… Cruz and Kasich would be odd bedfellows within today’s GOP. But the truth is, if they want to thwart Trump, their only hope may be to coordinate a last-ditch, two-front assault on the front-runner. If they don’t start divvying up turf, Trump is much more likely to prevail on […] Read more »
CNN/ORC poll: Clinton tops Trump on presidential traits
If Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, the respective front-runners in the race for the Democratic and Republican nominations for president, wind up leading their respective parties into the general, voters nationwide think Clinton would most likely win in the November election, according to a new CNN/ORC Poll. CONT. Jennifer Agiesta, […] Read more »
Jerusalem, Jews and the Presidential Candidates
… Jerusalem is a city with immense significance for all sides in the Middle East conflict, and the idea of the U.S. recognizing it as the capital of Israel and ratifying that with a move of the embassy would have great significance in that region. But, the issue is not […] Read more »
Assessing Trump’s Path to 1,237
About a month ago, after Donald Trump won the South Carolina primary and all of its delegates, we headlined a piece “The Hour is Growing Late to Stop Trump.” Well, the hour has grown later, and we have to ask the question: Has Trump been stopped? Certainly not. And a […] Read more »
Republicans in Bloomberg Poll Not Sold on Plan to Stop Trump
The most committed Republican voters aren’t rallying behind efforts to deny Donald Trump the party’s nomination at their national convention in July, but he still faces an uphill climb after that. A Bloomberg Politics national poll shows 63 percent of those who have voted in this year’s Republican primaries and […] Read more »
Is There a Health Care Vote? More for Democrats and Women than Other Groups
Health care is one of many issues that will be important for voters in the presidential election, particularly for Democrats and women, finds the March Kaiser Health Tracking Poll. More than a third (36%) of voters consider health care “extremely important” to their vote in this year’s presidential election, ranking […] Read more »