Opinion Research Corporation

by Mark Silva The United States will take part in group talks with Iran about its suspect nuclear program, the Obama administration said today - a marked shift from the strategy of the Bush administration, which labeled Iran as part......

by Mark Silva The gay-marriage question has landed in the nation's capital, where the District of Columbia council today voted to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states. The vote was unanimous, 13-0, until councilman Marion Barry...

by Mark Silva Rush Limbaugh doesn't only want President Barack Obama to fail. He also wants the president's first nominee to the Supreme Court to fail. "Do I want her to fail? Yeah.' '' Limbaugh said of federal Judge Sonia......

The close ties between Britain and the United States were highlighted anew Thursday when royalty, a former president, and hundreds of friends and relatives of the Britons killed in the Sept. 11 terror attacks mourned together at Westminster Abbey. Former...

Nick Senella, a 46-year-old insurance agent from this hilly patch of southwestern Pennsylvania, can't talk politics at the Sunday supper table anymore. His father-in-law is determined to vote for Sen. John Kerry in next month's presidential election....

The most comprehensive study of the troubled presidential election in Florida shows the main culprits were simple and fixable: ballot design, inconsistent election rules and voter error. The yearlong review of the Florida election reveals that even if...

Background In January, a consortium of eight news organizations commissioned the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago to review certain ballots from the 2000 November presidential election in Florida and create a database of...

On a muggy Monday afternoon this month, jockeys at Delaware Park Racetrack & Slots near Wilmington, Del., guided their horses on the dirt track, meandering toward the starting gate for the third race. Few noticed. Grandstands with thousands of seats...

Despite the serious, ongoing problem that the American Roman Catholic Church is confronting with the child sexual abuse scandal, priests today are very satisfied with their lives and are more committed to their vows and to the Church they serve than...

Most priests and members of religious orders believe the Catholic Church is currently facing the biggest crisis of this century, according to the latest Los Angeles Times poll. The survey of 1,854 priests and religious in 80 dioceses across the United...

One Florida voter penned a plaintive plea on a presidential ballot: "I forgot my glasses and cannot see this. Please put Bush down for my vote." That Bay County ballot wasn't counted last year. Nor was a Jackson County ballot on which someone had circled...

When we do a California telephone survey, the Los Angeles Times Poll makes calls to a random sample of all phone numbers in the state. This technique is called "random-digit dialing" and is the best method for producing good predictive samples in a poll....