Both Candidates' Risky Strategies By Michael Barone
Are both presidential candidates trying to lose? Or at least pursuing campaign strategies which put them at grave risk of defeat?
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October 23, 2020
October 23, 2020
America: a Land of Ceaseless Conflict By Patrick J. Buchanan
When Amy Coney Barrett was nominated to a judgeship on the U.S. Court of Appeals in 2017, Sen. Dianne Feinstein was taken aback by the Notre Dame law professor's Catholic convictions about the right to life.
October 22, 2020
States of Play: Florida By Matthew Isbell
The right-leaning swing state that may be the key to 2020.
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— While it is a swing state, expect Florida to vote to the right of the national popular vote.
— Biden is likely to underperform Hillary Clinton in Miami-Dade, but outshine her in working class communities and suburbs.
— How Florida’s seniors judge Trump on COVID will likely decide the state.
October 21, 2020
The Disunited States of Oppression By Michelle Malkin
Is there any clearer sign of how privileged a society is than the disproportionate amount of time that society spends guilting citizens over how privileged they are?
October 21, 2020
Bet the Election By John Stossel
Donald Trump will probably lose the election.
As I write, The Economist says he has only an 8% chance of winning.
October 20, 2020
Biden's 7 Economic Deadly Sins By Stephen Moore
Joe Biden keeps claiming to be a centrist Democrat.
October 20, 2020
Can America Do It All? By Patrick J. Buchanan
In fiscal year 2020, which ended on Sept. 30, the U.S. government set some impressive new records.
The deficit came in at $3.1 trillion, twice the previous record of $1.4 trillion in 2009, which was set during the Great Recession, and three times the 2019 deficit of about $1 trillion.
October 16, 2020
Deluge After the Donald? By Ted Rall
Joe Biden enjoys a double-digit lead over incumbent President Donald Trump because he promises a return to normalcy -- not the platonic ideal of objective normalcy in a country that doesn't torture or spy on its citizens or let them starve because their coding chops are a few years out of date. Americans desperately want to resume "normal" political life as Americans knew it before the last four years of manic presidential tweetstorms, authoritarian strongman antics and pandemic pandemonium. As Michigan voter Katybeth Davis told the Guardian, "I just want it to be over with. I really do."
October 16, 2020
Without Polls, Would Biden Still Be Winning in a Landslide? By Brian C. Joondeph
As the 2020 presidential election nears, polls portend a landslide victory for the Biden/Harris ticket.
Biden had a 16-point lead over Trump in an early October CNN poll. The Opinium and Guardian poll from days ago gave Biden a 17-point lead. Even Rasmussen Reports, one of the most accurate pollsters in 2016, showed Biden still leading Trump by five points this week, admittedly a drop from 12 points the week before.
October 16, 2020
Court Packing Is No Hypothetical By Michael Barone
On Monday, Joe Biden finally broke his monthslong silence on court packing. Previously, he refused to take a stand -- "whatever position I take in that, that'll become the issue," he said in the Sept. 29 debate, said voters didn't "deserve to know" his position or would know it "when the election is over,"
October 16, 2020
Can Trump Pull a Second Rabbit Out of the Hat? By Patrick J. Buchanan
"Apres moi, la deluge," predicted Louis XV after his army's stunning defeat by Prussia's Frederick the Great at the Battle of Rossbach in 1757.
"La deluge," the Revolution, came, three decades later, to wash the Bourbon monarchy away in blood and to send Louis XV's grandson, Louis XVI, and his queen, Marie Antoinette, to the guillotine.
October 15, 2020
Election 2020: A Fortnight and Five Days Away By Kyle Kondik
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— With 19 days to go before the election, Joe Biden’s lead in the presidential race remains steady, although his national lead is bigger than his leads in the most crucial swing states.
— In the Senate, Republicans appear to be getting some traction against Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI), although Peters remains favored in our ratings. Overall, the Senate battlefield continues to expand, with Republicans having to play more defense in places like Alaska and Kansas.
— Eight House rating changes largely benefit Democrats.
October 14, 2020
A Media-Political Assassination in Denver By Michelle Malkin
Do Colorado patriots' lives matter?
October 14, 2020
A Tale of Two Camps By John Stossel
When COVID-19 hit, I quarantined in Eastern Massachusetts.
Biking around the woods, I noticed something strange.
October 13, 2020
No, Joe, There Was No Economic Boom Under Obama By Stephen Moore
The great Jackie Gleason once said, "The past remembers better than it lived." And so it is, apparently, with the Obama years.
October 13, 2020
Is War With China Becoming Inevitable? By Patrick J. Buchanan
"The Indians are seeing 60,000 Chinese soldiers on their northern border," Secretary of State Michael Pompeo ominously warned on Friday.
October 9, 2020
Putin's Got His Problems, Too By Patrick J. Buchanan
Before the first Trump-Biden debate, moderator Chris Wallace listed the six subjects that would be covered:
October 9, 2020
Lockdown Enthusiasts' Risk Aversion Is Producing a More Unequal Society By Michael Barone
Now that Donald Trump exited from Walter Reed Hospital and the vice presidential debate aired, let's turn to an apolitical analyst to understand what's happening. Vaclav Smil, 76, native of communist Czechoslovakia and former University of Manitoba professor for four decades, has written 39 books on energy, technology and demography. "Nobody," says Bill Gates, who has read every book, "sees the big picture with as wide an aperture as Vaclav Smil."
October 8, 2020
Presidential Opinion Polls – The Measured vs. The Observed By Brian C. Joondeph
With the 2020 presidential election only weeks away, increasing attention is focused on opinion polls to pick the winner. In 2016, most pollsters were wildly wrong, predicting a Hillary Clinton landslide victory over Donald Trump.
October 8, 2020
With Just Weeks to Go, Trump is Not Making up Ground By Kyle Kondik and J. Miles Coleman
Rating changes in Electoral College, Senate, Governor, and House.
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— Recent rosy polling for Joe Biden in the presidential race may represent an artificial sugar high for the challenger.
— But at this point, Donald Trump needs to be making up ground — not treading water or falling further behind.
— 11 rating changes across four categories of races (president, Senate, House, and governor) almost exclusively benefit Democrats.
