Outside the Beltway

Californians are set to vote on marijuana legalization in November and, this time, it looks like it will pass.

It’s still early in the cycle, but Donald Trump’s poll numbers are already historically bad.

Nearly one year after the Supreme Court’s historic decision, public support for same-sex marriage continues to rise even among groups that were previously strongly opposed to it.

It increasingly appears that the GOP is on the losing side of the argument over whether to hold hearings and a vote on the nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court.

With President Obama becoming the first American President to visit Cuba in 88 years, a new poll finds majority support for his changes in Cuba policy.

Nancy Reagan was a crucial part what made Ronald Reagan the man he was, and today she passed away at the age of 94.

The President has another plan to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay. It’s as likely to be well-received on Capitol Hill as all of his other previous plans on this issue.

Donald Trump is in second place, and tied, with Pope Francis, in a poll asking Americans to name the person they most admired in 2015.

In a new Gallup poll, Republicans say they want a “conservative” as their Presidential nominee, but they may regret what happens if they get the kind of hard-right conservative they seem to be thinking of.

Delaware has become the latest state to liberalize its laws regarding marijuana.

A new poll shows that a majority of Americans oppose a ban on so-called ‘assault weapons,’ a marked change from two decades ago.

Different criteria than in the past, but there may not be much of a change in the participants.

To a large degree, the narrative you believe will govern the 2016 elections depend on which party you want to see win. But what’s the most likely outcome?

In the wake of President Obama’s to send Special Forces to Syria, a new poll finds the public doesn’t like the idea very much.

A new Gallup poll shows public approval of Congress once again approaching historic lows, but it means far less than anyone thinks.

Meet Ted Cruz: Religious Bigot

A new poll shows that the Tea Party movement is more unpopular than it has ever been before, even among Republicans and conservatives.

Two new polls show that political efforts to enact more stringent gun control at the national level are not likely to succeed.

Public support for marijuana legalization continues to rise. As with the marriage equality movement, it’s obvious where this will end, The only question is how long it will take to get there.

A new poll shows an up-tick in public support for some gun control measures, but gun control advocates can’t ignore the political reality that says those restrictions are unlikely to ever become law.

One of the nation’s preeminent polling firms is sitting out the 2016 primaries.

California Governor Jerry Brown has signed a bill legalizing physician-assisted suicide, making California the fifth state to legalize the practice and possibly giving real political momentum to the Right To Die movement.

Thanks mostly to Republicans unhappy with the Court’s decisions on same-sex marriage and the Affordable Care Act, public disapproval of the Supreme Court is nearing a new high.

California’s legislature has approved a bill that would legalize physician assisted suicide in the nation’s largest state.

Another poll confirms the fact that Americans of all political stripes continue to hold Congress is disdain.

Trump is at -51 net favorability and Clinton at +40. The rest of the field is at “Who?”

Another poll shows that most Americans, and even most Republicans, support a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants.

Based on a recent poll, it doesn’t appear that Democrats are all that eager for Vice-President Biden to challenge Hillary Clinton.

In 1992, an eccentric billionaire ran an independent campaign against a Bush and a Clinton. It could happen again.

Hillary Clinton has suffered drops in her favorability numbers lately, but that may not mean much for 2016.

Polling in three battleground states shows Hillary Clinton slightly trailing three top Republicans, but it means far less than you might think.

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal enters the Presidential race today, but it’s hard to see how he even manages to become a plausible candidate.

More Democrats are calling themselves “liberal” than they have in years. Republicans, too.

The American people don’t believe that liberty should be sacrificed in the name of security, but their leaders largely don’t care.

It will be some time before sanity prevails in the GOP, but slowly but surely Republicans seem to be becoming less socially conservative.

Republicans running for President need to tread carefully in their responses if the Supreme Court legalizes same-sex marriage nationwide.

A new poll shows that Americans have moved to the left on a wide variety of social issues.

In a new poll, a majority of Americans identify as “pro-choice,” but a deeper look at the numbers reveals that abortion politics remains as complicated as ever.

A new poll shows that nearly seven in ten Americans believe that people who are terminally ill should be allowed to end their lives with the help of a doctor.

A new Gallup poll puts support for same-sex marriage above 60% for the first time ever.

As oral argument in the Supreme Court gets closer, a new poll finds public support for same-sex marriage at it’s highest level yet.

Norway is moving to all-digital radio.

Five years after it became law, the Republican effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act appears to be over.

A new survey suggests that fewer Americans lack health insurance than at any time since that number was first measured.

Two weeks after the email story broke, there’s no sign that Hillary Clinton is losing ground in the 2016 race.

Despite the ongoing email controversy, Hillary Clinton remains well positioned heading into 2016.

What reporters see as stonewalling may be shrewd clock management.

A new poll of 2016 primary voters shows that even Republicans are coming to accept that gays and lesbians should have the right to get married.

Justice Ginsburg acknowledges the fact that, over the past nineteen years, same-sex marriage has gone from something that most Americans oppose to something that most Americans are willing to accept.