Despite Donald Trump’s insistence that he loves “the Hispanics” and “the African-American people” the feeling doesn’t appear to be mutual. The Republican presidential nominee is deeply unpopular with voters of color, 88 percent of whom reported unfavorable views of the New York businessman, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll […] Read more »
November is fast becoming what the GOP fears: A referendum on Trump
The hole that Donald Trump has dug for himself keeps getting deeper. On nearly every front, his position continues to deteriorate. Unless he reverses course, Republicans are heading toward a wrenching week at their convention in Cleveland next month and potentially worse in November. National polls alone provide an incomplete […] Read more »
Trump’s poll ratings in a historic hole
In 2016’s race to the bottom, Donald Trump is going to find out if you can become president when two-thirds of Americans don’t like you — and a majority can’t stand you. Recent polls have showed Trump’s unfavorable rating spiking again, after a brief improvement last month. That’s also coincided […] Read more »
LGBT Voters’ 2016 Political Clout, State by State
This week Donald Trump argued that he was a better candidate for the nation’s gay and lesbian community than his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. The words were remarkable in that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee seemed to be making a play for the LGBT vote, traditionally seen as a core […] Read more »
Voting for the Lesser of Two Evils
… Noted Emory University political scientist Alan Abramowitz has been arguing in recent years that increasing proportions of voters have been casting their ballots against one candidate or party more than for the other, and 2016 could well be the first election with more voters casting negative ballots. Thus the […] Read more »
Measuring the Trump Effect
At the moment, Donald J. Trump casts a long shadow over this once-thriving community, where steel mills, furnaces, bridge works, brickyards, textile plants and boiler shops provided steady jobs for the city’s working and middle classes. … Pottstown, whose retired and laid-off steelworkers, machinists and tool and die makers have […] Read more »