Immediately after Saturday night’s Republican debate, CBS News interviewed a nationally representative sample of debate watchers assembled by GfK’s Knowledge Panel who identified themselves as Republicans or independents. Thirty-two percent of these debate watchers say Marco Rubio won the debate, beating out Donald Trump (24 percent) and John Kasich (19 […] Read more »
CBS/YouGov online poll: South Carolina still solidly for Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton
The CBS News Battleground Tracker poll shows that Donald Trump keeps a large lead in South Carolina, bolstered by support from conservatives and also from evangelical voters, who make up a large share of the electorate here. … Hillary Clinton keeps her large lead in South Carolina, which has narrowed […] Read more »
Charlie Cook on the New Hampshire Primary
… Cruz has locked up the conservative lane and Trump has the populist; the establishment/conventional wing of the GOP remains badly splintered. Rubio had a chance to break away from the pack in New Hampshire, but blew it with his performance in the last debate. … Apparently Clinton is about […] Read more »
New Hampshire Takeaways: Trust, Experience and Message Count
More than half a million voters cast ballots in the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday, rewarding Donald J. Trump and Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont with resounding victories, and sending some candidates home to rethink their campaigns. But the results also tell much about the electorate and the challenges the […] Read more »
Trump’s Two Victories in New Hampshire
Donald Trump won twice in New Hampshire last night: once because he transcended many of the Republican Party’s historic divides, and a second time because the voters most resistant to him remained fragmented. With his commanding New Hampshire win, Trump demonstrated again that his maverick appeal has replaced many of […] Read more »
The Republicans: Trump Soars, Rubio Falters
Six months ago, Donald Trump as New Hampshire primary winner was almost unimaginable. Yet here we are: he triumphed, and it wasn’t even close. So much for the Iowa narrative, which held that Trump had no ground game and would always fall short of his predicted margin in polls. CONT. […] Read more »