The Democrats can use all the assets they can find as they approach a midterm election that grows increasingly challenging. The polls are daunting. The electoral map for both the Senate and House is unfavorable. And history is rarely kind to the president’s party in midterm voting. But the Democrats […] Read more »
Clintons Score in Popularity; Karl Rove, Not so Much
Hillary Clinton and her ex-president husband win substantial popularity in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll. Republican strategist Karl Rove, not so much. Fifty-five percent of Americans say they’d support Clinton running for president in 2016. More, 63 percent, express a favorable opinion of Bill Clinton, the second-highest popularity rating […] Read more »
Why Republicans should just leave the Monica Lewinsky story alone
Monica Lewinsky is back! … Dig even slightly below the surface of the Lewinsky issue and you quickly see that Republicans would do well to stay as far away from it as possible. Let’s first look at this Pew chart documenting Hillary Clinton’s approval ratings from the time she became […] Read more »
Bill Clinton Is the Best Friend Democrats Have for 2014
If Democrats can’t get Pope Francis to come and campaign with them ahead of this year’s midterm elections, they’re at least already trotting out the next best thing: Bill Clinton. It may seem like the former president has been weighing Democrats down as of late, with Republicans like Sen. Rand […] Read more »
Can Obama raise his job-approval ratings enough for a political recovery?
Here’s a surprisingly complex question: Can President Obama recover, politically speaking? And if so, what would that recovery look like? The president is mired in the worst extended polling dip of his five years in office, dragged down by a series of scandals (National Security Agency spying, IRS targeting) and […] Read more »
Chris Christie’s Midterm Marker
Probably no election this year has been more important to the presidential politics of 2016 than Republican Gov. Chris Christie’s landslide 60% reelection victory in Democratic-leaning New Jersey. It cemented his place in the front ranks of Republican presidential contenders by demonstrating his vote-getting appeal to constituencies that the GOP […] Read more »