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May 2, 2019Assessing Electability: Like Nailing Jell-O To A Wall By Kyle Kondik
Democrats are trying to figure out who is the best to beat Trump. It’s a difficult task.
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— Trump’s victory in 2016 presents a great counter-argument to the idea that campaign professionals and pundits can confidently determine in advance who is electable to the presidency and who is not.
— Many presidents beyond Trump have seemed unelectable at various points of their ultimately successful campaigns.
— As Democrats consider who has the best chance against Trump, they will have to sort through different kinds of electability arguments, any one of which may be right (or wrong), and only one of which will actually be tested.

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                            May 1, 2019Most See Job Opportunity, More Pay in Current Economy
Most Americans remain confident about their ability to get a job and get ahead in the current economy. Most working adults expect a raise, too.
May 1, 2019The Bidens: They're Still Not Like Us By Michelle Malkin
Now that Creepy Joe Biden thinks he has put to rest all the cringy questions about his grabby hands, he has reverted to one of his old-time shticks: middle-class Joe. Champion of the masses. Hero of the hoi polloi. A six-term U.S. senator and two-term vice president, which equates to 44 back-slapping, log-rolling, favor-trading years in Washington, this decrepit Beltway swamp-dweller wants flyover Americans to believe that he's really just like you and me.
May 1, 2019A Lie, a Myth and a Question By John Stossel
Socialists like Bernie Sanders tell us that "the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer."

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                            April 30, 2019For First Time in Years, Most Feel America’s Best Days Lie Ahead
Americans are feeling better about the future than they have in over 12 years of regular surveying.

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                            April 30, 2019Hillary Misses Her Presidency More Than Voters Do
Hillary Clinton’s back in the news, claiming once again that she was robbed in the 2016 election and that President Trump should be impeached. But voters don’t see a Hillary Clinton presidency as a better deal for them.
April 30, 2019Biden Plays the Race Card By Patrick J. Buchanan
As he debated with himself whether to enter the race for the 2020 Democratic nomination, Joe Biden knew he had a problem.
As a senator from Delaware in the '70s, he had bashed busing to achieve racial balance in public schools as stupid and racist.
April 30, 2019The Carbon Tax Fantasy By Stephen Moore
Every time a reporter asks me if I would support a carbon tax, I always say that I might if it led to a dollar-for-dollar reduction in income or payroll tax rates. And the new energy tax would have to replace onerous greenhouse gas regulations. And every time I say this, the next day a headline reads, "Steve Moore Is for a Carbon Tax."

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                            April 29, 201940% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Forty percent (40%) 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 April 25.

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                            April 29, 2019Americans Say ‘No’ to Warren’s ‘Free’ College Plan
The contest to be the next Democratic presidential nominee is shaping up literally as a free-for-all, with Senator Elizabeth Warren the latest entrant. She is promising if elected to forgive most student debt and make public universities free, all with a 10-year price tag of $1.25 trillion. Americans aren’t thrilled.
April 27, 2019Democrats' Refusal to Impeach Could Be the Death of Them in 2020 By Ted Rall
"The general sentiment of mankind is that a man who will not fight for himself, when he has the means of doing so, is not worth being fought for by others, and this sentiment is just," Frederick Douglass said in 1857. "The poet was as true to common sense as to poetry when he said, 'Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow.'"

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                            April 27, 2019What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending April 27, 2019
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...

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                            April 26, 2019White House Watch: Newcomer Buttigieg Runs A Close Race
South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg is a political newcomer on the national stage, but he runs a close race with President Trump in a new White House Watch hypothetical 2020 matchup.
April 26, 2019A Nation at War With Itself By Patrick J. Buchanan
President Donald Trump has decided to cease cooperating with what he sees, not incorrectly, as a Beltway conspiracy that is out to destroy him.
April 26, 2019The Most Successful Presidents Keep to Themselves -- Not Twitter By Michael Barone
"The Mueller report makes Trump look vain, ignorant, inept, and astonishingly dishonest." So writes my Washington Examiner colleague Quin Hillyer, never an enthusiast of President Donald Trump.

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                            April 25, 2019Most Think Amazon’s Alexa Is Spying On its Users
Amazon’s virtual assistant Alexa is an increasing presence in American households, but most suspect that the online mega-retailer is using it to spy on customers.

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                            April 25, 2019Fed Earns Higher Marks, Voters Less Worried About Independence
President Trump continues to question the monetary moves of the Federal Reserve Board, but voters give the central bank its highest approval in years. They also suspect that the Fed is less independent of the president than it was during the Obama years.
April 25, 2019Biden Would be Arguably the Most Experienced New President Ever By Kyle Kondik
He will run as the president who needs no training. But he may be the candidate who cannot be trained.
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— If Joe Biden wins the presidency, he will bring with him nearly a half-century of elected officeholding experience, giving him perhaps the fullest resume of public service possessed by any new president ever.
— It may be that Democrats are more open to a very experienced candidate than Republicans were in 2016, when they selected a presidential nominee, Donald Trump, with no elected or military experience.
— Biden has a very long record to defend, a burden that other, much less experienced candidates do not have. He also will have to show that he has learned from past mistakes and can run a disciplined, strong campaign.

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                            April 24, 2019Voters Say Impeachment Unlikely from Mueller Report Despite Media’s Efforts
Voters think Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report is unlikely to help congressional Democrats impeach President Trump, but they expect reporters to try to hurt the president with it if they can.
April 24, 2019Beware Soros-Funded Hijacking of US Census By Michelle Malkin
"Are you a U.S. citizen?"