A new Des Moines Register poll of Iowans’ attitudes toward potential 2016 presidential hopefuls has already received plenty of attention. That’s not surprising, I suppose, given the unquenchable thirst from some about anything to do with the next presidential race. The survey’s results give us some information — most of […] Read more »
Dreaming of the White House
Is it too early to think about who’s running for president in 2016, three years from now? Not in Washington, a city with more campaign consultants than dry cleaners. After all, we’re talking about a business that raised and spent more than $2 billion, employed thousands of people and consumed […] Read more »
Wide-Open Race in 2016 Offers Ocean of Possibilities
It’s hard to remember interest in a presidential election beginning to build so early. Wide-open presidential contests—that is, those without an incumbent seeking reelection—aren’t that infrequent; they’ve occurred a total of six times in the post-World War II period, four of those in the past 50 years. However, all the […] Read more »
Texans Favor Cruz Over Perry for President
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz starts as the Texas favorite in a fantasy 2016 Republican primary for president, swamping Gov. Rick Perry and a number of other big-name candidates in the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll. The governor fared better in a potential head-to-head matchup for re-election in 2014 against […] Read more »
The Man Who Could Turn Texas Blue: Rick Perry
Big in all things, Texas leads the nation in failing to provide health insurance. About one in four Texans are uninsured, the highest percentage in any state. That’s some 6 million people, the total population of Missouri. Yet Gov. Rick Perry, back from his stumbles in the 2012 GOP presidential […] Read more »