Voters in Iowa will cast the first ballots of the 2016 presidential election in caucuses across the state on Monday. Polls show a close race in both Democratic and Republican contests. Hillary Clinton is leading Bernie Sanders by around three percentage points, and Donald Trump is ahead of Ted Cruz […] Read more »
Don’t Count Ted Cruz Out in Iowa
As the first 2016 nominating votes near, Donald Trump’s strength as GOP frontrunner seems only to grow – nationally and in Iowa, where he’s led in five of the last six state polls. But before the Trump freight train gets too far down the tracks, here’s a word to the […] Read more »
Franklin Pierce-Herald Poll: Rivals need Iowa win to catch Trump, Sanders in N.H.
GOP presidential challengers Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio and Democrat Hillary Clinton desperately need breakthroughs in Iowa tomorrow to overcome expanding leads held by Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders in New Hampshire, a new Franklin Pierce University-Boston Herald poll reveals. CONT. Joe Battenfeld, Boston Herald Read more »
CNN/WMUR poll: Trump, Sanders still up in New Hampshire
Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump maintain wide leads in their respective primary races in New Hampshire, according to a new CNN/WMUR poll conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center. CONT. Jennifer Agiesta, CNN Read more »
Handicapping the GOP Race Past Iowa
… Republicans are apparently so angry, so dissatisfied with “politics as usual,” that they may make a very unusual decision: nominating a candidate who both lacks government experience and the measured responses that we have come to expect from our elected officials, or nominating someone who is so confrontational that […] Read more »
How Trump Carved Up Cruz’s Support in Weeks Before Iowa Caucus
Over the last several weeks, the story of the Iowa caucuses has become the battle between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz. … New data from the latest poll, and interviews with the candidates’ campaign managers, shed light on the strategy, and the impact, of the clash that could decide the […] Read more »