Big news this week from WorldNetDaily, America's pre-eminent source of far-right fringe theories and weird scams: about half of America would like to ...

Since 2001, Congressional approval has declined by an average of 4.17 percent each year. This trend line reaches zero by 2016.

A new poll shows a sharp decline in the approval ratings of both Alaska Democratic Sen. Mark Begich and Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski over the last c...

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's re-election glow is gone. Congress' reputation remains dismal. And only about one in five Americans say they tr...

WASHINGTON, April 15 (Reuters) - Americans' opinion of the federal government has fallen to a record low even as they continue to view local and sta...

In the wake of the 2012 election, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal undertook what amounted to a massive personal rebranding effort, with the likely purpose...

WASHINGTON -- At its worst point during the Great Recession, the national unemployment rate reached 10 percent in October 2009. But a new survey by Th...

WASHINGTON -- The nation's views on gay marriage are more favorable in large part because of a shift in attitudes among those who know someone who is ...

Traditional polls tend to force respondents to make a choice between whether they assign more blame to one side or the other. But how much blame do Americans assign to either side?

Hey, everybody. Remember last week's huge kerfuffle over Bob Woodward, and his spat with the White House over an obsequious, groveling apology that Ge...

As President Obama faces a tough showdown with congressional Republicans over the looming sequestration cuts, a new poll shows the commander-in-chief...

Just in time for President's Day, a new poll shows Bill Clinton topping New Jersey residents' list of favorite presidents. In a Monmouth Universit...

For now, at least, a clear majority of voters endorses fighting by drones. But there is more to it, and therefore possibly less to voters' approval rating of drone warfare, than meets the eye.

As if we needed to dump any more sriracha sauce all over the already spicy bowl of hot Hillary Clinton 2016 speculation, there's now word from the fol...

People have responsibilities to children, family, and friends, which makes Tuesday a difficult day to go to the polls. In fact, that makes any day a difficult one to go to the polls. How can we encourage voter turnout and reduce disenfranchisement while preserving the quality and integrity of voting systems?

* Most Americans want deficit reduction in near term * Opposition to cuts in education, Social Security, Medicare * Publ...

President Barack Obama enters the debt limit talks with largely the same set of advantages he enjoyed during the fiscal cliff debate: relatively stron...

There has been a vast and important change of mind among the electorate, regarding the issue of taxes. On 13 July 2012, McClatchy Newspapers headline...

For the first time, a majority of Americans now say the Republican Party is too extreme, according to a poll released Thursday by CNN/ORC. Fifty-th...