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opinion
The Pollsters Got It Wrong Again
The pollsters got it wrong again. Some claimed going into Tuesday’s election that Joe Biden had an unbeatable margin of 17 points in some states. Pundits claimed Republicans would lose between five and 15 seats in the House. It appears they’ve picked up a few. And because final results will not be known until states… -
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Why More Hispanics Voted for Trump in 2020
President Donald Trump did historically well in terms of the Hispanic vote. In both Texas and Florida, the Republican nominee did well among Hispanics. Per NBC News, “55 percent of Florida’s Cuban-American vote went to Trump, according to NBC News exit polls, while 30 percent of Puerto Ricans and 48 percent of ‘other Latinos’ backed Trump.” Nationally, he… -
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The Media and Pollsters Are the Biggest Losers of 2020
There was no blue wave at all, regardless of what ultimately happens in the presidential election. As of the writing of this piece, we still don’t know who won the 2020 presidential election. Contested vote counts could turn the process of sorting it out into a dragged-out legal battle. Nevertheless, the result was certainly an… -
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Trump Takes His Case to Court in 3 Battleground States
The Trump campaign seeks a recount in Wisconsin and has gone to court in Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Michigan over ballot counting rules to settle a presidential election that remains undecided. As of Wednesday evening, Fox News Channel had former Vice President Joe Biden just six votes shy of the 270 needed in the Electoral College… -
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Trump Gains Ground Among Minority Voters, but Loses Some With Whites
President Donald Trump expanded his share of both the black and Hispanic vote from four years ago, based on exit polling, even as the presidential race remains undecided. Trump’s share of votes fell by nearly the same proportion among white and male voters, according to exit polling by The New York Times compared to its… -
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Memo to the Supreme Court: Keep the Faithful Free to Foster
Foster families provide lifesaving care to hundreds of thousands of children each and every year in the United States. Sadly, more children are in need than there are families ready to provide care. To best serve these children, public policy needs to maximize the number and diversity of foster agencies (including faith-based agencies). This increases… -
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Election 2020 Exposes Culture War: Overcoming Fear With Truth
Submitting my weekly column on the morning of the 2020 presidential election was surreal. But not as surreal as walking to work through an apocalyptic cityscape of boarded-up buildings. No, this isn’t communist Cuba; this is Washington, D.C., the supposed center of the free world. Even more disquieting than the scenery is the knowledge that… -
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Blacks of Yesteryear and Today
I was a teenager, growing up in the Richard Allen housing project of North Philadelphia, when Emmett Till was lynched in Money, Mississippi, on Aug. 28, 1955, and his brutalized, unrecognizable body later recovered from the Tallahatchie River. From 1882-1968, 4,743 lynchings occurred in the United States. Roughly 73%, or 3,446, were black people, and… -
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Arizona Voters Approve Proposition 207 to Legalize Recreational Marijuana Products
Arizona voted to legalize the recreational use of marijuana products Tuesday, allowing individuals over 21 to legally possess up to 28 grams of cannabis and smaller quantities of concentrates, The Associated Press reported. Proposition 207 followed four years after a proposal to legalize recreational marijuana use was defeated, the AP reported. Republican lawmakers previously rejected changes… -
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Count Every Legal Vote—No More, No Less
Conservatives have every reason to be optimistic about the outcome of this election. As we await the results, America needs a secure, transparent, and peaceful vote-counting process. Every legal vote must count and every election official has the duty to report all potentially illegal and fraudulent activity in their jurisdictions. The functioning of our republic… -
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How the Election Went in 7 Riot-Torn Cities and States
How did incumbent mayors and council members fare at the polls Tuesday in cities rocked by riots over the summer following the death of George Floyd in police custody? It was a mixed bag. Here’s a look at some results in five such local elections, as well as a couple of races for governor of… -
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As the Counting Continues, the Legal Wrangling Ramps Up
Election experts for months have predicted that an army of lawyers, not actual voters, would determine the final outcome of the presidential election because key battleground states would end up so excruciatingly close. The legal threats and wrangling have begun. The big question now is when it will end and provide Americans with an outcome…. -
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Affirmative Action, Minimum Wage, and More: Results of Key Ballot Initiatives
While most of America focuses on the presidential election, some huge issues are being decided in states around the country through ballot measures and propositions. It’s easy to forget as the nation obsesses over who occupies the White House that most policies and laws are set at the state and local level. And given that… -
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House Freedom Caucus Could Add 7 New Conservative Members
A group of vocal conservatives in the House stands to gain seven or more new members after Tuesday’s election results are all in. The House Freedom Caucus has pressed the larger GOP conference for more than five years on issues ranging from spending and taxes to abortion and religious liberty. The Freedom Caucus expects to… -
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Taking a Closer Look at ‘Fact-Free Journalism’
Two veteran journalists, Mark Tapscott and Brian McNicoll, join “The Bill Walton Show” to discuss the increasingly low standards of journalistic practice. Read a portion of the transcript, lightly edited, below, or watch the full episode above. Bill Walton: Welcome to “The Bill Walton Show.” I’m Bill Walton, and today I want to talk about… -
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No Winner Yet: Fight for White House Could Drag on for Days or Weeks
For the first time in years, Americans will wake up Wednesday morning after the presidential election uncertain of who their president will be on Jan. 20. President Donald Trump, a Republican, overperformed expectations in winning Florida. His Democratic opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden, flipped longtime Republican stronghold Arizona. But the key battleground states of… -
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Hatred of Trump vs. Hatred of the Left
One way in which yesterday’s presidential election can be summarized is this: It was a contest between those who hate Donald Trump and those who hate the left (as I always point out, I am referring to “the left,” not to liberals or liberalism). This is so accurate an assessment I suspect even most Democrats… -
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Oregon Votes to Decriminalize Certain Amounts of Meth, Heroin, Cocaine
Oregon residents on Tuesday voted to decriminalize certain possession amounts of hard drugs. Roughly 60% of Oregonian voters favored making it no longer a crime to possess a “non-commercial” amount of methamphetamine, heroin, and cocaine, among others, according to The Hill. Those caught with the specified amount of narcotics face a $100 fine, but the penalty can be avoided… -
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Louisiana Passes Amendment Saying There Is No Constitutional Right to Abortion
Louisiana voters passed an amendment to the state constitution Tuesday evening establishing that there is no constitutional right to an abortion. The New York Times reported that 62% of Louisiana voters supported Amendment 1, “Love Life Amendment,” an amendment stating that nothing in the Louisiana state constitution protects the right to abortion or abortion funding. Louisiana also has a… -
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Election Night in Review: A Legal Expert Explains What We Know
Results are still rolling in amid what many anticipate to be a contested presidential election. Hans von Spakovsky, manager of The Heritage Foundation’s Election Law Reform Initiative and a senior legal fellow in Heritage’s Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to break down what we know about Tuesday’s election…