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October 16, 2020Deluge 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in a country that doesn't torture or spy on its citizens or let them starve because their coding chops are a few years out of date.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."

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                
                
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                            October 16, 2020Without 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, 2020Court 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, 2020Can 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, 2020Election 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, 2020A Media-Political Assassination in Denver By Michelle Malkin
Do Colorado patriots' lives matter?
October 14, 2020A Tale of Two Camps By John Stossel
When COVID-19 hit, I quarantined in Eastern Massachusetts.
Biking around the woods, I noticed something strange.
October 13, 2020No, Joe, There Was No Economic Boom Under Obama By Stephen Moore
The great Jackie Gleason once said, "The past remembers better than it lived." And so it is, apparently, with the Obama years.
October 13, 2020Is War With China Becoming Inevitable? By Patrick J. Buchanan
"The Indians are seeing 60,000 Chinese soldiers on their northern border," Secretary of State Michael Pompeo ominously warned on Friday.
October 9, 2020Putin's Got His Problems, Too By Patrick J. Buchanan
Before the first Trump-Biden debate, moderator Chris Wallace listed the six subjects that would be covered:
October 9, 2020Lockdown Enthusiasts' Risk Aversion Is Producing a More Unequal Society By Michael Barone
Now that Donald Trump exited from Walter Reed Hospital and the vice presidential debate aired, let's turn to an apolitical analyst to understand what's happening. Vaclav Smil, 76, native of communist Czechoslovakia and former University of Manitoba professor for four decades, has written 39 books on energy, technology and demography. "Nobody," says Bill Gates, who has read every book, "sees the big picture with as wide an aperture as Vaclav Smil."

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
                                
                
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                            October 8, 2020Presidential Opinion Polls – The Measured vs. The Observed By Brian C. Joondeph
With the 2020 presidential election only weeks away, increasing attention is focused on opinion polls to pick the winner. In 2016, most pollsters were wildly wrong, predicting a Hillary Clinton landslide victory over Donald Trump.
October 8, 2020With Just Weeks to Go, Trump is Not Making up Ground By Kyle Kondik and J. Miles Coleman
Rating changes in Electoral College, Senate, Governor, and House.
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— Recent rosy polling for Joe Biden in the presidential race may represent an artificial sugar high for the challenger.
— But at this point, Donald Trump needs to be making up ground — not treading water or falling further behind.
— 11 rating changes across four categories of races (president, Senate, House, and governor) almost exclusively benefit Democrats.
October 7, 2020Beware of the Flu Shot Bullies By Michelle Malkin
Dear skeptical Americans: You have every right and reason to be hesitant about rolling up your sleeves and submitting to flu vaccine jabs this year.
October 7, 2020Fake Fact-Checking By John Stossel
Recently, I released a video that called California's fires "government fueled."
October 6, 2020Just Who Is the Real Blue-Collar President? By Stephen Moore
One thing we learned from the debate in Cleveland last Tuesday, when Trump wasn't interrupting, is that Joe Biden makes up numbers on the fly. There was a lot of fibbing going on. Consider this exchange between the two candidates:
October 6, 2020Ten Days That Shook the Presidency By Patrick J. Buchanan
What a difference a week can make.
Saturday, Sept. 26, was among the best days of the Trump presidency, or so some of us thought watching the president introduce in the Rose Garden his sterling candidate for Ruth Bader Ginsburg's seat on the Supreme Court.
October 3, 2020Joe Biden Will Be a Republican President By Ted Rall
Past performance is no guarantee of future returns, but there are few more reliable ways to predict what comes next than to examine the historical record, because, most of the time, history really does repeat itself.
What kind of president would Joe Biden be? His centrist supporters assure progressives that he will be one of them, pushing an aggressive legislative agenda reminiscent of FDR's New Deal. His Republican opponents portray him as a socialist. But Biden hasn't actually promised anything ambitious.
October 2, 2020Worst Presidential Debate Ever By Michael Barone
"Chaos." "Painful." "Dispiriting." "The worst presidential debate in American history." "The lowest point in American political culture in my lifetime."
October 2, 2020It's Late, But There's Still Time By Patrick J. Buchanan
In their first debate, the president of the United States, challenged by the former vice president, performed poorly -- even by his own estimation.

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Political Commentary

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Deluge After the Donald? By Ted Rall

Without Polls, Would Biden Still Be Winning in a Landslide? By Brian C. Joondeph

Court Packing Is No Hypothetical By Michael Barone

Can Trump Pull a Second Rabbit Out of the Hat? By Patrick J. Buchanan

Election 2020: A Fortnight and Five Days Away By Kyle Kondik

KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE

A Media-Political Assassination in Denver By Michelle Malkin

A Tale of Two Camps By John Stossel

No, Joe, There Was No Economic Boom Under Obama By Stephen Moore

Is War With China Becoming Inevitable? By Patrick J. Buchanan

Putin's Got His Problems, Too By Patrick J. Buchanan

Lockdown Enthusiasts' Risk Aversion Is Producing a More Unequal Society By Michael Barone

Presidential Opinion Polls – The Measured vs. The Observed By Brian C. Joondeph

With Just Weeks to Go, Trump is Not Making up Ground By Kyle Kondik and J. Miles Coleman

KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE

Beware of the Flu Shot Bullies By Michelle Malkin

Fake Fact-Checking By John Stossel

Just Who Is the Real Blue-Collar President? By Stephen Moore

Ten Days That Shook the Presidency By Patrick J. Buchanan

Joe Biden Will Be a Republican President By Ted Rall

Worst Presidential Debate Ever By Michael Barone

It's Late, But There's Still Time By Patrick J. Buchanan

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