Democratic Senator Chris Dodd's decision not to seek reelection remains the game-changer in Connecticut's U.S. Senate race. Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, who jumped into the race when Dodd quit, continues to hold commanding leads over his top Republican rivals.
Before she became House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi promised that if Democrats won control of the House, she would "drain the swamp" in Washington. How is she doing?
Americans place little store in the value of hard work these days.
Republican Congresswoman Mary Fallin runs strongest for now among the four announced candidates for governor of Oklahoma.
The battle in Kansas’ Senate race appears to be mostly over which of the Republican contenders will end up being the party’s nominee.
When tracking President Obama’s job approval on a daily basis, people sometimes get so caught up in the day-to-day fluctuations that they miss the bigger picture. To look at the longer-term trends, Rasmussen Reports compiles the numbers on a full-month basis, and the results can be seen in the graphics below.
As the country wrestles with a future of historic-level deficits, 67% of U.S. voters say that illegal immigrants are a significant strain on the U.S. budget.
It was a great car. A 1981 Toyota Corolla, white with blue interior, and no extras. Exactly $5,000 -- $1,000 down, the rest financed. To be honest, I really wanted a Honda Accord. My mother had one, and what a dream that car was. But it was also $1,000 more, and while that might not sound like so much, believe me, it was. So I "settled" for the Toyota. After nine years behind the wheel of a 1972 yellow Ford Maverick, it seemed like a very significant step up.
Just 25% of U.S. voters now say the country is heading in the right direction, the lowest level of voter confidence since early January 2009.
Candidates for New York’s U.S. Senate seat come and go, but the latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the state finds Democratic incumbent Kirsten Gillibrand still in a virtual dead heat with former Governor George Pataki.
Twenty-eight percent (28%) of New York State voters say Governor David Paterson should resign and allow Lieutenant Governor Richard Ravitch to finish out his term.
One of the sadder categories in the history of human misfortunes is the list of those things that are obvious, but wrong. By definition, if something is obvious, most people agree with it, and thus, it is likely to win the day -- but lose the verdict of history.
Republican candidates lead Democrats by eight points in the latest edition of the Generic Congressional Ballot.
Lieutenant Governor Bill Halter who yesterday announced a Democratic Primary challenge to embattled Senator Blanche Lambert Lincoln runs weaker than the incumbent, for now at least, against the top Republican challengers in Arkansas’ U.S. Senate race.
Views of the country's short- and long-term economic future are gloomier these days than they have been at any time since President Obama took office in January of last year.
In January, the Senate joined the House in passing "pay-as-you-go" rules to require Congress to pay for new discretionary spending. On Feb. 12, President Obama signed the bill.
Ex-Senator Lincoln Chafee is the leader for now in Rhode Island’s race for governor.
Americans who shopped till they dropped have stopped. Per capita consumption is down for two straight years, according to Booz & Company's new study of U.S. spending behavior. That hasn't happened since the Great Depression.
Any way you cut it at this point, state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is comfortably ahead of his rivals in the race for governor of New York, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Empire State voters.
Right now Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn has no major challengers in his bid for reelection and posts a double-digit lead in a hypothetical match-up with the state’s best-known Democrat.
