The presidential primary process to choose the Democratic nominee includes the use of superdelegates, individuals selected by the party who can support any candidate at the party's convention regardless of who wins their state's popular vote. But just over half of Democrats cry foul at the system.
The Wall Street Journal’s Peggy Noonan says Donald Trump may be the only one who can beat Donald Trump, and we may be seeing signs of that beginning to emerge.
The Wisconsin primary could be an axle-breaking speed bump on Donald Trump's road to the nomination.
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.
On June 23, when Donald Trump will or will not have won the 1,237 delegates he needs to be nominated, voters in Britain will decide an issue as divisive as Trump's candidacy: whether the United Kingdom will remain in or leave the European Union.
Republicans are less certain this week that Donald Trump will be their party’s eventual presidential nominee.
Despite the continuing anger over the policies of the federal government, another Civil War does not appear to be in the making.
In an effort to reduce their homicide rates, several major cities including Baltimore, Miami, Toledo and Washington, D.C. are considering a plan to pay criminals not to murder with a gun. Americans overwhelmingly reject that idea.
We live in a post-factual era. Thanks to the Internet and social media, which mix informed and uninformed views in equal measure, the old rule — that people are entitled to their own opinions but not their own set of facts — no longer applies. Somewhere in cyberspace, you can now find blogs and treatises with “facts” that support your opinions, no matter how bizarre.
Despite the continuing debate over police conduct, more Americans than ever say their local officers are doing a good job, and most still don't think cops are to blame for the majority of shootings they are involved in.
Voters aren’t attaching as much importance to the presidential candidates’ spouses as they did eight years ago.
In this brief cessation of hostilities between enemy forces on both sides of the political divide, it is a good time to take stock of where primary voters have taken the two parties.
It's not over. It's never over. After last week's deadly airport and subway bombings in Brussels, the Belgian government remains on high alert for jihad attacks and espionage at its nuclear facilities.
It’s down and dirty time for the GOP. All three remaining Republican candidates refused to say at a CNN town hall last night whether they would support the party’s eventual presidential nominee if they didn’t win.
Trump! Clinton! Is that all there is? No. Fortunately, we have other choices.
Most Americans continue to question the U.S. tax system and feel they are paying more than their fair share in income taxes.
Like they have for years, most voters want Congress to stop spending so much money, but they don’t actually believe it’s going to happen.
Americans appear to be on a tear to pay their income taxes this year.
I am "not isolationist, but I am 'America First,'" Donald Trump told The New York times last weekend. "I like the expression."
If there is one thing that is bipartisan in Washington, it is brazen hypocrisy.
