Two of the nation’s best pollsters have recently weighed in on the state of the Iowa Democratic race, with very different results. One subtle methodological choice might explain part of the difference, and on balance there is reason to think Bernie Sanders might be a bit stronger in one of […] Read more »
Biden Leads Democratic Race But Loses Electability Edge Vs. President Trump: IBD/TIPP
Former Vice President Joe Biden holds a steady, though hardly comfortable lead in the Democratic nomination battle, the January IBD/TIPP Poll finds. Yet Biden’s biggest selling point since he entered the race — his electability vs. President Donald Trump — is at its lowest ebb of the 2020 election. Meanwhile, […] Read more »
Tuesday’s Democratic debate is a battle for heads, not hearts
The dynamics of the Democratic presidential race are about to change. Tuesday’s debate in Des Moines will be the grand opening of a new set of conflicts and the launch of renewed efforts by candidates not named Joe Biden or Bernie Sanders to make 2020 something other than a lightly […] Read more »
Iowa poll: Likely Democratic caucusgoers are fired up by the election but also exhausted by politics
Majorities of likely Democratic caucusgoers say they’re optimistic, fired up, feminists and … exhausted by politics. A new poll from CNN/Des Moines Register/Mediacom finds fewer soon-to-be caucus attendees consider themselves socialists than capitalists, and almost a quarter are regular Twitter users. CONT. Grace Sparks, CNN Read more »
Elizabeth Warren’s Biggest Idea
… Clinton and, even more so, Obama, were successful presidents. Yet their administrations were still hindered by a certain naïveté. Officials sometimes tried to perfect policy design while proudly ignoring political impact, as if the two could be separated in a democracy. Republicans don’t suffer from this naïveté. Again and […] Read more »
If Joe Biden wins Iowa, ‘he’s off to the races’
FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver shares his big takeaways from the FiveThirtyEight Democratic primary forecast. This Week, ABC News Read more »