Clintons Score in Popularity; Karl Rove, Not so Much

Hillary Clinton and her ex-president husband win substantial popularity in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll. Republican strategist Karl Rove, not so much. Fifty-five percent of Americans say they’d support Clinton running for president in 2016. More, 63 percent, express a favorable opinion of Bill Clinton, the second-highest popularity rating […] Read more »

Iowa activists provide early perceptions of potential Hillary Clinton presidential bid

… No state frustrated Clinton more during her 2008 campaign than Iowa, which launched Obama, then an Illinois senator, and dealt her a demoralizing setback with her third-place finish in the nation’s first caucuses. Today, Iowa activists see her through a new lens. Democrats, including those who backed Obama in […] Read more »

Republicans Replay 1998 on Benghazi

… It’s 1998, and House Republicans have moved to charge President Bill Clinton with an impeachable high crime for lying about sex. Parties that don’t control the White House invariably gain in midterm elections. But the anti-Clinton drive energized Democrats. That year, Republicans failed to gain congressional seats in a […] Read more »