[One Degree]

I wonder if @Drlee gets paid by the thread to troll. I can’t see any other reason for his posts here.

[Drlee]

Ignoring those idiotic comments.....

So we are to know that you are posting poll results that the rest of us cannot confirm without paying? And you want us to treat them as valuable? And you complain to moderators when we criticize them?

Lovely.

[Doug64]

Ignoring those idiotic comments.....

So we are to know that you are posting poll results that the rest of us cannot confirm without paying? And you want us to treat them as valuable? And you complain to moderators when we criticize them?

Lovely.

I’ve never complained to moderators about people criticizing Rasmussen polls. If I have ever complained here, and I can’t remember if I ever have, it was for ad hominem attacks.

As for not having public access to the cross tabs, when was the last time Gallup made those publicly available? Just checking their website, I can’t find any readily available. There is a way to access “nearly a century of primary data,” but—horror of horrors!—that costs money, I’d guess significantly more than I pay for access to Rasmussen cross tabs.

[Hindsite]

Poll: 58 Percent of Americans Feel ‘Misunderstood by the News Media’

In a Pew Research Center poll released Friday, a majority of Americans and nearly three-quarters of Republicans responded that “news organizations don’t understand people like them” and not only that, but this disturbing answer came regardless of their news consumption habits.

Along partisan lines, 58 percent of Democrats and 25 percent of Republicans stated that they are understood by the press, but a whopping 73 percent of Republicans and a surprisingly high 40 percent of Democrats answered in the negative.

[Doug64]

Here's this weekend'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 tug of war for and against continued funding for the wall along the Mexican border led to a second missed paycheck yesterday for furloughed federal workers.

Voters blame President Trump for the ongoing partial shutdown of the federal government and tend to oppose the compromise proposal he’s made to bring it to an end.

The president late Wednesday announced he would delay his annual State of the Union message until after the partial government shutdown ended. Most Republicans think the president should give the speech as planned despite the shutdown; most Democrats disagree.

There are other fronts in the tug of war over illegal immigration.

A federal judge in New York has ruled against the Trump administration’s attempt to restore a citizenship question to the 2020 census, even though 66% of Americans think the U.S. Census should ask respondents whether they are U.S. citizens. The Trump administration is appealing that decision.

In at least a temporary victory for Trump, the U.S. Supreme Court has allowed his administration’s ban on transgender military service members to go into effect, and it continues to be a particularly divisive issue for Americans, especially along party lines.

Despite Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's continuing medical issues and her unprecedented absence from the high court, voters aren’t convinced the 85-year-old jurist will step down in time for Trump to name her replacement.

Just after the 46th anniversary of the landmark abortion case, Roe v. Wade, most voters are pro-choice and think the ruling is likely to stick for years to come.

Participation in this past Sunday’s Women’s March appears to have gone down dramatically from two years ago when the first such march was held, but voters are little changed in their view that the annual event is good for women in general.

Meanwhile, voters continue to lack trust in the federal government’s ability to get things right, and most still believe the government is out for itself.

In other surveys last week:

-- Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez this week compared fighting climate change to being like a World War. Most voters disagree with that comparison, and even a plurality of Democrats don’t think it’s true.

-- News that publisher Gannett is potentially being bought by hedge-fund-backed media group Digital First Media is just the latest sign that print news organizations are consolidating. Americans have more faith though that online and other news sources will be able to make up the difference.

-- This Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Americans weren’t particularly optimistic about the state of race relations in this country today.

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

[Doug64]

Here's the link to the Pew Research poll Hindsite mentioned: Nearly three-quarters of Republicans say the news media don’t understand people like them

[Doug64]

Here's this weekend'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 tug of war for and against continued funding for the wall along the Mexican border led to a second missed paycheck yesterday for furloughed federal workers.

Voters blame President Trump for the ongoing partial shutdown of the federal government and tend to oppose the compromise proposal he’s made to bring it to an end.

