Californians' attitudes toward same-sex marriage have changed significantly in the nearly five years since approving a constitutional ban, a new poll has found.

Retail strike organizers in Chicago said raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour would benefit workers and the local economy, where workers spend their pay.

California voters are strongly in favor of allowing illegal immigrants to stay in the United States, a new poll said.

President Obama leads his likely Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, by 3 percentage points in a Los Angeles Times poll released Thursday.

Half of the respondents in a recent survey of small business owners said they prefer that the U.S. Supreme Court leave the Affordable Care Act mostly intact.

A strong majority of Americans say the United States should support Israel and keep Iran from getting nuclear weapons, a poll released Sunday indicates.

Michigan's "Reagan Democrats" have not been convinced by Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Barack Obama to return to the party, polling indicates.

A large minority of Generation Y members volunteer despite the age bracket's generalization as staunch individualists, a poll released Monday indicated.

More than 1,000 people jammed the tony Plaza Hotel in advance of a speech by U.S. Rep. Eric Cantor, the House's lone Jewish Republican, Roll Call reports.

A poll for the National Jewish Democratic Council released Monday showed likely Jewish voters favor John F. Kerry for president over George W. Bush.

A new poll shows 11 percent of American voters have seen "Fahrenheit 9/11," MoveOn.com said Friday.

Only 11 percent of likely U.S. voters surveyed for MoveOn.org say they have seen the Michael Moore documentary, "Fahrenheit 9/11."

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