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Rasmussen
What
They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls
Saturday,
May 31, 2014
Generic
Congressional Ballot: Democrats 42%, Republicans 38%
29%
Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
President
Obama this week spoke of the diminished role of the military in his
foreign policy and at week’s end dumped the former general in
charge of veterans’ retirement benefits.
The
president in a graduation speech Wednesday at the U.S. Military
Academy at West Point outlined his belief in a foreign policy that
relies more on diplomacy and less on military force. Given voter
unhappiness with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, it’s no surprise
that 60% continue to believe America’s political leaders send U.S.
soldiers into harm’s way too often.
Americans
consistently express high regards for the nation’s military, but as
more and more stories emerge about health care problems at the
federal Department of Veterans Affairs, just 21% give the federal
government good or excellent marks for its administration of benefits
to military veterans.
Forty-two
percent (42%) of voters said early this week that Eric Shinseki, the
secretary of Veterans Affairs, should resign from Obama’s Cabinet
because of the problems that have been exposed in his department. On
Friday, he did resign after a closed-door meeting with the president.
Obama’s
daily job approval ratings appear to be unaffected by the growing VA
scandal and remain as they have been for most of his presidency in
the negative mid- to high teens.
Democrats
can expect to hear about the VA’s failures on the campaign trail,
though. To gain full control of Congress, Republicans need a net gain
of six Senate seats this November, but Democrats are hoping to take
one in Kentucky from the GOP column to blunt this takeover effort.
However, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell now has a
seven-point lead over Democratic challenger Alison Lundergan Grimes
in Kentucky’s U.S. Senate race following the state’s May 20 party
primaries...
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