists its questions to support a right wing agenda.

[Drlee]

Oh, I don't know, maybe little things like the Daily Prophets' attempt to create a vast Russia/Trump conspiracy out of thin air,

That's right. Thin air. No doubt that is why, under a republican administration, we have house and senate investigations and a special prosecutor. Give me a fucking break guy. The absolute FACT that Russia tried to meddle in our election is not even in debate except in some third-grade dropout militia circles. Then we have the absolutely undisputed FACT that Trump's son tried to get dirt on Hillary from the Russians. That is not even in question. And you call it fake news. Time for your militia meeting.

[Doug64]

:lol: That's right. Thin air. No doubt that is why, under a republican administration, we have house and senate investigations and a special prosecutor. Give me a fucking break guy. The absolute FACT that Russia tried to meddle in our election is not even in debate except in some third-grade dropout militia circles. Then we have the absolutely undisputed FACT that Trump's son tried to get dirt on Hillary from the Russians. That is not even in question. And you call it fake news. Time for your militia meeting.

When did I say that the Russians didn't try to meddle in our election, or that some in the Trump campaign didn't try to get opposition research from a Russian source?

Here's a more general question asked of American Adults:

Which type of tax is the most fair - income tax, sales tax, payroll tax or property tax?

• Income tax 30%
• Sales tax 39%
• Payroll tax 5%
• Property tax 8%
• Not sure 18%

Republicans

• Income tax 24%
• Sales tax 46%
• Payroll tax 6%
• Property tax 8%
• Not sure 17%

Independents

• Income tax 30%
• Sales tax 35%
• Payroll tax 6%
• Property tax 9%
• Not sure 20%

Democrats

• Income tax 36%
• Sales tax 38%
• Payroll tax 4%
• Property tax 5%
• Not sure 17%

Which type of tax is the least fair - income tax, sales tax, payroll tax or property tax?

• Income tax 32%
• Sales tax 17%
• Payroll tax 14%
• Property tax 23%
• Not sure 15%

Republicans

• Income tax 36%
• Sales tax 11%
• Payroll tax 11%
• Property tax 30%
• Not sure 12%

Independents

• Income tax 33%
• Sales tax 18%
• Payroll tax 15%
• Property tax 19%
• Not sure 15%

Democrats

• Income tax 26%
• Sales tax 21%
• Payroll tax 14%
• Property tax 22%
• Not sure 16%

[Doug64]

Here's this week's round-up of polls. Anyone that wants to check out any possible links over the next week can go to the link to the left. (Anyone wanting more details on a particular poll, just ask):

President Trump remained at center stage this week with his first major address to the United Nations.

While much was made by the media of those who walked out or otherwise jeered the president’s remarks, you can be sure world leaders were listening. Most voters here believe the United States should continue to participate in the United Nations, even though only 49% view the international organization as a U.S. ally. Fifteen percent, in fact, consider the UN an enemy.

The United States continues to give more money to the UN than any other country in the world, with U.S. taxpayers now funding 22% of the regular UN budget and 28% of its separate peacekeeping budget. Just 29% think taxpayers are getting a good return on their investment in the UN.

Sixty-six percent (66%) say the United States is a more positive force for good in the world today than the United Nations is.

Voters have more faith today that the United States will remain the world’s top superpower. But only 31% think the country is headed in the right direction.

The president reiterated his America First foreign policy in his speech before the United Nations but also said the responsible nations of the world have an obligation to curb aggressive bad actors like Iran and North Korea. Sixty-three percent (63%) of voters think Trump is more aggressive than most recent presidents in pushing what’s best for America.

Fifty percent (50%) see Iran as an enemy of the United States, but that’s down from a high of 83% five years ago. The breakdown in most demographic categories on this question parallel those found on other political issues these days and suggest that feelings about Trump color the results regardless of what's in the news.

In July, 75% said the United Nations and the international community should do more – up to and including military action – to prevent North Korea’s further development of nuclear weapons.

Following the president’s announcement this week of economic sanctions against countries that trade with North Korea, a top North Korean official said his country is likely to do an H-bomb test over the Pacific soon. We’ll tell you next week if U.S. voters are more in the mood for military action against the rogue Communist regime.

The president of Afghanistan at the UN this week praised Trump’s new plan for the war in his country as like “night and day” compared to the war plan of the Obama administration. Thirty-seven percent (37%) of voters here still think it is possible for the United States to win the war in Afghanistan, up from a low of 19% four years ago, but 51% foresaw a U.S. victory in December 2009.

