HotAir Daily Express poll of NH independents: Kasich rising into 2nd-place tie; Christie, Rubio fading

WBUR poll of NH independents: Kasich rising into 2nd-place tie; Christie, Rubio fading 1/21/2016 8:41:30 AM  Ed Morrissey 12 Comments Six weeks ago, the WBUR poll of all likely Republican primary voters had Donald Trump leading with 27% and Chris Christie charging into second place with 12%. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz stayed hot on Christie’s trail in double digits. John Kasich was More... With Hillary slipping in the polls, DNC suddenly thinks another debate is a good idea 1/21/2016 8:01:28 AM  Jazz Shaw 41 Comments One of the larger embarrassments for the Democrats this year has been DNC chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz’s stubborn insistence that there would only be a few debates before the voting begins and they would be held on weekends when nobody was More... Quotes of the day 1/20/2016 10:41:41 PM  Allahpundit 327 Comments Donald Trump tells TODAY’s Savannah Guthrie he hasn’t discussed the possibility of Sarah Palin being his running mate — but there “certainly would be a role somewhere in the administration” for her if he was elected. “I More... ICYMI: Chicago started 2016 with over 100 people shot in the first ten days 1/20/2016 10:01:38 PM  Matt Vespa 37 Comments I wrote a while back about bloody weekends becoming the new normal for Chicago. It seems like weekend after weekend, especially ones including holidays, the Windy City becomes the gun violence-riddled dystopia President Obama and other anti-gunners harp More... Bob Dole: Bob Dole sees "cataclysmic" losses this year if Ted Cruz beats Donald Trump 1/20/2016 9:21:14 PM  Allahpundit 246 Comments At some point during the past week I entered a Twilight Zone episode where constitutional conservative Sarah Palin thinks Donald Trump is the future of America and elder statesmen Bob Dole thinks Ted Cruz, more so than the third-party-flirting former More... Good news: Pelosi says she's not for abortion on demand 1/20/2016 8:41:06 PM  Matt Vespa 34 Comments Roll Call's Melinda Henneberger was able to get something out of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA): the California congresswoman isn't for abortion on demand. Yet, it's a piece of Bizarro Theater that captures how abortion has become the lynchpin More... Palin on Trump: Our vets demand a commander-in-chief who'll respect what our forces go through 1/20/2016 8:01:02 PM  Allahpundit 624 Comments Via the Blaze, I was going to write a post about her blaming PTSD — and Obama — for her son’s domestic violence arrest but I can’t get past the first line of the clip below. The candidate who’ll respect what our veterans go More... Jim Geraghty declares death of Tea Party movement 1/20/2016 7:21:41 PM  Taylor Millard 85 Comments Jim Geraghty is wondering if the Tea Party movement is dead. The pithy National Review columnist opines four theories about what happened to the movement ever since it started making waves in 2009, especially in light of Sarah Palin’s endorsement More... Top progressive billionaire still not sold on Hillary 1/20/2016 6:41:25 PM  Ed Morrissey 21 Comments Tom Steyer may be feeling the Bern in 2016. But will Bernie feel the billionaire? Reuters has an exclusive interview with the man who rented out the Senate for a night from Harry Reid about his strategy in the 2016 election, and Steyer says Hillary More... Smart power: Pentagon ordered to take action on climate change 1/20/2016 6:01:55 PM  Jazz Shaw 56 Comments Clearly human driven climate change and anthropogenic global warming can not be defeated through political action alone. A challenge this monumental will call for more strident measures. With that in mind, the Obama administration has apparently decided More... Now the GOP is secretly working to elect Bernie Sanders 1/20/2016 5:21:58 PM  Jazz Shaw 74 Comments There are obviously no depths to which the evil Republicans will not sink in the name of winning an election. Forget about vote rigging or massive advertising buys… now we’re apparently working to elect Bernie Sanders. (Yahoo News) Some of More... Florida poll: Trump 48, Cruz 16, Rubio 11, Bush 10; Update: Trump up 20 in new NH poll 1/20/2016 4:41:07 PM  Allahpundit 374 Comments Lotta hype for this poll among Trumpers today. I don’t know what to tell you, Rubio fans. The best spin is the obvious spin: A million things are going to happen between now and March 15th, when Florida votes, so it’s not even worth worrying More... Top SJW spokesman wants to know why Bernie Sanders doesn't favor reparations for