Watching coverage of the Clinton campaign, one longtime Democratic strategist told me, is like watching someone getting pecked by ducks. One day it’s another revelation about the murky Clinton Global Foundation finances (peck). The next day, it’s news that the former Secretary of State’s previously private emails will be publicly […] Read more »
Echoes of Iraq war sound in 2016 presidential race
Every war casts a long shadow, from the heroism of the Greatest Generation to the dark ambiguities of Vietnam. It was inevitable, then, that the 2016 presidential candidates would be confronted with the war in Iraq. Twelve years on, the broad questions raised by the invasion — about trust in […] Read more »
Republicans want to make Iraq a winning issue in 2016 — and it just might work
Republican presidential hopefuls are actively angling to turn Iraq — an unpopular war that sent George W. Bush’s approval ratings to record lows — into a winning issue for their party in 2016. And there’s reason to believe it just might work. While the Iraq war continues to be unpopular, […] Read more »
How To Run Unopposed And Alienate Swing Voters
With every national poll of Democratic primary voters reporting at least 50-point leads against any other probable or improbable Democratic candidate, it is hard to see how Hillary Rodham Clinton will not be crowned the Democratic nominee. And, the Democratic primary voter data from the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal […] Read more »
Republicans’ Early Views of GOP Field More Positive Than in 2012, 2008 Campaigns
From the start, the Republican presidential field for 2016 has been much more crowded than the Democratic field. But voters in each party have similar views of the quality of their party’s candidates. CONT. Pew Read more »
Hillary Clinton May Not Need a Second Chance to Make a First Impression
… Not since Richard M. Nixon mounted a comeback in 1968, historians and pollsters say, has a candidate entered a presidential contest with so low a bar for name recognition or so high a bar for changing voters’ opinions. CONT. Amy Chozick, New York Times Recent polls: Hillary Clinton Read more »