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May 11, 2023Not Biden vs. Trump Again! The Disgruntled Voters Who Could Decide the 2024 Election By Alan I. Abramowitz
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— Joe Biden’s approval numbers are weak and are reminiscent of the numbers from some recent presidents who lost reelection.
— However, Biden is still very competitive in polling with the current leader for the Republican presidential nomination, Donald Trump, in part because voters still have less negative attitudes toward him than they do toward Trump, according to the 2022 American National Elections Studies Pilot Study.
— A key bloc of voters who would prefer someone other than Biden or Trump skew conservative, but are also alienated by Trump’s actions around the events of Jan. 6, 2021.

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                            May 10, 2023Danger -- Government Digital Currency By John Stossel
President Joe Biden and the media are excited about something new: a Central Bank Digital Currency, or CBDC. It's a currency like Bitcoin, except controlled by the federal government.
Not everyone is a fan.

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                            May 9, 2023Federal Trade Commission's Call of Duty Maneuver Is Actually a Dereliction of It By Stephen Moore
The British antitrust cops just announced they will oppose the proposed blockbuster $68.7 billion merger of two American companies -- Microsoft and gaming company Activision Blizzard, the owner of the wildly popular game Call of Duty. This decision is bad news for investors in companies, gamers and workers. But it's very good news for America's competitors in Asia and Europe.
May 5, 2023Joe Biden Running for Reelection – For Real or More Malarkey? By Brian C. Joondeph
On April 25, barely two weeks ago, President Joe Biden announced that he is running for reelection in 2024, promising to “finish the job.” What exactly does he want to finish?

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                            May 5, 2023Republicans Aren't Disappearing -- and May Even Be Growing Stronger By Michael Barone
Reports of the death of the Republican Party continue to be premature.
May 4, 2023Leaning Into State Trends: The Midwest and Interior West By J. Miles Coleman
The two regions have four Biden-won states that will be key in 2024KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— Both the Midwest and Interior West have states that Joe Biden carried by less than his popular vote margin in 2020.
— In the Midwest, Michigan and Wisconsin will likely be prime battlegrounds states next year, although Michigan seems a harder lift for Republicans.
— In the Interior West, Arizona’s Republican lean has been eroding in elections since 2008 — this allowed Biden to carry it in 2020, but Democrats will also have to work to keep neighboring Nevada in their column.
May 3, 2023Moochers and Looters By John Stossel
There's a socialist wave in Latin America. Mexico, Chile, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil recently elected leftists.

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                            May 2, 2023Who Turned the Lights Out? Joe Biden By Stephen Moore
  Does the radical climate change agenda know no end? Earlier this year, it was gas stoves -- and then lightbulbs.

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                            April 28, 2023How to Stop Lies Begetting Lies By Michael Barone
Lies beget lies. That's one way to summarize nearly the past decade of presidential politics, as well as the potentially dismal presidential race underway.
April 27, 2023How the Other Half Votes: Manchin and Tester’s Challenge By Kyle Kondik
Democratic Senate coalitions in red presidential states Montana and West Virginia.KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Jon Tester (D-MT) are outliers in Congress — no other Senate or House member holds a state/district that is more hostile to his or her party at the presidential level than this pair.
— Montana and especially West Virginia are deeply Republican at the presidential level, and while Manchin and Tester have clearly run way ahead of Democratic presidential performance in recent years, changes at the presidential level are reflected in their own coalitions.

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                            April 26, 2023Marxian Education By John Stossel
Some schools are ditching traditional grading.

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                            April 25, 2023Real Patriots Cut Taxes, Not Raise Them By Stephen Moore
   On Tax Day this year, about a dozen left-wing millionaires joined with some of the most liberal Democrats in Congress for a Washington, D.C., press conference.

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                            April 21, 2023Joe Biden's King Canute Environmentalism By Michael Barone
Are we watching a replay of King Canute commanding the waves to recede? That thought occurred to me while reading about the Biden administration's latest step in advancing the president's 2021 goal of having half of all new autos be electric by 2030.
April 20, 2023Leaning Into State Trends: The Northeast and Greater South By J. Miles Coleman
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— In the 2020 presidential election, Joe Biden carried 6 states — that were collectively worth 79 electoral votes — by a margin less than his national showing. In some ways, this made his electoral coalition less efficient than that of Barack Obama’s in 2012.
— No state has been within 5 points of the national popular vote in each of the past 6 presidential elections, but Pennsylvania has come the closest, though it has taken on a slight GOP lean.
— Aside from Virginia and Georgia, North Carolina, despite a persistent 6-point GOP lean in recent elections, seems like Democrats’ best southern prospect.

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                            April 19, 2023Save the Planet, Invest in Fossil Fuels By John Stossel
Earth Day is Saturday! Hooray?

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                            April 18, 2023Regulatory Octopus Is Strangling Our Economy By Stephen Moore
Every schoolkid knows -- or used to know -- that the United States has three branches of government. At least that's what the textbooks say.

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                            April 14, 2023A Republican Edge on Issues, but a Bigger Edge for the Party That Dumps Its 2020 Nominee By Michael Barone
It's just one poll, conducted by SSRS Research for CNN, but it provides interesting evidence about where voters are on issues, and it isn't glaringly inconsistent with other survey research.
April 13, 2023How the Other Half Votes: The Southwest By Kyle Kondik
Why Texas still leans Republican, and comparing Arizona versus Nevada.KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— We’re continuing our series of looking at how the most vote-rich counties in a state vote versus those that make up the rest of the state by moving to the Southwest.
— The region contains the key swing states of Arizona and Nevada, both of which are dominated by a single county that casts well north of half the statewide vote.
— Both the top and bottom halves of Texas have moved toward the Democrats from 2012-2020, but the top half just is not blue enough at the moment.
— Colorado and New Mexico have moved out of the swing state category, pushed by top-half shifts.

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                            April 12, 2023You Can't Say That! By John Stossel
Over the past three years, we reporters learned there were certain things that we weren't allowed to say. Not long ago, in fact, my new video may have been censored.

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                            April 12, 2023Forget Gun Control: How About Ax Control? By BRian C. Joondeph
Two recent violent assault stories graced the recent metro Denver news. Aside from the fact that these stories are becoming more commonplace in once safe and peaceful Denver, the two stories were treated far differently.