The president late Wednesday announced he would delay his annual State of the Union message until after the partial government shutdown ended. Most Republicans think the president should give the speech as planned despite the shutdown; most Democrats disagree.

There are other fronts in the tug of war over illegal immigration.

A federal judge in New York has ruled against the Trump administration’s attempt to restore a citizenship question to the 2020 census, even though 66% of Americans think the U.S. Census should ask respondents whether they are U.S. citizens. The Trump administration is appealing that decision.

In at least a temporary victory for Trump, the U.S. Supreme Court has allowed his administration’s ban on transgender military service members to go into effect, and it continues to be a particularly divisive issue for Americans, especially along party lines.

Despite Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's continuing medical issues and her unprecedented absence from the high court, voters aren’t convinced the 85-year-old jurist will step down in time for Trump to name her replacement.

Just after the 46th anniversary of the landmark abortion case, Roe v. Wade, most voters are pro-choice and think the ruling is likely to stick for years to come.

Participation in this past Sunday’s Women’s March appears to have gone down dramatically from two years ago when the first such march was held, but voters are little changed in their view that the annual event is good for women in general.

Meanwhile, voters continue to lack trust in the federal government’s ability to get things right, and most still believe the government is out for itself.

In other surveys last week:

-- Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez this week compared fighting climate change to being like a World War. Most voters disagree with that comparison, and even a plurality of Democrats don’t think it’s true.

-- News that publisher Gannett is potentially being bought by hedge-fund-backed media group Digital First Media is just the latest sign that print news organizations are consolidating. Americans have more faith though that online and other news sources will be able to make up the difference.

-- This Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Americans weren’t particularly optimistic about the state of race relations in this country today.

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

[Doug64]

Here's this weekend'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):

Just as in 2018, President Trump’s approval rating jumped dramatically after his State of the Union address Tuesday, rebounding to 50% approval in Rasmussen Reports’ daily Presidential Tracking Poll after two full nights of post-address polling.

Yet despite Trump’s call for unity in that address, most voters don’t expect Democrats in Congress to respond, and they blame partisan politics for the gridlock.

Despite the post-government shutdown delay of the president’s address, voters were expecting a big audience, and according to Nielsen, 46.8 million viewers watched it compared with 45.6 million in 2018, not including the PBS and Hispanic language audiences.

Democratic hopefuls for a 2020 presidential bid are now using Trump’s State of the Union address as a platform from which to highlight their candidacies.

Among potential candidates, former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, a centrist Democrat, appears to be contemplating a 2020 presidential run, and he stands a chance against President Trump.

But like many of the Democratic presidential wannabes, newly declared candidate Cory Booker has a name recognition problem, so voters aren’t giving him much of a chance in going all the way.

In a year in which the Democratic party swore in the most diverse, most female congressional House class in history, most voters see that trend continuing all the way to the White House.

Meanwhile, following a record-long government shutdown over an inability to reach an agreement on border wall spending, even more voters want to see Congress deal with illegal immigration. However, they’re less confident these days that President Trump and the new Democratic majority in the House can work together to achieve that goal.

Further afield in foreign policy, President Trump is pulling the United States from one of its last major nuclear arms treaties with the former Soviet Union after years of repeated violations by the Russians. Voters remain pessimistic about U.S. relations with Russia and worry that another Cold War is on the way.

Support by several prominent new Democratic members of the House has raised the profile of the effort to punish Israel economically for its treatment of the Palestinians, but few voters are ready to join in.

In other surveys last week:

-- Most voters agree that government spending and taxes are too high, but they’re divided over the impact that raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans would have.

-- New York state has just adopted a law that will allow abortions in the final three months of a pregnancy, but even voters who consider themselves pro-choice aren’t eager to see a similar law in their state.

-- President Trump earned a monthly job approval of 44% in January, down four points from the previous two months.

