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Just 8 percent of Americans want the members of Congress re-elected, according to a CBS News-New York Times poll taken nine months before roughly one-third of the Senate and the entire House face voters.

The Feb. 5-10 survey found 81 percent of respondents saying the lawmakers shouldn't receive another term.

Americans are deeply divided over demands by U.S. Republicans that bills backed by President Barack Obama to reform the $2.5 trillion health system be scrapped and the whole process be started again from scratch.

President Obama's approval rating continues to slump, according to a new Marist University poll out on Monday. The poll showed that 44 percent of registered voters approve of the job Obama is doing as president, while 47 percent disapprove.

Public concern about global warming and trust in climate leaders has dropped sharply in the U.S. according to a survey.

Dissatisfaction with direction of the U.S., opposition to health-care reform drove the upset election of Republican Sen.-elect Scott Brown.

As he nears the one-year point of his presidency, Barack Obama gets middling marks from most Americans but credit for governing ...

As the debate over a health care bill enters a critical stage, a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds Americans inclined to oppose ...

President Obama's job-approval rating has slipped below 50% in the Gallup Poll for the first time in his presidency, pulled down by concerns about the economy, federal spending and health care legislation. In daily tracking from Tuesday through ...

More than half of all adult Americans say they don't want to get the H1N1 flu vaccine, according to a new national poll.

The decline in Barack Obama's popularity since July has been the steepest of any president at the same stage of his first term for more than 50 years ago.