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Rasmussen...
What
They
Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls
Saturday,
July 07, 2012
Most
Americans took time off this past week to celebrate the nation’s birth.
Seventy-seven percent (77%) watched fireworks, 62% enjoyed a cookout,
and 33%
sang patriotic songs.
They did so
largely because 84% are proud to be Americans.
Two-out-of-three
(64%) rate the Fourth of July as one of our nation’s most important
holidays. And,
overwhelmingly, Americans
still embrace the ideals expressed in the Declaration of Independence.
Ninety-four percent (94%) believe that we are all endowed by our
Creator with
certain inalienable rights.
While
Americans love their country, they also recognize it’s not perfect.
Just over
half (53%) believe America is truly a nation with Liberty and Justice
for all.
Another 40% think we still have some work to do. Still, 73% believe we
have
more freedom than people in other countries, 65% believe we have more
economic
opportunity than people in other countries, and 63% think the American
system
of justice is fairer than others around the globe.
Sadly,
though, while most still believe that governments derive their only
just
authority from the consent of the governed, only 22% believe the
government
today has such consent.
While
Americans were busy celebrating, the politicians never stopped
campaigning. The
Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll shows the race for
the White
House remains close.
The economy
and health care remain the top two voter concerns. Number three on the
list is
government ethics and corruption.
Most voters
still want to repeal the president’s Health Care Law, and approval
ratings for
the Supreme Court fell after the Justices upheld that law. Scott
Rasmussen
points out that both parties are missing the mark when it comes to
health care.
His weekly newspaper column says that the way to fix Health Care is to
put
consumers in charge.
On the
larger issue of the economy, just 31% give the president good marks.
That’s
down from 41% at the beginning of May. The Rasmussen Employment Index
slipped
this month and the government’s report on job creation was no better.
The
Discover (R) Consumer Spending Monitor (SM) found that Consumer
Confidence fell
in June.
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