-- Thirty-one percent (31%) of Likely U.S. Voters think the country is heading in the right direction.

[Hindsite]

Support by several prominent new Democratic members of the House has raised the profile of the effort to punish Israel economically for its treatment of the Palestinians, but few voters are ready to join in.

That is because it is propaganda bullshit.

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 52% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Forty-seven percent (47%) disapprove.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_ ... rack_feb11

[Doug64]

Here's this weekend'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):

In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports:

- President Trump ended the week with a daily job approval of 50%.

- With the five-week government shutdown behind us, the Dow Jones Industrial Average working its way back up to October’s all-time high and the unemployment rate still near record lows, consumers are smiling once again, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports Consumer Spending Update.

- So far the facts aren’t there, but Democrats remain convinced that the Trump campaign colluded with the Russians to win the presidency. Most voters in general, however, say if Special Counsel Robert Mueller can’t prove it, Democrats should let it go.

- Americans aren’t as sweet on Valentine’s Day as the business sector might have you believe.

- With the Soviet Union fading further and further into the rearview mirror of history, Trump has voiced his concern about the cost to the United States of participating in NATO, but most voters here still don’t want to let go of the 70-year-old anti-Soviet alliance.

- Voters don’t think Democrats will ever okay funding for the president’s border wall but don’t want another government shutdown to result. Trump’s strongest supporters disagree, however, and favor the declaration of a presidential national emergency if necessary to get the job done.

- Most voters agree with Trump that border security is a vital national security interest for the United States and rate it as big a concern as North Korea, a country which has threatened us with nuclear attack.

- The economy is booming at historic levels, and America’s coming home from war. But voters say that’s not enough to make a strong country and see a need for more economic and social justice.

- Forty percent (40%) of voters think the country is heading in the right direction.

[Doug64]

Here's this weekend'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):

In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports:

- President Trump ended the week with a daily job approval of 49%.

- Bernie Sanders kicked off his 2020 presidential run raising more funding on the day of his announcement than any Democratic candidate so far, and that’s reflected in the polls where a majority of Democrats believe he is at least somewhat likely to win the nomination.

- Voters continue to prioritize growing the economy over ensuring it’s fair, but most already consider it fair.

- Hawaii is considering a proposal that would make it the first state to completely ban the sale of cigarettes, but Americans aren’t quick to embrace such a law where they live.

- Most Americans are concerned about the threat of the measles as an outbreak sweeps through the United States. They also think unvaccinated children are contributing to the spread of the virus.

- Democrats think the best thing for the United States is if the country’s best employees find government work, but Republicans aren’t so convinced.

- Most voters say top Justice Department and FBI officials are likely to have acted criminally when they secretly discussed removing President Trump from office and think a special prosecutor is needed to investigate.

- Voters have long considered Israel an ally of the United States, but one-in-five now think we go too easy on them.

- Forty percent (40%) of voters think the country is heading in the right direction.

[Doug64]

Here's this weekend'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):

In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports:

- President Trump ended the week with a daily job approval of 49%.

- Voters here don’t care much for North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, but most Democrats still consider him less of a threat to the United States than President Trump.

- Despite the lure of bigger deductions from changes in federal tax law, Americans haven’t stepped up the pace of filing their tax returns.

- To most voters, improving the country’s infrastructure is crucial for the future of the economy and the quality of life.

- At least two former governors, William Weld of Massachusetts and John Kasich of Ohio, are reportedly considering Republican primary challenges to President Trump, but GOP voters overwhelmingly approve of the job Trump is doing and consider him a shoo-in for renomination.

- Bernie Sanders who unsuccessfully sought the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016 has jumped into the race for 2020, and former Vice President Joe Biden is mulling a bid, too. But most Democrats still think their party needs to turn to someone new.

- Most voters think America is a good place for blacks and other minorities, and a sizable number suspects that many alleged hate crimes here are hoaxes like the one allegedly staged by black TV actor Jussie Smollett.

