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Latest News Home Election 2020Monday, February 3 Sunday, February 2 Saturday, February 1 Friday, January 31 Thursday, January 30 Wednesday, January 29 Tuesday, January 28 Monday, January 27 Set this view as default? Yes No Set this view as default? Yes No Four Scenarios for Tonight’s Iowa Caucuses Sean Trende, RealClearPolitics The Head vs. the Heart in Iowa Amy Walter, Cook Political Report Why Dems Failed to Overthrow the 2016 Election Bennett & Kennedy, FOX News Trump Will Be Acquitted. American Politics Will Be Convicted. Ezra Klein, Vox Trump’s Brilliant Alice Johnson Super Bowl Ad Brad Polumbo, Washington Examiner The Most and Least Impressive Super Bowl Commercials Justin Peters, Slate Why There Are No Great Ads in the Democratic Primary Bill Scher, RealClearPolitics The Myth of Pete Buttigieg, ’Moderate’ Christopher Bedford, The Federalist Dems Should Learn From Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society Barnes & Zelizer, CNN We Need SmithNow More Than Ever Greg Orman, RealClearPolitics How China’s Xi Destroyed Religion and Made Himself God Steven Mosher, NY Post Dems ’20: National: Biden +3.3 | Iowa: Sanders +3.7 | N.H.: Sanders +9.0 | Odds More From Real Clear Defense: Not Another Peloponnesian War - Jack Bowers, Strategy Bridge Markets: The Latest Stab at Relevance From the Fed - John Tamny, RCMarkets Policy: Do Subprime Auto Loans Threaten U.S.? - Holtz-Eakin/Mandel, RCPolicy Life: Pamela Anderson Calls Off Marriage After 12 Days - Tatiana Siegel, THR Sports: Trump Congratulates Wrong State in SB LIV Tweet - Bonnie Stiernberg Videos Closing Arguments In Impeachment Trial Of Donald Trump Buzzfeed Trump Super Bowl Interview: Cory Booker, Other Dems Didn’t Get Any Of The Things Bloomberg Is Getting Now Buzzfeed Bernie Sanders "Seven Nation Army" Ad: We Are The Establishment’s Worst Nightmare Buzzfeed Trump: Bernie Sanders Is A Communist, "Didn’t He Get Married In Moscow?" BuzzfeedRCP Morning Edition 10 Questions the Iowa Caucuses Will Answer Brianne Pfannenstiel, Des Moines Register Is the 2016 Rebellion Ongoing? Robert Reich, The Guardian Trump Looks to Put Swing State Iowa in the Bag Early Byron York, DC Examiner Iowa, Send a Democrat Who Can Win Pennsylvania Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, CNN Are the Democrats Completely Screwing This Up? Andy Kroll, Rolling Stone Democrats’ Impeachment Flop Sets Stage for Boffo SOTU Liz Peek, FOX News Trump and the Degrading of Presidential Accountability Amy Sorkin, The New Yorker Preventing Another ’Crossfire Hurricane’ Jed Babbin, The American Spectator Buttigieg Hopes to Own Moderate Lane in Nomination Fight Philip Wegmann, RCP Joe Biden: A Really Nice Guy for President Frank Bruni, New York Times Why I Support Bernie Sanders Zephyr Teachout, The Nation Recall Efforts Weaken Democracy Gov. 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Read More The Head vs. the Heart in Iowa Amy Walter , Cook Political Report In politics, as in real life, we are often confronted with this conundrum: do I make the logical, practical choice, or do I go for the more... Read More Why Dems Failed to Overthrow the 2016 Election Bennett & Kennedy , FOX News The Democrat Party has been promoting a subterfuge meant to confuse the American electorate and radicalize... Read More Trump Will Be Acquitted. American Politics Will Be Convicted. Ezra Klein , Vox The truth of impeachment. Read More Trump’s Brilliant Alice Johnson Super Bowl Ad Brad Polumbo , Washington Examiner The president picked a unifying message for the prime-time event. Read More The Most and Least Impressive Super Bowl Commercials Justin Peters , Slate Winners: Jason Momoa, the Snickers ditch, and everyone’s Boston accent. Losers: Donald Trump and hummus. Read More Why There Are No Great Ads in the Democratic Primary Bill Scher , RealClearPolitics We’ve experienced more than a full year of presidential primary campaigning, culminating Monday night with the Iowa caucuses.... Read More The Myth of Pete Buttigieg, ’Moderate’ Christopher Bedford , The Federalist From health care and abortion to guns and immigration, and from the Supreme Court to the Electoral College, Pete Buttigieg is decidedly a... Read More Dems Should Learn From Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society Barnes & Zelizer , CNN Melody Barnes and Julian Zelizer write that Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society offers a clear example to Democrats today about how to coalition... Read More We Need SmithNow More Than Ever Greg Orman , RealClearPolitics Over the past week we’ve shared some insights from comprehensive polling of over 2,000 voters. The survey was originally designed by... Read More How China’s Xi Destroyed Religion and Made Himself God Steven Mosher , NY Post The Control Measures are part of Xi Jinping’s New Cultural Revolution, one goal of which is to stamp out all religious groups that the... Read More More From Real Clear Defense: Not Another Peloponnesian War - Jack Bowers, Strategy Bridge Markets: The Latest Stab at Relevance From the Fed - John Tamny, RCMarkets Policy: Do Subprime Auto Loans Threaten U.S.? - Holtz-Eakin/Mandel, RCPolicy Life: Pamela Anderson Calls Off Marriage After 12 Days - Tatiana Siegel, THR Sports: Trump Congratulates Wrong State in SB LIV Tweet - Bonnie Stiernberg Videos Closing Arguments In Impeachment Trial Of Donald Trump Buzzfeed Trump Super Bowl Interview: Cory Booker, Other Dems Didn’t Get Any Of The Things Bloomberg Is Getting Now Buzzfeed Bernie Sanders "Seven Nation Army" Ad: We Are The Establishment’s Worst Nightmare Buzzfeed Trump: Bernie Sanders Is A Communist, "Didn’t He Get Married In Moscow?" BuzzfeedRCP Morning Edition 10 Questions the Iowa Caucuses Will Answer Brianne Pfannenstiel , Des Moines Register Although Iowa’s caucuses are likely to raise as many questions as they answer, there will finally be a sense of resolution as the 2020 cycle... Read More Is the 2016 Rebellion Ongoing? Robert Reich , The Guardian I was part of a Democratic administration that failed to fix a rigged system – I know our current president is a symptom of our... Read More Trump Looks to Put Swing State Iowa in the Bag Early Byron York , DC Examiner DES MOINESIn February 1984, President Ronald Reagan, assured of his party’s nomination for re-election, nevertheless decided to fly to... Read More Iowa, Send a Democrat Who Can Win Pennsylvania Rep. Chrissy Houlahan , CNN Rep. Chrissy Houlahan of Pennsylvania writes that Iowa caucus-goers and New Hampshire voters should choose a moderate, if they want Democrats... Read More Are the Democrats Completely Screwing This Up? Andy Kroll , Rolling Stone The first caucus is Monday, but the 2020 campaign already feels like it’s gone on forever. Is this primary going to help — or hurt... Read More Democrats’ Impeachment Flop Sets Stage for Boffo SOTU Liz Peek , FOX News The president can boast of so many successes and initiatives. Read More Trump and the Degrading of Presidential Accountability Amy Sorkin , The New Yorker The sordid truth of the impeachment trial of Donald Trump is that it will end with the Senate...