- 01 Aug 2021 19:20
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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):
- Thirty-seven percent (37%) of Likely U.S. Voters think the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey for the week ending July 22, 2021. This week’s finding is down two points from a week ago. Fifty-five percent (55%) of voters believe the nation is headed down the wrong track, up one point from a week ago. A year ago at this time, 26% said the United States was heading in the right direction, while 67% said it was on the wrong track.
- Strongly Approve: 28% (-2)
- Strongly Disapprove: 41% (+3)
- Total Approve: 47% (-3)
- Total Disapprove: 51% (+3)
- Strongly Approve: 29% (-1)
- Strongly Disapprove: 40%
- Total Approve: 49%
- Total Disapprove: 49%
- Strongly Approve: 32%
- Strongly Disapprove: 40%
- Total Approve: 50%
- Total Disapprove: 48%
- Strongly Approve: 25% (-2)
- Strongly Disapprove: 47%
- Total Approve: 42% (-1)
- Total Disapprove: 58% (+1)
- Strongly Approve: 27% (-1)
- Strongly Disapprove: 47% (+1)
- Total Approve: 43% (-2)
- Total Disapprove: 57% (+2)
- Strongly Approve: 31%
- Strongly Disapprove: 43% (+1)
- Total Approve: 47% (-1)
- Total Disapprove: 52%
- Strongly Approve: 30% (+1)
- Strongly Disapprove: 39% (+3)
- Total Approve: 49% (-2)
- Total Disapprove: 50% (+2)
- Strongly Approve: 30% (-1)
- Strongly Disapprove: 37% (+2)
- Total Approve: 51% (-2)
- Total Disapprove: 48% (+2)
- Strongly Approve: 36%
- Strongly Disapprove: 30% (+1)
- Total Approve: 56% (-1)
- Total Disapprove: 42%
The Rasmussen Reports Immigration Index for the week of July 18-22, 2021, increased to 89.5, up from 89.3 two weeks earlier. The Immigration Index has been under the baseline in every survey since Election Day last year, and reached a record low of 82.3 in late March. The index is now 16 points below where it was the week of October 22, indicating voters are looking for tighter immigration control from President Joe Biden’s administration.
Fourteen percent (14%) of American Adults rate media coverage of the ongoing coronavirus crisis excellent, and another 28% rate the media’s COVID-19 coverage good. That’s a decline in approval from December, when 50% rated the media’s coverage of the pandemic excellent or good. The number who say the media is doing a poor job remained the same at 29%. The number of Americans who think the media are exaggerating the COVID-19 threat has increased since December, when 38% thought the media were exaggerating the threat and 52% did not. Now, the numbers are dead even – 44% believe the media are exaggerating the coronavirus threat and the same percentage don’t think so, while 12% are not sure. More than a third of Americans (38%) think the media aren’t reporting accurately about the safety and effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines, while 46% believe the media’s reporting about vaccines is accurate. Another 16% are not sure.
Seventy percent (70%) of Likely U.S. Voters say they have received a COVID-19 vaccination. Twenty-five percent (25%) have not. Those numbers are basically unchanged since earlier this month. Among voters who have not yet been vaccinated, 53% say they don’t plan to get a COVID-19 vaccination in the future, while 20% say they do expect to get the vaccine and 27% are not sure. Seventy-nine percent (79%) of unvaccinated voters are concerned about the safety of COVID-19 vaccines, including 52% who are Very Concerned.
Thirty-eight percent (38%) of American Adults believe U.S. athletes who aren’t vaccinated against COVID-19 should be made to get the vaccine. Forty-five percent (45%) don’t think the athletes should be forced to get vaccinated. Seventeen percent (17%) are not sure. Originally scheduled for 2020, the Tokyo Olympics were delayed a year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. More than 100 members of the U.S. team reportedly have not been vaccinated, and six U.S. athletes have tested positive for the coronavirus. Interest in the Olympics has declined since the 2016 games in Rio de Janeiro. Forty-eight percent (48%) of Americans Adults say they’re likely to watch a large part of the Summer Olympics on television, including 20% who say it’s Very Likely they’ll watch a lot of the Olympics. That’s down from 55% and 26%, respectively, in 2016.
Forty percent (40%) of American Adults say the crisis of opioid drugs like heroin and painkillers has gotten worse in the past year. Just 11% think the crisis has gotten better in the last year, while 31% say the opioid problem is about the same. Eighteen percent (18%) are not sure. Those numbers are essentially the same as in August 2019. Twenty percent (20%) of Americans think the Biden administration is doing enough to fight the problem of opioid drugs, but more than twice as many (44%) believe the administration is not doing enough. Thirty-six percent (36%) are not sure. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported earlier this month that U.S. deaths from drug overdoses hit a record high of more than 93,000 in 2020. That was a 29% increase over 2019, according to the CDC, and most of those overdose deaths – nearly 70,000 – involved opioid drugs.
Twenty-one percent (21%) voters rate Biden as excellent on his handling of economic issues and another 21% rate his handling of the economy as good. Twelve percent (12%) say Biden is doing a fair job on the economy, but 43% rate Biden’s handling of economic issues as poor. Those numbers haven’t changed much since April, when 23% of voters rated Biden excellent on economic issues. Voter give Biden worse marks on his handling of crime and law enforcement issues – just 15% say he’s doing an excellent job, 19% rate him good on his handling of crime, with 14% saying he’s doing a fair job and 48% rating him poor. Eighty-five percent (85%) of voters say they’re concerned about the problem of violent crime in America, including 60% who are Very Concerned about the crime problem. By comparison, 79% of voters say they’re concerned about inflation, including 49% who are Very Concerned.
Seventeen percent (17%) of Likely U.S. Voters rate the way Congress is doing its job as good or excellent. Fifty-four percent (54%) think Congress is doing a poor job. Those numbers are worse than in April, when 21% gave Congress excellent or good ratings. Historically, positive ratings for Congress have only reached 25% once (in February 2017) in regular surveying by Rasmussen Reports since 2007. Poor findings routinely ran in the 60s and 70s from 2011 through 2014. Just 29% of voters think Congress is likely to seriously address the most important problems facing our nation. Sixty-eight percent (66%) consider that unlikely. These findings includes only seven percent (7%) who feel Congress is Very Likely to tackle the big issues and 33% who say it’s Not At All Likely to do so. Those numbers haven’t changed much since October 2019.
And for Biden's job approval numbers over the past week. This might be the first time he's been below 50% for two weeks in a row:
Over the past month:
And since he took office:
For Trump, this week:
The past month:
And since he took office:
And for Obama this week:
Over the past month:
And since his election:
Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.
—Edmund Burke
—Edmund Burke