This week has seen one of the inevitable freakouts about Hillary Clinton’s campaign. After all, her polling numbers are dropping (to right around the levels they were at the last time she ran for president), and her main rival for the Democratic nomination, Bernie Sanders, is drawing record crowds at […] Read more »
Why No One Likes The 2016 Presidential Field
The 2016 elections certainly aren’t going to be a popularity contest. In fact, the current crop of White House hopefuls is among the least liked by voters in recent history, with many starting out with very high negative ratings. CONT. Jessica Taylor, NPR News Read more »
Three Reasons to Be Skeptical of the Bernie Sanders Surge
Vermont Sen. and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has had a good summer on the campaign trail. He’s drawing huge crowds at events across the country and a recent New Hampshire primary poll found him leading Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton in the Granite State. But the numbers suggest there are […] Read more »
Hillary Clinton’s Inevitable Problems
… The campaign press more or less openly confesses to a certain type of bias: rooting for the story. Inevitability makes for a really boring story, especially when it involves a figure like Clinton who has been in public life for so long. Instead, the media wants campaigns with lots […] Read more »
Fox News Poll: Shakeup in GOP field after first debate, Sanders gains on Clinton
The explosive first Republican debate has shaken up the 2016 GOP presidential race. Who’s up? Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and businesswoman Carly Fiorina. Who’s down? Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. The Democratic side’s getting more interesting too, […] Read more »
Can Hillary Clinton win the angry voters?
… Skeptical voters, especially white working-class ones, “are open to an expansive Democratic economic agenda — to more benefits for child care and higher education, to tax hikes on the wealthy, to investment in infrastructure spending,” Stanley B. Greenberg, chief pollster for the 1992 Clinton campaign, wrote in a recent […] Read more »