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July 18, 20192020 Redistricting: An Early Look By Kyle Kondik
GOP retains edge, but perhaps not as sharp of one as it had following 2010.
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— The Supreme Court’s recent decision to stay out of adjudicating gerrymandering doesn’t necessarily change anything because the court had never put limits on partisan redistricting in the first place.
— Republicans are still slated to control the drawing of many more districts than Democrats following the 2020 census, although there are reasons to believe their power will not be as great as it was following the last census.
— How aggressively majority parties in a number of small-to-medium-sized states target incumbents of the minority party following 2020 may help tell us whether the Supreme Court’s decision will lead to more aggressive gerrymanders.

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                            July 17, 2019Confidence in Housing Market Remains At Record Highs
Homeowners continue to feel better about the housing market than they have in years.

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                            July 17, 2019Trump A Racist? 32% of Democrats Say Any White Criticism of Politicians of Color Is Racist
Voters are closely divided over whether President Trump is a racist, but one-in-three Democrats think it’s racism any time a white politician criticizes a politician of color.
July 17, 2019Defund Lutherans for Open Borders Now! By Michelle Malkin
If you were shocked by the images of the Mexican flag flying over an Aurora, Colorado, immigration detention center this weekend, you'll be appalled at an even more disgusting spectacle:
July 17, 2019Trump Moves to Lessen the Pain of Capital Gains Taxes By Stephen Moore
It's official. President Donald Trump wants to index capital gains taxes for inflation. This would be a big stimulus boost for the U.S. economy immediately and over time and could get us back to 3% to 4% growth by liberating potentially hundreds of billions of dollars for new capital investment. My sources tell me that the president has told his White House team that if he can get his legal counsel to give him a ruling that he has the right to make this change administratively, he will do exactly that.
July 17, 2019Gagging Investigators By John Stossel
Recording events from public land shouldn't be a crime.
Yet when a woman in Utah, standing by a public road, filmed farmworkers pushing a cow with a bulldozer, the farmer drove up to her and said, "You cannot videotape my property."

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                            July 16, 2019Voters Question Trump’s Allegiance to Constitution
President Trump, like President Obama before him, has relied heavily on executive actions to get around a gridlocked Congress, and voters fall along predictable party lines when asked whether Trump’s actions would pass constitutional muster.
July 16, 2019Trump Fuels a Tribal War in Nancy's House By Patrick J. Buchanan
President Donald Trump's playground taunt Sunday that "the Squad" of four new radical liberal House Democrats, all women of color, should "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came," dominated Monday morning's headlines.

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                            July 15, 201940% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Forty percent (40%) 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 11.

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                            July 15, 2019GOP Wants More Deportations of Illegal Immigrants; Democrats Don’t
Federal immigration authorities began a major deportation operation this past weekend, and for Republicans it’s long overdue. But Democrats disagree and don’t like the way the Trump administration is cracking down on illegal immigration.
July 13, 2019The Difference Between Liberals and Leftists By Ted Rall
Living as they do in a bipolar political world where politics consists of Democrats and Republicans and no other ideology is real, media corporations in the United States use "left," "liberal" and "Democrat" as synonyms. This is obviously wrong and clearly untrue -- Democrats are a party, leftism and liberalism are ideologies, and Democratic politics are frequently neither left nor liberal but far right -- but as Orwell observed, after you hear a lie repeated enough times, you begin to question what you know to be true rather than the untruth.

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                            July 13, 2019What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending July 13, 2019
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...

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                            July 12, 2019Consumer Spending Update: A Giant Leap in Consumer Confidence
The Rasmussen Reports Economic Index jumped to 144.5 in July, up over nine points from last month and just shy of its all-time high in February 2018.
July 12, 2019Democrats: Prisoners of the Past on the Economy By Michael Barone
We are all, to some extent, prisoners of the past. Things that have already happened -- or that we remember as having happened -- constitute the world that we know. Anything else is a product of imagination.
July 12, 2019Are Yanks and Brits Going Their Separate Ways? By Patrick J. Buchanan
When Sir Kim Darroch's secret cable to London was leaked to the Daily Mail, wherein he called the Trump administration "dysfunctional ... unpredictable ... faction-riven ... diplomatically clumsy and inept," the odds on his survival as U.K. ambassador plummeted.

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                            July 11, 2019Americans Strongly Applaud America and Its Past
George Washington and Thomas Jefferson are the latest victims as the politically correct expand their war on America’s past, but a sizable majority of Americans remain proud of that past and proud of their country.

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                            July 11, 2019Republicans Say Perot Cost Bush Reelection, See Trump As 3rd-Party President
Mega-businessman Ross Perot who died this week ran one of the highest profile third-party presidential bids in history, and many Republicans suspect he elected Bill Clinton in the process. But a sizable number of all voters think Donald Trump, elected as a Republican, is the third-party president that Perot wanted to be.
July 11, 2019Notes on the State of Politics By Larry J. Sabato and Kyle Kondik
Farewell Ross Perot; Senate races on the fringe of the competitive map; the curious case of Justin Amash.
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— Ross Perot, who died earlier this week, provided something of a template for Donald Trump. He also was the best-performing third-party presidential candidate since Teddy Roosevelt in 1912.
— They are not top-tier races, but there have been noteworthy Senate developments on the outer fringes of the competitive map in Kansas, Kentucky, and Virginia.
— Justin Amash’s decision to leave the GOP creates another House swing seat.

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                            July 10, 2019Many Still Know Someone Out of Work, Someone Who’s Given Up
Perhaps surprisingly, with unemployment rates at historic lows, more Americans say they know people who can’t find jobs, although the number is still well below findings during the Obama years. Democrats are the most pessimistic about the job market in the near future.
July 10, 2019Epstein, Bean & Buck: The Democratic Donors' Sex-Creep Club By Michelle Malkin
Well, well, well. "Follow the facts," Democratic strategist Christine Pelosi now advises fellow liberals in the wake of billionaire and high-flying political financier Jeffrey Epstein's child sex trafficking indictment this week. Some of "our faves" could be implicated in the long-festering scandal, the Pelosi daughter warned, so it's time to "let the chips fall where they may."