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June 9, 2015

Hillary Clinton's Slide in Polls Leaves Her Vulnerable by Michael Barone

Despite everything, the often interesting analyst Jamelle Bouie writes in Slate -- "everything" includes "the email controversy, foreign donors and the Clinton Foundation" -- "Hillary is in good shape." Good enough to leave her party "still positioned for victory."

June 9, 2015

GOP Voters Rate Rick Perry's Chances

Rick Perry who recently stepped down as the longtime governor of Texas is running again for the Republican presidential nomination, and GOP voters see him just behind the pack of early front-runners.

June 8, 2015

30% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction

Thirty percent (30%) of Likely U.S. Voters now think the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey for the week ending June 4.

June 8, 2015

Hillary Clinton vs. Michael Bloomberg

Some pundits have suggested that liberal darling Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York City, should jump into the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, but is he really a threat to frontrunner Hillary Clinton?

June 8, 2015

Better for Congress to Block Bad Laws or Pass Good New Ones?

Congress’ performance ratings remain down in the dumps, but voters are slightly more likely these days to think Congress should be a little tougher on new legislation.

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June 8, 2015

Empty Symbolism: Why the Freedom Act Sucks By Ted Rall

Marketed as pro-privacy reform of the rancid Patriot Act, the USA Freedom Act is about to become law. Though nothing could be further from the truth, many Americans will believe that the NSA is being reined in, and move on another issue.

The Freedom Act has been characterized as another vindication of Edward Snowden -- and, considering the fact that we wouldn't be discussing the balance between individual privacy rights and national security if he hadn't made the NSA's spying against us public, it is.

June 6, 2015

What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls -- Week Ending June 6, 2015

The race for president is getting so crowded that it seems like soon there may be more of them than there are of us.

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June 5, 2015

Who Can Play a Mixed-Race Role? By Michelle Malkin

Let's set aside whether Cameron Crowe's new movie, "Aloha," is a good or bad movie. Whatever the flick's merits or demerits, it has inadvertently helped expose the arbitrary, capricious and ridiculous demands of militant identity politics.   

June 5, 2015

Voters Don’t Play Favorites When It Comes to Immigration

As far as legal immigration is concerned, voters are more about fair play than about what might be better for the country.

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June 5, 2015

Are We In for Another High-Crime Era After the Response to Ferguson and Baltimore? by Michael Barone

Are we seeing a reversal of the 20-year decline in violent crime in America? A new nationwide crime wave?

June 5, 2015

Graham Runs Dead Last Among Republicans

Longtime Senator Lindsey Graham has entered the sea of candidates seeking the Republican presidential nomination, but GOP voters rate the South Carolinian the longest of the long-shots in the race so far.

June 4, 2015

Are Voters Willing To Pay to Combat Global Warming?

Most voters still aren't ready to pay much, if anything, to fight global warming, but a slightly higher number are willing to spend more for the cause.

June 4, 2015

Most Are Still Fans of Legal Immigration

Most voters continue to welcome those who immigrate to this country legally, and they’re even more welcoming if illegal immigration is stopped.

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June 4, 2015

The College Board's Sabotage of American History by Michelle Malkin

A stellar group of American historians and academics released a milestone open letter yesterday in protest of deleterious changes to the advanced placement U.S. history (APUSH) exam. The signatories are bold intellectual bulwarks against increasing progressive attacks in the classroom on America's unique ideals and institutions.

June 4, 2015

Global Warming Still A Concern to Most Voters

President Obama recently told the graduating class of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy that denying global warming undermines U.S. national security Concern about global warming is up from recent months, but voters still aren’t totally convinced that humans are to blame.

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June 4, 2015

The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is the Other Party By Alan I. Abramowitz and Steven Webster Emory University

Which candidate will emerge from the crowded Republican presidential field next year? Can anyone stop or at least slow down Hillary Clinton’s seemingly inevitable march to the Democratic nomination? Will Democrats be able to match the GOP in Super PAC spending? And will there be new revelations about Clinton’s e-mails or the Clinton Foundation’s fundraising practices?

These are some of the questions that are dominating discussion of the 2016 presidential election in the media and among Washington political insiders. What you need to know is that the answers to these questions, interesting as they might be, will have almost no bearing on the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.

June 3, 2015

Support Remains Strong for Showing Photo ID Before Voting

Some attitudes don’t change: Voters continue to overwhelmingly believe that Americans need to prove their identity before casting a vote.

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June 3, 2015

Socialist "Justice" By John Stossel

Protestors demand "social justice." I hate their chant. If I oppose their cause, then I'm for social "injustice"? Nonsense.  

June 3, 2015

NSA - Friend or Foe?

Americans have a love/hate relationship with the National Security Agency, but the love side of the equation’s been growing as they worry more about the threat of Islamic terrorism.

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June 3, 2015

Paying the Price By Thomas Sowell

Baltimore is now paying the price for irresponsible words and actions, not only by young thugs in the streets, but also by its mayor and the state prosecutor, both of whom threw the police to the wolves, in order to curry favor with local voters.

Now murders in Baltimore in May have been more than double what they were in May last year, and higher than in any May in the past 15 years. Meanwhile, the number of arrests is down by more than 50 percent.