Elected Officials No Longer Reflect Views, Values Of Average Voters

It's no surprise that many voters are turned off by the political class these days. As repeated polls show, voters from both parties agree that the results of recent years from Washington have been less than stellar. And the voters feel Washington is divorced from their everyday concerns.

Big Donors: 66.00% Their Constituents: 16.00% Not Sure: 18.00%

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Majority of New Yorkers want Santos to resign, new poll shows

In a new Siena Poll released Monday, 59 percent of registered voters said that the embattled Republican from New York’s 3rd Congressional District should resign. Only about 20 percent said he shouldn’t, and the rest didn’t have an opinion. Even a plurality of Republicans, 49 percent, said he should step down (another 26 percent he shouldn’t and 25 percent didn’t know).

Should Resign: 59.00% Not Resign: 20.00%
Border agents confirm 1.2 million 'gotaway' migrants

CBP tracks hundreds of thousands of migrant encounters at the U.S.-Mexico Border every month, but that stat does not include the number of known "gotaways," or migrants who were detected by authorities but not apprehended.

Chicago mayoral election: New poll shows Vallas, Garcia as frontrunners

despite spending several million dollars, Lightfoot is at 4th place

A new voter opinion survey finds Paul Vallas and Rep. Chuy Garcia leading the nine-candidate field for mayor of Chicago.  

The top two finishers in next month’s voting will compete in an April 4th runoff election.

Paul Vallas: 26.00% Chuy Garcia: 19.00% Johnson: 12.20% Lightfoot: 9.80%
Poll: Biden's approval on immigration drops to new low

Just 31% of Americans now approve of how Biden is handling immigration — a new low. As recently as October, his approval on the issue was 35%; in previous Yahoo News/YouGov polls, it never slipped below 33%. Meanwhile, the share of Americans who disapprove of the president’s approach to immigration (55%) is higher than ever before, putting him underwater by 24 percentage points.

Approve: 31.00% Disapprove: 55.00%
New poll shows jump in adults who rate the quality of US health care as ‘poor’

Most adults in the US consider the quality of the country’s health care to be unfavorable, according to a new survey. This is the first time in a 20-year trend from Gallup polls that the share of adults who rated the quality of the nation’s health care to be “excellent” or “good” dipped below 50%.