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When asked which former president they would restore to the Oval Office if they could, 51% of Republicans name Ronald Reagan. Democrats are more divided, with 34% choosing John F. Kennedy and 24% Bill Clinton. The net result is a tie between ...

Mitt Romney faces the same level of prejudice against his religion as his father George Romney did in 1967, with 18% of Americans saying they would not vote for a well-qualified presidential candidate who is a Mormon.

The vast majority of Americans believe the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, one of the most infamous events in American history, was a conspiracy. A Gallup poll from March of this year shows that over 8 in 10 Americans (81%) ...

The fact that Al Gore's choice for running mate, Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut, is an Orthodox Jew, will probably be of little concern to the vast majority of Americans based on historic Gallup polling. Americans have been asked since ...

Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Ronald Reagan top Americans' lists when they are asked to name the greatest U.S. president of all time. Democrats most frequently mention Kennedy and Clinton as the greatest ...

It may be the world's most exclusive club with only 42 members. While the nation goes through a vetting process to decide who will be the 43rd member of the club, Presidents Day gives historians and the public a chance to look back at those who ...

--For a variety of reasons, American presidents in the second half of the twentieth century have suffered from declining job approval ratings as their terms in office have come to an end. Graphs show a downward trend in most presidents' approval ...

Three-quarters of Americans believe that more than one man was involved in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy 40 years ago. Only 19% of Americans think the assassination was the work of a single individual. But when asked who else ...

Ninety percent of Americans now approve of the job Bush is doing, while only 6% disapprove. Eighty-six percent approved in the weekend after the September 11 terrorist attacks. Fifty-one percent had approved on the weekend before the attacks.