Donald Trump’s supporters have taken up the claim that polls are rigged in favor of Hillary Clinton because they “oversample” Democrats. The charge is based on emails published by Wikileaks, in which the 2008 Clinton campaign considers oversampling Hispanic and Native American voters. Micah Cohen of FiveThirtyEight says the claim […] Read more »
Clinton’s Lead Narrows, Wider Majority Expects Her to Win
Presidential preferences have narrowed in the ABC News/Washington Post tracking poll — but not expectations of the outcome. Fifty-nine percent of likely voters polled say they expect Hillary Clinton to win the election, essentially the same was it was in early September. … Results on vote fraud show how this […] Read more »
As Donald Trump drops in polls: The polls are ‘absolutely’ rigged
The election is no longer the only thing Donald Trump is calling “rigged”—he’s coming for the polls, too. “I have no doubt about it,” he told Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly when asked whether he believed the polls were “rigged.” … “I’m winning in certain polls and then in other polls, […] Read more »
An Historical Rarity: A Four-Party Presidential Election
There is no doubt that this is a high stakes election. It is not Tweedledum and Tweedledee, as former Alabama Gov. George Wallace famously said of the major parties when he ran as a third-party candidate nearly a half century ago. Almost everyone nowadays agrees that a Donald Trump presidency […] Read more »
Clinton nearly doubles lead over Trump in latest CNBC survey
With only a dozen days to go before the election, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton has ratcheted up her lead over Republican nominee Donald Trump to 9 points, according to the latest CNBC All-America Economic Survey, nearly doubling her advantage from the last poll. … The poll appears to tell a […] Read more »
As Election Nears, Voters Divided Over Democracy and ‘Respect’
As the presidential campaign enters its final days, opinions about American democracy and the candidates’ respect for democratic institutions – as well their respect for women, minorities and other groups in society– have emerged as political flashpoints. Donald Trump is widely seen as having little or no respect for Muslims, […] Read more »