Outside the Beltway

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.

The former Florida Governor announced that he’s taking the first step towards running for president in 2016.

As the second anniversary of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School approaches, a new poll finds that more Americans support gun rights than gun control.

Support for legalizing marijuana continues to grow slowly but surely.

After spiking in the wake of the Newtown tragedy, gun control has faded back into obscurity as an issue voters care about significantly.

Polls continue to show that most Americans are largely tuning the midterms out.

Democrats are starting to worry that low turnout could turn a good year for the GOP into a very good year.

Individual polls are likely to be volatile, so don’t pay too much attention to them.

A majority of Americans don’t care very much who controls Congress.

The GOP has bounced back significantly from the lows it experienced after last year’s government shutdown.

A new poll shows that Americans are divided over Israel’s actions in Gaza, but this most likely will not impact relations between the two countries.

A new poll suggests that Hillary Clinton’s record as Secretary of State doesn’t impress voters as much as she might hope.

Vladimir Putin has become immensely popular in Russia again, and its not hard to figure out why.

If Hillary Clinton is going to have a serious challenge in 2016, the person who will do that has yet to emerge.

A lot of Republicans dislike the President enough to think that he should be removed from office, but will that make impeachment more likely to happen?

The number of uninsured Americans has declined since the Obamacare mandate went into effect.

Republican overreach could end up helping the President and his party.

Public faith in government institutions is at all all time low.

A new Gallup poll finds widespread support for individual choice when it comes to end of life decisions.

According to some surveys, Americans are getting a lot more sleep than they think they are. Really?