- 09 Mar 2020 02:41
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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):
- Forty-five percent (45%) 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 February 27, 2020.
- Strongly Approve: 34% (-4)
- Strongly Disapprove: 42% (+1)
- Total Approve: 47% (-3)
- Total Disapprove: 51% (+2)
- Strongly Approve: 37%
- Strongly Disapprove: 41%
- Total Approve: 49%
- Total Disapprove: 49%
The Rasmussen Reports Immigration Index for the week of February 23-27, 2020 has risen to 101.6, from 99.7 the week before.
A poll taken just before Super Tuesday found Biden with 32% support among Likely Democratic Voters, Sanders in second place at 28%, and Bloomberg a distant third at 13%. Eleven percent (11%) of Democrats preferred Elizabeth Warren. The remaining candidates, all of whom had quit the race since Saturday’s South Carolina primary, were in single digits among Democrats nationally: Pete Buttigieg (6%), Amy Klobuchar (3%) and Tom Steyer (statistically 0%). Three percent (3%) of Democrats like someone else, and another three percent (3%) are undecided.
46% of American Adults have already filed their income taxes. Nearly as many (43%) intend to file by the April 15 deadline, while just four percent (4%) are planning on getting an extension. Seven percent (7%) are undecided.
46% of all Likely U.S. Voters rate the federal government’s response to the coronavirus as good or excellent. Thirty percent (30%) say it’s doing a poor job. By comparison, 40% of Americans gave the government’s response to Ebola good or excellent marks in October 2014 after the first case was diagnosed in this country. Less than three weeks later, that number had fallen to 31%. But a closer look at the latest findings shows that while 70% of Republicans give the government positive marks for its response to date, just 31% of Democrats and 35% of voters not affiliated with either major party agree. For 67% of Democrats and 50% of unaffiliated voters, the coronavirus is a major health threat to the United States. But 60% of Republicans believe instead that the media and some politicians are playing up the threat of coronavirus to hurt President Trump. Among all voters, 49% see the virus as a major health threat to this country, while 35% think the media and some politicians are playing it up to hurt the president. Eleven percent (11%) say neither is the case.
55% of American Adults think government policies and practices encourage increased homelessness in some cities and states more than others. Just 16% disagree, while 29% are not sure. Eighty-six percent (86%) agree that homelessness is a serious problem in America, with 56% who say it’s a Very Serious one. But only 21% believe homelessness should be primarily a federal responsibility. Forty-three percent (43%) think it’s chiefly up to states to tackle the problem, while 20% see it primarily as a local issue. Sixteen percent (16%) are undecided.
48% of Likely U.S. Voters think most Supreme Court justices have their own political agenda. This finding, however, has run as high as 65% and is the lowest level of criticism in over 10 years of surveying. Thirty-seven percent (37%) say the justices generally remain impartial, a new high. Fifteen percent (15%) are not sure. Just 24% feel that Supreme Court justices should express their political opinions in public. Sixty-six percent (66%) disagree, saying that raises questions about the impartiality of the high court. These findings are little changed from four years ago when Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg publicly criticized then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Ninety-three percent (93%) of voters say the type of Supreme Court justices a candidate would appoint is important to their vote for president this year, with 68% who say it’s Very Important.
And for the President's job approval over the last week:
And over the past month:
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