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February 9, 2017House 2018: Crossover Appeal By Kyle Kondik
It’s become far less common in recent years for voters to vote for one party for president and another for their local U.S. House seat. While the number of “crossover” districts did go up from 2012 — there are 35 of them, as opposed to 26 after the 2012 election — the percentage of crossover seats, just 8% of the 435 districts, is low historically. To put that in perspective, 40 years ago during the 1976 presidential election — a race that, like this one, saw a national popular vote difference between the two candidates of just about two percentage points — 28.5% of the seats (124 of 435) voted differently for president and for House.

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                            February 8, 2017Voters Still See America As a Special Place
Voters now believe even more strongly that the United States is special among the nations of the world.
February 8, 2017Hillary's 'Future Is Female' Femme-A-Goguery by Michelle Malkin
All that was missing from Hillary Clinton's video address to a left-wing women's group this week was a pink pussyhat and a "BOYS SUCK" T-shirt.

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                            February 8, 2017Most Say Trump Protests Unlikely to Change His Policies
Most voters blame disagreements between President Trump and congressional Democrats on politics alone but don’t think the ongoing protests against the new president are going to make any difference.
February 8, 2017Smearing Team Trump By John Stossel
Oh, no! I did it again.
It was a foolish mistake. But I slipped.
I read The New York Times.
February 8, 2017‘1984’: Making Liberals Great Again By Charles Hurt
Donning dirty T-shirts that say things like “nasty woman” and “resist,” the melting snowflakes are fleeing this Orange Revolution for their latest safe space. But it is probably one that should come with a trigger warning for these tender little kiddies.
In droves, the precious political “liberals” and “progressives” are gobbling up copies of George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984” about “the perils of a totalitarian police state,” according to The Washington Post.

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                            February 8, 2017More Voters See Government As Protector Of Liberty
More voters than ever consider the federal government a protector of individual liberty, although slightly more still view it as a threat. With a new Republican president in office, though, voters in the two major political parties have reversed their stances: GOP voters have more respect for the government, while Democrats are more wary.

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                            February 7, 2017Democrats Think Muslims Worse Off Here Than Christians Are In Muslim World
Most voters agree that Christians living in Muslim-majority countries are mistreated for their religion. But Democrats are more likely to think Muslims are mistreated in America than to think Christians are persecuted in the Islamic world.
February 7, 2017Moral Supremacy and Mr. Putin By Patrick J. Buchanan
Is Donald Trump to be allowed to craft a foreign policy based on the ideas on which he ran and won the presidency in 2016?   

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                            February 6, 201746% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Forty-six percent (46%) 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 February 2.  

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                            February 6, 2017Most Support Renewing Sanctions On Iran After Missile Tests
Voters strongly support President Trump's decision to reimpose economic sanctions on Iran after it tested a ballistic missile and a cruise missile, both capable of carrying nuclear warheads.
February 6, 2017Education at a Crossroads By Thomas Sowell
In just a matter of days -- perhaps next Monday -- a decision will be made in Washington affecting the futures of millions of children in low-income communities, and in the very troubled area of race relations in America.

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                            February 6, 201786% See Gorsuch Confirmation As Likely
Voters are more supportive of President Trump’s first nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court than they were initially for either of President Obama’s choices and strongly suspect that Judge Neil Gorsuch will be the next Supreme Court justice.

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                            February 4, 2017What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending February 4, 2017
Just like the presidential campaign before it, the post-election political reality is all Trump, all the time, and Americans overall are feeling pretty good about that.
February 3, 2017The Case for Left Nationalism By Ted Rall
Make America Great Again. Trump's campaign slogan was a direct appeal to nationalism. As a son of the Rust Belt city of Dayton, Ohio, I wasn't surprised to see that it worked.

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                            February 3, 2017Americans More Confident in Children’s Futures
More Americans see a brighter future for the kids.

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                            February 3, 2017Voters See Gorsuch in the Judicial Mainstream
What does America want in a Supreme Court justice?
February 3, 2017The Coming Clash With Iran By Patrick J. Buchanan
When Gen. Michael Flynn marched into the White House Briefing Room to declare that "we are officially putting Iran on notice," he drew a red line for President Trump. In tweeting the threat, Trump agreed.
His credibility is now on the line.

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                            February 3, 2017Most Voters Think Trump, Unlike Obama, Puts U.S. Interests First
Most voters think President Trump agrees with them and will put America first on the world stage unlike his predecessor.
February 3, 2017Trump's 2nd-Week Follow-through by Michael Barone
Donald Trump's second week as president has been full of surprises and Sturm und Drang.