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Republican voters seem to have found a new favorite (and it’s not Mitt Romney). Newt Gingrich is now outpacing Romney in some measures of electability, and pundits are predicting that his chance…

A few weeks ago, Jesse Jackson paid a visit to a small meeting of some of the Occupy Wall Street movement’s principal organizers – and, to their surprise, he began to talk about Lyndon Baines John…

Roughly one-quarter (23%) of Americans say they identify with the values of the Tea Party movement. An equal number (23%) say that the Occupy Wall Street movement shares their values. Few Americans (6…

As Herman Cain, once the darling of a sizeable segment of the Republican primary electorate, crashes and burns under continuing revelations of sexual harassment and marital infidelity, another unlikel…

Late last week, Occupy Wall Street protesters across the country marched through cities and clashed with police as part of a “Day of Action.”  New York protesters even brought the infamous drum c…

At the end of October, President Obama unveiled a series of executive orders calculated to address the country’s spiraling student debt crisis. The “Pay as You Earn” option would lower minimum l…

The latest PRRI/RNS Religion News Poll has some fascinating findings about the Occupy Wall Street movement and the Tea Party movement. Two months after demonstrators took over New York’s Zuccott…

On the two-month anniversary of New York City’s Occupy Wall Street protests, a PRRI/RNS survey finds that most Americans favor increasing taxes on the wealthy.

As the 2012 election season swings, little by little, into higher gear, political commentators are beginning to question President Obama’s ability to rouse the infectious energy among his followers…

The 2011 American Values Survey, released last week, showed across-the-board support for increasing the minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $10.00 an hour. Now, we’ve broken down our findings on…