After losing a major stronghold in Iraq, the Islamic State group (ISIS) may be close to defeat on the ground there, and voters here think the United States definitely has the edge on its radical rival of recent years.

Trump’s daily job approval ratings remained in the low 40s this week.

Among Trump’s opponents are the masked, violent “antifa” protesters who have struck in several cities, but voters don’t like what they see.

Democrats are beginning to line up to challenge the president in 2020, and many are now embracing Bernie Sanders’ plan to offer taxpayer-funded Medicare to all Americans. Voters are evenly divided over whether Medicare for all is the way to go, even though they expect it to drive up health care costs.

Most voters already believe that they won't receive all the benefits the current Medicare system has promised them even as they continue to make payments into it.

Voters have been cool in the past to a single-payer health care system controlled by the government, but they seem to be slowly coming around to the idea, even though they still think it will drive up both taxes and the federal deficit.

Just 30% of voters believe Clinton still has a future in public life.

St. Louis erupted in protests last weekend, following the acquittal of a white former St. Louis police officer who fatally shot a black man in 2011. Americans continue to believe these protests are primarily fueled by criminals taking advantage of the situation and are not an expression of legitimate outrage.

As the National Football League struggles to explain this season’s downturn in viewer ratings, 34% of American Adults say they are less likely to watch an NFL game because of the growing number of protests by players on the field.

In other surveys last week:

-- A high school in California (naturally) is discouraging students from chanting “USA” at sports events, saying it may offend some. But just 12% of voters consider the chanting of the phrase “USA” at public events as an expression of intolerance.

-- A new study from Columbia University finds suicide attempt rates among American adults on the rise, and more than half say they’ve lost someone to suicide.

-- The founder of Rolling Stone announced this week that he plans to sell the iconic music and counterculture magazine. Americans have mixed reviews of Rolling Stone, though they’re not reading magazines much these days, anyway.

[Bulaba Khan Jones]

[Bulaba note: This thread is for posting and discussing/debating on-topic (Rasmussen) political polls, not for debating Hillary and Trump and other off-topic material. If people want to debate things about Hillary and Trump, use a different thread.]

[Doug64]

For my understanding of Bulaba's last post, debating the accuracy of polls is fine (if by this point a bit boring and repetitive), or their relevance, or why the polls' responders might feel the way they do, or what the poll results might mean going forward. But for discussing the issues themselves (such as, say, which taxes are actually most fair, and most unfair), there are plenty of other threads or if not new threads can be started.

Here's this week's round-up of polls. Anyone that wants to check out any possible links over the next week can go to the link to the left. (Anyone wanting more details on a particular poll, just ask):

The United States military and an army of first responder volunteers are working to resupply and stabilize Puerto Rico after the hurricane devastation of the U.S. island territory.

Given that barrage of back-to-back summer hurricanes in the Caribbean and southern Atlantic, 67% of American Adults think this year’s hurricane season is worse than in past years, and they give high marks to those providing news coverage of the storms for the past several weeks.

However, as if a string of powerful hurricanes pounding the U.S. mainland and territories weren’t enough, tumultuous events this week continued battering the American psyche.

In St. Louis, often violent protests erupted following the acquittal of a white former St. Louis police officer who fatally shot a black man in 2011. But Americans believe those protests are primarily fueled by criminals taking advantage of the situation and are not an expression of legitimate outrage.

Since President Trump last Friday declared that players who disrespect the national anthem should be fired, respect for the anthem and the flag has become a more contentious issue both in the National Football League and in national media. Hundreds of NFL players have knelt or sat during or otherwise avoided the national anthem. Thirty-four percent (34%) of Americans say they are less likely to watch an NFL game because of the growing number of protests by players on the field.

With NFL game attendance and viewer ratings down this season and many youth football programs suffering from a lack of interest, it seems football may be falling as a fan favorite.

Americans still see the value of organized sports for youth, but many, including parents with school-aged children, say children are less likely to participate in them.

Most adults still think kids are spending too much time on computers and electronic devices, though they see it as less of an issue now than they have in the past.

North Korea remains another area of contention and concern.

Voters now think Trump is as big a threat to the United States as the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un who promises to attack us with nuclear weapons. But along party lines, 69% of Democrats rate Trump as the bigger danger, while 74% of Republicans identify Kim that way.

Attitudes toward North Korea have changed little despite the increasingly heated rhetoric between the United States and the rogue communist regime. But voters are less supportive these days of direct military action against North Korea.

In other surveys last week:

-- Through it all, most Americans continue to say their families regularly display the U.S. flag on holidays, and as in the previous survey, 85% of adults consider themselves to be patriotic Americans.

