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August 10, 2017Alabama’s Long History With Senate Special Elections By Geoffrey Skelley
The 2017 Alabama special election for the U.S. Senate kicks off with party primaries this coming Tuesday (Aug. 15). Should one or both parties have no candidate win a majority that day, a primary runoff will take place on Sept. 26. Both sides have crowded fields, but given the dark red hue of the state, most expect the eventual Republican nominee to hold the seat for the GOP. The appointed incumbent, Sen. Luther Strange (R), appears somewhat vulnerable, at least in the Republican primary.

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                            August 9, 2017More Voters Give Thumbs Up to Union Leaders
Nissan workers in Mississippi recently voted against joining the United Auto Workers (UAW), a blow to the already struggling union presence in the south.
August 9, 2017How Did the Dems' IT Scandal Suspects Get Here? by Michelle Malkin
Here is a radical proposition: The public has a right to know the immigration status and history of foreign criminal suspects. Their entrance and employment sponsorship records should not be treated like classified government secrets -- especially if the public's tax dollars subsidized their salaries.

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                            August 9, 2017Most Still Say ‘No’ to Letting Illegal Immigrants Vote
A sizable majority of voters still opposes giving illegal immigrants the vote, even in local elections. Democrats remain much more supportive of the idea than other voters do, however.
August 9, 2017Under Trump, Homeland Security Actually Gets Around to Securing the Homeland By Charles Hurt
Are you tired of winning yet?
In the long march to remaking American greatness, President Trump has certainly attracted plenty of scorn and ridicule from all the predictable and boring corners over all the predictable and boring nonissues.

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                            August 9, 2017Americans Aren't Sure More Work Means More Pay
While unemployment is trending down and Americans are more upbeat about their job prospects than they have been in years, that doesn't mean they expect a bigger paycheck.
August 9, 2017Regulating Guns By John Stossel
Have a gun license? Plan to bring your gun to my hometown? Don't.   

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                            August 8, 201740% Favor Affirmative Action
The Trump administration plans to investigate affirmative action policies at major universities in an attempt to challenge what they consider discriminatory practices against white and Asian-American students.

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                            August 8, 2017Just 17% Say Terrorists Winning War on Terror
Fewer voters now think the terrorists have the upper hand in the ongoing War on Terror, though they don’t believe relationships with the Islamic world are getting much better.
August 8, 2017After the Coup, What Then? by Patrick J. Buchanan
That the Trump presidency is bedeviled is undeniable.

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                            August 7, 201732% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Thirty-two percent (32%) 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 August 3. 

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                            August 7, 201713% Have Switched Parties or Gone Independent Recently
Voters are less likely these days to split their vote between the two major parties, but just over one-out-of-10 now say they’ve changed the party they identify with in recent months.

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                            August 7, 2017More Voters Voting Independent, Want Competitive Third-Party
Voters are more receptive to a political third party than they have been in recent years, and more than half now say they have voted for a candidate independent of the two major parties.

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                            August 5, 2017What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending August 5, 2017
Positive economic news continues to roll in, but voters aren’t giving President Trump any credit and gave him lower approval ratings this week than they did during his predecessor’s entire presidency.

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                            August 4, 2017Voters Remain Unconvinced There is a ‘Party of the People’
Even as partisan tension continues to rise in Washington, slightly fewer voters now say neither Republicans nor Democrats are the party of the American people.
August 4, 2017Is Trump's Russia Policy Being Hijacked? By Patrick J. Buchanan
In crafting the platform in Cleveland on which Donald Trump would run, America Firsters inflicted a major defeat on the War Party.    

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                            August 4, 2017More Americans Think Raising Minimum Wage Will Help Economy
Despite some recent studies that suggest otherwise, Americans feel more strongly that raising the minimum wage is a good economic move and are more likely to believe it should be a living wage.
August 4, 2017Ignoring the Lessons of Effective Presidents by Michael Barone
Who have been the most successful presidents in the past 80 years? Most successful, that is, in framing issues and advancing their policies, achieving foreign policy success, winning re-election and maintaining high job approval.

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                            August 3, 2017Americans Are Still Regularly Exercising
Exercising remains an important part of most Americans’ lives, and most report getting active at least once a week.

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                            August 3, 2017Voters Don’t Credit Trump For Improving Economy
The stock market is at record highs. Unemployment hit a 10-year low in May, and economic confidence is at its highest level in several years.  But voters apparently don’t believe President Trump or his policies have anything to do with it.