A Problematic Nominee Against a Problematic President By Michael Barone
What just happened? The Democratic presidential nomination race, which gave signs of lasting months, is now basically over.
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March 13, 2020
March 11, 2020
Democratic Voters Closing the Door on Sanders By Kyle Kondik and J. Miles Coleman
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— Tuesday night’s primary results generally showed Joe Biden running stronger versus Bernie Sanders than Hillary Clinton did against Sanders four years ago.
— Biden won every single county in Michigan, Mississippi, and Missouri, and he performed more than well enough out West.
— Biden’s delegate lead is expanding, and should continue to next Tuesday.
March 11, 2020
CDC: Centers for Damaged Credibility By Michelle Malkin
I think I'm where most sane people are on the coronavirus outbreak:
--Concerned but not panicked.
--Calm but not apathetic.
--Taking reasonable precautions but remaining skeptical of what all the purportedly "best experts" here in the United States are telling us about every aspect of their belated crisis management and response (especially on their pimping of vaccine development to prevent the disease).
March 11, 2020
Government Outlaws Freelance Work By John Stossel
Freelance jobs are "feudalism," says California Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez.
March 10, 2020
Danger Signs Abound for Sanders in Michigan — and Elsewhere By Kyle Kondik and J. Miles Coleman
He will have to beat the polls once again, but he may have benefited from an anti-Clinton vote not present this time.
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— Ahead of several delegate-rich contests this month, both national and state-level polls suggest that Joe Biden is solidifying his lead over Bernie Sanders.
— Though a handful of states will be voting tomorrow, Michigan, given its significance in the 2016 primary, will be a focal point of the night — and is likely a must-win state for Sanders.
— But some of Sanders’ great showings outside of Detroit from 2016 seem unlikely to repeat themselves this time.
— In Montana’s Senate race, Democrats now have their best-possible recruit, in Gov. Steve Bullock. We still see Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) as a favorite but are moving this race from Likely Republican to Leans Republican.
March 10, 2020
Biden and Bernie to Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia: Drop Dead By Stephen Moore
The Democratic presidential field is down to two old, white males, former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders. Though they are said to represent two polar-opposite wings of the party, on one issue, they are in complete agreement. They both have solemnly pledged to destroy millions of blue-collar jobs across Middle America's oil patch.
March 7, 2020
Trump's Second Term? Not Worth Freaking out About By Ted Rall
You've heard it so often that you may well believe it's true: President Donald Trump's second term would be a disaster, for the Democratic Party, for the United States, for democracy itself. "The reelection of Donald Trump," warns Nancy Pelosi, "would do irreparable damage to the United States."
March 6, 2020
Super Tuesday Finally Serves Its Intended Purpose -- After 32 Years By Michael Barone
Super Tuesday has finally served its intended purpose for the first time since it was invented for the 1988 presidential cycle, 32 years ago.
March 6, 2020
Will Joe Kick It Away Again? By Patrick J. Buchanan
A week ago, the candidacy of Joe Biden was at death's door.
March 5, 2020
For Biden, a Stunning Super Tuesday By Kyle Kondik and J. Miles Coleman
Joe Biden’s challenge on Super Tuesday was to build on his victory in South Carolina and defend the other Southern states from incursions by Bernie Sanders. Not only did he accomplish that, but Biden was William Tecumseh Sherman in reverse -- using the South as a springboard to move North in force.
March 4, 2020
What Part of 'NO AMNESTY' Doesn't DC Understand? By Michelle Malkin
The rumblings from the Beltway are ominous, my fellow Americans. As the U.S Supreme Court prepares to rule on President Donald Trump's termination of the Obama administration amnesty and work permits for 800,000 young illegal immigrants sometime between now and June 2020, all the usual open-borders special interests are lobbying for a "DACA deal" in Congress.
March 4, 2020
Forbidden Parenting By John Stossel
South Carolina mom Debra Harrell worked at McDonald's. She couldn't afford day care for Regina, her 9-year-old daughter, so she took her to work.
March 3, 2020
The Establishment's Ultimatum: Scuttle Bernie! By Patrick J. Buchanan
After Joe Biden's blowout victory in South Carolina Saturday and the swift withdrawal of Tom Steyer, "Mayor Pete" Buttigieg and Sen. Amy Klobuchar, the decisive day of the race for the Democratic nomination, Super Tuesday, is at hand.
March 3, 2020
Mass Transit Is Making Gridlock Worse By Stephen Moore
Why in the world is the federal government, 20 years into the 21st century, continuing to pour tens of billions of tax dollars into little-used mass transit rail projects? In a digital age with increasingly popular and affordable door-to-door ride-sharing apps such as Uber and Lyft, universal use of cars by all income groups and the revolution of smart driverless vehicles around the corner, subway systems and light rail are as old-fashioned as the rotary phone. The federal government and urban planners in at least 25 cities are frantically spending money to lay down tracks that, in 10 or 20 years, they will have to rip right out of the ground.
March 2, 2020
Biden’s Super Tuesday Test: Defending the South By Kyle Kondik and J. Miles Coleman
Sanders vs. Biden may be determined by who breaks through on the other’s turf.
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— Joe Biden’s victory in South Carolina re-established him as the main challenger to Bernie Sanders.
— There is some indication their battle could break on regional lines, with Sanders fighting for inroads in the South and Biden for access to the North. Biden’s task on Tuesday is protecting the six Southern states from incursions by Sanders (and perhaps others, including the unproven Michael Bloomberg).
— Sanders will lead in delegates after Super Tuesday. The question is by how much.
— Texas, both Southern and Western, is the most interesting state to watch on Tuesday.
February 29, 2020
Don't Worry, Centrists. Bernie Isn't Radical By Ted Rall
Watching panicky corporate-owned Democrats twist on the devil's fork of Bernie Sanders' "political revolution" is almost as much fun as it must have been for my mom and her fellow villagers to watch Vichy collaborators and Nazi sympathizers being executed by the resistance at the end of World War II. (That, Chris Matthews, is how you do a Nazi-to-2020 metaphor.)
February 28, 2020
Are Nonwhites Voting More Like Other Americans? By Michael Barone
Bernie Sanders' victories in the inaccurately counted Iowa caucuses, the crisply conducted New Hampshire primary and the Nevada caucuses have made two things clear.
February 28, 2020
Coronavirus Crisis Is Trump's Time to Lead By Patrick J. Buchanan
Not until well into the Democratic debate Tuesday night did the COVID-19 coronavirus come up, and it was Mike Bloomberg, not a CBS moderator, who raised it:
"The president fired the pandemic specialist in this country two years ago," the former New York mayor said. "There's nobody here to figure out what the hell we should be doing. And he's defunded the CDC."
February 27, 2020
The Sanders Tax By Kyle Kondik and J. Miles Coleman
How our Electoral College ratings might change if he becomes the presumptive nominee.
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— If Democrats nominated Bernie Sanders, they would, initially, start off with somewhat of a penalty in our Electoral College ratings.
— Sanders’ policy prescriptions and rhetoric may complicate Democratic prospects in the Sun Belt, where the party’s recent growth has been driven by highly-educated suburbanites.
— Given the composition of the 2020 Senate map, which features more Sun Belt states, Sanders’ relative strength in the Rust Belt — assuming that even ends up being the case — nonetheless doesn’t help Democrats much in the race for the Senate.
