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March 2, 2016

Trump’s Winning Streak Baffles GOP Losing Club for Losers By Charles Hurt

It is true. You simply cannot trust a politician as far as you can throw them.

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March 2, 2016

Tuesday’s Super for Trump and Clinton By Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley

As the dust settles from Super Tuesday, we think the race is the same now as it was before the voting: Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are the favorites to win their respective nominations.

March 2, 2016

Clinton Edges Ahead of Trump in Presidential Matchup

Donald Trump may still be winning Republican state primaries, but Hillary Clinton has now moved ahead of him in a hypothetical presidential matchup.

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March 1, 2016

Last Chance for America? By Thomas Sowell

The "Super Tuesday" primaries may be a turning point for America -- and quite possibly a turn for the worse. After seven long years of domestic disasters and increasing international dangers, the next President of the United States will need extraordinary wisdom, maturity, depth of knowledge and personal character to rescue America.

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March 1, 2016

Obama’s Full-Month Approval Up Again in February

When tracking President Obama’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 can be seen in the graphics below.

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March 1, 2016

Is a New GOP Being Born? by Patrick J. Buchanan

The first four Republican contests -- Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada -- produced record turnouts.

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March 1, 2016

Arizona, Not Trump, Shows Republicans the Way on Immigration By Michael Barone

In last Thursday's slam-bang Republican debate everyone saw Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz do a fine job of demonstrating Donald Trump's ignorance and inconsistencies. But many may not have noticed Cruz's citation of a Feb. 9 Wall Street Journal article that casts light on the immigration issue -- and suggests strongly that Cruz's and Rubio's serious immigration policies could prove more effective than Trump's bombast about building a wall and getting Mexico to pay for it.    

March 1, 2016

GOP Voters, Unaffiliateds More Influenced by Debates Than Democrats Are

Republicans and unaffiliated voters are more likely than Democrats to have changed candidates as a result of the 10 GOP and six Democratic presidential campaign debates. But most voters who have followed the debates are pretty much where they were before it all began.

February 29, 2016

29% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction

Twenty-nine percent (29%) of Likely U.S. Voters think the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey for the week ending February 25.

February 29, 2016

Most Think Flint Water Crisis Is Being Politicized

Americans overwhelmingly believe the ongoing water contamination crisis in Flint, Michigan, is primarily a state and local responsibility and think the public outcry by prominent officials like President Obama and Hillary Clinton is more about politics than a solution to the problem.

February 29, 2016

Support for Clinton Up Among Democrats Nationally

More Democrats than ever now support Hillary Clinton’s bid for their party’s presidential nomination.

February 27, 2016

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending February 27, 2016

Here comes Super Tuesday, this year’s political Groundhog Day when we’ll find out whether the Republican presidential slugfest is over or bound to continue a while longer. Nearly 600 GOP delegates are at stake in primaries and caucuses throughout the country.

February 26, 2016

Oscars Controversy Has Little Impact on Viewing Audience

This Sunday’s 88th Academy Awards are marred by controversy over a lack of diversity among the nominees, but viewers don't seem to mind.

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February 26, 2016

Hillary vs. The Donald by Patrick J. Buchanan

In a Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump race -- which, the Beltway keening aside, seems the probable outcome of the primaries -- what are the odds the GOP can take the White House, Congress and the Supreme Court?

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February 26, 2016

Trump's Rivals Must Make the Case for Themselves By Michael Barone

Does Donald Trump's big win in the Nevada caucuses mean he's the inevitable Republican nominee? He has made himself the favorite and could sew up the nomination with the first winner-take-all primaries March 15. But it's not inevitable that he will become the nominee. The question is how others can prevent it.

Trump won 46 percent in Nevada; Marco Rubio won 24 percent, and Ted Cruz won 21 percent. That's in line with polling, which showed Nevada to be one of the best Trump states.

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February 26, 2016

Trump Change: All Signs Point To 'The Donald'

Decisive victories in South Carolina and Nevada have Republican voters more certain than ever that Donald Trump will be their party’s nominee heading into Super Tuesday.

February 25, 2016

Home Is Where the Harm Is

There’s a reason why they call it homeland security.

February 25, 2016

Most Voters Still Say No to Closing Guantanamo

President Obama this week renewed his effort to close the prison camp for suspected terrorists at the U.S. Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba. Most voters still oppose that idea, don’t want the prisoners being jailed here and think the ones that have been released already are again a threat to the United States.

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February 25, 2016

Democrats 2016: From South Carolina to the Ides of March, Part Two By Kyle Kondik

This is the second part of a two-part series analyzing the flood of primaries and in both parties from now through March 15. Last week we looked at the Republicans, and this week we look at the Democrats.

February 25, 2016

Few Fear an IRS Audit

Americans don't trust the IRS, but they're less worried this year about being audited by the feds.