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Post-ABC News poll shows voters tilting right, but not locked in; economy, transportation top issues.

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger earns the worst approval numbers of his tenure, according to a new poll, becoming another governor whose ratings have been dragged down along with the battered economy.

Support for Obama's health-care effort declined over the past five weeks as Congress struggled to finalize legislation and attention focused on its high price, a new WSJ/NBC News poll finds.

Americans think the Federal Reserve is doing a worse job than even the much-maligned Internal Revenue Service.

Japan's embattled prime minister has decided to dissolve parliament and call general elections for next month, a news reports said Monday, after his party was defeated in a Tokyo municipal poll considered a barometer of voter sentiment.

She may have resigned her position as Governor of Alaska, but Republicans still favor Sarah Palin has a candidate for President in 2012. Could Sarah Palin still run for President? You betcha! Although some pundits and talk show ...

Voting has ended in Indonesia's presidential election, with exit polls suggesting the incumbent, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, has a clear lead.

Indonesia's president, whose popular economic policies and corruption-free image boosted him to the top of pre-election polls, is counting on a single-round victory next Wednesday.

A new SurveyUSA poll in South Carolina finds that 60% of residents think Gov. Mark Sanford (R) should resign while 34% think he should remain in office.

A majority of Americans see government action as critical to controlling runaway health-care costs, but there is broad public anxiety about the potential impact of reform legislation and conflicting views about the types of fixes being proposed on Capitol Hill, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.