Monday, June 22, 2015
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday 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 22% 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 -18.
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When it comes to health care reform, voters continue to think an overall reduction in costs is more important than guaranteeing that everyone has insurance -- but they would prefer that the government keep their hands off and leave it up to some healthy competition to solve the problem.
Most voters say the best way to reduce health care costs is through more free market competition between insurance companies, while 26% say more government regulation will lower costs. Generally
speaking, voters usually prefer free market competition over government regulation, no matter what the issue.
Voters say that economic growth is more important than economic fairness and they give a thumbs up to policies that expand the economy over policies that promote fairness.
Yesterday was Father’s Day, and while voters don’t put much importance on the holiday itself, they still strongly believe in the importance of fatherhood.
