Opinion Research Corporation

by Mark Silva In a fast scientific take on the Joe Biden-Sarah Palin debate, a survey of 611 adults who watched it, more said Biden won the debate but many more said Palin did better than they expected. The survey......

by Mark Silva Polls conducted in several states that President Bush carried in 2004 show Republican presidential nominee John McCain "struggling'' with his Democratic rival, according to a report this morning from Time magazine, CNN and Opinion Research...

by Mark Silva On that question of who's "ready to lead'' - as John McCain maintains he is and insists that Barack Obama is not - the answer, for many voters, may lie more with vision than with experience. By......

by Mark Silva As President-elect Barack Obama sets about organizing a Cabinet - with names such as Hillary Clinton hanging in the air - most Americans appear confident that he will get it right. Among Americans surveyed last week by......

by Mark Silva Today, as a nation marks the birthday of the late Rev. Martin Luther King. Jr, -- who voiced "a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed:......

by Mark Silva Here's some food for thought, in the midst of the worst financial crisis since Great Depression: Most people say things are going badly for the country these days, yet most people say things are going pretty well......

by Mark Silva President Barack Obama will hoist the bullhorn of his office tonight with substantial support from the public at a time of worsening financial distress. Two-thirds of Americans surveyed by Opinion Research Corp. say they "think the policies....

by Mark Silva and updated President Barack Obama, striving to hold public support for massive government intervention in a staggering economy, vowed tonight that an embattled nation "will emerge stronger than before.'' With his first formal address as...

by Mark Silva The challenge, critics say, remains the gap between rhetoric and action. Sen. John McCain, the Republican rival to President Barack Obama last year, credits the president with "an excellent speech'' before Congress, but complains: "I still...

by Mark Silva In the political field, any poll taken far away from Election Day is a game of name-recognition. And this is as close to far-away as one can get from the presidential election of 2012. So what do......

by Mark Silva As flag-draped coffins came home from the war in Iraq, the Bush administration shielded them from public view, forbidding news photography. The Obama administration's Defense Department is changing course. The arrival of each casualty of the...

by Mark Silva There would appear to be something of a growing confidence crisis among Americans facing a job-stealing economy. With 4.4 million jobs lost since the official start of the recession over a year ago, Americans don't have a......