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July 30, 2020Excluding Undocumented Immigrants from the 2020 U.S. House Apportionment By Dudley L. Poston Jr. and Teresa A. Sullivan
Which states would lose seats and which states would gain seats?
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— President Trump recently indicated that he wants the 2020 census reapportionment of House seats to exclude undocumented immigrants from the calculation.
— If undocumented immigrants are excluded, the 2020 reapportionment calculation will change, including changing the number of House seats allocated to the two largest states, California and Texas.
— There are significant legal and logistical hurdles that probably will prevent undocumented immigrants from being excluded from congressional reapportionment calculations.

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                            July 29, 2020White House Watch: Biden Widens His Lead
Likely Democratic nominee Joe Biden has lengthened his lead over President Trump in the latest Rasmussen Reports’ weekly White House Watch survey.

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                            July 29, 202051% Say Their State Is Reinstating Coronavirus Restrictions
The vast majority of Americans say their immediate family has escaped the coronavirus so far, but just over half say their state has started tightening up again because of the surge of new cases.
July 29, 2020Mike Adams: Doer of the Word By Michelle Malkin
Michael Scott "Mike" Adams was a brilliant professor of criminology at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington. He was an unapologetic conservative who wrote prolifically and fought valiantly against the forces of political correctness and pure evil. He advocated with unbridled passion on behalf of the unborn. He trained his sharp tongue and prolific pen on radical feminists, campus liberals, racial demagogues, domestic terrorists and tyrants for more than two decades.
July 29, 2020States of Play: Pennsylvania By Rhodes Cook
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— In 2016, Donald Trump inspired higher Republican turnout in Pennsylvania, while Hillary Clinton couldn’t offset her losses in the non-metro parts of the state.
— Voter registration trends in Pennsylvania are mirroring the 2016 picture — all of the counties in Philadelphia’s suburban collar are Democratic by registration while Republicans have flipped some working class counties.
— With the third party vote projected to be down from 2020, former Gov. Bill Weld’s (R-MA) relative strength as a Republican protest presidential candidate in this month’s Pennsylvania Republican primary may be a warning sign for Trump.
— Joe Biden, who frequently talks up his working class Scranton background, gives Democrats a good chance to move the state back into the blue column, but it’ll hardly be an automatic shift.
July 29, 2020The Private Space Race By John Stossel
This week, American astronauts returned to earth. Their trip to the space station was the first manned launch from the U.S. in 10 years.

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                            July 28, 2020Rasmussen Reports Weekly Immigration Index - Week Ending July 23, 2020
The Rasmussen Reports Immigration Index for the week of July 19-23, 2020 rose slightly to 104.7 from 103.8 the week before but remains consistent with surveying since the beginning of June. Voters still seem to be comfortable with the immigration restrictions President Trump has put in place to counter the economic effects of the coronavirus.

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                            July 28, 2020Most Say China Should Pay Some of World’s COVID Costs
U.S. voters think China is chiefly to blame for the coronavirus, and most now believe the Chinese should pay at least some of the global costs of the pandemic.
July 28, 2020Paying People Not to Work Is Not an Economic Stimulus By Stephen Moore
Back in 2009, Nancy Pelosi infamously declared the best way to revive the economy was to dole out ever more generous food stamps and unemployment benefits. The more people collecting welfare the better. At the time, this notion seemed laughable. Now this economic illiteracy seems to have become a conventional wisdom.
July 28, 2020American 'Stormtroopers' -- A Bright Shining Lie By Patrick J. Buchanan
With the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse under nightly siege from violent radicals, and Portland's police hard-pressed to protect it, President Trump sent in federal agents to secure the building.

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                            July 27, 202026% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Twenty-six percent (26%) of Likely U.S. Voters think the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey for the week ending July 23, 2020.

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                            July 27, 2020Most Approve of New COVID Stimulus But Worry It’s Packed With Political Pork
Most voters agree with Congress’ attempt to fashion another coronavirus stimulus package. But they worry that the plan will be loaded with unnecessary goodies because Congress is motivated primarily by political gain rather than what people really need.
July 25, 202010 Reasons I Won't Vote for Biden By Ted Rall
1. My vote is a personal endorsement. It says, "I, citizen Ted Rall, approve of Joe Biden's career in public office." I do not. Voting for Biden would be a retroactive endorsement of his vote to invade Iraq, which killed over 1 million innocent people. Voting for Biden would be a retroactive endorsement of his long history of racism, beginning with his disgusting opposition to court-ordered busing.

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                            July 25, 2020What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending July 25, 2020
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...

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                            July 24, 2020Americans Say Blacks More Racist Than Whites, Hispanics, Asians
Americans believe blacks are more racist than whites, Hispanics and Asians in this country.
July 24, 2020Goodbye, After Nearly Two Centuries, to the National Conventions By Michael Barone
If things had proceeded according to schedule, we'd be checking the polls this week to see if Joe Biden had gotten a bounce from his acceptance speech in Milwaukee. That's because the Democratic National Convention was originally scheduled for July 13-16.
July 24, 2020Stress Test of a Straining Superpower By Patrick J. Buchanan
How great a burden can even an unrivaled superpower carry before it buckles and breaks? We may be about to find out.

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                            July 23, 2020Presidential Polls Are Déjà Vu All Over Again By Brian C. Joondeph
If you listen to the mainstream media, the election is over. Joe Biden has an insurmountable and growing double-digit lead over President Trump for an election that is still over three months away.

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                            July 23, 2020Most Parents Want Schools to Reopen In The Fall
As the coronavirus lockdown loosens in many states, most parents of school-age children think schools should reopen this fall and say it will be bad for students if they do not.

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                            July 23, 2020Most Favor Use of Federal Cops To Fight Crime in Some Cities
Most voters approve of President Trump’s decision to use federal agents to fight the growing violent crime in some major cities. They also believe many of these cities bring the criminal problems onto themselves.