Not long ago, Republicans mounted their high horse over Charlie Rangel's ethical lapses. They had a right to. Among other questionable conduct, Rangel had solicited charitable donations from executives with business before the House Ways and Means Committee, which the New York Democrat chaired.
Despite concern about the country’s historic-level budget deficit, Americans are not willing to pay more in taxes to reduce it.
Much has changed since our launch of the 2012 Crystal Ball Presidential Ratings—and yet little has changed in this slow-starting campaign. We outlined all our cautions about early assessments in the January Crystal Ball, so we’ll just skip right to the red meat evaluation.
Winning an Academy Award is no guarantee that people will like you or even know who you are, for that matter.
Very few Americans consider St. Patrick's Day an important holiday, but nearly half of adults plan to go green today anyway.
Homeowners are more pessimistic about the short-term housing market, but now fewer than half the nation's homeowners expect the value of their homes to go up in the next five years.
Grover Norquist, the affable head of the Washington-based Americans for Tax Reform, doesn't want Republicans to negotiate with Democrats to solve Washington's deficit problems or to cut a deal to solve California's budget shortfall.
The weakest part of our political system is the presidential nomination process. And it's not coincidental that it's the part of the federal system that finds least guidance in the Constitution.
Voters are now evenly divided when asked if more nuclear power plants should be built in this country.
Just 22% of Likely U.S. Voters say the country is heading in the right direction, the lowest level of confidence found since before President Obama’s inauguration in January 2009.
March Madness is underway and two teams are in a virtual tie as the pick to win the NCAA tournament among college basketball fans.
Most Americans continue to believe the middle class pays more in taxes than those who are wealthy, and they favor an income tax system where everyone pays the same percentage of their income.
A sizable number of voters now worry that radiation released by the ongoing Japanese nuclear disaster may come to our shores.
In about a month, the Republican majority on the House Budget Committee will present its concurrent budget resolution for fiscal year 2012, which by law will include their proposed 2012 annual budget and their projection of the budgets (spending, revenues and the resulting deficit, surplus or balance) for the following nine years.
It’s been one year since Tiger Woods announced he would make his competitive return to golf following months of tabloid scandal, but Americans’ opinions of the golfer have changed little since then.
"Did you have a nice weekend?" a friend asked on Monday, before recounting all the fun things he and his kids did over the weekend.
With gas prices soaring, the pressure's on the Obama administration to increase the number of permits for deepwater oil drilling. Right now, just 16% of Likely U.S. Voters have a favorable opinion of the man who'll grant those permits, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, with a scant one percent (1%) who regard him Very Favorably.
Budget worries aside, Americans aren’t prepared yet to abruptly cut the size of the government work force.
With a month to go until tax day, roughly half of Americans have filed their income taxes.
Members of public employee unions prefer Democrats over Republicans on the Generic Congressional Ballot by a 28-percentage-point margin. Among private sector union members, the gap is half that size.
