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Change may be coming.. New polls

woranch

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Just 31% of likely voters now believe the United States is heading in the right direction, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Down one point over the past week, it’s the lowest level found on the question since mid-February.

Sixty-three percent (63%) of voters say the country is moving down the wrong track, up a point from last week and the highest finding since the second week in February. This finding is back to the same level it held the week in January that Barack Obama became president.


A third of women (33%) say the country is heading in the right direction, showing no change over the past week. Only 29% of men agree, down two points from last week.

While most African-American voters (56%) still say the country is heading in the right direction, that’s down seven points over the past week. Only 28% of white voters agree, showing no change from the previous survey. A quarter (25%) of all other voters says the country is headed in the right direction this week, down three points.

Newly released data shows that 53% of likely voters now oppose the health care reform plan proposed by the president and congressional Democrats, up four points over the past week. Other polling shows that cost, not universal coverage, is the biggest health care concern.

Only 20% of voters now say health care reform is the most important of the four budget priorities Obama laid out early in his presidency, down four points from the end of May. Thirty-seven percent (37%) say cutting the federal deficit in half is the president’s number one priority. That number is basically unchanged from the earlier survey.

A plurality (44%) of working Americans expect to have the same employer for more than five years. These figures are little changed since April.

But after a brief burst of optimism in the spring, job confidence has fallen back to first-of-the-year levels. Sixty percent (60%) of working Americans now say it will be their choice when they leave their current job, but that’s down nine points from April. In late January, 61% felt that way.

Republicans are ahead of Democrats for the fourth week in a row in the Generic Congressional Ballot.
 
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