Donald Trump returns to the campaign trail from Scotland this week contending with sweeping unease about his candidacy as a large majority of Americans register their disapproval and see the Republican Party’s presumptive presidential nominee as discriminatory and unqualified, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. Following a month […] Read more »
Clinton Opens 12-Point Lead on Trump as Two-Thirds See Him as Biased
Hillary Clinton surged to a broad advantage against Donald Trump in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, capitalizing on Trump’s recent campaign missteps. Two-thirds of Americans see him as biased against groups such as women, minorities or Muslims, and a new high, 64 percent, call Trump unqualified to serve as […] Read more »
NBC/WSJ Poll: Clinton Leads Trump By 5 Points
Democrat Hillary Clinton holds a five-point advantage over Republican Donald Trump after becoming her party’s presumptive presidential nominee, according to the latest national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. CONT. Mark Murray, NBC News Read more »
Democrats see danger signs in states where Clinton has not fully engaged
… In Michigan, Pennsylvania and, to a lesser extent, Wisconsin, an affinity for Trump’s message of economic populism and nationalism has surprised many Democrats. These are big, industrial states they have carried for the past three decades — and where Clinton, so far, has not fully focused. … Particularly striking […] Read more »
Are Pennsylvania voters ready for a woman president?
Is America really ready to elect a woman president? Polls strongly suggest yes. By 1999, Gallup found that 92 percent of Americans were willing to vote for a well-qualified woman for president. But the reality may be far more complicated. And in suburban Pittsburgh this week, a focus group of […] Read more »
Going Dirty
… Once again, the nation seems to be marching toward another brutally nasty presidential campaign, with Mr. Trump leading the parade. But in a year when so many staples of American politics have faltered — television advertisements, polling, big-ticket endorsements, to name a few — will the negative campaign, whether […] Read more »