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March 6, 2020Will Joe Kick It Away Again? By Patrick J. Buchanan
A week ago, the candidacy of Joe Biden was at death's door.

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                            March 5, 2020Most 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.

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                            March 5, 202060% 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.
March 5, 2020For 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.

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                            March 4, 2020Americans 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.
March 4, 2020What 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.
March 4, 2020Forbidden 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.

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                            March 3, 2020Rasmussen 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.
March 3, 2020Biden 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.
March 3, 2020The 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.
March 3, 2020Mass 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.

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                            March 2, 202045% 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.
March 2, 2020Biden’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.

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                            February 29, 2020What 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...
February 29, 2020Don'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.)
February 28, 2020Are Nonwhites Voting More Like Other Americans? By Michael Barone
Bernie Sanders' victories in the inaccurately counted Iowa caucuses, the crisply conducted New Hampshire primary and the Nevada caucuses have made two things clear.

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                            February 28, 2020Trump’s Monthly Approval Up After Failed Impeachment Strategy
When tracking President Trump’s job approval on a daily basis, people sometimes get so caught up in the day-to-day fluctuations that they miss the bigger picture. To look at the longer-term trends, Rasmussen Reports compiles the numbers on a full-month basis, and the results for Trump’s presidency can be seen in the graphics below.
February 28, 2020Coronavirus Crisis Is Trump's Time to Lead By Patrick J. Buchanan
Not until well into the Democratic debate Tuesday night did the COVID-19 coronavirus come up, and it was Mike Bloomberg, not a CBS moderator, who raised it:
"The president fired the pandemic specialist in this country two years ago," the former New York mayor said. "There's nobody here to figure out what the hell we should be doing. And he's defunded the CDC."

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                            February 27, 2020Voters Remain Cool to Socialism Despite Bernie’s Surge
Despite Bernie Sanders’ front-runner status in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, voters aren’t showing more enthusiasm for socialism. Democrats remain more receptive than other voters, however.
February 27, 2020The Sanders Tax By Kyle Kondik and J. Miles Coleman
How our Electoral College ratings might change if he becomes the presumptive nominee.
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— If Democrats nominated Bernie Sanders, they would, initially, start off with somewhat of a penalty in our Electoral College ratings.
— Sanders’ policy prescriptions and rhetoric may complicate Democratic prospects in the Sun Belt, where the party’s recent growth has been driven by highly-educated suburbanites.
— Given the composition of the 2020 Senate map, which features more Sun Belt states, Sanders’ relative strength in the Rust Belt — assuming that even ends up being the case — nonetheless doesn’t help Democrats much in the race for the Senate.