It all began with Jeff Sessions from Alabama. Even before they coined a term for it — Borking — they did it to Jeff Sessions, a decent man with a stellar legal reputation as a fearless and tough but fair federal prosecutor down South.
Voters have a more positive opinion of president-elect Donald Trump following his unexpected victory than they did throughout his campaign.
After a week managing the transition, vice president-elect Mike Pence took his family out to the Broadway musical "Hamilton."
More than half of voters feel comfortable with the prospect of one party controlling both the Executive and Legislative branches of government, as Republicans will do when Donald Trump enters the White House in January. Democratic voters have changed their tune on this arrangement following Election Day.
People who call themselves "progressives" claim to be forward-looking, but a remarkable amount of the things they say and do are based on looking backward.
He may have been the outsider candidate elected on a promise to “drain the swamp” of Washington, DC, but voters are more concerned president-elect Donald Trump will try to make too many changes than too few.
What is to become of the Democratic Party? The world's oldest political party, which traces its roots to 1792, is in as dire straits as it has ever been.
Thirty-three percent (33%) 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 November 17. All five nights included in the survey followed Republican Donald Trump's election as the next president of the United States.
This Friday is Black Friday, often known as the biggest shopping day of the year and an unofficial kickoff to the holiday shopping season. And this year, Americans are ready to shop and spend even more.
Voters appear to be strongly on board with two policies president-elect Donald Trump is calling for when he enters the White House: deporting illegal immigrants convicted of major felonies and mandatory prison sentences for those who try to return.
After president-elect Donald Trump's 10-15 minute scheduled get-to-know-you with president Barack Obama ran an hour and a half, too many of my friends who ought to know better contacted me with some variant of "maybe everything really is going to be OK after all."
Talk is cheap in politics, so now voters will begin to find out if Donald Trump can deliver on what he promised.
Voters think the government needs to do more to control the border but still aren’t sure that’s enough to make them support a path to citizenship for those already here illegally.
Speaking in Greece on his valedictory trip to Europe as president, Barack Obama struck a familiar theme: "(W)e are going to have to guard against a rise in a crude form of nationalism, or ethnic identity, or tribalism that is built around an 'us' and a 'them' ...
Hillary Clinton lost the election in the Midwest. Donald Trump won 50 Midwestern electoral votes that went to Barack Obama in 2012 -- Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan and Ohio -- plus 20 more in Pennsylvania, where the two-thirds of voters beyond metro Philadelphia are Midwestern in culture and concerns. Trump could have lost Florida and still won.
Following Hillary Clinton's surprise loss to Donald Trump, most voters think it's time for her to quit the public arena, but her fellow Democrats disagree. Still, Democratic voters now believe their party should go more in the direction of Clinton's primary opponent, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.
Half of working Americans expect a raise in the coming year, and they think the best place to get it is where they are employed now.
Voters still support punitive action against so-called sanctuary cities that refuse to enforce immigration laws, although Democrats and unaffiliated voters are more protective of these cities than they have been in the past.
Now that we’ve had a week to digest the results of the 2016 election, here are some observations about what happened and what the results might tell us about the future:
The outsider candidate may have won this year’s presidential election, but most voters still don't expect the government to be looking out what's best for them. Republicans are more hopeful than other voters, though.
