U.S. voters think Hillary Clinton is more qualified to be president than Barack Obama, but most believe that both Democrats are more fit for the White House than three top Republicans interested in the job.
"If you can't budget, you can't govern," Rep. John Spratt Jr., D-S.C., proclaimed in 2006 when the House GOP leadership chose to dispense with passing a budget resolution.
Longtime Senator John McCain continues to lead Arizona’s Republican Primary by double digits but remains in the same narrow range of support he’s drawn since January.
As far as most Americans are concerned, the United States isn’t going away any time soon.
Thuggery is unattractive. Ineffective thuggery even more so. Which may be one reason so many Americans have been reacting negatively to the response of Barack Obama and his administration to BP's gulf oil spill.
The race to be Oregon’s next governor is still anyone’s game at this point, with Republican Chris Dudley and Democrat John Kitzhaber virtually tied again this month.
Republican candidates now hold an eight-point lead over Democrats on the Generic Congressional Ballot for the week ending Sunday, June 20.
Though voters see more action from Congress, they continue to give the legislature poor ratings.
Incumbent Jan Brewer now earns 61% support in Arizona’s Republican Primary race for governor, marking her second big monthly gain in a row.
Republican challenger Rick Berg continues to hold a modest advantage again this month in his contest with Democratic incumbent Earl Pomeroy for North Dakota’s only House seat.
When it comes to money and power, politicians want the government to have more of it, while voters want the government to have less. At least that’s what most Americans think.
Amidst all the political jockeying over the BP catastrophe, the main players are missing what is really uppermost on America's mind: It's the spill rate, stupid. It's jobs, stupid. It's the economy, stupid. And none of it is happening.
Voters with health insurance overwhelmingly like the health insurance coverage they have, but 44% of those with insurance think the new national health care bill is likely to make them change that coverage according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Forty-five percent (45%) don't believe that's likely.
The majority (71%) of American Adults continue to believe that being a father is one of the most important roles a man can fill in today’s world, a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Twelve percent (12%) disagree, and 17% are not sure.?
When activists (who are not necessarily students) were able to delay construction of a UC Berkeley sports center by living in trees for 21 months, there was no review of what went wrong.
A disappointing government jobs report last month shows there’s still a long road ahead to righting the nation’s economic problems, and voters are slowly shifting the blame for those problems away from the previous administration.
Washington and Wall Street talk, but Americans just want to know when they’re going to plug the darn hole.
When BP CEO Tony Hayward went to Capitol Hill this week, he got beat up on by all sides.
The Obama administration has decided to challenge Arizona’s new immigration law in federal court, but a recent Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 56% of U.S. voters oppose such a challenge.
Americans believe strongly that the United States needs to change its dependency on fossil fuels, but they have mixed feelings about whether government policies should encourage use of alternative energy sources in their place.
