Carly Fiorina shot into second place in the Republican presidential field on the heels of another strong debate performance, and Donald Trump has lost some support, a new national CNN/ORC poll shows. CONT. Eric Bradner, CNN Read more »
The De-Reaganization of the Republican Party
… The dissonance between the Republican Party’s pious exaltation of Reagan the man and its break with much of his policy record is established enough that last year the Amazon show “Alpha House” built an episode around it, in which a Reagan impersonator shows up at a Republican retreat, recites […] Read more »
You can blame CNN (and the news media) if childhood vaccinations go down
There were a lot of half-truths and out-right falsehoods peddled at CNN’s Republican debate Wednesday night, but perhaps the most damaging among them was the assertion by Donald Trump that childhood vaccinations cause autism, and others’ skepticism about the safety of the vaccine schedule set out by the American Academy […] Read more »
What is the American public thinking?
… Unfortunately, the polls have been betraying us of late. They keep telling us things that can’t possibly be true. … Let’s find new research methods that will give us more, um, nuanced answers to the question of what the American public thinks. One such idea is to treat the […] Read more »
Debate Reveals a GOP In Search of Direction
That sound reverberating from the Ronald Reagan presidential library was the crash of conservative icons crumbling as 15 Republican contenders tussled over the party’s current identity and future direction in two revealing debates Wednesday night. Only Reagan seemed entirely immune from attack. CONT. Ronald Brownstein, National Journal Read more »
Carly Fiorina Gets a Lift From Iowans After Debate
Carly Fiorina hit a walk-off homer, helium is leaking from Ben Carson’s balloon and Scott Walker’s candidacy is on life support, according to the Republicans in Iowa who will cast the first votes of the nominating contest in less than five months. Oh, and Donald J. Trump is still Donald […] Read more »