For Democrats, it is officially time to worry. The party's gubernatorial losses in Virginia and New Jersey last fall could be partially explained away as the states' usual off-year swing to the "out" party.
Republican Scott Brown's victory in Massachusetts' special Senate election was for Democratic leaders a moment that can be described in two words, of which I will only print the first here, which is "oh."
One more Democratic senator who has long been regarded as a safe prospect for reelection may be facing a challenging year in 2010.
During his State of the Union address tonight, President Obama touched on a number of topics that Rasmussen Reports has current polling data on measuring the attitudes of the American people.
Twenty-nine percent (29%) of U.S. voters now say the country is heading in the right direction, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
The Republicans would have to win 40 new congressional seats to take control of the House of Representatives, but 26% of U.S. voters think that’s Very Likely to happen this November. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that only three percent (3%) rule out the possibility and say it's Not at All Likely.
Stocks shrugged it off yesterday, but I’d like to commend President Obama for his three-year budget freeze plan. That's right. It gives me good old-fashioned, American patriotic State of the Union pleasure to praise the president when he does good.
Americans are evenly divided over whether Ben Bernanke should stay or go, as the Senate moves closer to a confirmation vote on the embattled chairman of the Federal Reserve Board.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 59% of voters nationwide believe cutting taxes is better than increasing government spending as a job-creation tool.
CBS will air an ad during the Super Bowl in which college football star Tim Tebow and his mother, Pam Tebow, discuss her decision not to have an abortion despite doctors’ advice to do so. The news is creating precisely the stir that its sponsor, the Christian conservative group Focus on the Family, was almost certainly hoping for.
As I was preparing to write a column on the ludicrous maligning of the Tea Party movement by liberals, Democrats and the mainstream media (which I hope to write next week, instead), I started thinking about one of the key objectives of the Tea Party people -- the strict enforcement of the 10th Amendment ("The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people").
State Comptroller Dan Hynes has edged ahead of current Governor Pat Quinn in the race to become Illinois' Democratic gubernatorial nominee in this fall's election.
Former state Republican Chairman Andy McKenna attracts 20% of the vote, enough to hold a modest lead over a large field of hopefuls, in the race to become the GOP nominee for governor of Illinois.
Republican candidates again hold a nine-point lead over Democrats in the latest edition of the Generic Congressional Ballot.
A first look at Delaware’s U.S. Senate race following Beau Biden’s decision not to run shows why Democrats were hoping Biden would enter the race.
Just 37% of U.S. voters now believe it is even somewhat likely that Congress will agree this year on a smaller, bipartisan health care plan, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. That figure includes only nine percent (9%) who say it is very likely.
The Washington Post has released an interesting review about the media coverage of the Massachusetts Senate race.
Political correctness is alive in the Pentagon. Witness "Protecting the Force: Lessons from Fort Hood," a Department of Defense report released last week on the Nov. 5 shootings that left 13 people dead.
In Search of Self Governance, a new book by Scott Rasmussen, takes a look at our nation’s broken political system in a brand new Rasmussen Reports publication
Americans increasingly live in a world of cell phones, laptops, Blackberries, desk computers and more, all wirelessly linked to the Internet, and now automakers even plan front-seat computers in some cars.
