How Trump Wins the Debate By Patrick J. Buchanan
On one of my first trips to New Hampshire in 1991, to challenge President George H. W. Bush, I ran into Sen. Eugene McCarthy.
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September 23, 2016
September 23, 2016
Voters Say Debates More Important This Year
The first televised debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump is set for Monday evening, and voters - particularly those within the two major parties - place more importance on the debates this election cycle than they have in past years.
September 23, 2016
What Happens to the Democratic Party if Clinton Loses? by Michael Barone
There's been lots of speculation about the fate of the Republican Party if (as most of the prognosticators expect and hope) Donald Trump loses. There's been less speculation, though recent polling suggests it may be in order, about the fate of the Democratic Party if Hillary Clinton loses.
September 22, 2016
Voters Say Pipelines Can Be Built Without Hurting Environment
Opponents of the Dakota Access Pipeline, set to run oil from the Dakotas to Illinois, got the project temporarily shut down last week. Tribal nations and green groups argue that the pipeline will destroy cultural and environmental sites, but voters believe it’s entirely possible to build a pipeline like this without doing that kind of damage.
September 22, 2016
Republicans Couldn’t Care Less About Bush's Vote For Clinton
Former President George H.W. Bush who along with the rest of his family boycotted July's Republican National Convention was outed on social media this week as planning to vote for Hillary Clinton. Bush has not confirmed his vote to the media, but his reported decision has little impact on voters, especially his fellow Republicans.
September 22, 2016
This Race Is Down to the Debates
It’s hard to remember a time when the debates were so critical to the outcome of a presidential election.
September 22, 2016
Do Debates Matter? By Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik, and Geoffrey Skelley
To slightly modify Ronald Reagan’s famous rejoinder to Jimmy Carter in their single debate in 1980 (“There you go again”), here we go again — into the debate season.
September 22, 2016
White House Watch: Trump 44%, Clinton 39%, Johnson 8%, Stein 2%
With the first presidential debate coming on Monday, Donald Trump has moved to a five-point lead over Hillary Clinton, his biggest advantage since mid-July.
September 21, 2016
Americans Oppose Trend Toward Black-Only Dorms
San Francisco State University is the latest school to begin offering “black-focused” dormitories for black students, but most Americans, black Americans included, oppose this trend and fear it could mark a return to segregation policies of pre-Civil Rights America.
September 21, 2016
Hey, UN Corruptocrats: Spare Us Refugee Sanctimony by Michelle Malkin
Another United Nations summit in New York. Another finger-wagging extravaganza. Another useless "historic declaration" (nonbinding, of course) to save the world (by holding another summit ... in two years).
September 21, 2016
Voters Say No to Obamacare Health Insurance for Illegal Immigrants
California is seeking an Obamacare waiver from the federal government so that illegal immigrants can buy health insurance through the state’s health care exchange. But most voters don’t support a similar effort where they live.
September 21, 2016
Hillary Clinton Has Experience Fighting Terrorism, All Right: As a Failure By Charles Hurt
She really should stick to lying.
Desperately trying to snatch attention away from Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton took a stab at some unvarnished “straight talk” Monday and accused the real estate mogul of “giving aid and comfort” to America’s enemies. In other words, “treason.”
September 21, 2016
Supreme Court Picks By John Stossel
Hillary Clinton and her fellow progressives shout things like "Health care is a right!" They've also said that education, decent housing and child care are "rights."
September 21, 2016
Nevada Senate: Heck (R) 44%, Cortez Masto (D) 40%
Republican Joe Heck has pulled slightly further ahead of Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto in the race to replace retiring U.S. Senator Harry Reid in Nevada.
September 20, 2016
Voters Reject Obama’s New Middle East Refugee Plan
Voters strongly oppose President Obama’s plan to bring 110,000 Middle Eastern and African refugees to this country next year, up from 85,000 this year, and view that decision as an increased danger to U.S. national security.
September 20, 2016
Trump & the Press -- A Death Struggle By Patrick J. Buchanan
Alerting the press that he would deal with the birther issue at the opening of his new hotel, the Donald, after treating them to an hour of tributes to himself from Medal of Honor recipients, delivered.
September 20, 2016
Will Democratic Success Breed Clinton's Failure? By Michael Barone
Success breeds failure. That's one of the melancholy lessons you learn in life. The success of policymakers in stamping out inflation in the 1980s and minimizing recessions for two decades also produced policies that contributed to the collapse of the housing and financial markets in 2007-08
September 20, 2016
Our Political Predicament by Thomas Sowell
There is no point denying or sugar-coating the plain fact that the voters this election year face a choice between two of the worst candidates in living memory. A professor at Morgan State University summarized the situation by saying that the upcoming debates may enable voters to decide which is the "less insufferable" candidate to be President of the United States.
September 20, 2016
Nevada: Trump 42%, Clinton 39%, Johnson 11%
The race remains tight in Nevada, but Donald Trump has once again edged into the lead.
September 19, 2016
31% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Thirty-one percent (31%) 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 September 15.