-- As in prior years, voters remain strongly convinced that their fellow countrymen are not informed voters.

-- Voters still see a lot more corruption in the federal government than in its state and local counterparts, but there’s doubt about government honesty at every level.

-- Thirty-three percent (33%) of voters now think the country is heading in the right direction.

So, just what impact has Antifa had on public opinion of US Likely Voters? Answer, not even Democrats like them much.

Do you have a very favorable, somewhat favorable, somewhat unfavorable or very unfavorable impression of the antifa protesters?

• Very favorable 8%
• Somewhat favorable 16%
• Somwhat unfavorable 18%
• Very unfavorable 40%
• Not sure 18%

Republicans

• Very favorable 4%
• Somewhat favorable 13%
• Somwhat unfavorable 15%
• Very unfavorable 58%
• Not sure 11%

Independents

• Very favorable 6%
• Somewhat favorable 14%
• Somwhat unfavorable 17%
• Very unfavorable 43%
• Not sure 21%

Democrats

• Very favorable 14%
• Somewhat favorable 22%
• Somwhat unfavorable 20%
• Very unfavorable 22%
• Not sure 21%

[Drlee]

For my understanding of Bulaba's last post, debating the accuracy of polls is fine (if by this point a bit boring and repetitive), or their relevance, or why the polls' responders might feel the way they do, or what the poll results might mean going forward. But for discussing the issues themselves (such as, say, which taxes are actually most fair, and most unfair), there are plenty of other threads or if not new threads can be started.

It is never boring or repetitive to point out blatant examples of deliberate inaccuracies or attempts to sway poll results. Otherwise people will take them for granted. Here is an example in your first line:

The United States military and an army of first responder volunteers are working to resupply and stabilize Puerto Rico after the hurricane devastation of the U.S. island territory.

There are many, myself included, who, looking a the facts realize that this is simply not objectively true. The response to Puerto Rico was puny at first and only now just beginning to ramp up to where it ought to be if indeed it ever gets there. Meanwhile, American citizens are literally dying while Americas vast military initially sat on its hands. Quoting the FEMA boss, "We did not need a three star general 8 days ago." Criminal. Rasmussen is setting a condition that is designed to sway answers and deliver a partisan political message. Define "army of".

[Pants-of-dog]

I think it is hilarious how many USians incorrectly believe that cops are never racist. Or how Rasmussen refuses to discuss it.

It is also funny how many USians believe that the increased storm severity has nothing to do with global warming. Don't worry, Rasmussen won't bring it up.

Or how many think the kneeling protests are about patriotism and the flag. Then again, Rasmussen is carefully silent about the motives of the people kneeling.

[Doug64]

There are many, myself included, who, looking a the facts realize that this is simply not objectively true. The response to Puerto Rico was puny at first and only now just beginning to ramp up to where it ought to be if indeed it ever gets there.

So you are claiming that the US military and an army of volunteers isn't in Puerto Rico doing their best to help?

Or how many think the kneeling protests are about patriotism and the flag. Then again, Rasmussen is carefully silent about the motives of the people kneeling.

When someone burns a flag as a form of protest, for me and millions like me, including I'd assume the 34% who say that the protests would make them less likely to watch the games (not including me, since I don't watch to begin with), the reason for the protest is irrelevant.

[Pants-of-dog]

Sure, as long as we agree that you think the reasons for the protest are irrelevant when debating the protest.

[Zagadka]

So you are claiming that the US military ... isn't in Puerto Rico doing their best to help?

Dunno about "best"... I'm sure the servicepeople there are doing their best, but the military machine isn't exactly being stretched. Cruise lines are bringing supplies and evacuating people... I'm fairly certain that the branches of the military could be doing a bit more than they are.

[Drlee]

So you are claiming that the US military and an army of volunteers isn't in Puerto Rico doing their best to help?

Can you read? Seriously. Can you? Look at what I posted.

Drlee wrote:
There are many, myself included, who, looking a the facts realize that this is simply not objectively true. The response to Puerto Rico was puny at first and only now just beginning to ramp up to where it ought to be if indeed it ever gets there.

You responded:

So you are claiming that the US military and an army of volunteers isn't in Puerto Rico doing their best to help?

That does not make sense. Do try to read what I post before you post some ignorant response.

Dunno about "best"... I'm sure the servicepeople there are doing their best, but the military machine isn't exactly being stretched. Cruise lines are bringing supplies and evacuating people... I'm fairly certain that the branches of the military could be doing a bit more than they are.

