— 2018 governors’ races continued along the same realignment patterns that emerged in the 2016 presidential election.
— An analysis of protest third-party votes for president in 2016 indicates those voters were likelier to pick the Democrats’ side in the 2018 election.
Voters think President Trump’s border wall is likely to work, but they aren’t prepared to declare a national emergency to build it.
Democrats strongly identify with their congressional representatives, while Republicans still line up more with President Trump than with GOP members of Congress.
The new class of Democratic representatives and senators sworn in to Congress brings with it a growing movement of socialist ideologies, but while Democrats are intrigued by the ideas of socialism, they’re not willing to commit to becoming a socialist party.
With the new session of Congress under way, voters aren’t optimistic that things will get any better, but they are growing more convinced that Congress should follow President Trump’s lead.
Ten states and Washington, D.C., have now legalized adult use of marijuana.
Profligate politicians have never met a multibillion-dollar infrastructure project they didn't like -- except when it comes to President Donald Trump's border wall.
Think about it.
Voters still think Congress puts the media’s interests ahead of voters, though more now think Congress has their best interests at heart.
Mitt Romney may have pleased Democrats and the media with his recent op-ed criticizing President Trump, but Republican voters by a better than two-to-one margin line up with the president.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi's House has more women, persons of color and LGBT members than any House in history -- and fewer white males.
Voters give President Trump the edge over the new Democratic-controlled House of Representatives when it comes to which will be more beneficial to the next Democratic presidential candidate, but Democrats themselves see the House as a bigger factor.
In the months after the election of Donald Trump, there was a mini-political movement in California to get the Golden State to secede from the Union.
Thirty-seven percent (37%) of Likely U.S. Voters think the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey for the week ending January 3.
Americans think Democratic candidates are more likely to include lower-income folks in the middle class than Republicans are. GOP candidates are more likely to view higher-income Americans as middle class.
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren announced last week that she was forming an exploratory committee, a major step toward a 2020 presidential campaign. Voters in her party are confident the favored Democrat will go all the way, though voters in general are less convinced.
I admit it: My bias derived from self-interest. I was a bag boy. But that didn't make me wrong when I reacted to the news that supermarkets would make customers bag their own groceries. This, I told my friends at the time, is the first brick in a road to perdition.
The stock market reeled again Thursday, turning largely on news of Apple’s prediction of lower profits, but was recovering yesterday after the U.S. Labor Department reported not only a big gain in jobs across the economy--312,00 for December compared to 176,00 in November--but also an average hourly earnings gain of 3.2% for the year.
Voters are overwhelmingly aware that there’s a partial shutdown of the federal government, but so far at least it isn’t bothering them.
If there is a more anti-Trump organ in the American establishment than The Washington Post, it does not readily come to mind.
The hundredth anniversary of the Armistice that ended the fighting of World War I in Europe came and went with surprisingly little notice last Nov. 11. Commemoration was muted for a conflict that took the lives of some 15 to 19 million soldiers and civilians -- estimates vary widely -- including, in just 19 months, more than 116,000 Americans.