- Forty-one percent (41%) of voters think the country is heading in the right direction.

[Doug64]

Here's this weekend'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):

In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports:

- President Trump ended the week with a daily job approval of 50%.

- Daylight Saving Time is upon us again, and most Americans know which way to re-set their clocks. But that doesn’t mean they like it.

- Talk about the enemy within – voters think it’s Congress.

- Most states have designated English as their official language, and Americans continue to strongly believe that should be national policy as well.

- A bill has been introduced in the U.S. Senate that would legalize marijuana nationally, and most voters like the idea.

- Despite former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen’s much-ballyhooed testimony before Congress last week and congressional Democrats’ big investigative push against the president, voters don’t see impeachment in the cards. But they give Democrats a better chance of winning the White House in 2020.

- The president earned a monthly job approval of 49% in February, rebounding five points from January and recapturing the high ground he held for most of 2018. In January, Trump’s job approval had fallen to its lowest level in a year, but it has turned around since his well-received State of the Union address. Fifty percent (50%) still disapproved of his job performance last month, but that’s down from 55% in January.

- Voters aren’t all that supportive of a military draft, but if there is one, they think women should be just as eligible as men. Women aren’t so sure of that.

- Thirty-eight percent (38%) of voters think the country is heading in the right direction.

[Doug64]

Here's this weekend'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):

In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports:

- President Trump ended the week with a daily job approval of 48%.

- Americans strongly suspect that the just uncovered college admissions cheating scandal is only the tip of the iceberg as far as the country’s top schools are concerned.

- The Rasmussen Reports Economic Index climbed to 142.4 in March, up another seven points from last month and sitting among 2018’s highs.

- Voters have a more favorable opinion of President Trump’s leadership these days, but they still think he’s too confrontational.

- Most voters think Democrats are wrong to bar Fox News from hosting any of their presidential candidate debates but don’t want President Trump to retaliate against pro-Democratic networks.

- Voters still like the idea of across-the-board cuts in the federal budget but are increasingly pessimistic that big cuts are on the way - despite President Trump’s plan for a five-percent reduction in all non-defense discretionary spending.

- Voters still tend to oppose President Trump’s declared national emergency to build a border wall and are more likely to reward than punish members of Congress who vote to stop it.

- Voters rate anti-Semitism as an increasingly serious problem in America today and see it on the rise among Democrats.

- Thirty-seven percent (37%) of voters think the country is heading in the right direction.

[SSDR]

@Doug64, The Yankee States are falling apart. Just look at the rising obesity and how much things are getting more expensive. And that the Yankee government is providing less state assistance than they did 40 or 50 years ago. The Yanks are also losing their manufacturing sectors.

[Drlee]

Voters rate anti-Semitism as an increasingly serious problem in America today and see it on the rise among Democrats.

Rasmussen.

[Doug64]

Oops! Had a busy weekend and forgot all about this. Here's this weekend'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):

In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports:

- President Trump ended the week with a daily job approval of 45%.

- Americans have stepped up the pace of filing their income taxes and aren’t particularly worried about an IRS audit.

- More Americans than ever think they are overtaxed despite last year’s tax cuts and tax reform.

- Most voters tune into National Public Radio during the course of a month, but far fewer think taxpayers should continue to subsidize it.

- Democrats, increasingly worried about the U.S. Supreme Court tilting to the right, have been talking lately about changes in its overall makeup. Most voters like the idea of term-limiting the justices but draw the line at adding more members to the court.

- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters last week that she’s always favored lowering the voting age to 16, but there’s very little voter support for that idea.

- Former Republican Vice President Dick Cheney, one of the architects of the war in Iraq, recently criticized President Trump’s foreign policy as being “more like Barack Obama than like Ronald Reagan,” but voters aren’t buying it.

- Americans continue to agree with President Trump that free speech, especially the conservative kind, is at risk on college campuses today.

