Rasmussen Report

Editor's Note: I'm not a strong believer in polls, but other than recognizing Hillary needs to be prosecuted these polls demonstrate Johnatan Gruber was right!    RK

Special Prosecutor for Hillary? - Two senior Republican senators have called for the Justice Department to step aside and choose an independent special prosecutor to decide whether Hillary Clinton should be prosecuted for mishandling classified information. Most voters think that’s the way to go to avoid any possible conflict of interest.    A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 54% of Likely U.S. Voters believe the Justice Department should name an independent prosecutor to decide whether criminal charges should be brought against Clinton for sending and receiving classified information through a private e-mail server while she was secretary of State. Thirty-three percent (33%) disagree, while 13% are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)   Read More

What America Thinks: Obama for a Third Term? President Obama has faced his share of criticism during the seven years of his presidency, but voters in his own party at least remain pretty happy with him. Are they ready to let him go at the beginning of next year? We decided to find out what America thinks.  Eighty-one percent (81%) of Democratic voters approved of the president’s job performance in January, with 50% who Strongly Approved. Nearly two-out-of-three Democrats are quite happy with Obama going it alone without Congress’ approval on things he considers important to the country. Most voters in general, though, only want the government to do what the president and Congress agree on.  Democrats also consider an Obama endorsement of one of the presidential hopefuls very important in terms of how they will vote in the upcoming election.  Sixty percent (60%) of Democrats would elect the president to a third term if it was legally possible. Right now, in fact, more Democrats would vote for Obama than would cast their ballots for either of the candidates who hope to succeed him, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders....

Daily Presidential Tracking Poll - The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 47% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Obama's job performance. Fifty-two percent (52%) disapprove (see trends).  The latest figures include 26% who Strongly Approve of the way Obama is performing as president and 40% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -14......

Trump Change - 74% of GOP Voters Think Trump Likely Nominee.  What a difference a primary makes. After a one-week drop following Donald Trump’s second-place finish in the Iowa caucus, expectations that the New York businessman will be the Republican presidential nominee have jumped back to their highest levels.   Rasmussen Reports’ latest Trump Change survey, the first since Trump’s big win in the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday, finds that 74% of Likely Republican Voters again feel he is likely to be the GOP nominee. This includes 40% who say it’s Very Likely, tying the high first reached three weeks ago.   Last week, 61% of Republicans still believed Trump was the likely nominee, but that was down from a high of 74% the week before.  Twenty-one percent (21%) of GOP voters say Trump is not likely to win the nomination, but that includes only six percent (6%) who feel it’s Not At All Likely. Those findings were up to 36% and 14% respectively a week ago. (To see survey question wording, click here.) ....