If Republicans win control of Congress this fall, voters overwhelmingly believe the nation’s legislature should wait until the newly elected officials take office before considering major legislation. Most, however, expect that Democrats will try to pass new legislation before turning over control.
The Republicans have it for now, with the three leading GOP candidates remaining well ahead of both Democratic hopefuls.
The numbers remain little changed this month in Pennsylvania’s race for the U.S. Senate, with Republican Pat Toomey continuing to maintain a slight lead over Democrat Joe Sestak.
Sixty-one percent (61%) of voters nationwide now expect the cost of health care to go up under the health care reform law, the highest level of pessimism measured since the law was passed in March.
Republican candidates now hold a nine-point lead over Democrats on the Generic Congressional Ballot for the week ending Sunday, July 18, the widest gap between the two parties in several weeks.
Both the Republican and Democratic nominees have lost some support from voters this month in Maine’s gubernatorial race.
Another governor on the front lines of the Gulf oil leak gets good marks from voters in his state.
While a majority of voters in Ohio don’t consider themselves members of the Tea Party movement, almost half feel the movement is good for the country.
Eighty-seven percent (87%) of Americans feel the media pays too much attention to celebrities, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. But 84% of Adults also admit that Americans pay too much attention to celebrity news and not enough attention to news that has real impact on their lives.
So how do Americans feel about some of the prominent celebrities in the news - for better or worse - in recent days?
Democrat Tom Barrett receives an increase in support this month to pull closer to both his Republican opponents in Wisconsin's gubernatorial race.
The frustration that voters are expressing in 2010 goes much deeper than specific policies. Voters just don’t believe their elected officials are listening to them.
Voters in Texas continue to show strong support for offshore oil drilling, and in contrast to findings in other states around the country, show nearly the same level of support for deepwater drilling.
With a bad-blood, confidence-destroying battle royale going on between Team Obama and business, you would think a highly publicized White House jobs summit would have produced some kind of positive announcement that gives a nod to the business point of view.
Democratic candidate John Hickenlooper has inched ahead of embattled Republican Scott McInnis for the first time since February in the race for governor of Colorado.
Americans have fairly mixed feelings about the government regulating what they eat.
Former Governor Roy Barnes appears headed toward an easy win next Tuesday in Georgia's Democratic Gubernatorial Primary race.
Washington's Senate race looks increasingly like a referendum on incumbent Democrat Patty Murray with two Republican candidates edging past her this month.
As BP appears to be making progress with capping the Gulf oil leak, 46% of voters in California say offshore oil drilling should be allowed. That's down eight points from early April, and is 14 points lower than the national average.
Most voters now believe it is at least somewhat likely that Republicans will win control of both houses of Congress in this November’s elections, and nearly half say there will a noticeable change in the lives of Americans if this happens.
