How 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.
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April 28, 2023
April 27, 2023
How 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.
April 25, 2023
Real 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.
April 21, 2023
Joe 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, 2023
Leaning 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.
April 19, 2023
Save the Planet, Invest in Fossil Fuels By John Stossel
Earth Day is Saturday! Hooray?
April 18, 2023
Regulatory 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.
April 14, 2023
A 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, 2023
How 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.
April 12, 2023
You 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.
April 12, 2023
Forget 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.
April 11, 2023
The Left Has Killed Our Great Cities By Stephen Moore
Mark down Tuesday, April 4, as the night Chicago died.
April 7, 2023
Trump Indictment Is Bad Law, Smart Politics By Michael Barone
What do you do to win an election when your candidate is universally known and unpopular with a majority of voters? That's a question both major parties have had to face in the last few years. Both look like they're going to face it for some time longer.
April 6, 2023
How the Other Half Votes: The East By Kyle Kondik
The presidential trends from Pennsylvania to Florida.
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— After looking at the Midwest last week, we’re comparing the presidential voting trajectory of the bigger counties versus the rest of the state in a number of eastern states.
— Georgia had exactly opposite top and bottom halves in 2020, with a very Republican (but stable) bottom half and Democratic-trending top half driven by changes in Atlanta.
— North Carolina and Pennsylvania are mirror images on opposite sides of the political divide.
— Florida’s turn toward the Republicans has been a bit more pronounced in its top half of bigger counties compared to its bottom half, making it an outlier among the states we’ve studied.
— South Carolina’s status as a red state is much more about its top half than its bottom half.
April 5, 2023
Trump Good and Evil By John Stossel
The Stossel TV Studio is just a block from Trump Tower.
April 4, 2023
Hey, Uncle Sam: Stop Paying People for Not Working By Stephen Moore
A policy question these days that has befuddled federal lawmakers is why so many millions of people have not returned to the workplace in the post-COVID-19 era.
March 31, 2023
Will Republicans Find a Way to Get Their Way in 2024? By Michael Barone
Twelve or 13 months from now, the race for the Republican nomination for president -- and the race for the Democratic nomination, if there is one -- will probably be over.
March 30, 2023
How the Other Half Votes By Kyle Kondik
The competing halves of states in the Midwest.
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— This piece analyzes recent presidential voting patterns in the Midwest by comparing the big counties that cast roughly half the statewide vote with the smaller counties that cast the rest of the statewide vote.
— In Illinois and Minnesota, more than half of the statewide vote comes from dominant metro areas, and improvements in those areas from 2012 to 2020 allowed Democrats to maintain their strong position in both states.
— The smaller-county halves of Iowa and Ohio have zoomed right, pushing them out of the roster of competitive states.
— The bottom hasn’t dropped out for Democrats in nearly the same way in Michigan and Wisconsin.
