Americans continue to list the economy — in all of its manifestations — as the top problem facing the country today. One might think that the recent prime-time Republican debate would have been a forum with a strong focus on exactly how the candidates — if elected as president — […] Read more »
GOP Debate: Preliminary Data on Who Benefited and Who Didn’t
It has been one week since the Aug. 6 Republican debate, and although this is a very fluid process, some effects of the debate are evident in our tracking of rank-and-file Republicans’ views of the candidates. … It looks like one winner coming out of the debate is former Hewlett-Packard […] Read more »
The GOP’s woman problem goes beyond Trump
After Mitt Romney lost the 2012 presidential election, Republican Party Chairman Reince Priebus commissioned an autopsy to determine what had gone wrong. High on the list: a yawning gender gap. … So Priebus must not be terribly happy that the party’s (temporary) front-runner, Donald Trump, said Fox News anchor Megyn […] Read more »
In Donald Trump’s Success, Lessons for the Apprentices
… Onstage in the debate, Jeb Bush (citing past successes in Florida), John Kasich (citing current successes in Ohio and past successes in Washington), and Marco Rubio (promising future successes) were like ghosts of the Republican Party’s technocratic past, present, and future. But few Republican primary voters are focusing on […] Read more »
NBC News/Survey Monkey Poll: Donald Trump Still In The Lead After Debates
If Donald Trump’s comments about Fox News Anchor Megyn Kelly are hurting his standing in the Republican primary, it’s not showing in the numbers. According to the latest NBC News Online Poll conducted by SurveyMonkey, Trump is at the top of the list of GOP candidates that Republican primary voters […] Read more »
Poll expert explains the limits of polls
Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist Institute of Public Opinion, describes why he’s wary of TV networks using polls to determine debate invitations. Reliable Sources, CNN Read more »