The latest Rasmussen survey shows a slight majority of likely voters believe the country is headed in the right direction, a significant leap from the same time one year ago under the previous administration.
According to Rasmussen, which takes weekly glances at how well voters think the country is doing, 48 percent of likely voters think the U.S. is on the right track, while a nearly equal percentage of survey respondents think the country is headed in the wrong direction.
This time a year ago, the veteran polling agency recalled, only 29 percent of likely voters thought the nation was on the right track, and a whopping 65 percent said we were going in the wrong direction.
Rasmussen made the determination based on a survey of 1,991 likely voters Feb. 16-20 with a sampling error of +/- 2 percentage points and a 95 percent level of confidence.
A separate Rasmussen survey—the Daily Presidential Tracking Poll—shows President Donald Trump getting 50 percent approval for his job performance, with 48 percent disapproving. This indicates a continuing, almost even divide between liberals and conservatives in this country.
A third Rasmussen survey shows stronger support (62%) for the Trump administration’s program focusing on finding and deporting illegal immigrants, while 36 percent disapprove. In announcing the results of this poll, Rasmussen noted, “Forty percent (40%) say that if their representative in Congress supported Trump’s policy of deporting illegal immigrants, it would make them more likely to vote to reelect their representative, while 34% say it would make them less likely to vote to reelect their representative. Twenty-one percent (21%) say their representative’s stance on Trump’s deportation policy would not make much difference.”
