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Last week’s massacre in Colorado properly touched a raw nerve in the body politic. Each death was a tragedy of infinite proportions and each wound brings a world of pain…

I’ve said it before, but it bears repeating with some new data as the Senate considers an anti-outsourcing bill: If there is a mortal sin in this economy, it is…

Over the next 113 days, lots of campaigns will be looking at lots of ads – nearly $10 billion worth, according to some estimates – trying to decide which are…

Fresh Gallup data make it clear that President Obama is hemorrhaging support among white atheists. The president’s vote is down 10 points since 2008 among whites who profess no religion-more…

Accountability matters. There is too little follow-up in this world. When pollsters or presidents, reporters or editors make mistakes, they should be accountable – which in the first instance means…

The latest impressive study of Trends in American Values from the Pew Research Center is filled with frightening findings. It sketches a portrait of a country divided less by issues…

Quick. Thirty-two degrees. Hot or cold? It depends. In Fahrenheit, it’s literally freezing; in Celsius it’s sweltering. One hundred dollars. A lot of money or a little? A veritable fortune…

The Obama campaign’s attacks on Mitt Romney’s tenure at Bain are not attacks on free enterprise, capitalism or even private equity. Capitalism did not require Bain to issue debt that…

Independent should never be confused with accurate. A poll conducted by North Dakota’s Forum of Fargo-Moorhead is likely independent, as its purveyors claim, but fatally, indeed laughably, flawed. First rule…

I hate questions asking whether people are “more or less likely to vote” for a candidate based on some factor. I admit to using them, but rarely, and under some…