Call Hillary Clinton the early presidential frontrunner – but barely. That’s the result from a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, which finds that half of American voters – 50 percent – saying they could see themselves supporting her if she runs for the White House in 2016, while 48 […] Read more »
Romney, Clinton top 2016 field
Mitt Romney may say he’s not planning to make a third run for the White House, but according to a new CNN/ORC International poll, Republican voters aren’t ready to give up on the idea just yet. CONT. Sara Fischer, CNN Read more »
The Clinton-Warren Binary
… Despite all the talk about a “yearning” for a more liberal candidate from the Democratic base, we see no evidence – at least at this point – that liberals are unhappy with Hillary Clinton. She scored an 88 percent favorable rating among “solid liberals” in Pew’s Typology Poll. Compare […] Read more »
Clinton, despite stratospheric poll numbers, is very likely to face primary opposition
With every passing week, one thing becomes ever clearer: Hillary Rodham Clinton is going to be the Democratic presidential nominee in 2016. This past week’s evidence came in the form of two polls — conducted by NBC and Marist College — of Democratic voters in Iowa and New Hampshire. In […] Read more »
Cuomo, Warren, O’Malley Still Unknown to Many Democrats
Out of a field of five potential 2016 presidential candidates, only Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden are viewed favorably by a majority of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents. The other possible contenders are less well-known to Democrats. In fact, nearly seven in 10 Democrats say they have never heard of Maryland […] Read more »
Disruptive Politics
Back in the mid-1990s, Harvard professor Clayton Christensen coined the phrases “disruptive technology” and “disruptive innovation” to describe certain kinds of game-changing developments in the business world. Now, in politics, we are seeing a variation on that theme. CONT. Charlie Cook Read more »