With Pope Francis being welcomed to the United States by President Obama and other government officials, it’s clear most Americans still see an essential place for religion in this country. But there’s been a sizable jump in the number who don’t think the government agrees.
There's only one time when you can depend on the chronically backlogged, recklessly inefficient Department of Homeland Security to perform smoothly: election season.
Government wants you to think it helps you at every turn. Every time you make a decision, a purchase, government wants to be there, looking essential.
Most voters still don't think the federal government should have the final say on gun ownership and don't like a country in which only the government has guns.
Pope Francis has created political controversy, both inside and outside the Catholic Church, by blaming capitalism for many of the problems of the poor. We can no doubt expect more of the same during his visit to the United States.
The Obama administration announced this week plans to increase the total number of worldwide refugees accepted into the United States to 100,000 by 2017 in response to the ongoing migrant crisis from parts of the Middle East into Europe. Few U.S. voters agree with this decision, perhaps in part because a sizable majority have national security concerns.
As the 2016 presidential selection process proceeds, there is increasing evidence that the political patterns we have grown used to, that we have come to consider permanent, might be suddenly changing.
It may be a different election cycle with different candidates, but at least one thing hasn’t changed as far as most voters are concerned – media bias.
Twenty-five percent (25%) of Likely U.S. Voters now think the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey for the week ending September 17.
Pope Francis is coming to the United States this week. The new pope is expected to draw thousands to his public masses and dominate the news for the next several days. That’s okay with most Americans, Catholics in particular.
It’s been a rough few months for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, but the Democratic nomination remains hers to lose.
Is there movement at last in the race for the Republican presidential nomination?
Jeb Bush is treading water, but Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina appear to have dramatically improved their chances for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016. Carson is now in a virtual tie with recent front-runner Donald Trump.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 59% of Likely Republican Voters now think Carson, a retired neurosurgeon, is likely to win the Republican nomination, with 16% who say it’s Very Likely. Just 25% thought Carson was likely to end up as the nominee when he formally announced for the race in early May.
You would think that a groundbreaking TV show for women hosted by women would do its best every day to respect and uplift women.
Of all the stupid things people say while talking about politics, the one whose stupidity never ceases to astound me is that we're all out of room for new immigrants.
Haven't the nativists ever flown cross-country? Grab a window seat! If America has anything, it's space.
Human beings are hard-wired to protect young children. That's the easiest explanation of the rush of Europeans -- especially, but not only, elites -- to welcome huge numbers of refugees after publication of the picture of a dead three-year-old boy on a Turkish beach.
Republicans lowered Donald Trump’s chances for the GOP presidential nomination for the second week in a row in Rasmussen Reports’ latest Trump Change survey.
Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump has proposed tax hikes on the country’s wealthiest households in response to what he feels are vastly overpaid CEOs and Wall Street hedge fund managers.
Debate or endurance test?
Last night’s Republican presidential campaign debate was a three-hour marathon that was reduced near the end to such penetrating questions as what woman should be on the $10 bill and what nickname would you choose for the Secret Service if you become president?
Debate or endurance test?
Last night’s Republican presidential campaign debate was a three-hour marathon that was reduced near the end to such penetrating questions as what woman should be on the $10 bill and what nickname would you choose for the Secret Service if you become president?
