Democrats have criticized Republicans for being the Party of No for their consistent opposition to President Obama’s agenda, and voters have mixed feelings about whether that’s a good place for the GOP to be.
The Republican National Committee has an African-American chairman, Michael Steele, and still the GOP manages to come across as racially insensitive, as well as just plain insensitive. That's no easy feat.
Forty-four percent (44%) of likely voters in the state of California say economic conditions in the country are getting better, according to a new Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey.
So much is being written in the mainstream media about who the tea partiers are, but very little is being recorded about what these folks are actually saying.
As the debate over the direction of the economy continues, Americans' pessimism about their financial security is slowing. The latest COUNTRY Financial Security Index(R) dipped 0.3 points to 64.6 in June, marking the smallest overall decline since October 2008.
Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger is a bad guy. He may not be a rapist, in the sense that it can be proved beyond a reasonable doubt that he had nonconsensual sex, but not being guilty of a crime doesn't mean you're innocent. In my book, this guy should pay.
Sixty-five percent (65%) of New Jersey voters favor a one-year pay freeze on the salaries of administrators, teachers and school workers to reduce the state’s level of local school aid, according to a new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey.
Republican Scott McInnis holds on to 48% of the vote for the second month in a row in his match-up with Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper for governor of Colorado.
Fifty-one percent (51%) of voters in New Jersey, a state Barack Obama carried handily in 2008, now favor repeal of the recently-passed national health care bill. That includes 41% who strongly favor repeal.
Most voters nationwide (53%) believe any changes to Medicare or Social Security should be approved by a vote of the American people.
Fifty percent (50%) of New York voters favor repeal of the recently-passed national health care plan, while 46% oppose repeal, according to a new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the state. This includes 37% who strongly favor it and 36% who are strongly opposed.
Choosing a Supreme Court justice has become a deplorably dishonest process that hides ideological disputes behind petty and often personal matters. Nominees pretend to have no opinion about controversial issues such as abortion, when everyone listening knows they certainly do. Politicians pretend to worry about nothing except judicial qualifications, temperament and balance.
Following Congress' passage of the health care bill, voters view House Speaker Nancy Pelosi more favorably than they have in months. Voter opinions of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Minority Leader John Boehner are up slightly, too, after all three scored record unfavorable ratings the month before.
Incumbent Republican Senator Bob Bennett is under serious political attack in Utah for not being conservative enough, but he has the highest level of support so far among the state’s likely Republican Primary voters. One-out-of-five primary voters remain undecided.
Fly from Atlanta to Houston, and you may start at an airport named after two mayors and land at one named for a president. While in the air, you pass over hundreds of bridges, roadways and public buildings -- all honoring politicians, alive or dead.
Though offshore oil drilling is still off-limits off the coast of California, the plurality (44%) of voters in the state think it should be allowed there.
It's not hard to predict how the coming fight over financial regulation legislation will be framed by most of the mainstream media. Democrats like Christopher Dodd, the sponsor of the pending Senate bill, will be portrayed as cracking down on greedy Wall Street operators. Republicans will be portrayed as letting Wall Street operators have their way.
Governor Gary Herbert, the lieutenant governor who took over the state's top job when Jon Huntsman stepped down last summer to become U.S. ambassador to China, enjoys a comfortable level of support against the only Democrat in Utah's special gubernatorial election.
Forty percent (40%) of likely Florida Republican Primary voters say the Justice Department should investigate allegations of financial wrongdoing within the state Republican Party.
Thirty-four percent (34%) of U.S. voters say the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
