There is only one way Donald Trump can win the Republican presidential nomination next year. It’s something he’s familiar with from his big business career. It’s called a hostile takeover. Trump’s supporters will have to beat the Republican Party establishment into submission. CONT. Bill Schneider (George Mason U.), Reuters Read more »
CBS News poll: Donald Trump leads GOP field
Donald Trump (24 percent) leads a fractured Republican field in the race for the GOP nomination in the latest national CBS News Poll. Behind him are Jeb Bush (13 percent) and Scott Walker (10 percent). Trump leads among a wide array of Republican primary voters. He appears to have tapped […] Read more »
What Donald Trump’s Surge Meant
It was inevitable: If given enough rope, Donald Trump would hang himself. Trump’s statement Saturday in Iowa that Sen. John McCain was no war hero was all it took. This was so predictable; nobody knew exactly how Trump would self-destruct, but there was no doubt that he would. He can’t […] Read more »
Scott Walker Had a Great Starting Position but Not a Great Start
Scott Walker’s rapid but unsurprising rise to the top of the Republican pack was perhaps the clearest example during the first half of the primary season of the importance of fundamentals: factors that shape the outcome of the race from the very start, like the amount of support from party […] Read more »
UT/TT Poll: Texans Wary of Domestic Use of Military
Texas voters think Gov. Greg Abbott was right to send the Texas State Guard to monitor U.S. military exercises here, and they consider federally ordered domestic military intervention likely under certain circumstances, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll. CONT. Ross Ramsey, Texas Tribune Read more »
Republicans Three Times as Likely to Repudiate Climate Change as Democrats
Climate change and global warming remain hotly debated topics in the headlines, not only among the country’s lawmakers, but also within religious communities. Conflicting perceptions of the reality of these issues are part of the reason they are so contested. To see how the general public feels on the matter, […] Read more »