Fifty percent (50%) of New York voters favor repeal of the recently-passed national health care plan, while 46% oppose repeal, according to a new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the state. This includes 37% who strongly favor it and 36% who are strongly opposed.
Choosing a Supreme Court justice has become a deplorably dishonest process that hides ideological disputes behind petty and often personal matters. Nominees pretend to have no opinion about controversial issues such as abortion, when everyone listening knows they certainly do. Politicians pretend to worry about nothing except judicial qualifications, temperament and balance.
Following Congress' passage of the health care bill, voters view House Speaker Nancy Pelosi more favorably than they have in months. Voter opinions of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Minority Leader John Boehner are up slightly, too, after all three scored record unfavorable ratings the month before.
Incumbent Republican Senator Bob Bennett is under serious political attack in Utah for not being conservative enough, but he has the highest level of support so far among the state’s likely Republican Primary voters. One-out-of-five primary voters remain undecided.
Fly from Atlanta to Houston, and you may start at an airport named after two mayors and land at one named for a president. While in the air, you pass over hundreds of bridges, roadways and public buildings -- all honoring politicians, alive or dead.
Though offshore oil drilling is still off-limits off the coast of California, the plurality (44%) of voters in the state think it should be allowed there.
It's not hard to predict how the coming fight over financial regulation legislation will be framed by most of the mainstream media. Democrats like Christopher Dodd, the sponsor of the pending Senate bill, will be portrayed as cracking down on greedy Wall Street operators. Republicans will be portrayed as letting Wall Street operators have their way.
Governor Gary Herbert, the lieutenant governor who took over the state's top job when Jon Huntsman stepped down last summer to become U.S. ambassador to China, enjoys a comfortable level of support against the only Democrat in Utah's special gubernatorial election.
Forty percent (40%) of likely Florida Republican Primary voters say the Justice Department should investigate allegations of financial wrongdoing within the state Republican Party.
Thirty-four percent (34%) of U.S. voters say the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
The 2010 hurricane season may not begin officially until June 1, but some forecasters are already predicting a worse year than 2009.
Pit maverick Republican Congressman Ron Paul against President Obama in a hypothetical 2012 election match-up, and the race is – virtually dead even.
I was power walking up Broadway in New York City last Tuesday, when something went terribly wrong. The world started spinning. I literally couldn't see straight.
The Republican Party must break with its long-established cautious instincts and make a bold stand for first principles of freedom and constitutional limitations on government -- from full repeal of Obamacare to rolling back multitrillion-dollar deficits. This is not so much reproach of past Republican conduct as it is recognition of new opportunities.
Incumbent Democrat Barbara Boxer now receives no more than 43% support against any of her top three GOP opponents in her reelection bid for U.S. Senate in California, but they aren't gaining ground either.
For the second straight week, Republican candidates hold a nine-point lead over Democrats in the latest edition of the Generic Congressional Ballot.
Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand remains in a vulnerable position in her bid for reelection in New York even though no viable Republican running against her.
The number of people who say they’re part of the Tea Party Movement nationally has grown to 24%. That’s up from 16% a month ago, but the movement still defies easy description.
Forty-eight percent (48%) of Americans now believe that the government has a conflict-of-interest when it comes to regulating competing automakers.
The deadline is midnight this Thursday, and 22% of Americans say they still have not filed their income taxes.
