A year from now, Americans will make history. The electorate is facing the most tumultuous time in American politics in at least 50 years — arguably a century — and their ultimate choice for president is almost certain to be a candidate who reflects the churning and tumult of a […] Read more »
The Two Faces of the GOP
Defying the predictions of just about everyone who watches politics even remotely, the two nontraditional Republican presidential contenders remain at the top of just-released opinion polls. Public polls, it is true, have proliferated, and many are worthy of being ignored. But four of the most respected surveys came out this […] Read more »
Donald Trump’s Lead Explained in Two Sentences
The blue-collar wing of the Republican primary electorate has consolidated around one candidate. The party’s white-collar wing remains fragmented. That may be the most concise explanation of the dynamic that has propelled Donald Trump to a consistent and sometimes commanding lead in the early stages of the GOP presidential nomination […] Read more »
Poll Trouble: Hillary Clinton’s Three Challenges
Going into the 2016 campaign, Hillary Clinton appeared to have a clear path to the Democratic nomination and possibly the White House. But a summer of sliding poll numbers and questions about her personal email server have made for a more complicated road. Recent poll numbers reveal three potential general-election […] Read more »
The Populist Prophet
… Sanders often says that he is not that far outside the mainstream—that a majority of Americans agree with him on many of his tenets. According to a recent CBS News/New York Times poll, sixty-six per cent of Americans feel that “money and wealth in this country should be more […] Read more »
How Trump reflects America’s obsession with ‘winners’ and ‘losers’
… We have long been told that anyone in this country who wants to succeed, can. Casting aside the increasing impediments to social mobility, such as high college tuition costs and the loss of high-paid, blue-collar jobs, the onus is entirely on the individual. Surveys show that Americans strongly believe […] Read more »