Support for the current federal system of background checks on gun purchasers remains high, but voters still question their effectiveness in reducing crime. One-in-three voters, however, want to expand the list of people who can be denied a gun.
Ohio voters yesterday rejected by nearly a two-to-one margin a ballot initiative that would have legalized both medical and recreational marijuana, but mixing the two into one vote may have been supporters’ biggest mistake.
Republicans rate gun issues more important to their vote than others do, but there’s a great deal of skepticism among all voters about politicians who raise gun-related issues.
Senate Democrats recently blocked "Kate's Law," legislation intended to impose mandatory prison terms on illegal immigrants convicted of major felonies who have been deported but have again entered the United States illegally. The law was named after Kate Steinle, the young woman murdered this summer in San Francisco by just such a person.
Even as they worry the federal government is a growing threat to their rights, voters continue to strongly value their basic constitutional freedoms. They are even more supportive now than they have been in the past of their right to bear arms.
Did Wednesday night’s debate make a difference in the Republican presidential race?
The man currently running a distant second for the Democratic presidential nomination, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, is a self-declared socialist, and most of his party’s voters now have a positive view of socialism. They are almost evenly divided as to whether they like capitalism or socialism more.
The latest Republican presidential debate was a textbook example of the media bias voters have complained about in surveys for years.
Going into their party’s third presidential debate this evening, Republicans aren’t overly enthusiastic about the candidates hoping to be the GOP standard-bearer next year.
It’s Halloween, and it’s government shutdown time again. The media, President Obama and most members of Congress are trying to scare us all again with the threat of closing down the federal government unless the national debt limit is raised.
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump continue to be the national leaders in the Democratic and Republican presidential contests, but do most voters trust them?
Most voters continue to believe the government should regulate campaign contributions, but they also still feel that publishing the names of all contributors is more important than limiting what they give.
House Speaker John Boehner took his fellow Republicans by surprise when he abruptly resigned in the face of growing criticism from conservatives. The GOP struggled to find a replacement, with Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan, the party's 2012 vice presidential nominee, finally talked into stepping up. But do Republican voters expect anything to change in Congress?
American voters still generally have faith in society, though that faith is slipping.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Thursday and is set to meet with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas about the recent escalation of violence in Jerusalem between Israelis and Palestinians, but most voters don’t want to see much more U.S. involvement in the situation.
Hillary Clinton is scheduled to testify today before a special congressional committee about the attack in Benghazi that happened while she was secretary of State. Clinton claims the probe is politically motivated, but most voters don't think she's telling the whole story about the incident in Libya three years ago.
It’s the war that keeps on going. America’s drawn out presence in Afghanistan is set to go even longer following President Obama’s announcement last week that thousands more U.S. troops will remain there indefinitely. Voters tend to agree with the decision, but are more critical of the administration’s handling of the situation and remain puzzled as to what the United States has actually achieved there.
Rasmussen Reports’ first head-to-head matchup between the two frontrunners for the 2016 presidential nomination shows a tight race.
Hillary Clinton didn’t get a bump from Tuesday night’s debate but still holds a two-to-one lead over her closest rival.
Voters still consider alternative energy sources a better long-term investment, but most also continue to believe environmentally-friendly development of shale oil resources can make this country energy independent.