- Thirty-seven percent (37%) of voters think the country is heading in the right direction.

[Doug64]

Here's this weekend'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):

In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports:

- President Trump ended the week with a daily job approval of 49%.

- Former Vice President Joe Biden tops President Trump in Rasmussen Reports’ first biweekly White House Watch presidential race tracking poll.

- President Trump’s exoneration by the Mueller report has highlighted the highly inaccurate reporting of many major media outlets, but partisan affiliation overrides the facts when it comes to how voters grade the media’s performance.

- Now that Special Counsel Robert Mueller has finished his investigation of the Trump campaign’s alleged collusion with Russia, most voters say enough is enough. But many Democrats want to keep on going.

- Voters generally approve of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report exonerating President Trump, although Republicans are more critical than ever of his probe and Democrats aren’t as happy about Mueller as they used to be.

- Democrats are far more willing than other voters to support a socialist presidential candidate and tend to dismiss criticism of socialism as unfair.

- While more than 10 prominent Democrats are already in the race for the party’s 2020 presidential nomination, Democratic voters remain closely divided over whether a lot of candidates is a good thing.

- Most voters say there should be a ceiling on how old a presidential candidate can be. Among these voters, most say it should be 70 or younger, a requirement that would rule out President Trump and several of the top Democratic contenders for 2020.

- Thirty-seven percent (37%) of voters think the country is heading in the right direction.

[Doug64]

Here's this weekend'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):

In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports:

- President Trump ended the week with a daily job approval of 51%.

- Voters continue to view illegal immigration as a serious problem but don’t think Democrats want to stop it. Cutting foreign aid is one tool voters are willing to consider.

- Voters continue to believe that cost is the number one problem by far with health care in America today, and most still say the solution is to get government out of the way.

- The president earned a monthly job approval of 48% in March, down one point from February.

- Voters remain much more critical of the U.S. health care system than they are of the care they receive from it. While much of the world turns to America for advanced medicine, voters here aren’t so sure we have anything special to offer.

- Americans see violence against women as less of a problem here compared to most other nations and don’t agree with former Vice President Joe Biden’s recent statement that “a white man’s culture” encourages such violence.

- It pays to have powerful friends. That’s the way Americans see the case of TV actor Jussie Smollett.

- Now that Special Counsel Robert Mueller has ruled out collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians in 2016, voters, like senior Republicans, are turning a suspicious eye toward Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Most also still suspect high-level wrongdoing at the U.S. Department of Justice.

- Thirty-eight percent (38%) of voters think the country is heading in the right direction.

[Doug64]

Here's this weekend'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):

In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports:

- President Trump ended the week with a daily job approval of 49%.

- Get ready for President Trump’s second term if Senator Bernie Sanders is his Democratic opponent next year, according to the latest White House Watch hypothetical 2020 matchup.

- The Rasmussen Reports Economic Index dropped to 140.5 in April, down two points from last month but still ranking with 2018’s highs.

- Chicago officials are still battling over the decision not to prosecute actor Jussie Smollett, with one city councilman last weekend declaring that the city’s police union is “the sworn enemy of black people.” But Americans overwhelmingly reject the charge that most cops are racist and continue to give high marks to the performance of their local police.

- Voters still think presidential candidates should make their tax returns public and that President Trump is no exception. But there’s much less interest in those records than there was in 2016, and most voters say their vote next year doesn’t turn on whether Trump’s tax returns are released.

- Most Americans remain confident about their personal health even though many still skip checkups and drug prescriptions because they cost too much.

- Democrats on Capitol Hill are once again talking about taxpayer-funded reparations as a tangible way to apologize for slavery in this country, but most voters still aren’t buying.

- With charges and countercharges swirling around former Vice President Joe Biden, most voters continue to believe the media is all about controversy and too quick to convict public figures.

- Forty percent (40%) of voters think the country is heading in the right direction.