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November 15, 2019A Late-Starting Presidential Campaign May Not Be Hopeless By Michael Barone
Michael Bloomberg has delivered his latest delicious hint about running for president. Former Attorney General Eric Holder is fresh from taking credit for the new Democratic legislative majorities in Virginia, making it known he might be interested. And former Gov. Deval Patrick joined the presidential race after reportedly discerning a demand for another presidential candidate from Massachusetts. At this point, it might be helpful to note some patterns in former Democratic presidential nomination contests that might help late entrants.

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                            November 14, 2019Americans Stay Positive About Jobs Picture
Americans see a better job market these days and tend to think it will stay that way. For Democrats more than others, though, more government hiring is the way to go.

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                            November 14, 2019Most Say Media Working With Democrats to Impeach Trump
Most voters don’t expect fair play from the media when it comes to news coverage of the Democrats’ impeachment attempt.
November 14, 2019Medicare for All a Vote Loser in 2018 U.S. House Elections By Alan I. Abramowitz
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— “Medicare for All” has been a major issue in the Democratic primary race. But it also came up a lot in the 2018 cycle.
— A regression analysis comparing the performance of 2018 Democratic House candidates shows that those who supported Medicare for All performed worse than those who did not, even when controlling for other factors.
— Democratic presidential candidates would do well to take heed of these results, particularly as the eventual nominee determines what he or she wishes to emphasize in the general election.

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                            November 13, 2019Voters Don’t Back Medicare for All With Their Tax Dollars
Support has fallen for expanding Medicare to all Americans as opponents detail the staggering likely cost to taxpayers. Few voters are willing to spend much, if anything, to make it a reality.
November 13, 2019Meet the 'American Students Last' Lobby By Michelle Malkin
Who is funding the militant illegal immigrant youth army of thousands of entitled "Dreamers" that marched to Washington, D.C., for the Supreme Court hearing this week on President Barack Obama's unconstitutional amnesty program?
November 13, 2019Mandatory Shortages By John Stossel
Governments create problems. Then they complain about them.
November 12, 2019The Election is Trump’s to Lose By Brian C. Joondeph
Election season is underway, with less than a year until the mother of all elections in November 2020. Will Americans vote to keep America great or toss 250 years of liberty and prosperity to the wind in favor of socialism? Is President Donald Trump headed to a second term or will the deep state establishment thwart his reelection at any cost?

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                            November 12, 2019Democrats Feel Little Love for America
Democrats really don’t like America and think it’s time to move on from the culture that got us here.
November 12, 2019Bloomberg’s No Threat to Democrat Front-Runners Yet
Billionaire Michael Bloomberg has a way to go if he wants to claim next year’s Democratic presidential nomination.
November 12, 2019The Post and Liberal Media Again Get It Wrong About Trump Economy By Stephen Moore
First, a full admission about this article: I originally sent a version of it to The Washington Post for publication, but for reasons that will become obvious as you read on, they rejected it.
November 12, 2019Bernie Leads His Party to Open Borders By Patrick J. Buchanan
Some 100 members of an American Mormon community in northern Mexico, nine of whom -- women, children, toddlers -- were massacred a week ago on a lonely stretch of highway, just crossed over into Arizona.

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                            November 11, 201939% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Thirty-nine percent (39%) 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 November 7.

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                            November 11, 2019Americans Praise Veterans Day, Military Service for the Young
Most Americans give high marks to Veterans Day, the holiday that honors military service, and think time spent in the military is good for young people.
November 9, 2019For Progressives, Capturing the Democratic Party Is More Important Than Beating Trump By Ted Rall
Nothing, leading Democrats say, matters more than beating Donald Trump. 2020, they argue, is the most important election of our lifetimes (OK, they always say that).

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                            November 9, 2019What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending November 9, 2019
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...

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                            November 8, 2019Americans Oppose Transgender Trend in Athletics
Transgender athletes who are biological males are winning at all levels of girls’ and women’s sports these days, and Americans don’t approve.

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                            November 8, 2019Most Say Drug Bosses Control Mexico, Want Troops on Border If Violence Grows
Voters strongly believe drug cartels are now the most powerful force in Mexico and that the U.S. military should be used to stop the drug-related violence they expect to cross our southern border.
November 8, 2019Will 'Sexist' White Males Derail Warren? By Patrick J. Buchanan
After celebrating Tuesday's takeover of Virginia's legislature and the Kentucky governorship, the liberal establishment appears poised to crush its biggest threat: the surging candidacy of Elizabeth Warren.
November 8, 2019The 2 Parties' Very Different Fields of Candidates By Michael Barone
Have you noticed that the two parties' fields of presidential candidates have, in the past two election cycles, grown enormously larger than (if not necessarily superior to) those in past years? Where parties used to have two to five serious candidates to choose from, Republicans had 17 in 2016, and, by my count, Democrats this cycle have had 27.