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August 5, 2015Gun Lies By John Stossel
My town, New York City, enforces rigid gun laws. Police refused to assign me a gun permit. The law doesn't even let me hold a fake gun on TV to demonstrate something.
But New York politicians are so eager to vilify gun ownership that they granted an exception to the anti-gun group States United to Prevent Gun Violence. New York allowed States United to set up a fake gun store, where cameras filmed potential gun customers being spoofed by an actor pretending to be a gun-seller.
August 5, 2015Obama's Climate Hubris By Betsy McCaughey
This week, President Obama is hailing his Clean Power Plan as "the single most important step America has ever taken in the fight against global climate change." Obama is posing as the environment's savior, just as he did in 2008, when he promised his presidency would mark "the moment when ... the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal." Seven years later, that messianic legacy is in doubt. Obama's Clean Power Plan has never had legislative support, even when his own party controlled both houses of Congress. Now he's trying to impose it without Congress, an audacious ploy his old Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe condemns as "burning the Constitution."   

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                            August 5, 2015Yes or No to Federal Funding of Planned Parenthood?
Voters may not approve of Planned Parenthood’s sale of the body organs of aborted babies, but are they ready to pull government funding from the group as a majority of U.S. senators attempted recently?

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                            August 5, 2015Rasmussen Reports Names the Debate Line-Up – Last Week
Fox News announced late yesterday the lineup for the first Republican presidential debate. Rasmussen Reports announced the same lineup last Thursday morning.
August 4, 2015The Trump Card By Thomas Sowell
With Hillary Clinton's multiple misdeeds coming to light and causing her political problems, reflected in her declining support in the polls, both she and the Democratic Party have reason to be concerned. But both of them may yet be rescued by "The Donald," who can turn out to be their Trump card.
Donald Trump has virtually no chance of becoming even the Republican Party's candidate in 2016, much less being elected President of the United States.

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                            August 4, 2015What Do Voters Think of Hillary Clinton’s Energy Plan?
Most voters like Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton’s ambitious plan to combat global warming but admit the issue isn’t of high importance to their voting decisions.
August 4, 2015Obama Bets Nuclear Deal Will Change Iran's Regime; Few Agree by Michael Barone
Faute de mieux. That means "for want of something better" in Secretary of State John Kerry's second language. It's also the best case made by its journalistic defenders for approval of the nuclear weapons deal Kerry negotiated with Iran. Or to be more exact, for rallying 34 votes in the Senate or 146 votes in the House to uphold a presidential veto of a congressional vote to disapprove.

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                            August 4, 2015Planned Parenthood vs. Cecil the Lion
Conservatives complain that the killing of Cecil the Lion in Africa is getting more attention from the media than the videos exposing Planned Parenthood’s sale of fetal body organs, but both stories are being widely followed. 

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                            August 3, 201528% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
Twenty-eight percent (28%) of Likely U.S. Voters now think the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey for the week ending July 30.
August 3, 2015How Big a Third-Party Threat Is Trump?
If “The Donald” loses the Republican presidential nomination and runs as a third-party candidate, he definitely could put a crimp in GOP hopes to reclaim the White House.
Rasmussen Reports Rasmussen Reports Managing Editor Fran Coombs or spokesman Leon Sculti are available for media comment on these poll results. Call 732-776-9777x205 or send e-mail toleon.sculti@rasmussenreports.com to schedule now.

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                            August 3, 2015Obama’s Full-Month Approval Index Improves In July
When tracking President Obama’s job approval on a daily basis, people sometimes get so caught up in the day-to-day fluctuations that they miss the bigger picture. To look at the longer-term trends, Rasmussen Reports compiles the numbers on a full-month basis, and the results can be seen in the graphics below.

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                            August 1, 2015What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending August 1, 2015
With less than a week to go before the first Republican debate, Rasmussen Reports’ first national presidential survey of Likely GOP Voters this year shows Donald Trump with his biggest lead yet.  Now it’s up to the billionaire developer to show voters that he deserves it.

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                            July 31, 2015Obama Says He Could Win Again - True or False?
In a recent speech criticizing African political leaders who stay too long in office, President Obama said he could win a third term if he ran for president again but acknowledged that U.S. law does not allow it. Could Obama win again?
July 31, 2015Desperate Dems Recycle Planned Parenthood's Mammogram Lie By Michelle Malkin
The gruesome hits keep coming for the baby butchers of Planned Parenthood. President Obama and his top health officials have one last-ditch response left: Quick, hide behind the imaginary mammogram machine!
July 31, 2015Asymmetrical Politics: Republicans Act Like an Unruly Mob, Democrats Like a Regimented Army By Michael Barone
As the presidential campaign heats up, and we head into the first debate among the 16 declared Republican candidates, there is an asymmetry between the two political parties.
Republican voters have been seething with discontent toward their party's officeholders and have not become enchanted with any one of 15 more or less conventional politicians who are running. Democratic voters support their officeholders with lockstep loyalty and seem untroubled by the serious flaws of their party's clear frontrunner.

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                            July 31, 2015Hey, Fellas, How ’Bout Some Teamwork?
Voters can’t make it much clearer, but apparently President Obama and Congress still don’t get the message.

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                            July 30, 2015Most Still Question Accuracy of Textbooks
School textbooks remain a central issue in the cultural battle over America's past, and voters continue to strongly believe most textbooks value political correctness over accuracy.
July 30, 2015Trump Is Well Ahead As First Debate Looms
Going into the first Republican debate of the primary season next week, it looks like Donald Trump, Scott Walker and Jeb Bush are guaranteed seats.

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                            July 30, 2015Voters Still Have Faith in Society
Even though voters don’t have much faith that the country’s best days lie ahead, most still believe America is a good place to live.
July 30, 2015Eight Decades of Debate By Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley
Next week begins what has become a regular presidential primary tradition: the debates. As a way of previewing them, we decided to look back at the history of primary debates. Readers may be surprised to learn that primary debates existed before the advent of televised general election debates in 1960. Less surprising is that the number of debates has been steadily increasing over time, although it appears that both parties will have fewer in 2016 than they did in their last competitive primary seasons (2012 for Republicans, 2008 for Democrats).