When Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton became their party’s nominee, each faced the challenge of uniting their party behind them. How have the presidential hopefuls unified their party? The most effective argument so far has been that voters should not s...
Democrats hope their 2016 candidate, Hillary Clinton, will be able to recreate the “Obama Coalition” with strong support from the African American, Latino, college-educated, women, and independent voters that propelled Barack Obama to the White House in 2...
President Barack Obama once promised, “If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan” under ObamaCare. But that’s hardly been the case as millions lost their existing coverage.
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Donald Trump believes his path to the White House depends on winning white working-class voters, specifically those in northeast states like Maine and Pennsylvania and in Midwest states like Ohio, Wisconsin, and Michigan. Conventional wisdom suggests whi...
How have the Republican and Democratic vice presidential nominees affected the 2016 election so far? According to Gallup, Hillary Clinton’s choice of Tim Kaine as her running mate and Donald Trump’s pick of Mike Pence have had little-to-no net effect on ...
The nation’s focus is on the Republican and Democratic National Conventions, but other factors will influence the national mood and the presidential race. Among the factors that will influence voters on Election Day are Americans’ satisfaction with the s...
Donald Trump was officially nominated as the GOP’s 2016 presidential nominee on Day Two of the Republican National Convention. As he received 1,725 delegates out of the 2,472 (more than the required 1,237 delegates necessary), there were still a number o...
As Republicans gather next week in Cleveland for their convention and Democrats prepare for their big show the following week in Philadelphia, both parties look to reset their campaigns for November. What type of “bounce” in the polls will their presiden...
