Donald Trump may say he loves Latino voters, but Latino voters are not loving him back, according to a new poll. Any Democratic presidential candidate would resoundingly carry the Latino vote over the current Republican front-runner if the 2016 election were held today, according to the latest MSNBC/Telemundo/Marist poll released […] Read more »
Sanders, Corbyn and the coming debate inside the Democratic Party
The election of Jeremy Corbyn, the left-wing backbencher, as the new leader of the British Labour Party raises the inevitable question: Can it happen here? Can Bernie Sanders, the independent socialist senator from Vermont, capture the heart and soul of the Democratic Party? The immediate answer is, not likely. He […] Read more »
The Democrats’ Distress
… Clinton’s 2015 started out looking so promising. Her second shot at the Democratic presidential nomination was as clean as nonincumbents ever get. The feeling that she had a good chance of winning the general election was consoling even to Democrats who weren’t her biggest fans. Now, Democrats are getting […] Read more »
Clinton’s lead over Sanders shrinks as her edge over GOP vanishes
Hillary Clinton’s lead in the race for the Democratic nomination has fallen to just 10 points, and at the same time, her advantage in hypothetical general election matchups against the top Republican contenders has vanished, a new CNN/ORC poll has found. CONT. Jennifer Agiesta, CNN Read more »
In An Era Of Trump, Do Campaign Fundamentals Matter?
At this point, it feels like we are in some kind of an alternative universe election where up is down, black is white and east is west. … Should we throw out all we know (or thought we knew) about politics? Do the so-called fundamentals we’ve all taken as political […] Read more »
Why a key to the 2016 Southern vote lies centuries ago on another continent
… Democratic candidates, who used to campaign aggressively in the heavily Scots-Irish rural communities of Appalachia, have shifted their attention to liberal whites and ethnic minorities, as Barack Obama did in 2008 and 2012. Now, as she builds her 2016 campaign, Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton appears to be focusing […] Read more »