Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have double-digit leads in the race for their party’s nominations in New York. Trump’s advantage is widespread in the Republican contest. A new Fox News poll finds he leads among men, women, every age group, every income group, and among those with a college degree […] Read more »
Donald Trump’s Path to 1,237 Is Not Mission Impossible
Until Wisconsin, Donald Trump was considered likely to win a majority of pledged delegates. In truth, his plan to reach 1,237 was already very vulnerable; Ted Cruz had built enough support by March 15 that even adding a modest share of Marco Rubio’s voters was likely to start him on […] Read more »
Clinton vs. Trump: Even their supporters don’t like them
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are unusually weak, widely disliked presidential candidates whom most people plan to vote against if the front-runners meet in the general election. CONT. David Lightman, McClatchy Read more »
How the Republican Race Could End
Even before Ted Cruz thrashed Donald Trump in Wisconsin, there was incessant buzz in political circles about the possibility of a contested convention in Cleveland. Since Wisconsin, the buzz has ramped up substantially, consuming hundreds of hours of bloviation on cable news networks. I’ve been gratified to see that, after […] Read more »
Wisconsin More of an Outlier Than a Turning Point
… While Cruz and Sanders are pointing to Wisconsin as the turning point, it’s more likely to be more of an outlier. It does, however, set the narrative for the next two weeks and puts even more pressure on Clinton and Trump to do well in their home/adopted state of […] Read more »
Two-Thirds of Trump Supporters Say Nation Needs a Leader Willing to Break the Rules
A new PRRI/The Atlantic Survey finds nearly two-thirds (65 percent) of Republican front-runner Donald Trump’s supporters believe that the situation in the United States has gotten so far off track that country needs a leader willing to break some rules to set things right. In contrast, only 40 percent of […] Read more »