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                            July 15, 2015Are Spending Cuts On the Way?
No wonder few voters believe anymore that the federal government has the consent of the governed.
Most voters have been telling us for years that they favor spending cuts in every program of the federal government, but they remain skeptical that those cuts are ever going to come. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 28% of Likely U.S. Voters believe it is is even somewhat likely that government spending will be significantly reduced over the next few years. Sixty-five percent (65%) consider that unlikely.

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                            July 14, 2015Bush Says Americans Need to Work Harder, But Do They Agree?
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush caused a stir on the campaign trail last week when he said Americans need to work harder to get the U.S. economy back on its feet. But most voters disagree and feel strongly instead that government and special interests have gamed the economy to deny Americans what they are due.

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                            July 13, 2015Will Greece’s Problems Play Financial Havoc Here?
Greece appears to have won a temporary stay in its economic troubles with yet another bailout plan from Europe. What do American voters think?

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                            July 13, 2015Should Defense Be Left Off the Spending Chopping Block?
It’s shaping up to be yet another drawn-out battle in Congress over spending this summer, with Senate Democrats blocking a major defense spending bill late last month. Democrats oppose raising the level of defense spending without comparable increases in entitlement programs.

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                            July 10, 2015Voters Want to Punish Sanctuary Cities
Following the murder of a young woman in San Francisco by an illegal immigrant from Mexico, voters want to get tough on so-called “sanctuary cities” that refuse to enforce immigration laws.

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                            July 10, 2015Should The U.S. Bail Out Puerto Rico?
Puerto Rico is $72 billion in debt and can't pay its bills, but voters oppose a federal government bailout for the longtime U.S. commonwealth.

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                            July 9, 2015How the Media Spins the Immigration Issue
Most voters expect biased media coverage of the 2016 presidential race, and the media response to recent immigration comments by Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump is a good case in point.

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                            July 9, 2015How the Media Spins the Immigration Issue
Most voters expect biased media coverage of the 2016 presidential race, and the media response to recent immigration comments by Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump is a good case in point.

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                            July 9, 2015Do Voters Want to See Candidate Tax Returns?
Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush recently released 33 years of tax returns to the public. Voters want his opponents to follow suit, although most don’t need them to go back as far as Bush did.

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                            July 8, 2015Do Democrats Think Webb Has A Shot?
Former U.S. Senator from Virginia Jim Webb quietly entered the race for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination last week, but voters in his party consider him a longshot.

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                            July 8, 2015Most Agree with Trump that Illegal Immigration Increases Crime
Donald Trump has taken a lot of criticism from Democrats and other Republican presidential hopefuls over his candid remarks about the criminality of many illegal immigrants, but most voters think Trump is right.

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                            July 7, 2015Clinton Still Far Outpaces Her Democratic Rivals
Despite the increasing media coverage going to some of her rivals for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, Hillary Clinton remains hugely ahead as far as the party’s voters are concerned.

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                            July 3, 2015Support Grows for States to Ignore the Federal Courts
Following last week’s controversial U.S. Supreme Court rulings on Obamacare and gay marriage, voters believe more strongly that individual states should have the right to turn their backs on the federal courts.

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                            July 2, 2015Where Does Christie Stand With GOP Voters?
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, once considered a formidable contender for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, tracks in the lower tier of GOP hopefuls now that he has made his candidacy official.

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                            July 2, 2015Will More States Follow California's Vaccination Crackdown?
California Governor Jerry Brown recently signed one of the strictest school vaccination laws in the country, and many voters think more states will follow suit.

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                            July 1, 2015Cuba Out, New Cold War In?
Today one of the final chapters in the U.S.-Soviet Cold War comes nearer to a close with President Obama’s announcement that the United States and Cuba are opening embassies in each other’s country. America has been diplomatically estranged from Cuba for over 50 years since Communist dictator Fidel Castro came to power on the island 90 miles off the coast of Florida.

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                            July 1, 2015Supreme Court’s Negatives Jump to All-Time High, but Positives Up, Too
Negative views of the U.S. Supreme Court are at their highest level in nearly nine years of regular surveying. But positive opinions are also up to a less dramatic three-year high.

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                            June 30, 2015Young Voters Are Far Bigger Fans of Gay Marriage Ruling
A closer look at public attitudes about the recent rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court suggest that it’s largely an age thing. Especially when it comes to gay marriage.

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                            June 29, 2015Voters Say WikiLeaks’ Disclosures Put U.S. Relationships At Risk
The hits just keep on coming. The rogue Internet site WikiLeaks last week released its latest batch of illegally obtained classified U.S. documents, this time showing that America has spied on the last three French presidents. The French government has formally protested, as did the Germans when our spying on Chancellor Angela Merkel was similarly disclosed in 2013.

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                            June 26, 2015GOP Voters Weigh In On Bobby Jindal
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal is the latest addition to the crowded Republican field in 2016, but he ranks low among GOP voters.