What the Next President Faces By Patrick J. Buchanan
Of the presidents in the modern era, many have been dealt a difficult hand by history, but perhaps none more so than Donald Trump.
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October 30, 2020
October 29, 2020
Georgia’s Senate Races Both Move to Toss-up By Kyle Kondik
And how we’re thinking about the presidential race with five days to go.
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— Georgia’s two Senate races move to Toss-up.
— They may be the only two races we leave in Toss-up when we release our final election picks on Monday.
— The concept of Occam’s Razor — the idea that the simplest explanation is sometimes the likeliest explanation — might be a useful framework to use when assessing the presidential race.
October 28, 2020
The Mobilization of the Mob By Michelle Malkin
Ready or not, here they come. The ground troops of the anti-Donald Trump resistance aren't just biding their time until Election Day for Hidin' Joe Biden. Hell no. They're making their direct action checklists and checking them twice. They're training for instigating.
October 28, 2020
Don't Freak Out! By John Stossel
Worried about Tuesday?
Remember: The most important parts of life happen outside politics.
October 27, 2020
Is the Stock Market Telling Us That Trump Will Win? By Stephen Moore
Why is the stock market so high? I get asked this riddle every day.
October 27, 2020
A Biden Family Special Prosecutor in 2021? By Patrick J. Buchanan
If Joe Biden loses on Nov. 3, public interest in whether his son Hunter exploited the family name to rake in millions of dollars from foreign donors will likely fade away.
It will not matter, and no one will care.
October 26, 2020
Are the Polls Trending for Trump? By Brian C. Joondeph
Several weeks ago, presidential opinion polls showed Joe Biden with a double-digit lead over Donald Trump, like the supposed lead Hillary Clinton enjoyed four years ago. Despite prognostications of an almost certain Clinton victory, reality provided a different story ending.
Will the big media be right this election cycle, or are they repeating their folly from the last election?
October 23, 2020
Both Candidates' Risky Strategies By Michael Barone
Are both presidential candidates trying to lose? Or at least pursuing campaign strategies which put them at grave risk of defeat?
October 23, 2020
America: a Land of Ceaseless Conflict By Patrick J. Buchanan
When Amy Coney Barrett was nominated to a judgeship on the U.S. Court of Appeals in 2017, Sen. Dianne Feinstein was taken aback by the Notre Dame law professor's Catholic convictions about the right to life.
October 22, 2020
States of Play: Florida By Matthew Isbell
The right-leaning swing state that may be the key to 2020.
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— While it is a swing state, expect Florida to vote to the right of the national popular vote.
— Biden is likely to underperform Hillary Clinton in Miami-Dade, but outshine her in working class communities and suburbs.
— How Florida’s seniors judge Trump on COVID will likely decide the state.
October 21, 2020
The Disunited States of Oppression By Michelle Malkin
Is there any clearer sign of how privileged a society is than the disproportionate amount of time that society spends guilting citizens over how privileged they are?
October 21, 2020
Bet the Election By John Stossel
Donald Trump will probably lose the election.
As I write, The Economist says he has only an 8% chance of winning.
October 20, 2020
Biden's 7 Economic Deadly Sins By Stephen Moore
Joe Biden keeps claiming to be a centrist Democrat.
October 20, 2020
Can America Do It All? By Patrick J. Buchanan
In fiscal year 2020, which ended on Sept. 30, the U.S. government set some impressive new records.
The deficit came in at $3.1 trillion, twice the previous record of $1.4 trillion in 2009, which was set during the Great Recession, and three times the 2019 deficit of about $1 trillion.
October 16, 2020
Deluge After the Donald? By Ted Rall
Joe Biden enjoys a double-digit lead over incumbent President Donald Trump because he promises a return to normalcy -- not the platonic ideal of objective normalcy in a country that doesn't torture or spy on its citizens or let them starve because their coding chops are a few years out of date. Americans desperately want to resume "normal" political life as Americans knew it before the last four years of manic presidential tweetstorms, authoritarian strongman antics and pandemic pandemonium. As Michigan voter Katybeth Davis told the Guardian, "I just want it to be over with. I really do."
October 16, 2020
Without Polls, Would Biden Still Be Winning in a Landslide? By Brian C. Joondeph
As the 2020 presidential election nears, polls portend a landslide victory for the Biden/Harris ticket.
Biden had a 16-point lead over Trump in an early October CNN poll. The Opinium and Guardian poll from days ago gave Biden a 17-point lead. Even Rasmussen Reports, one of the most accurate pollsters in 2016, showed Biden still leading Trump by five points this week, admittedly a drop from 12 points the week before.
October 16, 2020
Court Packing Is No Hypothetical By Michael Barone
On Monday, Joe Biden finally broke his monthslong silence on court packing. Previously, he refused to take a stand -- "whatever position I take in that, that'll become the issue," he said in the Sept. 29 debate, said voters didn't "deserve to know" his position or would know it "when the election is over,"
October 16, 2020
Can Trump Pull a Second Rabbit Out of the Hat? By Patrick J. Buchanan
"Apres moi, la deluge," predicted Louis XV after his army's stunning defeat by Prussia's Frederick the Great at the Battle of Rossbach in 1757.
"La deluge," the Revolution, came, three decades later, to wash the Bourbon monarchy away in blood and to send Louis XV's grandson, Louis XVI, and his queen, Marie Antoinette, to the guillotine.
October 15, 2020
Election 2020: A Fortnight and Five Days Away By Kyle Kondik
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— With 19 days to go before the election, Joe Biden’s lead in the presidential race remains steady, although his national lead is bigger than his leads in the most crucial swing states.
— In the Senate, Republicans appear to be getting some traction against Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI), although Peters remains favored in our ratings. Overall, the Senate battlefield continues to expand, with Republicans having to play more defense in places like Alaska and Kansas.
— Eight House rating changes largely benefit Democrats.
October 14, 2020
A Media-Political Assassination in Denver By Michelle Malkin
Do Colorado patriots' lives matter?
