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March 9, 2020

Biden Beats Sanders, Trump

Voters expect Joe Biden to easily beat Bernie Sanders for the Democratic presidential nomination and would opt for Biden over President Trump if the general election were held today.

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March 7, 2020

Trump's Second Term? Not Worth Freaking out About By Ted Rall

You've heard it so often that you may well believe it's true: President Donald Trump's second term would be a disaster, for the Democratic Party, for the United States, for democracy itself. "The reelection of Donald Trump," warns Nancy Pelosi, "would do irreparable damage to the United States."

March 7, 2020

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending March 7, 2020

In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...

March 6, 2020

Voters See Less Politics on Supreme Court and Want It That Way

Voters are less convinced these days that the U.S. Supreme Court is driven by politics despite Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s recent accusation that some of her fellow justices have a pro-Trump bias. But voters still strongly believe the members of the high court should keep their political views to themselves.

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March 6, 2020

Super Tuesday Finally Serves Its Intended Purpose -- After 32 Years By Michael Barone

Super Tuesday has finally served its intended purpose for the first time since it was invented for the 1988 presidential cycle, 32 years ago.

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March 6, 2020

Will Joe Kick It Away Again? By Patrick J. Buchanan

A week ago, the candidacy of Joe Biden was at death's door.

March 5, 2020

Most Say Homelessness Made Worse By Actions of Some Cities, States

As President Trump pressures California to tackle its worsening homelessness problem, most Americans continue to believe some cities and states make the problem worse for themselves and say it’s not up to the federal government to solve it for them.

March 5, 2020

60% of Republicans See Coronavirus Scare As Tool to Get Trump

Like most everything else in America today, views of the coronavirus and the government response to it are heavily colored by politics. Democrats are most likely to see the new virus as a threat and to criticize the government’s response. Republicans see an anti-Trump agenda at work.

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March 5, 2020

For Biden, a Stunning Super Tuesday By Kyle Kondik and J. Miles Coleman

Joe Biden’s challenge on Super Tuesday was to build on his victory in South Carolina and defend the other Southern states from incursions by Bernie Sanders. Not only did he accomplish that, but Biden was William Tecumseh Sherman in reverse -- using the South as a springboard to move North in force.

March 4, 2020

Americans Are Filing Taxes At A Record Clip

Americans are evidently more eager to file their income taxes than they have been in years, even though the number who expect a refund is little changed.

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March 4, 2020

What Part of 'NO AMNESTY' Doesn't DC Understand? By Michelle Malkin

The rumblings from the Beltway are ominous, my fellow Americans. As the U.S Supreme Court prepares to rule on President Donald Trump's termination of the Obama administration amnesty and work permits for 800,000 young illegal immigrants sometime between now and June 2020, all the usual open-borders special interests are lobbying for a "DACA deal" in Congress.

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March 4, 2020

Forbidden Parenting By John Stossel

South Carolina mom Debra Harrell worked at McDonald's. She couldn't afford day care for Regina, her 9-year-old daughter, so she took her to work.

March 3, 2020

Rasmussen Reports Weekly Immigration Index - Week Ending February 27, 2020

The Rasmussen Reports Immigration Index for the week of February 23-27, 2020 has risen to 101.6, from 99.7 the week before.

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March 3, 2020

Biden Bounces Back Among Democrats Nationally

As Super Tuesday dawns, Joe Biden has jumped back ahead nationally in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, with Bernie Sanders in second. Despite spending over half-a-billion dollars on campaign advertising, Michael Bloomberg has faded to third.

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March 3, 2020

The Establishment's Ultimatum: Scuttle Bernie! By Patrick J. Buchanan

After Joe Biden's blowout victory in South Carolina Saturday and the swift withdrawal of Tom Steyer, "Mayor Pete" Buttigieg and Sen. Amy Klobuchar, the decisive day of the race for the Democratic nomination, Super Tuesday, is at hand.

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March 3, 2020

Mass Transit Is Making Gridlock Worse By Stephen Moore

Why in the world is the federal government, 20 years into the 21st century, continuing to pour tens of billions of tax dollars into little-used mass transit rail projects? In a digital age with increasingly popular and affordable door-to-door ride-sharing apps such as Uber and Lyft, universal use of cars by all income groups and the revolution of smart driverless vehicles around the corner, subway systems and light rail are as old-fashioned as the rotary phone. The federal government and urban planners in at least 25 cities are frantically spending money to lay down tracks that, in 10 or 20 years, they will have to rip right out of the ground.

March 2, 2020

45% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction

Forty-five percent (45%) 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 February 27, 2020.

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March 2, 2020

Biden’s Super Tuesday Test: Defending the South By Kyle Kondik and J. Miles Coleman

Sanders vs. Biden may be determined by who breaks through on the other’s turf.

KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE

— Joe Biden’s victory in South Carolina re-established him as the main challenger to Bernie Sanders.

— There is some indication their battle could break on regional lines, with Sanders fighting for inroads in the South and Biden for access to the North. Biden’s task on Tuesday is protecting the six Southern states from incursions by Sanders (and perhaps others, including the unproven Michael Bloomberg).

— Sanders will lead in delegates after Super Tuesday. The question is by how much.

— Texas, both Southern and Western, is the most interesting state to watch on Tuesday.

February 29, 2020

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending February 29, 2020

In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...

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February 29, 2020

Don't Worry, Centrists. Bernie Isn't Radical By Ted Rall

Watching panicky corporate-owned Democrats twist on the devil's fork of Bernie Sanders' "political revolution" is almost as much fun as it must have been for my mom and her fellow villagers to watch Vichy collaborators and Nazi sympathizers being executed by the resistance at the end of World War II. (That, Chris Matthews, is how you do a Nazi-to-2020 metaphor.)