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Scott Rasmussen's Number of the Day for August 16, 2024
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August 16, 2024: Forty percent (40%) of Supreme Court opinions issued in the 2023 term were unanimous. Another 35% were decided by a 6-3 margin. Half of those 6-3 decisions had John Roberts, Samuel Alito, Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Clarence Thomas in the majority and Ketanji Brown Jackson, Elena Kagan, and Sonia Sotomayor in the minority.
Note: Scott Rasmussen is the president of RMG Research, Inc. He hosts "The Scott Rasmussen Show" on Merit Street Media Sunday mornings at 10 Eastern.
Each weekday, Scott Rasmussen’s Number of the Day explores interesting and newsworthy topics at the intersection of culture, politics, and technology.
- August 15, 2024-28% of voters rate the U.S. economy as either excellent or good
- August 14, 2024-89 years ago, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law the Social Security Act
- August 13, 2024-30% of voters claim to know the policy views of Kamala Harris very well
- August 12, 2024-71% of voters think that Donald Trump should do news interviews on both mainstream media outlets and conservative media
- August 9, 2024-64 of the 100 largest U.S cities by population had a Democratic mayor at the beginning of the year
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