On the eve of Barack Obama’s inaugural speech, with a tough economic downturn and the ongoing threat from global terrorism, perhaps it is useful to recall Ronald Reagan’s first inaugural address, delivered on January 20, 1981.
Nearly half of California voters (48%) blame state legislators for California’s current budget problems.
Al Gore’s side may be coming to power in Washington, but they appear to be losing the battle on the idea that humans are to blame for global warming.
Sixty nine percent (69%) of American voters now view their nation’s society as fair and decent.
Eighty-six percent (86%) of Americans have a favorable opinion of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., including 52% with a Very Favorable opinion of the civil rights leader.
From the day President Bush took office, the long knives were out for him -- in ways they will not (and should not) be out for President-elect Barack Obama.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's State of the State address on Thursday was a far cry from his first such speech in 2004.
The race may be nearly two years away, but early match-ups for the 2010 gubernatorial election in California show that it's likely to be a close one.
Time doesn’t stand still for ceremony, and neither do the problems that are currently facing the United States. Barack Obama is well aware of this, with his swearing-in as president finally at hand.
Evidence keeps accumulating that the tide of immigration is ebbing. Tough enforcement laws passed by states like Arizona and Oklahoma and localities like Prince William County, Va., have reportedly spurred Latino immigrants to move elsewhere.
With Barack Obama’s swearing-in as president coming this Tuesday, we’re asking voters: Should Inauguration Day be a national holiday?
With Barack Obama’s swearing-in as president coming this Tuesday, we’re asking voters: Should an opening prayer be part of the presidential inauguration?
Thirty-nine percent (39%) of American adults say it is too easy to get an abortion in the United States, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
The U.S. Senate on Thursday, at the urging of President Bush and President-elect Obama, released the second half of the $700 billion financial sector rescue plan, approved last October and known officially as the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP).
Will he or won’t he – go to jail for life, that is?
President-elect Barack Obama will no doubt ask for many things in the coming weeks -- from Congress, from the states, from banks and businesses, and from the American people. He will ask for new legislation, new programs, new regulations, not to mention confirmation of all his new people.
Although the United States will swear in a new commander-in-chief in just a few days, voter perceptions about the nation’s future remain largely negative.
Former U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Christie, the latest Republican to enter the New Jersey gubernatorial race, has a slight lead over Democratic incumbent Jon S. Corzine in a new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of voters in the state.
Despite the woes of the Bush administration, U.S. voters like Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice better than her designated successor, Hillary Clinton, but most are confident that Clinton is up to the task of being America’s chief diplomat.
Confidence in the America's handling of the War on Terror is over 50% for the first time since mid-November.
