In the high-stakes battle over replacing Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court, a majority of Americans (56%) say the Senate should hold hearings and vote on President Obama’s choice to fill the vacancy. About four-in-ten (38%) say the Senate should not hold hearings until the next president selects a […] Read more »
Americans Split on if Senate Should Vote on Supreme Court Pick
American voters are divided — especially along party lines — whether the U.S. Senate should vote this year on President Obama’s eventual nominee to succeed Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court, according to results from a new national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. CONT. Mark Murray, NBC News Read more »
Long-Serving Scalia Controversial, Yet Widely Unknown
The unexpected death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on Saturday deprives the high court of its longest-serving and arguably most-outspoken member. … Scalia, whom one prominent legal scholar named “the most influential justice of the last quarter-century,” was nonetheless unknown to nearly a third of Americans (32%) and generated […] Read more »
Republicans Risk Five Key Senate Races With Supreme Court Stance
The impending battle over replacing Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court will undoubtedly loom over this year’s presidential contest. But it may have an even larger role in an often overlooked 2016 election contest: the fight for control of the Senate. The Senate is in play this November, and the […] Read more »
Race and Reality in America: Five key findings
… CNN and the Kaiser Family Foundation partnered to survey Americans on issues relating to race and ethnicity. The poll explores how things have changed in the last 20 years and what race means now. The survey also examines how different groups of Americans experience race day-to-day, and what they […] Read more »
Beyond Distrust: How Americans View Their Government
A year ahead of the presidential election, the American public is deeply cynical about government, politics and the nation’s elected leaders in a way that has become quite familiar. Currently, just 19% say they can trust the government always or most of the time, among the lowest levels in the […] Read more »