Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders would handily defeat Donald Trump in a general election match-up, while a clash between Clinton and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz or Florida Sen. Marco Rubio would be a toss-up, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. CONT. Carrie Dann, NBC News Read more »
Trump’s Calling Cards Win the Day, While for Clinton … It’s Complicated
Donald Trump’s now-familiar calling cards won the day for him in Michigan and Mississippi, but with some results that marked his continued challenges trying to morph from a plurality candidate into one who can command a majority in his party. Hillary Clinton, for her part, swept through Mississippi but stumbled […] Read more »
5 numbers that explain Tuesday’s election results
… Going in to Tuesday, public surveys showed Clinton with a prohibitive lead over Sanders in Michigan’s Democratic presidential primary. … Polls appear to have underestimated the number of Republicans and independents who crossed over to back Sanders. According to exit polls, only 69 percent of Democratic primary voters identified […] Read more »
What The Stunning Bernie Sanders Win In Michigan Means
Bernie Sanders made folks like me eat a stack of humble pie on Tuesday night. He won the Michigan primary over Hillary Clinton, 50 percent to 48 percent, when not a single poll taken over the last month had Clinton leading by less than 5 percentage points. In fact, many […] Read more »
Message and meaning
Leadership consists, in important measure, of creating identities, defining situations, interpreting realities and explaining what’s happening to people in terms that followers understand and can relate to. Charismatic leadership emerges when the stakes are high, when a sense of crisis pervades the public, when uncontrollable and dislocating change hangs in […] Read more »
NBC News/WSJ Poll: Clinton Up Nine Over Sanders Nationally
Hillary Clinton holds a nine-point national lead over Bernie Sanders ahead of Tuesday’s primaries in Mississippi and Michigan, according to results from a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. CONT. Mark Murray, NBC News Read more »