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March 11, 2016

Most Americans Support Same-Sex Adoptions

Following a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court decision this week to uphold an adoption by a lesbian couple in Georgia, just over half of Americans say they support same-sex couples adopting children.

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March 11, 2016

The Sea Island Conspiracy By Pat Buchanan

Over the long weekend before the Mississippi and Michigan primaries, the sky above Sea Island was black with corporate jets.    

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March 11, 2016

Trump Change: ‘The Donald’ Is Still Riding High

Belief that Donald Trump will be the Republican presidential nominee remains near record highs.

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March 11, 2016

Democrats Dispirited, Republicans Hobbled by Excess of Spirit by Michael Barone

Bad news for both parties in the primaries and caucuses in the seven days in March following Super Tuesday.

March 10, 2016

Most Still Think Candidates Play Politics with Race Issues

Issues of race are a more serious concern now for voters, but most think politicians just use them to get ahead.

March 10, 2016

Voters Say No to Romney

Mitt Romney, the unsuccessful Republican presidential nominee in 2012, has come out swinging against Donald Trump and has even indicated he might accept the GOP nomination this year at a brokered national convention. But Romney’s endorsement doesn’t mean much to voters nor are they likely to vote for him in the fall.

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March 10, 2016

Must Failed Wannabes Support Their Party’s Nominee?

All the major presidential candidates have pledged to support the eventual nominee of their respective political parties, but voters say that’s not a must.

March 9, 2016

Americans Are Angry About Politics But Not at Each Other

Americans are very angry politically as the surprising success of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders clearly indicates, but fortunately they're not taking that anger out on their family and friends.

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March 9, 2016

Hillary's Federal Education Jackboot Squad by Michelle Malkin

Brace yourselves, parents: Hillary Clinton's Fed Ed jackboot squad is from the government and is here to "help."

March 9, 2016

Voters Like a Pro-Cop Candidate

Despite the continuing controversy over police shootings of black men in this country, it’s better for a political candidate to be pro-police than anti-police as far as voters are concerned.

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March 9, 2016

‘Big Tent’ Trump Forcing Party to Attack Itself By Charles Hurt

In 2012, we watched as the GOP establishment forced a flawed and flimsy candidate onto Republican voters. It was like trying to stuff a cat into a trash can.

Loyal conservative voters fought valiantly, thwarting Mitt Romney in state after state. But, in the end, they finally submitted and got behind the Olympic flip-flopper.

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March 9, 2016

Libertarian Lite By John Stossel

In this year's Republican presidential primaries, Sen. Rand Paul got little traction. In 2012, his father failed. That year, the Libertarian Party candidate, former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, got just 1 percent of the vote.

March 9, 2016

“Never Trump” or “Always Trump”?

Love him or hate him, Republican front-runner Donald Trump has been the star of the 2016 presidential race so far, drawing the ire of many in the GOP establishment who coined the phrase “Never Trump” as an expression of their opposition on social media.

March 8, 2016

24% of GOP Voters Are Very Likely to Vote for Trump If He Runs as a Third-Party Candidate

It could be bad news for the Republican establishment as it wages an unprecedented effort to stop Donald Trump from winning the party’s presidential nomination...

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March 8, 2016

Will a Republican Majority Rally to Defeat Trump? By Michael Barone

The Republican race for president last week converged, suddenly and briefly, in Detroit. In the Fox Theatre, one of the nation's great 1920s movie palaces, the four remaining presidential candidates fought it out in the Fox News debate.    

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March 8, 2016

Desperate Tactics By Thomas Sowell

It is desperation time for the Republican party establishment. Its extremely well financed favorite -- Jeb Bush -- never got anywhere with the voters in the primaries, and has already been forced out of the contest.

March 8, 2016

Have You Made A Political Donation Lately?

Americans are voting in record numbers in state primaries to date, but are they donating money to their favorite candidates as well?

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March 8, 2016

Will the Oligarchs Kill Trump? by Patrick J. Buchanan

Narrow victories in the Kentucky caucuses and the Louisiana primary, the largest states decided on Saturday, have moved Donald Trump one step nearer to the nomination.

March 7, 2016

28% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction

Twenty-eight percent (28%) of Likely U.S. Voters think the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey for the week ending March 3.