83% know that Republican Party holds in Senate and about the same share knows that GOP also controls House of Representatives. For example, nearly identical shares of Republicans and Republican leaners and Democrats and Democratic leaners know that First Amendment guarantees the..…
By contrast, more Democratic-leaning independents cite frustrations with Democratic leaders when the party held White House .. Correction version of this post misstated the percentages of Democrats who said that major reasons for identifying as Democrats were loyalty and having..…
Former Phoenix Democratic Mayor Stanton is expected to take Sinema’s House seat, but McSally’s seat will probably flip to Democratic former U.S. ... So, it looks like the Democrats will gain a House seat and have a better than 50 percent chance to pick up a Senate..…
The number of minorities named to the federal courts has increased faster under Democratic presidents than Republican presidents. From 1945 to today – a period in which Republicans and Democrats have each occupied the White House for a total of 36 years – Democratic..…
Among both Democrats and Republicans, large majorities say they can seldom, if ever, trust the federal government (89% of Republicans, 72% of Democrats). While trust in government among Republicans has varied widely depending on whether a Republican or Democrat is in the White..…
It's time for conversations about faith in United States, with Pope Francis set to visit next month, election on the horizon and major trends reshaping the country's religious landscape.. ..…
The conviction of such a high-ranking White House official was one more setback for the Bush administration, already laboring under low approval ratings, public impatience with the war in Iraq and a new Democratic majority in Congress. . Democrats immediately used the verdicts to lambaste..…
Pelosi has been traveling around the country on behalf of Democratic congressional candidates. If the Democrats can pick up six House seats in November to gain party control, she presumably would become House majority leader, with Richard Gephardt moving up to speaker. . . . . . ..…
Democrats, meanwhile, kept the heat on the White House. . Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid of Nevada and fellow Democrats Charles E. ..…
To be sure, public views of Congress overall have been negative for several years, since well before Republicans won control of Senate last fall or gained control of House January 2011. About six-in-ten Democrats and Democratic leaners say Democratic Party is doing job..…
seventy-two House Democrats, Democratic senators, and Republicans aligned with USA Refugee Council and other American resettlement agencies to urge the president to take Syrian refugees. ..…
McCain Feingold regulating the financing of political campaigns was adopted in 2002 reaction to the in the 1990s when both parties, particularly Democrats were caught accepting foreign contributions. By one vote of surviving filibuster, In 2010, following Citizens United,..…
he October 2002 resolution authorizing the invasion had the support of the majority of Democratic senators, and the support of Democratic Party both House and Senate... Joe Lieberman, then Democratic and the party's 2000 vice nominee, positioned leaving Democrats to..…
Although the House remained under Democratic control (243 to 192), their margin was actually much slimmer, because many southern “boll weevil” Democrats voted with the Republicans. . ..…
DURING THE 1980s, that this was the realization of goal set by Black of the 1960s early 1970s.. ..…
Pendulum Swing found that the sharp GOP gains in the House were due to “a drastically lower Democratic turnout.” Surveys show that of those who voted in 2008, Democrats were almost twice as likely not to do so in 2010. ..…
Suppressing congressional votes of American territorial delegates and District of Columbia, described was and is never about the merit, ideology, fairness or disfranchisement — it has always been about the balance of in congress. ..…