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Bernie Sanders has a sizable lead over Hillary Clinton in Vermont, with a 63-29% advantage. It is not so much that Sanders has a big lead, but it seems as though a majority of the state has coalesced around him. Since it is Sanders’ home state, there is a very good chance his high level of support will lead him to winning most of the 26 delegates available from Vermont Hillary Clinton probably will almost definitely have enough support in the state to take some delegates, seemingly meeting the 15% threshold with ease. Since Vermont allocates pledged delegates proportionally, Sanders...

It is no secret that the mainstream media might as well be on the DNC’s payroll. Major scandals involving Democrats go unremarked. When they are remarked upon, often the political affiliation is buried deep in the story if mentioned at all. I’m not talking only about the editorial pages, the devotion of the media to Democrats infests the actual news gathering function of newspapers, magazines, and online media. One of the most pernicious things to be contrived by the media is the “fact checking” charade. It started out with a simple premise: the media would check statements made by various...

Virginia GOP'ers returned fire over the state Democrat Attorney General Mark Herring's move to halt recognition of concealed carry permits from 25 different states. Our General Assembly has already identified who can and cannot conceal handguns in Virginia, and we cannot have that decision undermined by recognizing permits from other states with more permissive standards, Herring said when he made the announcement last week. Republican state legislators could strip Virginia Democrat Governor Terry McAuliffe of his protective detail. Virginia Sen. Bill Carrico told The Herald Courier last Tuesday he plans to propose a budget amendment during the State Senate's January...

Shocker! Gallup finds that 69 percent of Americans view big government as the biggest threat in the future. The figure is slightly down from 2013, where it stood at 72 percent. For those “Feeling the Bern,” we regret to inform you that only 25 percent feel that big business is a threat, followed by big labor at six percent. Another interesting aspect is the number of Democrats and Independent voters who also feel big government is a problem. Of course, almost every Republican–88 percent–agrees that big government poses the biggest threat to the country. But 53 percent of Democrats feel...

Billionaire Donald Trump remains the top choice for South Carolinians and Georgians likely to vote in the Republican primary, capturing 28 and 35 percent, respectively, according to results of an Opinion Savvy poll. People were asked which candidate they would support out of 13 candidates running in the primary to determine the Republican presidential nominee. When the choices were limited to only five candidates, 32 percent chose Trump in the South Carolina poll, while 40 percent selected Trump in Georgia. The two states parted ways on their No. 2 choice, however. U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz came in second in the...

While Wilson has a complicated legacy that includes genuine accomplishments, his record in the District is unambiguously negative. In a diverse area with a rich black history, we should not have the name of an unabashed white supremacist atop one of the District’s few public high schools. When Wilson arrived in 1913, he found that the District offered black people more opportunities than anywhere else in the South. It may not have been “the colored man’s paradise,” as some contemporaries claimed, but the District had the nation’s largest black community — about 95,000 people, nearly 30 percent of the city’s...

After insisting that enough damage had been done and swearing off future insults toward Jeb Bush, Donald Trump on Friday returned to badgering his favorite presidential foe. In the fallout of CNN's Republican debate in Las Vegas, Trump has once again taken up needling the former Florida governor. Bush, eager to energize his sagging campaign, brought the fight to Trump on the debate stage, repeatedly talking over the billionaire as the pair tangled. "I have an idea for @JebBush whose campaign is a disaster. Try using your last name & don't be ashamed of it!" he tweeted Friday. I have...

We'll kick off the weekend with the latest Fox News poll of the Republican primary race. And yes, let's all say it together right at the top: National Polls Don't Mean Anything. (Or so we are assured every time one of these pops up if we don't like the result.) According to the standard rules of engagement, business mogul Donald Trump has done just about everything "wrong" that someone could possibly do when seeking national office. And each time he's accused of doing the aforementioned wrong things, he simply doubles down on them. So how's that working out? One month...

DES MOINES — Donald J. Trump has dominated much of this political season, excited an often-ignored part of the electorate, filled huge arenas with followers and upended the rules of how modern campaigns are run. But now he faces an urgent question: Can he actually win crucial early contest states? Translating a personality-driven campaign to the voting booth is no easy feat, especially for a candidate who has never run before. But here in the state with the first nominating contest, about six weeks away, Mr. Trump has fallen behind in the nuts and bolts of organizing. A loss in...

