The most effective presidential candidates are able both to energize their base and persuade the political middle. Barack Obama, Ronald Reagan and F.D.R. all did so. They managed to seem exciting to their party and yet also comfortable for swing voters. Senator Kamala Harris has the potential to pull off […] Read more »
‘The more voters see of Warren, the more they like her’: Nate Silver on third debate
FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver looks at what new polling results reveal about the third Democratic debate. This Week, ABC News Read more »
Democrats wary of litmus tests inch back from the cliff on their left
At the outset of the presidential campaign, Democratic Party elders worried about an epidemic sweeping from one primary state to the next: a sudden plague of litmus tests. … That set off alarms for operatives focused on winning the nomination and the election next year. President Trump already is casting […] Read more »
Don’t vote? The Trump campaign would like a word with you
… Less than 14 months before Election Day, the president’s team is banking his reelection hopes on identifying and bringing to the polls hundreds of thousands of Trump supporters … people in closely contested states who didn’t vote in 2016. The campaign is betting that it may be easier to […] Read more »
The Houston debate changed few minds but may have opened a few
Everything you need to know about the Democratic debate in Houston is the fact that there isn’t much agreement on exactly what happened. The debate on Thursday was either punctuated by personal attacks and sharp ideological exchanges or marked by expressions of Democratic unity and camaraderie among the 10 candidates. […] Read more »
Warren and Sanders say Americans don’t like their health insurance. Polls don’t back that up.
A new Kaiser Family Foundation poll finds that when it comes to expanding coverage and lowering health care costs 55% of Democrats and Democratic leaning independents prefer to vote for a candidate who does so by building on the Affordable Care Act. Only 40% want do so by voting for […] Read more »