Damaged by increased doubt about her honesty and empathy, Hillary Clinton has lost a third of her support for the Democratic presidential nomination in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, while non-politicians Donald Trump and Ben Carson have surged on the GOP side, commanding more than half the vote between […] Read more »
Facebook data shows rise of Carson, Sanders
Chuck looks at new data from facebook that matches what we’ve been seeing in our polling: Ben Carson and Bernie Sanders are surging. Meet the Press Read more »
California: Trump and Clinton are leading contenders among their parties’ voters
As Republican candidates vie for the 2016 presidential nomination, Donald Trump is the leading the pack among registered Republican voters in California, according to the latest USC Dornsife/LA Times Poll. When asked to choose from a list of Republican candidates for whom they would vote if the presidential election were […] Read more »
Sanders, Corbyn and the coming debate inside the Democratic Party
The election of Jeremy Corbyn, the left-wing backbencher, as the new leader of the British Labour Party raises the inevitable question: Can it happen here? Can Bernie Sanders, the independent socialist senator from Vermont, capture the heart and soul of the Democratic Party? The immediate answer is, not likely. He […] Read more »
The Democrats’ Distress
… Clinton’s 2015 started out looking so promising. Her second shot at the Democratic presidential nomination was as clean as nonincumbents ever get. The feeling that she had a good chance of winning the general election was consoling even to Democrats who weren’t her biggest fans. Now, Democrats are getting […] Read more »
Clinton’s lead over Sanders shrinks as her edge over GOP vanishes
Hillary Clinton’s lead in the race for the Democratic nomination has fallen to just 10 points, and at the same time, her advantage in hypothetical general election matchups against the top Republican contenders has vanished, a new CNN/ORC poll has found. CONT. Jennifer Agiesta, CNN Read more »