slavery 1/20/2016 4:01:14 PM  Jazz Shaw 202 Comments We’ve spoken about Ta-nehisi Coates a few times previously. Widely considered to be the voice of the Social Justice Warriors, the author of Between the World and Me seems to be the go-to philosopher of everyone from the Black Lives Matter movement More... John Kasich: I'm the prince of light and hope in this race, you know 1/20/2016 3:21:22 PM  Allahpundit 87 Comments What is with this guy constantly congratulating himself for his own supposed virtue? In Ohio, he tells critics of his Medicaid expansion that St. Peter will want a word with them at the pearly gates. Two months ago, he went on Hugh Hewitt’s program More... Great news: nearly half of all aliens left the US last year after their visas expired 1/20/2016 2:41:32 PM  Jazz Shaw 69 Comments While it would be nice to get our borders under control and stem the tide of people who take the rather direct route into our country of jumping fences, such a move doesn’t do anything to address the question of people who obtain a visa to visit More... Trump: Let's face it, Ted Cruz trying to hide his Goldman Sachs loan is worse than Hillary 1/20/2016 2:01:55 PM  Allahpundit 420 Comments What a strange soundbite for a Republican frontrunner, suggesting that his famously crooked would-be Democratic opponent has more integrity than the most conservative candidate in the race. Gosh, I don’t think even Mitch McConnell would say that. More... Sarah Palin's decision to let populism trump principle is a fatal flaw 1/20/2016 1:21:02 PM  Taylor Millard 207 Comments Sarah Palin is no fool when it comes to playing to her audience and getting conservatives and libertarians riled up. There’s no doubt Palin is someone who loves her country, and believes in freedom and liberty, free markets, and smaller government. More... Trump ups the ante in Iowa, calls for more ethanol blending in gas 1/20/2016 12:41:53 PM  Jazz Shaw 284 Comments We must be getting close to a very tight finish in the Iowa caucuses less than two weeks from now. How can you tell? Donald Trump decided to step up to the plate and double down on ethanol mandates, calling for the government for force even higher levels More... Massachusetts Obamacare co-op struggling to stay afloat 1/20/2016 12:01:20 PM  Kristina Ribali 45 Comments It’s like Groundhog’s day in the world of Obamacare co-ops. I’ve reported several times here at HotAir and elsewhere about the struggles Obamacare CO-OPs-ops and state exchanges are facing in the real world, and the latest news out of More... Rubio responds to atheist questioner: "I think you should hope my faith influences me" 1/20/2016 11:21:10 AM  Allahpundit 111 Comments Lots of praise for this clip from conservative writers over the past 48 hours. David French calls it a rare profound moment on the trail; the headline for Stephen Kruiser’s piece at PJM describes it as possibly the best answer ever given by a More... Team Hillary: Inspector General is part of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy, or something; Update: Obama appointee 1/20/2016 10:41:50 AM  Ed Morrissey 133 Comments So much for Hillary Clinton’s “no classified information sent or received” excuse, eh? As noted yesterday, intelligence Inspector General Charles McCullough has informed Senate intelligence and foreign affairs committees that several More... El Chapo found with Fast and Furious .50 caliber as exec-privilege claim quashed 1/20/2016 10:01:21 AM  Ed Morrissey 94 Comments Remember Operation Fast and Furious? The scandal over the ATF’s botched straw-man sting has long hung over the Department of Justice and the Obama administration, thanks in large part to a bogus claim of executive privilege over the communications More... Hard times for jihadists: ISIS orders 50% pay cut for fighters 1/20/2016 9:21:43 AM  Jazz Shaw 55 Comments And you thought the economic recovery in the United States was dodgy. Times are tough all over and wages are declining. That’s apparently not only true in North America and Europe, but the same woes are creating hard times in the terrorism More... Palin's endorsement fails to excite Trump rallygoers Cruz: The establishment has abandoned Rubio for Trump New Hampshire: Trump 26, Kasich 15, Cruz 15, Bush 10, Rubio 7 British inquiry: Putin probably approved the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko America 2016: Burn it all down What Palin does for Trump, and to Cruz Almost everything Trump says about trade with China is wrong Welcome to the world where everyone's right — or a villain Can Hillary take "13 Hours" of truth? Trump is the price we pay for Sarah Palin