Jeffrey H. Anderson
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CBO Misses Its Obamacare Projection by 24 Million People
Three years ago, on the eve of Obamacare’s implementation, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projected that President Obama's centerpiece legislation would result in an average of 201 million people having private health insurance in any given month of 2016. Now that 2016 is here, the CBO says that just 177 million people, on average, will have private health insurance in any given month of… → Read More
The Myth the South Is Ted Cruz's Strongest Region
John Kasich is now 0-for-30 in races outside of his home state of Ohio, and he has managed to finish second in just four of those states. Ted Cruz, meanwhile, has eight wins and thirteen runner-up finishes, not counting the win in his home state of Texas. One would think there would no longer be any debate over which candidate is most capable of consolidating the anti-Donald Trump vote. Yet some… → Read More
Trump Got Only 39 Percent of the Vote Yesterday
Many Republicans likely went to bed last night with Donald Trump dominating in Arizona, on his way to 58 electoral votes there. But on the night, Trump once again failed to get 50 percent of the vote. In fact, based on the 99 percent of precincts that have reported (as of 3:30 PM EST) in Arizona and the 89 percent that have reported in Utah, Trump failed to get even 40 percent of the combined… → Read More
Barone: Kasich Can't Stop Trump (but He Can Keep Cruz from Stopping Trump)
At the Washington Examiner, Michael Barone offers an excellent analysis of why John Kasich’s continued presence in the Republican presidential race enables Donald Trump, even as many Republicans and Republican-leaning pundits try to avoid facing up to this reality. In a piece entitled, Only Ted Cruz Can Stop Donald Trump, Barone writes the following: Can Donald Trump be stopped from winning the… → Read More
The D.C.-N.Y. Corridor's State of Denial
The wide swath of Washington and New York Republicans and Republican-leaning pundits who really don’t want a Ted Cruz or Donald Trump presidency are moving deeper into denial. Their latest fantasy is that John Kasich can still become the GOP nominee. Never mind that Kasich has already been mathematically eliminated in the delegate race; that he has won just 1 of 29 states (his own); and that GOP… → Read More
Taking Stock of the GOP Race
With the March 15 slate of Republican primaries in the books, 29 of the 50 states have now voted. Donald Trump, the leader, not only hasn't won half of the votes to date (and hasn't even won half of the votes in a single state), but he hasn't even won three-eighths of them. Rather, Trump has won 37 percent of the vote, Ted Cruz has won 27 percent, and John Kasich has won 13 percent. (Candidates… → Read More
Trump’s Healthcare Plan: A Boon for the Rich, Medicaid for the Common Man
Donald Trump deserves credit for coming out with a sketch of an Obamacare alternative. Unfortunately, his plan would not rescue us from Obamacare. Instead, it would further balloon the national debt, keep one of the worst parts of Obamacare in place, not encourage people to shop for value, keep health costs artificially high, and apparently expand Medicaid even beyond Obamacare's bloated levels.… → Read More
Last Night's GOP Results
From the perspective of the majority of Republican voters who don’t want Donald Trump to win the party's nomination, last night was a mixed bag. On the one hand, Trump won three out of four states, including by far the biggest one (Michigan), winning all three by double-digits or (in the case of Hawaii) very nearly so. On the other hand, Trump seems to do quite well in states that are least like… → Read More
GOP Delegate and Vote Tallies for 'Super' Week
Amid the incessant talk of Trump “inevitability, voters' verdicts seem to be telling a rather different story. For the week including Super Tuesday and Super Saturday, Donald Trump won 300 delegates (40 percent of the 750 delegates allotted across those 15 states and Puerto Rico), while Ted Cruz won 283 delegates (38 percent). In other words, Cruz won 94 percent as many delegates during Super… → Read More
'Super Saturday' Barnburner: Trump 37.0%, Cruz 37.0%
With 100 percent of the precincts reporting in Saturday’s four GOP presidential contests, Donald Trump and Ted Cruz were separated by only 234 votes (out of a total of 622,579 cast), as Trump got 230,443 votes to Cruz's 230,209. The candidates' respective percentages of the vote on Super Saturday were as follows: Trump, 37.0 percent; Cruz, 37.0 percent; Marco Rubio, 13.7 percent; and John… → Read More
