Donald Trump has become the first Republican presidential candidate to top 30% support in the race for the Republican nomination, according to a new CNN/ORC Poll, which finds the businessman pulling well away from the rest of the GOP field. … The new poll finds former neurosurgeon Ben Carson rising […] Read more »
Those Renegade Republicans
Is the Republican Party going rogue? It’s hard to look at the opinion polling in the GOP presidential nomination contest and conclude anything else. As unexpected as many of the developments on the Democratic side have been, it doesn’t hold a candle to what is unfolding among the Republicans. CONT. […] Read more »
What have Bush, Clinton learned from voters’ attraction to the outsiders?
At the beginning of this year, the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania sponsored a focus group in the Denver suburbs composed of a dozen adults — Republicans, Democrats and independents. Looking back almost nine months later, the two-hour discussion proved to be a prescient guide to […] Read more »
Trump’s Image Up Sharply Among Republicans
Donald Trump’s net favorable rating among Republicans increased significantly over the past two weeks, putting him among the top six Republicans overall on this measure. Ted Cruz’s image also improved, while Carly Fiorina’s and Ben Carson’s images remain significantly better than they were before the Aug. 6 debate. John Kasich, […] Read more »
As Trump and Sanders rise, the two major parties fall
Does the 2016 presidential campaign seem chaotic? For good or ill, that’s because it is. The rise of Donald Trump on the right and Bernie Sanders on the left is proof that the country’s two major political parties have lost their grip on the nominating process. They can still provide […] Read more »
Iowa’s Hidden Winners and Losers
Selzer and Co. President J. Ann Selzer and Bloomberg Politics ad and polling analyst Ken Goldstein discuss the results of the latest Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register Iowa Poll on “With All Due Respect.” Bloomberg Politics Read more »