ABC – Gary Langer: This was so off-the-charts wrong. All of these polls. I think there were a couple of exceptions, but all the big-time polls, as you know, had it Obama up by five to ten, some cases 12 points. Now, they got the Republican race fairly close, but they really blew the Democrat […]

The November elections will not be a referendum on Iraq. The growing stability there — thanks to the troop surge that Democrats fought tooth and nail — slammed that door in their faces. Identity politics (woman, minority, religion, etc.) won’t decide the election, either. Ultimately, the politics of personality will give way to the issues […]

New Year’s Eve, the Gallup poll released its annual survey on Americans and the level of satisfaction with their personal lives. Eighty-four percent of Americans say that they are satisfied with their personal lives at this time, including a solid majority who say they are very satisfied. The personal satisfaction level contrasts sharply, though, with […]

You have to know, as I do, how to parse the words of Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton and their advisors. There’s a story in the New York Sun by Josh Gerstein: “2,600 Pages of Clinton Records Withheld — The National Archives is withholding from the public about 2,600 pages of records at President Clinton’s […]

Let’s draw some analogies, shall we? Terrorism is spreading, just as communism did. They’re not spreading exactly the same way, but Islamofascism is on the move just as the communists were, in Africa, in Asia, in Iran (which is a non-Arab state), in the Philippines, and within our own country — and I think, actually, […]