More than a third of likely voters backing Democrat Hillary Clinton in the latest Bloomberg Politics national poll say she should pick Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, a darling of the party’s liberal wing, as her running mate. On the Republican side, almost a third of likely voters supporting Donald […] Read more »
The Veepstakes, Part Two: Trump’s Temptation
… Beyond trying to improve his poor favorability numbers and addressing the daily controversies that have defined his campaign, Trump’s major challenge in this campaign is convincing a majority of voters that he’s stable and qualified for the job. It’s a heavy lift for a candidate who is very short […] Read more »
The Running Mate Calculus
… Vice presidential selection is dictated by the pool of available candidates, the context in which the decision is made, and the way in which the presidential nominee and others around him/her evaluate information regarding options and the political environment. Some aspects of the context are beginning to emerge although […] Read more »
The Veepstakes, Part One: Clinton’s Choices
“First, do no harm” The Hippocratic Oath is the prime directive for doctors, but to us it also provides good guidance for vice presidential selection. Running mates often make very little difference in the election one way or the other, which can be an argument for making a safe, noncontroversial […] Read more »
Cruz, Trump, Carly Fiorina and the ‘Woman Card’
Ted Cruz has hit a difficult patch of late in the Republican Party nominating contest, and things could grow still worse if the Texas senator loses Tuesday’s primary in Indiana to front-runner Donald Trump. … Could Fiorina’s presence solve any of Cruz’s immediate problems — namely boosting his own unpopularity […] Read more »
This research shows that vice presidential candidates actually do win votes in their home states
Although the Democratic and Republican primaries aren’t over, the question of who the presidential nominees will select as running mates is already receiving considerable attention. One key question is whether vice presidential nominees actually help the ticket win voters in the nominees’ home states. And if so, is this advantage […] Read more »