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Rasmussen
What They Told
Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls
Saturday, December 06, 2014
Generic Congressional Ballot: Republicans 41%, Democrats 40%
25% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
38% of Consumers, 32% of Investors Say U.S. is in a Recession
It’s often been said that there are two or more Americas within the
fabric of this great nation. Racially, that’s certainly true.
The refusal of grand juries in Ferguson, Missouri and on Staten Island
in New York to indict white police officers following the deaths of two
young black men has highlighted this division. Many had high hopes that
the election of the nation’s first black president would help heal our
racial wounds, but just eight percent (8%) think race relations in
America are better since Barack Obama became president in 2009. That’s
something that blacks, whites and other minority Americans agree on.
But while 54% of whites think the U.S. justice system is fair to
blacks, 84% of black voters consider the justice system unfair to them.
Eighty-two percent (82%) of black voters think most black Americans
receive unfair treatment from the police. White voters by a 56% to 30%
margin don’t believe that’s true.
In the Ferguson case, 59% of blacks think white police officer Darren
Wilson should be charged with murder for the shooting death of black
teenager Michael Brown.Just 15% of whites agree.
Similar racial divides are found on a number of key issues, with blacks
more favorable to a big government approach than whites are. Black
voters also continue to overwhelmingly approve of the job Obama is
doing as president, while most whites disapprove.
That disapproval is expected to cost the president’s party another seat
in the U.S. Senate when Louisiana voters choose in a runoff election
today between incumbent Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu and her
Republican challenger, Congressman Bill Cassidy.
Republicans are still out front on the latest Generic Congressional
Ballot.
While his party took a shellacking at the polls in early November, the
president’s monthly job approval held steady at 47% for the third month
in a row. Fifty-one percent (51%) disapprove.
Nearly half of voters want Congress to stop the president’s new plan to
protect up to five million illegal immigrants from deportation.
Americans rate their citizenship highly and aren’t keen on putting many
of those here illegally on the path to citizenship.
Thirty-six percent (36%) of voters now give the president good or
excellent ratings...
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