Rasmussen: Trump’s Approval Rises After Capitol Hill Calamity

The Media’s new irresponsible riot narrative is having difficulty sticking outside the ruling class dojos in DC. That might be because the summer of riots was nothing like that. As minority businesses burned and cities lost control, Democrats who were egging them on got, not condemnation, but air-time to do more of the same.

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Data Point – Trump is more popular now than Obama

…at the same time in their Presidencies. 50% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Forty-nine percent (49%) disapprove. 33% who Strongly Approve of the way the president is performing and 39% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -6. Trump’s overall job approval rating is now … Read more

Data Point: Democrats beware – 2 of 3 Americans believe Second Amendment is to protect Freedom

“A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”

…and not just the “hide the truth” by gun controllers that it is for “hunting, sport, and self-defense”.  Rasmussen has the data (emphasis mine):

  • 65% of American Adults think the purpose of the Second Amendment is to make sure that people are able to protect themselves from tyranny. Only 17% disagree, while another 18% are not sure.
  • 72% of those with a gun in their family agree with the premise.  Even without gun ownership, 57% still believe in that purpose.
  • Agree?  54% of Democrats, 75% of Republicans, 68% of Independents
  • 60% would rather live in a neighborhood where they can own a gun and most would feel safer if their children attended a school with an armed security guard
  • A plurality believes dealing with mental health issues will lead to more effective results.

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Ford you say? All that talk about Obama saving the domestic car companies?

This caught my eye over at Instapundit:

FORD HELPED MOST BY GM, CHRYSLER BAILOUTS? Bet you didn’t see this coming! A new Rasmussen survey of consumer sentiment finds that a clear majority of those interviewed are more favorably disposed to buying a Ford product because the famous automaker did NOT go hat-in-hand to Washington for a bailout in 2008, as did General Motors and Chrysler. Since it’s about my two favorite issues, cars and politics, I, of course, have an opinion on these developments!

The Rasmussen poll is here.  I tend to agree.  My second car (but my first car love) was my ’67 Camaro.  My mom thought it was a “nice little car”; she had never heard the phrase “muscle cars” (or never let on that she did).  The new incarnation of it looks really nice but I’d never consider buying it new just on the idea that Obama, with his sham GM bankruptcy, gave the UAW lots of  $$ already (stiffing the Sr. Bondholders in what has turned out to be just the first onset of his “Rule of Lawlessness”) so why should I give them more?

Well, living where we do, on the side of a mountain here in central NH where it snows and ices up often, we really needed to go back to having at least one 4wd vehicle in the family. So I, like those in the poll, went to a Ford dealer to start looking at new cars – even though I had loved our Suburban (and for other reasons, kicking myself for having sold it off a year ago and downsized to one car, our Saab 9-5) and started looking seriously at a Ford Edge.

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New Hampshire: Romney 48% Obama 45%

Rasmussen Reports shows Romney leading in its most recent poll in New Hampshire. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in New Hampshire shows Romney with 48% support to President Obama’s 45%. Four percent (4%) prefer some other candidate, and three percent (3%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.) My personal … Read more

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