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July 31, 2025Texas Republicans Aim for Five-Seat Gain in New Proposed Gerrymander By Kyle Kondik and J. Miles Coleman
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— A much-anticipated draft of a new Republican gerrymander of Texas emerged Wednesday morning.
— The map is designed to allow Republicans to win five new seats in Texas, which would have the effect of pushing their edge in the state delegation from 25-13 at full strength to 30-8.
— Not all the newly-drawn seats are guaranteed Republican pickups, though.
— We offer tentative possible ratings of the new map’s 38 districts below, although without knowing if the map will be enacted under this form (or at all), we are not actually making any rating changes today.

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                            July 30, 2025Public Believes RussiaGate Was Serious, But Few Expect a Reckoning By Brian Joondeph
Americans largely believe that RussiaGate was more than just smoke and mirrors or a conspiracy theory, as the media suggess. However, despite this belief, only 28 percent of likely voters expect criminal charges against intelligence or Obama-era officials involved in the scandal.

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                            July 30, 2025Just 29% Think A.I. Will Make Life Better
Despite widespread media attention to artificial intelligence (AI), most Americans have rarely or never used it, and fewer than a third of them expect AI to improve life for most people.

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                            July 30, 202560% Suspect Trump-Epstein Cover-Up
A majority of voters think the Trump administration may be trying to conceal evidence of the president’s association with the late Jeffrey Epstein.

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                            July 30, 2025Tortured by Bureaucrats By John Stossel
Americans like licenses. People think they make us safer.
We license drivers.
We license dogs.

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                            July 29, 2025Desperately Seeking a Pro-Growth Democrat By Stephen Moore
   The most recent Wall Street Journal political poll shows that Democrats have swerved into a deep ditch.

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                            July 29, 2025Democrats, Republicans About Equal in Voters’ Eyes
Six months into President Donald Trump’s second term, the two major parties are almost evenly matched in terms of voters’ approval.

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                            July 29, 2025Trump's Trade Lesson for Economists (and the World) By Daniel McCarthy
        If America is in a trade war, the question to ask is, are we tired of winning yet?

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                            July 28, 202539% Still Give Congress ‘Poor’ Rating
Voters are now slightly more satisfied with the job Congress is doing than they were two months ago.

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                            July 28, 202539% Still Give Congress ‘Poor’ Rating
Voters are now slightly more satisfied with the job Congress is doing than they were two months ago.

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                            July 28, 202544% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Forty-four percent (44%) 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 July 26, 2025.
 
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                            July 26, 2025What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending July 26, 2025
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...

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                            July 25, 2025Are Ex-Presidents a Help or Hindrance? By Michael Barone
For a generation, Americans have had a historically large number of ex-presidents around, a possible source of counsel from one of only 45 people who have exercised the broad powers conferred by Article II of the Constitution.

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                            July 25, 2025‘RussiaGate’: Only 28% Expect Prosecutions in Intelligence Scandal
Most voters think the accusations surrounding “RussiaGate” are a serious scandal, but few expect criminal prosecution of the Obama administration officials involved.

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                            July 24, 202536% Now Expect Rising Stock Market
Expectations of higher stock prices have cooled somewhat since the first month of President Donald Trump’s second term.

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                            July 24, 202581% Suspect Campaigns Used Illegal Foreign Donors
Voters overwhelmingly favor cracking down on illegal campaign contributions from foreigners.
July 24, 2025As Redistricting War Looms, Republicans Have More Plausible Gerrymandering Targets than Democrats By Kyle Kondik
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— President Trump pushing Texas Republicans to squeeze more seats out of the Lone Star State has led to the possibility of other states on both sides trying to draw new maps.
— California stands out as a state where Democrats could potentially get several extra seats through a gerrymander, but their path toward doing so is much more complicated than the Republican path in Texas.
— Looking across the entire country, Republicans appear to have easier opportunities for drawing new gerrymanders than Democrats. Ohio was already set to likely produce a better map for Republicans, and there are other options too.
— In states where Democrats control the state government and might want to draw themselves additional seats, there are often roadblocks that don’t exist in Republican-leaning states.

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                            July 23, 2025War on Capitalism By John Stossel
Capitalism gets a lot of hate. 
I expect it from the left. They blame free markets for racism, "horrifying inequality" and even, according to Economist Joseph Stiglitz, "accelerating climate change."

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                            July 23, 2025Pam Bondi: 38% Rate AG ‘Poor’ on Epstein Case
While many voters are dissatisfied with Attorney General Pam Bondi’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case, it hasn’t done much damage to her overall approval.

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                            July 23, 2025The End of Immortality in Washington By Stephen Moore
Over the last several decades, you could count on your fingers (and maybe a few toes) the number of government programs that have been canceled -- no matter how obsolete, inefficient or wasteful they were, and despite the fact that, in some rare cases, their missions were accomplished.