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November 11, 2020

No Time for Phony Healing By Michelle Malkin

We, the 71 million Americans who voted to reelect Donald J. Trump, do not forgive.

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November 11, 2020

Freeloader U By John Stossel

Yale University has fancy dining halls. They pay no property tax.

Local restaurants struggle to compete, but their tax burden makes that hard.

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November 10, 2020

I Guess God Isn't a Republican? By Stephen Moore

Think back to one year ago this month. America was at peace. American troops were coming home from the hotspots around the world. Incomes and jobs were skyrocketing, and Americans had made more wage and salary gains in three years under President Donald Trump than in the previous 16 years under Presidents George Bush and Barack Obama. The swamp was being drained.

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November 10, 2020

Will Georgia Halt the Radicals' Revolution? By Patrick J. Buchanan

"In victory, magnanimity... in defeat, defiance."

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November 7, 2020

Previewing a Biden Presidency: Dementia, Impotence, Collapse By Ted Rall

At this writing, two days after the election, Joe Biden appears to be six electoral votes away from winning the presidency.

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November 6, 2020

Some Observations on an Extended Election Night By Michael Barone

1. This was not a good night for conventional polling. My review in Tuesday's Wall Street Journal of a book on the history of "polling failures" took perhaps too positive a view of contemporary polling. I find it remarkable that polling has been as accurate as it has been in a country where the completion rate for pollsters' contacts is below 10% -- but it got worse this week. The Real Clear Politics average of recent polls showed Joe Biden with more than 51% of the popular vote and Donald Trump with 44%. As this is written, Biden has 50% of the tabulated national popular vote, which will probably rise as California's data comes dribbling in, but Donald Trump has 48%. So, the current 1.9% Biden plurality is far lower than the polls' 7.2% Biden plurality.

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November 6, 2020

Trumpism Lives On! By Patrick J. Buchanan

Donald Trump may end up losing the 2020 election in the Electoral College, but he won the campaign that ended on Nov. 3.

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November 3, 2020

Beware of Red-Diaper 'Legal Observers' By Michelle Malkin

Buckle up. No matter what happens on Election Day, as I've warned for months, we are in for a long and wild ride. Over Halloween weekend, businesses in every major city across the country boarded up their windows and police departments prepared for "civil unrest."

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November 3, 2020

Biden's War Against the South By Stephen Moore

Joe Biden has said he wants to be president of ALL the states and that he doesn't see red states and blue states. But his economic policies are a de facto war against the high-growth red states of the South and the Sunbelt. We are talking about states such as Texas, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina and Arizona.

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November 3, 2020

Can a Disintegrating America Come Together? By Patrick J. Buchanan

On the last days of the 2020 campaign, President Donald Trump was holding four and five rallies a day in battleground states, drawing thousands upon thousands of loyalists to every one.

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October 30, 2020

The Perils of Political Trifectas By Michael Barone

If the final election returns, when they finally come in, match the current polls, Joe Biden's Democrats will win a trifecta: the White House and majorities in both houses of Congress.

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October 30, 2020

What the Next President Faces By Patrick J. Buchanan

Of the presidents in the modern era, many have been dealt a difficult hand by history, but perhaps none more so than Donald Trump.

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October 29, 2020

Georgia’s Senate Races Both Move to Toss-up By Kyle Kondik

And how we’re thinking about the presidential race with five days to go.

KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE

— Georgia’s two Senate races move to Toss-up.

— They may be the only two races we leave in Toss-up when we release our final election picks on Monday.

— The concept of Occam’s Razor — the idea that the simplest explanation is sometimes the likeliest explanation — might be a useful framework to use when assessing the presidential race.

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October 28, 2020

The Mobilization of the Mob By Michelle Malkin

Ready or not, here they come. The ground troops of the anti-Donald Trump resistance aren't just biding their time until Election Day for Hidin' Joe Biden. Hell no. They're making their direct action checklists and checking them twice. They're training for instigating.

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October 28, 2020

Don't Freak Out! By John Stossel

Worried about Tuesday?

Remember: The most important parts of life happen outside politics.

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October 27, 2020

Is the Stock Market Telling Us That Trump Will Win? By Stephen Moore

Why is the stock market so high? I get asked this riddle every day.

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October 27, 2020

A Biden Family Special Prosecutor in 2021? By Patrick J. Buchanan

If Joe Biden loses on Nov. 3, public interest in whether his son Hunter exploited the family name to rake in millions of dollars from foreign donors will likely fade away.

It will not matter, and no one will care.

October 26, 2020

Are the Polls Trending for Trump? By Brian C. Joondeph

Several weeks ago, presidential opinion polls showed Joe Biden with a double-digit lead over Donald Trump, like the supposed lead Hillary Clinton enjoyed four years ago. Despite prognostications of an almost certain Clinton victory, reality provided a different story ending.

Will the big media be right this election cycle, or are they repeating their folly from the last election?

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October 23, 2020

Both Candidates' Risky Strategies By Michael Barone

Are both presidential candidates trying to lose? Or at least pursuing campaign strategies which put them at grave risk of defeat?

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October 23, 2020

America: a Land of Ceaseless Conflict By Patrick J. Buchanan

When Amy Coney Barrett was nominated to a judgeship on the U.S. Court of Appeals in 2017, Sen. Dianne Feinstein was taken aback by the Notre Dame law professor's Catholic convictions about the right to life.