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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.

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                            July 22, 202586% Exercise at Least Once a Week
Americans continue to view exercise as important, and the vast majority say they work out regularly.

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                            July 22, 2025Democrats Expand Lead in 2026 Congressional Forecast
The next midterm elections are still more than a year away, but the Democratic Party has widened its lead over Republicans in the battle to control the House of Representatives in November 2026.

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                            July 22, 2025Democrats Expand Lead in 2026 Congressional Forecast
The next midterm elections are still more than a year away, but the Democratic Party has widened its lead over Republicans in the battle to control the House of Representatives in November 2026.

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                            July 22, 2025Whose Politics Canceled Stephen Colbert? By Daniel McCarthy
Stephen Colbert is at the center of a conspiracy theory.

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                            July 21, 202545% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Forty-five percent (45%) 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 17, 2025.
 
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                            July 21, 2025GOP Voters Love Trump’s Economy; Others, Not So Much
Many voters give President Donald Trump a poor rating on economic issues, despite strong approval from Republicans.

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                            July 19, 2025What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending July 19, 2025
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...

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                            July 18, 2025Inflation Remains a Concern for Most
More than three-quarters of Americans are still worried about inflation, particularly higher grocery prices.

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                            July 18, 2025Just 30% Expect Trump Will Allow Amnesty
While the share of voters who favor amnesty for illegal immigrants has risen since last year, few think President Donald Trump would permit it.

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                            July 18, 2025Higher Education in Trouble: Political Repercussions By Michael Barone
   Nine months after the 2024 election, we've been graced with definitive dissections of the electorate and how it has changed since that escalator ride 10 years and one month ago. There's wide agreement in the analyses of the Associated Press/Fox News Vote Cast, the Democratic firm Catalist's What Happened and the Pew Research Center analysis.

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                            July 17, 2025Only 27% Favor Elon Musk’s Third Party Idea
After falling out with President Donald Trump, Elon Musk announced he’d form a new third party, but barely one-in-four voters think it’s a good idea. 
July 17, 20252004 to 2024, Part Two: When Each State Was at its Most Republican By J. Miles Coleman
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— The “presidential lean” of a state can, over time, help us quantify its political trajectory.
— Much of the Heartland and Midwest has come to lean more to the GOP over the past two decades, though the Sun Belt has gotten more Democratic.
— By our “leans” metric, Donald Trump held up especially well in several swing states in 2020, even as he lost the presidency that year.
— Florida was the only state that was at its most Democratic in 2004, the earliest year that we consider, and its most Republican last year, showing a clear trend toward Republicans over two decades.

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                            July 16, 2025Europe Is Favorite Travel Destination
Most Americans don’t travel out of the country regularly, but Europe tops the list of their preferred destinations.

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                            July 16, 2025Keeping Illegal Immigrants Off Benefit Programs Is Important, Voters Say
Less than half of voters believe the government is doing enough to stop illegal immigrants from getting taxpayer-funded benefits. 

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                            July 16, 2025Big Green By John Stossel
Environmental groups are now rich.
In 2020 (the most recent data available), they collected $8 billion in donations.
$8 billion!

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                            July 15, 2025Epstein Files: 56% Reject Recent FBI Report
A majority of voters aren’t buying the recent findings of a Department of Justice/FBI investigation into the case of high-profile sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.