Cruz: 'Obamacare, the Biggest Job-Killer in America'
In Thursday’s Republican presidential debate, Ted Cruz called Obamacare the biggest job-killer in America. Chris Wallace had asked Cruz what he would do to bring manufacturing jobs back to Detroit (the site of the debate) and the rest of the country, and the Texas senator replied, The way you bring manufacturing back to America is, number one, you lift the regulations. As president, I will… → Read More
The State of the Race, Post-Super Tuesday
Fifteen states have now voted in the Republican presidential race, or 30 percent of the total. Those states have accounted for 28 percent of the delegates that will ultimately be awarded nationwide. (They will eventually account for 29 percent, once all of their delegates have been allocated.) So, more than two-thirds of the states have yet to vote, and more than 70 percent of the delegates have… → Read More
Trump Is Winning on Policy
With Super Tuesday now behind us, 15 of the 50 states have voted. If this were the Indianapolis 500, only 150 of the 500 laps would now be completed. Donald Trump has won won a plurality of the vote in 10 of the first 15 states—while Ted Cruz has won a plurality in 4 and Marco Rubio in 1—but the Republican frontrunner hasn't won a majority of the vote in any of them. Moreover, on Super Tuesday,… → Read More
A Big Night for Cruz
In winning Texas by 16 points, winning Oklahoma, winning (as of this writing) Alaska, and finishing second in Alabama, Arkansas, Minnesota, and Tennessee, Ted Cruz has now solidified his grip on second place in the GOP presidential race. He increased his lead over Marco Rubio in states won, votes won, and delegates won—and unless Rubio can win in Florida in two weeks (or John Kasich can win in… → Read More
Trump Vulnerable on Obamacare
Having inexplicably loomed beneath the surface during most of the GOP presidential campaign, has Obamacare now emerged as a major weakness of Donald Trump? The issue's ultimate effect on the Republican frontrunner will largely hinge on whether Ted Cruz decides to release an Obamacare alternative and thereby make the centerpiece of the Obama presidency a central part of the campaign, and whether… → Read More
Trump on the Separation of Powers: Judges Sign Bills
During the last Republican presidential debate in Texas, Donald Trump spoke of his sister, a liberal activist judge who he says would make a “phenomenal Supreme Court justice, and defended her against criticism she has received for signing a certain bill—his words—from the bench. He then said his sister wasn't the only judge who had signed that bill; more than one judge had signed that bill. If… → Read More
New Poll: Trump Leads Rubio by 16 Points--in Florida
A great many people have argued in recent days that Marco Rubio's strategy—of not attacking Donald Trump, playing for second, and hoping the field gets culled—looks like a political loser. A newly released Florida Quinnipiac poll offers further evidence to support this claim. The poll finds that, among likely Republican voters in Rubio's home state of Florida, Trump leads Rubio by 16 points—44… → Read More
Talk of Trump 'Inevitability' Overblown?
The notion of Donald Trump as the Republican presidential nominee, once widely thought to be an impossibility, is now widely being described—in respectable circles, nonetheless—as a near-inevitability. Generally sensible and level-headed people are starting to concoct all sorts of crazy plans to thwart the Trump juggernaut: All but one candidate should voluntarily drop out of the race; Marco… → Read More
How Cruz Could Win
GOP voters are in a fighting mood. They aren't much interested in business-as-usual, political niceties, or even conservative purity. They want someone who will take it to Washington—someone who will go there and fight for change. Unfortunately for the rest of the Republican field, the candidate who voters overwhelmingly think will bring change to Washington is Donald Trump. South Carolina exit… → Read More
Cruz: 'We Are the Only Campaign That Has Beaten
In his speech following the South Carolina Republican primary, Ted Cruz said that “we are the only campaign that has beaten, and can beat, Donald Trump. The second part of that (the can beat part) is certainly debatable—Marco Rubio would beg to differ, and perhaps neither one of them can beat Trump—but Cruz has a point in focusing attention on the results to date. Since 1980, no eventual GOP… → Read More