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                            October 13, 2016Voters Rate Bill Clinton's Behavior Toward Women Worse Than Trump's
Hillary Clinton jumped on the release last week of an 11-year-old video in which Donald Trump makes graphic sexual comments to say it shows her Republican rival's demeaning attitude toward women. But Trump countered that Clinton was an enabler who allowed her husband, former President Bill Clinton, to sexually assault women for years. Voters tend to agree with Trump that Bill Clinton's behavior was worse, but not surprisingly there's a sharp partisan difference of opinion.
October 13, 2016Mixed Signals In The Race For The House by Kyle Kondik
This may be a particularly bad time to write an update on the House. But we’re going to do so anyway, if only to explain why that is.

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                            October 12, 2016Voters Say Economy Unfair to Middle Class
Voters are torn over the fairness of the U.S. economy in general, but they still think it’s particularly unfair to middle-class Americans.

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                            October 12, 2016Most Republicans Say GOP Leaders Hurt Party With Criticism of Trump
Most Republican voters still think top GOP leaders are hurting the party with their continuing criticism of Donald Trump and are only slightly more convinced that those leaders want Trump to be president.
October 12, 2016What Candidates Won't Say By John Stossel
Catch politicians in private moments and you might hear what they really believe: Donald Trump "can do anything" to women because he's powerful. Hillary Clinton's "private" positions aren't the same as her "public" ones.
October 12, 2016Donald Trump, in the Lion’s Den, Bites Back: Put Hillary in Jail by Charles Hurt
Well, the stakes just got real around here!
October 12, 2016Obama Lied. My Third Health Plan Just Died. By Michelle Malkin
Once was a shock. Twice was an outrage. Thrice is a nightmare that won't end.   

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                            October 11, 2016More Voters Waiting Until Election Day To Cast Ballots
While Democrats are still more likely than other voters to say they plan to vote early this year if their state allows it, voters overall are even more likely than they’ve been in the past to say they’ll wait until Election Day to cast their vote.
October 11, 2016The Donald Lives! By Patrick J. Buchanan
Donald Trump turned in perhaps the most effective performance in the history of presidential debates on Sunday night.   
October 11, 2016Words Versus Deeds by Thomas Sowell
Donald Trump's gutter talk about women shows yet again that he is bad news. The problem is that Hillary Clinton is far worse.
October 10, 201630% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Thirty percent (30%) 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 October 6.

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                            October 10, 2016Fewer Voters Say They’ve Changed Their Vote After Watching Presidential Debates
Despite the media circus surrounding the presidential debates this year, voters are less likely than they’ve been in the past to say they’ve changed their vote based on the debates and that the debates are a good indicator of where the candidates stand on the issues. 
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 24% of Likely U.S. Voters say they’ve changed the way they were going to vote after watching the debates between presidential candidates. Most (70%) have not. (To see survey question wording, click here.) 
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The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on October 6 and 9, 2016 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.

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                            October 10, 2016The ‘D’ Word and the Debate
Discipline was the word for last night’s second presidential debate.
October 10, 2016Clinton Adds to Her Electoral College Edge By Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik, and Geoffrey Skelley
In the broad sweep of U.S. history, very occasionally one of the major parties simply disqualifies itself from the contest to win the White House by nominating an unelectable, non-mainstream candidate. We suspect that there will never be a better example than Donald Trump. The Republican Party chose a deeply divisive figure — one not supported by many senior figures in the GOP even before the release of Trump’s raunchy 2005 discussion with Access Hollywood’s (and now The Today Show’s) superficial, celebrity-worshipping Billy Bush. (Yes, he is of the Bush family, so a Bush finally speared Trump, however unintentionally.) Their X-rated discussion, and Trump’s insistence on discussing Bill Clinton’s sordid past, has caused voters to usher children out of the room when the TV news comes on. Is this the most embarrassing campaign ever? It must be close.

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                            October 8, 2016What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending October 8, 2016
Is anything going to break this race wide open or is it going to be neck-and-neck down to the wire?
October 7, 2016Seven Reasons I Won't Vote for Hillary Clinton By Ted Rall
To my many friends and readers who plan to vote for Hillary Clinton: please stop bullying me.

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                            October 7, 2016Few Believe Fed Chairman Is Independent of Obama
Donald Trump has repeatedly criticized Federal Reserve Board Chairman Janet Yellen for keeping interest rates low to prop up a weak economy for political reasons, an accusation the Fed strongly denies. But few voters believe the Fed chairman is actually the independent agent she is supposed to be by law.
October 7, 2016ISIS, Not Russia, Is the Enemy in Syria By Patrick J. Buchanan
Denouncing Russian air strikes on Aleppo as "barbaric," Mike Pence declared in Tuesday's debate:  
October 7, 2016Robin Hood Economics Falls Flat in Debates by Michael Barone
Robin Hood is dead. Or at least seriously ailing. The politics of taking from the rich and giving to the poor -- the politics that philosophers from Aristotle to James Madison dreaded -- just doesn't seem to be working as it used to.

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                            October 6, 2016Americans Say Crime Up, Too Many Criminals Walking
The FBI insists that violent crime is down in America despite the jump in the murder rate in several major cities, but Americans aren’t buying it.