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Rasmussen
What
They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls
Saturday,
May 24, 2014
American
voters have more information than ever, it seems, but the real
question is, do they know it?
Sixty-two
percent (62%) of Likely U.S. Voters complain that they don’t have
enough say when it comes to choosing their leaders. But in the same
survey, while 90% say voters in countries with democratically elected
governments have a responsibility to be informed about major policy
issues, just nine percent (9%) feel most of their fellow countrymen
are informed voters.
And
what have the voters wrought?
For
one thing, they’ve chosen a president who continues to earn a
double-digit negative job approval rating as he has for most of his
time in office. Seventy-three percent (73%) now consider the
president at least somewhat liberal in political terms, the highest
finding in nearly four years. But only 11% of voters consider
themselves liberal when it comes to both fiscal and social issues.
Then
there’s an elected Congress that just nine percent (9%) of voters
give good or excellent marks to, and that’s an improvement from
recent months.
Only
19% now trust the federal government to do the right thing most or
nearly all the time, so Americans aren’t likely to be surprised by
the controversy that has erupted over the performance of the federal
Department of Veterans Affairs. Just 21% think the government does a
good or excellent job delivering veterans benefits, although
interestingly recipients of those benefits give the feds slightly
better marks.
The
federal government and the courts continue to advance the cause of
gay marriage nationwide, but voters remain closely divided when asked
if they approve.
Voters
will have a chance this November to change the makeup of the House
and Senate, so it will be interesting to see what they make of the
information that’s out there. With party primaries beginning to
narrow some of the races down, we looked at two more Senate contests
this past week.
West
Virginia’s Senate race is closer following the primaries there, but
Republican Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito still holds a
nine-point lead over Democrat Natalie Tennant...
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