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    Voters Trust Republicans More on Eight of 10 Key Issues

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    Voters Trust Republicans More on Eight of 10 Key Issues


    Monday, October 18, 2010

    With two weeks to go until Election Day, voters trust Republicans more than Democrats on eight out of 10 important issues regularly tracked by Rasmussen Reports including the economy and health care.

    In late August, Likely Voters nationwide trusted the GOP on all 10 issues. This is a sharp contrast from this time two years ago when Democrats were trusted more than Republicans on all of these issues.

    Voters now trust Democrats over Republicans in only two areas - government ethics and corruption by a 41% to 36% margin and education where Democrats have a slight 42% to 40% edge.

    The economy continues to be the most important issue on voters’ minds this election, and 49% place their trust in Republicans to handle this issue. Thirty-nine percent (39%) trust Democrats more. These findings show little change from early June 2009.

    On the issue of health care, which voters place second on the list of important issues, Republicans hold a modest 47% to 40% advantage. Democrats were trusted more on this issue until the debate over a proposed national health care bill began to heat up in early September of last year.

    Most voters continue to favor repeal of the national health care law, but the number of voters who expect the law to increase the deficit has fallen to the lowest point since its passage by Congress in March.

    Two surveys of 1,000 Likely U.S. Voters each were conducted October 12-13 and October 14-15, 2010 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.

    Government ethics and corruption rate number three in terms of overall importance, but voters have been narrowly divided for the past several months over which party to trust more on this issue. Democrats have held small leads since February.

    As for education, both parties have held very modest leads on the issue at different times for months now.

    Forty-eight percent (48%) of voters nationwide place their trust in the hands of Republicans when it comes to the issue of taxes. Thirty-nine percent (39%) would rather the Democrats handle this issue. The GOP has held a solid lead over Democrats on this issue since early July 2009.

    But most voters believe that Democrats in Congress want to raise taxes and spending, while Republicans in Congress want to cut taxes and spending.

    When it comes to immigration, 45% trust Republicans, while 33% trust the Democrats more. The gap between the two parties has widened since the beginning of January as the debate over the immigration law in Arizona intensified. At the beginning of the year, voters were essentially evenly divided on which party to trust.

    Voters feel more strongly than ever that the federal government is encouraging illegal immigration and that states like Arizona have the answer to the problem, but the Obama administration is challenging the Arizona law in federal court. http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_ ... mmigration

    Republicans continue to be trusted more on national security issues and the war on terror, with 49% of voters trusting the GOP versus 39% who trust the Democrats more. When it comes the war in Afghanistan, Republicans hold a six-point advantage, 42% to 36%.

    Similarly, voters trust Republicans more than Democrats to handle the war in Iraq, 43% to 37%.

    Republicans now hold a nine-point lead on the Generic Congressional Ballot.

    http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_ ... _on_issues
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    Well they didn't ask me because I don't trust any of them!!!!


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