Presidential candidate Donald Trump is enjoying his largest lead over the GOP field following Tuesday's presidential debate, a new poll finds. The post-debate survey from Public Policy Polling (PPP) released Friday shows the real estate mogul with 34 percent support nationally among GOP voters, up 8 points from a mid-November poll. Trump's favorability has also grown. He's rated at 51 percent favorable, 37 unfavorable; an improvement over his 51-37 split in November. “As the year comes to a close Donald Trump is just getting stronger,” Dean Debnam, president of PPP, said in a statement. “His support for the nomination is...

The Iowa Republican Caucuses are about 6 weeks away and 3 candidates are firmly positioning themselves to be among the handful left standing after Super Tuesday. Donald Trump still maintains a significant lead over Ted Cruz by 5 percentage points (31-26%), while Marco Rubio rounds out the 3 candidates with double digit support at 13%.

Excerpt from the December 15, 2015 CNN main Republican debate in Las Vegas: BLITZER: Mr. Trump, are Americans safer with dictators running the world in the Middle East? TRUMP: In my opinion, we've spent $4 trillion trying to topple various people that frankly, if they were there and if we could've spent that $4 trillion in the United States to fix our roads, our bridges, and all of the other problems; our airports and all of the other problems we've had, we would've been a lot better off. I can tell you that right now. We have done a tremendous...

Republican US presidential front-runner Donald Trump is apparently "honored" that Russian President Vladimir Putin considers the real-estate magnate a "flamboyant" and "very talented" man. "It is always a great honor to be so nicely complimented by a man so highly respected within his own country and beyond," Trump said in a statement, according to Politico. He continued: "I have always felt that Russia and the United States should be able to work well with each other towards defeating terrorism and restoring world peace, not to mention trade and all of the other benefits derived from mutual respect." (full article at...

"You can't be a Trump Republican and a Ronald Reagan Republican." That's the tweet I sent to Jeb Bush the other day, when virtually the entire planet was united in bashing Donald Trump's call for a temporary ban on Muslim immigration to the USA. I also tweeted another obvious truth, "If the Republican Party doesn't dump Donald Trump, the American people will. Trump's outrageous "Muslims Keep Out" plan — apparently his policy answer to last week's terrorist attack in San Bernadino — is an embarrassment to our country and what it stands for. It's also a serious threat to the...

On Wednesday conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh also addressed the POLITICO story, speculating that Trump could seize upon Bush's potential reversal as a reason to go back on his pledge. "Let's say that if Jeb gets out, and if when he gets out he says, 'I'm not gonna support Trump. I will not support him in a Republican Party nomination.' Well, that could give Trump grounds to say, 'Yeah, I've always predicated this on being treated fairly and being supported. If that's gonna happen, then screw you guys,'" Limbaugh said. "I mean, I could see that happening, if Jeb or...

37% of likely Republican Primary voters say that they intend to vote for Donald Trump, a 20 point difference over his nearest competitor. While Trump has traditionally been strong in South Carolina, this is one of his strongest showings yet, coming after his headline-grabbing remarks about keeping Muslims out of the country.

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: George in Raleigh, North Carolina. You're up first, sir. Great to have you. Hi. CALLER: Hey, Rush, good to talk to you again. Rush, I'm a longtime listener. I'm a listener to you for a long time, and I'm normally in full agreement with your opinions. But I'm just one of those people that can't for the life of me understand the allure of Donald Trump. I heard so much intellect on that stage last night. None of it, in my opinion, was coming from Donald Trump. RUSH: Well, I don't think you have heard? In terms...

Real-estate mogul Donald Trump entered a Wednesday-afternoon campaign rally in the most dramatic fashion. The Republican presidential front-runner pulled up in his "Trump Force One," his personal Boeing 757-200 jet with "TRUMP" written in giant letters across the side. The rally, conveniently, was at an airplane hanger in Mesa, Arizona. His plane drove in front of the hangar twice before Trump got out. "So we had three venues," he told his supporters. "The first one too small. The second one too small. The third one too small. We said, 'Does anybody have an airplane hanger?'"

But the billionaire businessman said the majority of the GOP hopefuls were "nice to him," saying he was prepared for all 14 Republican candidates to lob attacks at him. "Ted Cruz was very nice to me, and I was nice to him. Most of the people were nice to me last night." Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Wednesday continued to bash CNN's debate coverage and GOP rival former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush a day after the network's Tuesday night debate. The real estate mogul appeared at his first campaign rally in Mesa, Ariz., since the last GOP debate of...

National Security: At one point in the GOP debate, Jeb Bush said Donald Trump gets his foreign policy information from Sunday talk shows. We're beginning to think Jeb's right, which is a serious problem in today's world.