Democratic Debate Review: A Telling Final Question

The news media didn’t take very long Wednesday night to settle on a consensus interpretation of the evening’s Democratic presidential debate. Before the first commercial break had been reached, the conventional wisdom had already swept across Twitter: the evening was a victory for Elizabeth Warren and a defeat for Michael […] Read more »

Sanders Leads The Field, Bloomberg Qualifies For His 1st Debate

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has opened up a double-digit lead in the Democratic nominating contest, according to a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll. Sanders has 31% support nationally, up 9 points since December, the last time the poll asked about Democratic voters’ preferences. His next closest contender has 19%. But that […] Read more »

Bloomberg qualifies for debate, Sanders leads ahead of Nevada caucuses

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is second only to Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., in the latest poll from PBS NewsHour, NPR and Marist, surging ahead of most Democratic rivals among left-leaning voters and essentially guaranteeing him a spot on this week’s presidential debate stage. CONT. Laura Santhanam, PBS […] Read more »

Sanders Won The New Hampshire Vote. So How Did ‘Klobucharge’ Win The Narrative?

In a late night installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, the crew reacted to Sen. Bernie Sanders’s win in the New Hampshire primary. They also looked at the parts of the electorate that powered Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Amy Klobuchar to strong second and third place finishes, respectively, and asked […] Read more »

The primary in New Hampshire came down to the last few hours of the race

… Elections are usually fairly easy to predict. Candidates hold leads for weeks on end and go on to victory. That’s not what happened in New Hampshire. There, a race that had been the focus of attention for months was probably only determined in the last 12 hours before polls […] Read more »