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December 15, 2016Incumbent Reelection Rates Higher Than Average in 2016 By Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley
With Republican Sen.-elect John Kennedy’s triumph in the Louisiana runoff last weekend, victories by two other Republicans in Louisiana House races, and Gov. Pat McCrory’s (R) concession last week to Gov.-elect Roy Cooper (D) in North Carolina, the winners of 2016’s House, Senate, and gubernatorial races are now set. This allows us to do a little housekeeping. Kennedy’s win confirms that this is the first cycle in the history of popular Senate elections that every state that held a Senate election in a presidential cycle voted for the same party for both president and for Senate (34 for 34 this year). Also, finalizing these results permits us to give a final assessment of our down-ballot Crystal Ball projections for 2016: We picked 32 of 34 Senate races correctly, along with 10 of 12 gubernatorial races and 428/435 House races.

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                            December 15, 2016Voters Forecast Less Business for Trump
Even his fellow Republicans aren’t buying. It looks right now like Donald Trump’s organization is likely to lose business because of his election as the next president of the United States.

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                            December 14, 2016Americans Want Christmas in Schools
Americans still strongly believe Christmas should be honored in public schools and should have a place on public land.

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                            December 14, 2016Democrats See Russia as Election Culprit, Others Don’t
Democrats, still searching for a reason for Hillary Clinton’s surprise defeat, now blame the Russians, but other voters don’t see it that way.
December 14, 2016A New Victim in the War on Small-Biz Bakeries By Michelle Malkin
It is not enough for family-owned pastry shops to bow to the gay marriage mob. Now, they're being targeted by the social justice mafia.   
December 14, 2016Skating to Freedom by John Stossel
My last Fox Business Network TV show airs Friday.
December 14, 2016All the Fake News That’s Fit to Print! By Charles Hurt
Long after the rest of America gave up on the mainstream media, the Old Gray Lady has finally discovered the fake news we have complained about for decades. And as with most things, The New York Times takes it to a level and sophistication that is the envy of the establishment media firmament.

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                            December 14, 2016Americans Are Decking The Halls
Americans appear to be in more of a decorating mood this holiday season than ever before.
December 13, 2016Where Are We? By Thomas Sowell
We are now in a kind of political no-man's-land between an administration on its way out and a new administration taking shape. Predictions are always risky -- and nowhere more so than in times like these.   

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                            December 13, 2016Holiday Shoppers Are Finishing At A Slower Pace This Year
While most Americans say they’ve started their holiday gift shopping, they are slower to finish this holiday season compared to previous years.
December 13, 2016Will Trump Defy McCain & Marco? By Patrick Buchanan
When word leaked that Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson, a holder of the Order of Friendship award in Putin's Russia, was Donald Trump's choice for secretary of state, John McCain had this thoughtful response:

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                            December 13, 2016Should Trump Be Forced to Sell All His Businesses?
President-elect Donald Trump has announced that his two older children will run his businesses while he is in the White House, but voters suspect Trump will still be involved. They stop short, however, of demanding that he sell all of his businesses to prevent any conflict of interest.
December 13, 2016Some Free Advice for the Democratic Party by Michael Barone
Herewith some unsolicited free advice for the Democratic Party. Whether it's worth more than the price I leave up to Democrats to decide.
December 12, 201635% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Thirty-five percent (35%) 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 December 8.

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                            December 12, 2016Will Trump Try To Make Money in the White House?
Most voters believe Donald Trump is likely to do things as president to make himself more money but still think he is no more unethical than other politicians.

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                            December 12, 2016Most Approve of Former General Heading Defense Department
Some Trump opponents have questioned the president-elect’s decision to include several former top military officers in his Cabinet including one as secretary of Defense, but most voters don’t have a problem with that call.

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                            December 10, 2016What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending December 10, 2016
Following a brief respite over the Thanksgiving holiday, president-elect Donald Trump got back to work this week making moves that mostly pleased his supporters and infuriated his critics.
December 9, 2016Thanks to Trump, No More Ameri-Splaining By Ted Rall
"A shining city on a hill," Ronald Reagan called America (by way of the Puritan authoritarian John Winthrop). "We are great because we are good," Hillary Clinton said during the campaign (via Tocqueville). Michelle Obama, earlier this year: "This right now is the greatest country on Earth."

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                            December 9, 2016Republicans Like Trump’s Cabinet Picks, Democrats Don't
Democrats dislike President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet picks to date, but Republicans are pretty happy with them. One of his more high-profile picks, former Republican primary rival Ben Carson, is much more familiar to voters now than he was in the early days of the presidential campaign.
December 9, 2016Has the Trumpian Revolution Begun? By Patrick J. Buchanan
The wailing and keening over the choice of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to head the EPA appears to be a lead indicator of a coming revolution far beyond Reagan's.