Solid wins in the New York primaries by Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump gave both of their campaigns much needed boosts. Trump beat his two rivals convincingly, with a broad support across a range of demographic groups of Republican primary voters. Clinton beat Bernie Sanders by combining strong support among […] Read more »
NY Exit Poll: Victories in the Empire State Put Front-runners Back on Track
Front-runners Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton both coasted to victory in Tuesday’s New York presidential primary, dealing a severe blow to challengers’ efforts to blunt their momentum toward winning their parties’ nominations. According to the NBC Exit Poll, both Clinton and Trump assembled their comfortable wins by maintaining their support […] Read more »
Trump, Clinton Score At-Home Wins, Yet Challenges Stay Evident for Both
Hillary Clinton’s resume, her position on gun policy, her support from women and New York Democrats’ racial and ethnic diversity all boosted her to victory in the state’s presidential primary, while Donald Trump’s home-state advantage gave him record margins overall and across a range of Republican voter groups. CONT. Gary […] Read more »
Betrayal is at the heart of U.S. politics
A powerful sense of betrayal is driving the 2016 campaign. The Donald Trump campaign has always been angry. We are now beginning to see the same anger in the Bernie Sanders campaign. No candidate left in the race is echoing Barack Obama’s 2008 message of hope and optimism. Senator Marco […] Read more »
There Is No Bernie Sanders Movement
… It feels true that Bernie Sanders has sparked a new movement of the left—a flowering of youthful energy that will transform American politics, or at least pull the Democratic Party to the social democratic left where it belongs. But it’s not. There’s no question the Vermont senator has performed […] Read more »
Why Sanders Does Better With Independents
… So why is Sanders doing so well among independents? It appears to be driven not by their ideology so much as their dislike of partisan politics. And that has implications for Sanders’s prospects in the upcoming primaries in New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Maryland, all of which are closed […] Read more »