Majorities of Americans believe that the Internal Revenue Service deliberately harassed conservative groups by targeting them for special scrutiny and say that the Obama administration is trying to cover up important details about the terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans last year. But a new Washington Post-ABC [...] Read more »
Public Sharply Critical on IRS, Benghazi; But Economy Cuts Obama Some Slack
Americans in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll sharply reject special scrutiny of conservative groups by the Internal Revenue Service, suspect an administration cover-up of the Benghazi incident and express substantial distrust of the federal government more generally. Yet the national survey also finds no backlash against Barack Obama, at [...] Read more »
Hillary Clinton Is Still Popular, More So Than Obama, Biden
Though currently she is — at least temporarily — out of political life, former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton continues to enjoy a strong favorability rating, now 64%. Americans view Clinton more favorably than the president and vice president, as well as Clinton’s successor, Secretary of State John Kerry. [...] Read more »
Joe Biden: The Unlikely Underdog
When vice presidents seek their party’s nomination, they win. The last failed veep candidacy was in 1952 …. Since then, vice presidents Richard Nixon, Hubert Humphrey, Walter Mondale, George H.W. Bush, and Al Gore all successfully won their party’s nomination—often comfortably. … That should make Vice President Joe Biden well [...] Read more »
2016 Heirs Apparent
For the second presidential election in a row, Democrats have an obvious “heir apparent” for the nomination, while Republicans, for the third election in a row, have a crowded field with no obvious first choice candidate. In the olden days, it was Democrats who had the messy and unpredictable primaries, [...] Read more »
Rubio popular with Latinos – but not as popular as Clinton, Obama
In the early jockeying for the 2016 presidential race, one of Sen. Marco Rubio’s, R-Fla., major selling points is that he brings diversity and can expand the party’s influence with Hispanic voters, especially after the shellacking the GOP took with the demographic group in 2012. Unlike other Republicans, Hispanics view [...] Read more »
16 For ’16, Part 1: Democrats Again Hunger for History
Democrats made history in 2008. We suspect they will want to do so again in 2016, which is just another reason why Hillary Clinton is such an obvious front-runner for her party’s presidential nomination, as long as she wants it. After electing the first black president, there is going to [...] Read more »
More than 75% believe they will see a female president in their lifetime
More than 75 percent of Americans believe they will see a female president in their lifetime, according to a comprehensive national survey conducted by two entities of the University of Arkansas System. … Poll questions released Wednesday also covered the 2012 presidential election results, attitudes toward women in the workplace [...] Read more »
Hillary Clinton reaches new heights of political popularity
As she heads to Capitol Hill this morning to testify regarding the death of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, Hillary Clinton has something her former legislative colleagues lack: the broad support of the American public. Fully 67 percent of all Americans in a new Washington Post-ABC News poll now express [...] Read more »
Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama Most Admired in 2012
Americans again this year name Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama as the Most Admired Woman and Most Admired Man living in any part of the world. Clinton has been the Most Admired Woman each of the last 11 years, and Obama has been the Most Admired [...] Read more »