42% in Minnesota For Pawlenty, 46% Against If He’s GOP Presidential Candidate
Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty might want to focus his reported interest in the White House a little more at home for right now.
Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty might want to focus his reported interest in the White House a little more at home for right now.
Fifty-nine percent (59%) of Republican voters say former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin shares the values of most GOP voters throughout the nation.
The front-runner in Minnesota’s 2010 Republican gubernatorial primary is a candidate who isn’t even the race yet, while Democrats are evenly divided between two of their most prominent contenders.
Barack Obama told the House Democratic Caucus before the roll call vote on health care on Nov. 7 that they would be better off politically if they passed the bill than if they let it fail. Bill Clinton speaking to the Senate Democrats' lunch on Nov. 10 cited his party's big losses in 1994 after Congress failed to pass his health care legislation as evidence that Democrats would suffer more from failure to pass a bill than from disaffection with a bill that was signed into law.
Twenty-six percent (26%) of Americans say the United States should remove all its military troops from Japan, a central issue in President Obama’s trip to that country Friday and Saturday.
EDINBURGH -- Do not believe that Scotland was united behind Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill's decision to grant "compassionate" release to the terminally ill convicted Pan Am 103 bomber Abdel Basset al-Megrahi in August.
A grateful nation showed its respect on Veterans Day this past week to those who have served in the U.S. military, even as more disturbing news emerged about the Muslim Army officer accused of the massacre at Fort Hood, Texas.
Though Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison is involved in a hotly contested Republican primary race for Governor, 57% of voters in the state say she should remain in her current position while doing so.
Governor Rick Perry is back out front of Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison with an 11-point lead in the 2010 Republican Primary gubernatorial race in Texas.
U.S. voters strongly oppose the reinstitution of a military draft and are even more strongly in favor of an all-volunteer military. They also don’t think a year of mandatory public service is a good idea.
No doubt off-year elections can be overanalyzed. They are few in number. They sometimes give evidence of conflicting trends. And their predictive value for the midterm elections to follow has been rather conclusively debunked.
Minnesota voters give Senator Amy Klobuchar higher marks for job performance than her fellow senator Al Franken and Michele Bachmann, the congresswoman who has become a conservative lightning rod in the national health care debate.
As the fallout continues to settle from the 2009 elections, among the more overlooked results was a ballot issue in Boulder County, Colorado that would have extended an existing sales tax to fund the acquisition of additional “open space.”
There's an old saying that hard cases make bad law. The same rule, unfortunately, applies to presidential decisions.
Nearly half the nation’s voters still believe that global warming is caused primarily by long term planetary trends, not human activity
Seventy-three percent (73%) of Texas voters say Major Nadal Malik Hasan should receive the death penalty if he is convicted of last week’s massacre at Ford Hood, Texas.
Sixty percent (60%) of New Jersey voters say most of Republican Chris Christie’s winning support last week came from those who were voting against his opponent, incumbent Democratic Governor Jon Corzine.
While the majority of Americans support use of the death penalty, 73% are at least somewhat concerned that some people may be executed for crimes they did not commit. Forty percent (40%) are very concerned.
The execution Tuesday of the Washington, D.C. sniper killer and the unfolding investigation of last week’s murder spree at Fort Hood, Texas have again put the spotlight on the death penalty, one of the most hotly contested issues in the United States for years.
Anniversaries are opportunities to reflect on the past and on what it might mean for the future. Monday saw the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, even if Barack Obama could not find time to travel once again to Berlin to attend the commemoration there. And Wednesday is the 91st anniversary of the armistice that ended World War I.