If you are expecting to feel relief from a long and tortuous election season on the morning of November 9, don’t. Expect instead to hear about a possible cyberattack on American democracy. We might be watching a slow trickle of election results poisoned by suggestions that they may not be […] Read more »
Majority of Voters Think Media Favors Clinton
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump frequently accuses the media of biasing its coverage of the 2016 election campaign in favor of his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton. A majority of registered voters (52%) agree with the Republican nominee. Meanwhile, 8% think the media favors Trump and 38% perceive no media bias. […] Read more »
The Polling Conspiracy
Donald Trump’s supporters have taken up the claim that polls are rigged in favor of Hillary Clinton because they “oversample” Democrats. The charge is based on emails published by Wikileaks, in which the 2008 Clinton campaign considers oversampling Hispanic and Native American voters. Micah Cohen of FiveThirtyEight says the claim […] Read more »
Voters Increasingly Turning to Internet for Information, Survey Shows
Voters have stepped away from the television and are digesting the presidential and Senate races through the internet, a new poll of persuadable voters in five Senate battleground states shows. The survey, conducted by the Global Strategy Group, a Democratic firm, and Public Opinion Strategies, a Republican firm, showed that […] Read more »
The Axe Files: David Axelrod talks to Ron Brownstein
Ron Brownstein, columnist at The Atlantic and longtime political journalist, talks to David about working for Ralph Nader in the 1970s, the intersection between Hollywood and Washington, and the demographic realities that will likely determine the presidential election. The Axe Files Read more »
Who Is to Blame for Trump’s Polling?
If you ask the candidate, anyone or anything other than himself is to blame for his standing in the polls. New York Times Read more »