From Rasmussen Reports: The good news for Senator Ben Nelson is that he doesn’t have to face Nebraska voters until 2012.

If Governor Dave Heineman challenges Nelson for the Senate job, a new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey shows the Republican would get 61% of the vote while Nelson would get just 30%. Nelson was reelected to a second Senate term in 2006 with 64% of the vote.   Read more...

From Rasmussen Reports: Seventy-eight percent (78%) of voters nationwide say it’s at least somewhat likely that the health care reform legislation working its way through Congress will cost more than projected. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 14% believe the costs are not likely to exceed projections.  more…

According to a poll released today by Rasmussen Reports, 57% of voters nationwide say that it would be better to pass no health care reform bill this year instead of passing the plan currently being considered by Congress. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 34% think that passing that bill would be better.

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• Middle-income voters are more likely than others to say that passing no legislation is the better option.

According to a poll released yesterday by Rasmussen Reports, 66% of U.S. voters prefer a smaller government with fewer services and lower taxes over a more active government with more services and higher taxes.  Only 22% prefer a government with more services and higher taxes. Eleven percent (11%) aren’t sure which is best.

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• Democrats are more narrowly divided: 51% of Democrats favor a smaller government, but 37% opt for a larger, more activist government.  Sixty-five percent (65%) of liberals chose a government with more services and higher taxes.

Tom Fetzer

RALEIGH — NCGOP Chairman Tom Fetzer released the following statement today:

“Senator Marc Basnight’s recent shot at John Davis was a misfire.  It was also an act of desperation by a man clinging to 20 years of unbridled power in the North Carolina Senate.  For most of the last quarter century, John Davis was one of North Carolina’s most knowledgeable political analysts and one of its most accurate political prognosticators.  Indeed, his predication that the Republicans would win a majority in the N.C. State Senate in 2008 was correct, just two years too early.”   Read more...