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The "saturation coverage" of the Florida election recount and its numerous court battles has taken on a life of its own, with major newspapers devoting special sections to the controversy and networks offering round-the-clock coverage ...

The Gallup Organization has been tracking presidential job approval for more than 60 years. We ask a straightforward question -- " Do you approve or disapprove of the way [president’s name] is handling his job as president?" We have probably ...

The majority of Americans are skeptical that the information they provide in the forthcoming U.S. Census will be kept confidential, but almost all Americans nevertheless say they plan to participate and fill out their Census forms, and the vast ...

A recent Gallup Poll asked Americans to evaluate how much trust they have in the way various institutions and participants in public affairs perform their roles. While the three branches of government -- executive, legislative and judicial -- ...

Mother Teresa, the Roman Catholic nun who devoted her life to ministering to the poor and sick in India, is the Most Admired Person of the Century, according to new CNN/USA Today Gallup polls of the American people conducted this fall. Mother ...

The Gallup Poll's annual rating of Americans' confidence in the country's major institutions shows that the public has more confidence in the military than in any other institution tested, followed by organized religion, and then the police and ...

Lawyers for Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush and Democratic candidate Al Gore argued before the U.S. Supreme Court Friday as the nation's highest court tackled one of its most important and high-profile cases in years.

The Enron scandal is unlikely to affect Americans' relatively low opinion about business and its relationship to politics, nor is the situation likely to spur new calls for campaign finance reform from the public. Because Americans already ...

Americans have more confidence in small business and the military than in any of 13 other institutions evaluated in a recent Gallup poll. The military's confidence rating, however, has dropped since last year, perhaps reflecting the high levels ...

The environment has only mid-range importance to Americans this year as an issue in the presidential campaign, and only a bare majority of Americans consider the environment to be a serious problem facing the country.