President Obama told comedian Jon Stewart earlier this week that the Internal Revenue Service didn’t target Tea Party and other conservative groups on his watch and that a lack of funding by Congress was to blame for any problems at the tax-collecting agency. But voters still think something criminal was going on and are even more suspicious of what the president knew about it.
America's two major political parties have a difficult task: amassing a 51 percent coalition in a nation that has always been -- not just now, but from the beginning -- regionally, religiously, racially and ethnically diverse.
"All cops are bastards!"
"F**k cops!"
"This is what white supremacy looks like!"
On a tranquil Sunday afternoon in Denver, hate-mongering zealots hijacked a rally held by citizens and families of fallen police officers, who had gathered to pay tribute to Colorado's honorable men and women in blue.
Praise and criticism of the U.S. Supreme Court are inching down again after last month's major rulings on Obamacare and gay marriage, and voters are more likely now to think the court’s ideology skews liberal.
Voters are less likely than ever to think the U.S. system of justice is fair to the majority of Americans. But race remains a big factor in how voters respond.
The United Nations Security Council earlier this week endorsed the agreement the Obama administration has negotiated with Iran to slow the Iranian nuclear development program. But most U.S. voters aren’t impressed.
Since we last took a comprehensive look at the 2016 Senate races, a slew of new candidates have jumped in, some promising contenders have dropped out, and intraparty competition has intensified.
Sounds dramatic. Yet what most strikes us is the overall stability, thus far at least, of the Senate picture.
The Pentagon recently announced that transgender individuals will be allowed to serve openly in the U.S. military, but for voters that's a close call.
Who? That seems to be Ohio Governor John Kasich’s biggest problem as perhaps the last major entrant in the race for next year’s Republican presidential nomination.
Another week, another money-grubbing Planned Parenthood baby-parts harvester exposed.
Do Republican voters have a slightly more favorable opinion of Donald Trump these days than they do of Senator John McCain?
The outrage over another multiple murder of American military personnel on American soil by another Islamic extremist has been exacerbated by the fact that these military people had been ordered to be unarmed -- and therefore sitting ducks.
Millions of American civilians have also been forbidden to have guns, and are also sitting ducks -- for criminals, terrorists or psychos.
Hillary Clinton gave a speech warning that the new "sharing economy" of businesses such as theride-hailing company Uber is "raising hard questions about workplace protections."
As more damning evidence is released regarding Bill Cosby’s history of alleged sexual assaults, Americans have a much more negative view of the legendary comedian but stop short of calling for his Presidential Medal of Freedom to be revoked.
Disparate impact. It's a legal doctrine that may be coming soon to your suburb (if you're part of the national majority living in suburbs).
Distinguished scientist Freeman Dyson has called the 1433 decision of the emperor of China to discontinue his country's exploration of the outside world the "worst political blunder in the history of civilization."
When it comes to campaign contributions, most voters think disclosure is more important than restrictions. Most also still believe substance matters more than money when it comes to election outcomes.
Voters overwhelmingly object to efforts to get rid of the U.S. flag and other symbols of the nation’s past that offend some Americans, but they're more hesitant about comparing those proposals to the historical cleansing being done by the radical Islamic group ISIS in the Middle East.
Thirty-two percent (32%) of Likely U.S. Voters now think the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey for the week ending July 16.
A recently released video showing a Planned Parenthood official discussing the harvesting and sale of body organs from aborted babies to medical laboratories has kicked up a political storm. Most voters still approve of the pro-choice group but don’t care much for its sales practices.