Of course what Doug64 cannot comprehend is that the military response was too little and bordering on too late. They are still not fully engaged. A Trump official, when asked why the three star general was only now being appointed replied, "we did not need a three star general 8 days ago". What a shit headed thing to say.

OBVIOUSLY the administration has dropped the ball on Puerto Rico.

And Doug. I don't give a fuck how hard volunteers are working. There are not enough of them. Any soldier could tell you that the US military could have had hundreds of helicopters there in 24 hours. And they still aren't there in sufficient numbers. My countrymen are dying and people are making excuses. Your response is pathetic. A complete lack of compassion. Perhaps you just can't stand the idea that your beloved republican government has screwed the pooch. But, of course, Puerto Rican's are brown.

I am just sick of weak minded people and misguided ideologues making excuses for rank incompetence.

[Hindsite]

When did I say that the Russians didn't try to meddle in our election, or that some in the Trump campaign didn't try to get opposition research from a Russian source?

Perhaps he is confusing you with me when I said that there has been no proof revealed that Russia interfered in this election. A fake News report is not proof. Liberals like to misstate what their opponents say.

[Hindsite]

OBVIOUSLY the administration has dropped the ball on Puerto Rico.

I am just sick of weak minded people and misguided ideologues making excuses for rank incompetence.

The Trump Administration did not drop the ball on Puerto Rico and your left-wing fake news and that lazy Mayor claimed as she was standing in a warehouse with boxes of bottled water and other supplies behind her. She was just too lazy to take a box cutter to open them up and distribute them. She wanted everyone else to do the work.

FEMA had a headquarters in San Juan, and she was asked to come meet with them and she never came. At the same time that she was making all these claims of no response from the Trump administration, the Governor of Puerto Rico was saying the Trump administration had responded adequately to all his requests, but that because of the situation they were having trouble delivering all the supplies which was their responsibility. Once Trump was aware of that problem, he appointed the General to handle it. If you had been listening to FOX News, you would have known that.

Perhaps you should think again about who are the weak minded people with misguided ideologues. Praise the Lord. Halleluyah.

[Drlee]

If you had been listening to FOX News, you would have known that.

I do listen to Fox News. Just not ONLY Fox News. I am a conservative you will remember.

There are cities that still don't have food or water two weeks after the event. Same on the US government.

[Hindsite]

I do listen to Fox News. Just not ONLY Fox News. I am a conservative you will remember.

There are cities that still don't have food or water two weeks after the event. Same on the US government.

Boohoo.
Dear Lord,
May your Trump of God provide those without food and water with the sound of wisdom. Amen.
Praise the Lord. HalleluYah

[Doug64]

Sure, as long as we agree that you think the reasons for the protest are irrelevant when debating the protest.

Most people are able to recognize that some forms of protest are beyond the pale, regardless of the cause espoused. Which is why engaging in such forms of protest are ultimately self-defeating, because it shifts the debate from purpose to method, and tends to discredit the purpose because of the method. For at least a majority of US Adults, showing disrespect for the flag to make a political point is in that category.

Here's this week's round-up of polls. Anyone that wants to check out any possible links over the next week can go to the link to the left. (Anyone wanting more details on a particular poll, just ask):

The schizoid character of America these days is captured in two of our latest polls.

On the one hand, the latest Rasmussen Reports Consumer Spending Update shows that economic confidence remains high and well ahead of where it was during the Obama years.

But despite the generally held view that money talks, just 29% of voters think the country is headed in the right direction. This is down from the mid-40s just after President Trump’s inauguration and back to the kind of numbers that were routine when Barack Obama was in the White House.

We’ll find out Monday if the horrendous event in Las Vegas drives that right direction number down even further.

It’s perhaps a sad commentary on the times, but Americans appear to be taking the Las Vegas massacre in stride. Most aren’t planning to change their personal habits because of it.

Voters see a need for tougher gun regulation following the Las Vegas killings but remain closely divided over whether it would prevent future mass killings.

One big problem for supporters of additional gun regulation is that just 28% of Americans trust the federal government to fairly enforce gun control laws.

Speaking of the federal government, voters aren't overwhelmed with the job their own representatives to Congress are doing but are more supportive of them than they have been in years.

Trump is pushing Congress to make the biggest changes in the U.S. tax code in years, but Democrats are already declaring that only the wealthy will benefit. Most voters agree that they’re overtaxed but don’t expect a tax cut even if Congress approves the big changes in the tax code proposed by the president.

