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Joe Hoft, The Gateway Pundit George W. Bush won 10.8 million votes in the 2000 Republican primary. Donald Trump has won 11.1 million votes so far this year. Donald Trump won Oregon Last Night but Hillary Clinton barely squeaked out a win in Kentucky and lost to Bernie Sanders in Oregon. Kentucky was Hillary’s first primary win
Gateway Pundit | Jim Hoft, Trump continues to outshine all candidates. Donald Trump, after New York, increased his lead against Ted Cruz. Trump also continues to top Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton in the elections to date. Primary and caucus results to date (as of Thursday April 21st) show that Trump continues to outshine all candidates. Charts by Joe
Larry O’Connor, It’s almost like polling agencies purposely choose Monday so news agencies are sure to have things to talk about. Capt. Ed has already broken down the PPP polls for tomorrow’s primary states and I pointed out a new Gallup poll showing how Hillary can barely capture the attention of women in her own
DC Whispers, If it was a GOP candidate who apparently was anyone but Donald Trump, the repeated reports would be indicating him to be the single most dominant Republican candidate for President in a generation. Instead, the media and political establishment mouthpieces even now continue to tell voters Trump might not win the GOP
Donald Trump is not only outperforming Ted Cruz in the election to date, he also outperforms Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders as well. The election results to date (as of Sunday April 17th) show that Trump outshines all the candidates. Donald Trump has: ** More primary wins (17)** More overall state wins (20)** The highest percentage
Alexander Kent, Elections are costly. Candidates, especially those running for president, have to consider how to pay for staff salaries, speaking venues, travel, food, and state election fees, among other things. Fundraising, then, becomes an integral part of political campaigns, and some areas of the country are better equipped to contribute than others. Campaign donations
Speculators boosted bets that gasoline prices will rise on prospects for the most Independence Day traffic in seven years and fighting in the Middle East. Money managers increased net-long positions by 7.6 percent in the week ended June 24, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission data show. Long positions advanced 5.5 percent and shorts fell 0.3
24/7 Wall Street – by Alexander E.M. Hess and Thomas C. Frohlich The United States is currently engulfed in one of the worst droughts in recent memory. More than 30% of the country experienced at least moderate drought as of last week’s data. In seven states drought conditions were so severe that each had more than half of
Confessions of a College Professor Rants and raves about the mess of higher education in the United States. The above map, from here, really demonstrates how completely insane higher education has become. That’s a map of highest paid public employees, by state. State by state, every state, the highest paid public employee is in higher
Erika Johnsen, Last November, Seattle elected a straight-up socialist to their City Council who, among other economic/social-justice aspirations, included the already popular idea of a minimum wage hike to $15/hour in her campaign platform. Evidently, the fact that that is now very likely going to happen in a gradual phase-in over the next few years
A doctor who treats a degenerative eye disease in seniors was paid $21 million by Medicare in 2012, twice the amount received by the next ophthalmologist on a list of 880,000 medical providers released by the government. The data on the payments was given to the public for the first time today by the Centers
Victor Davis Hanson No place on the planet is as beautiful and as naturally rich as California. And few places have become as absurd. Currently, three California state senators are either under felony indictment or already have been convicted. State Sen. Leland Yee (D-San Francisco) made a political career out of demanding harsher state gun-control