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November 2, 2015

Obama’s Full-Month Approval Ratings Hold Steady in October

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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October 31, 2015

Politics Behind a Pay Wall: If CNBC Sponsors a Debate, Did It Really Happen? By Ted Rall

There are two kinds of media censorship: direct and self-directed.    

October 31, 2015

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending October 31, 2015

Right now voters look at the presidential race and think they’re damned if they do, damned if they don’t.

October 30, 2015

Americans Find Room in School for Halloween

Halloween may not be an important holiday to most Americans, but they still think kids should be able to celebrate it in the schools.

October 30, 2015

Daylight Saving Time: Fall Back

Daylight Saving Time ends this Sunday, and most Americans will remember to change their clocks. But not all will change them the right way.

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October 30, 2015

Free Stuff Can Turn Out to Be a Bad Buy By Michael Barone

Free college! That's what the Democratic candidates were offering in their presidential debate. And it's likely that, if the subject had come up, they would have offered something like free home mortgages as well, to judge from Hillary Clinton's statement that she had urged Wall Street to stop mortgage foreclosures. Sounds a lot like free houses! 

October 30, 2015

Trump Still the Clear Leader After Latest Debate

Did Wednesday night’s debate make a difference in the Republican presidential race?

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October 30, 2015

Melissa Harris-Perry Needs a Trip to Hard Work U by Michelle Malkin

MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry is the cable TV pioneer who broke the tastelessness barrier for feminists by wearing tampons as earrings on air in 2013. This week, she made ignominious history again -- as the race-baiting fool in an ivory tower bubble who believes the words "hard worker" are a slur against black slaves and moms who don't have health care.

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October 30, 2015

Trump Change: Most Still See ‘The Donald’ On Track

Most Republicans still believe Donald Trump is the man to beat for their party’s presidential nomination in 2016.

The latest Rasmussen Reports Trump Change national telephone survey finds that 56% of Likely Republican Voters think Trump is likely to be the GOP nominee, with 30% who say it is Very Likely. Thirty-four percent (34%) disagree, including 10% who feel a Trump nomination is Not At All Likely. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

October 29, 2015

Free Market or Closing the Income Gap?

Voters still think policies that are pro-free market are important for the economy, but are they more important than those that reduce the income gap between rich and poor?

October 29, 2015

Most Democrats View Socialism Favorably

The man currently running a distant second for the Democratic presidential nomination, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, is a self-declared socialist, and most of his party’s voters now have a positive view of socialism. They are almost evenly divided as to whether they like capitalism or socialism more.

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October 29, 2015

Republicans 2016: Where the Race Stands Now By Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley

The third Republican presidential debate, held in Colorado on Wednesday night, was an odd, disjointed affair. The moderators arguably engaged in too much confrontation with the candidates and had a hard time divvying up the speaking time. With 10 candidates on the stage, the problems of the first two debates — too many candidates, too little time — became more apparent than ever.

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October 29, 2015

GOP Wins, CNBC Loses Last Night’s Debate

The latest Republican presidential debate was a textbook example of the media bias voters have complained about in surveys for years.

October 28, 2015

Most Say Hard Work Doesn't Pay

Hard work used to be synonymous with some degree of success, but most voters think the economy now frowns on those who work hard in this country.

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October 28, 2015

Anti-Trump Glee Leaves GOP With Single-digit Candidates By Charles Hurt

To hear the GOP establishment squeal with such glee, you would think there was a fire sale going on down at Brooks Brothers. Or maybe Congress just passed a law making country club dues tax-deductible. Or somebody invented a glow-in-the-dark golf ball.

October 28, 2015

How Do GOP Voters Rate Their White House Contenders?

Going into their party’s third presidential debate this evening, Republicans aren’t overly enthusiastic about the candidates hoping to be the GOP standard-bearer next year.

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October 28, 2015

Fear By John Stossel

This Halloween, what do you fear?

I fear fear itself because when we are afraid, we willingly give away our freedoms.

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October 28, 2015

A Closetful of Hillary Clinton's Immigration Costumes by Michelle Malkin

When it comes to immigration policy, Hillary Clinton's had more career costume changes than her new BFF Katy Perry.

October 28, 2015

Shutdown? What Shutdown?

It’s Halloween, and it’s government shutdown time again. The media, President Obama and most members of Congress are trying to scare us all again with the threat of closing down the federal government unless the national debt limit is raised.

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October 27, 2015

Hillary 2.0 by Thomas Sowell

Many people may share Senator Bernie Sanders' complaint that he was tired of hearing about Hillary Clinton's e-mails. But the controversy is about issues far bigger than e-mails.