Voters are more likely to believe Republicans in Congress are the bigger problem for Trump than Democrats are. But voters are twice as likely to think Democrats rather than Republicans will stop the president's tax reform effort in Congress.

Sixty-four percent (64%) of Democrats worry that the president and Congress will cut taxes too much. Fifty-four percent (54%) of Republicans are worried that they won’t cut taxes enough.

The president’s daily job approval rating was in the mid-40s at week’s end.

Voters strongly believe politicians at all levels of government can be swayed with cash but think local elected officials can be bought for a lot less than those higher up.

The U.S. Supreme Court returned to the bench on Monday at full-strength, but with Neil Gorsuch, Justice Antonin Scalia’s replacement, on the court, voters are more likely to think the court leans too far right. For most of President Obama’s time in office, voters though the court leaned too far to the left.

Most voters continue to believe the Supreme Court should abide by the U.S. Constitution, but that number has dropped to its lowest level in nearly a decade. Sixty-nine percent (69%) of Republicans and 58% of unaffiliated think the high court should make decisions based on what’s written in the Constitution, but 56% of Democrats feel the court should be guided mostly by a sense of fairness and justice.

In other surveys last week:

-- Americans still consider childhood obesity a big problem but also continue to say that it's none of the federal government's business. Sixty-seven percent (67%) think children are spending too much time on computers and electronic devices.

-- Most Americans think at least half of the big-time college sports programs in the country break the rules on a regular basis.

-- Sixty-four percent (64%) say college athletics have too much power and influence over colleges and universities.

With the Supreme Court having recently released at least a partial list of cases it will be considering in its next (and possibly Kennedy's last) term, here's questions from a couple polls on US Likely Voters see the Court.

Should the Supreme Court make decisions based on what's written in the Constitution and legal precedents or should it be guided mostly by a sense of fairness and justice?

• Make decisions based on what's written in the Constitution and legal precedents 54%
• Be guided mostly by a sense of fairness and justice 37%
• Not sure 10%

Republicans

• Make decisions based on what's written in the Constitution and legal precedents 69%
• Be guided mostly by a sense of fairness and justice 24%
• Not sure 7%

Independents

• Make decisions based on what's written in the Constitution and legal precedents 58%
• Be guided mostly by a sense of fairness and justice 28%
• Not sure 14%

Democrats

• Make decisions based on what's written in the Constitution and legal precedents 36%
• Be guided mostly by a sense of fairness and justice 56%
• Not sure 8%

How does the Supreme Court work today? Does it make decisions primarily based on what's written in the Constitution and legal precedents or is it guided mostly by a sense of fairness and justice?

• It makes decisions primarily based on what's written in the Constitution and legal precedents 42%
• It is it guided mostly by a sense of fairness and justice 30%
• Not sure 28%

Republicans

• It makes decisions primarily based on what's written in the Constitution and legal precedents 39%
• It is it guided mostly by a sense of fairness and justice 42%
• Not sure 20%

Independents

• It makes decisions primarily based on what's written in the Constitution and legal precedents 38%
• It is it guided mostly by a sense of fairness and justice 27%
• Not sure 35%

Democrats

• It makes decisions primarily based on what's written in the Constitution and legal precedents 50%
• It is it guided mostly by a sense of fairness and justice 21%
• Not sure 29%

These two questions are a bit simplistic, since they cover only two of the four US judicial philosophies of constitutional interpretation (Perfectionism, Originalism, Legislaturalism, and Minimalism -- otherwise knowable as Utopian, Rule of Law, Somebody Else's Problem, and Don't Rock the Boat), but still I think fair enough since AFAIK there aren't currently any real Legislaturalists or Minimalists on the Court.

In political terms is the Supreme Court too liberal, too conservative or about right?

• Too liberal 25%
• Too conservative 35%
• About right 25%
• Not sure 16%

Republicans

• Too liberal 40%
• Too conservative 21%
• About right 31%
• Not sure 8%

Independents

• Too liberal 28%
• Too conservative 27%
• About right 23%
• Not sure 23%

Democrats

• Too liberal 8%
• Too conservative 54%
• About right 21%
• Not sure 17%

[Pants-of-dog]

@Doug64

Kneeling during an anthem is so beyond the pale that are you willing to ignore the fact that cops are killing unarmed black peooe and getting away with it.

Or not.

Maybe it is just the conservative media (like Rasmussen) who are creating the debate about the protest and trying to distract from the police killing people.

[Drlee]

One big problem for supporters of additional gun regulation is that just 28% of Americans trust the federal government to fairly enforce gun control laws.

Typical Rasmussen.