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Like much else in politics today, Friday's decision to put Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, and several co-conspirators on trial in federal court in New York is apt to satisfy half of Americans, and displease the other half. In a new Washington Post-ABC ...

The public's take on Sarah Palin remains deeply split along partisan and gender lines, according to the new Washington Post-ABC News poll, and among women, the gap between Democrats and Republicans is even wider. Crosstabs on these questions below. Q. Do you have a favorable or unfavorable ...

If Sarah Palin's book tour is an opening salvo in a run for the presidency in 2012, she faces a steep uphill climb: a majority of Americans in a new Washington Post-ABC News poll say they would "definitely not vote for her." Most - 60 percent - in the new poll say the former Alaska governor is ...

With John Allen Muhammad, the mastermind of the 2002 D.C. sniper attacks, scheduled to be executed tomorrow, Virginia voters are broadly in favor of the death penalty for those convicted of murder, according to new data from a Washington Post poll. Virginia voters favor the death penalty by a ...