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...
A new Pew Research Center analysis points out that last election cycle, more Americans identified as “independents” (39%) than Democrats (32%) or Republicans (23%). Of those independents, 17% leaned Democratic, while 16% leaned Republican.
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This election, the Republican and Democratic candidates are both exceedingly well-known, for better or for worse. Large majorities of voters consider each candidate’s weaknesses to be “serious” concerns, according to the latest NBC/WSJ poll. For example...
Earlier this month, the State Department said it would take 75 years to find all the emails Hillary Clinton sent from her private server while Secretary of State. While the Clinton campaign and State Department move at a snail’s pace to produce answers, ...
Over the last year, most of the attention has been on the Republican and Democratic presidential primary contests. With over a dozen Republican candidates and a surprisingly close battle for the Democratic nomination, lame duck President Barack Obama was...
Last Thursday, President Barack Obama visited Elkhart, Indiana, one of the cities hit hardest during the Great Recession. He went there to praise the country’s economic recovery during his two terms. Two days later, he used his weekly address to applaud...
Together, Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson and the Green Party’s Jill Stein took about 1.35% of the presidential vote total in 2012, somewhat short of Ralph Nader’s impressive 2.54% in 2000. Some analysts speculate today’s presumptive Republican and De...
New national polls show presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump is tied or running ahead of likely Democratic pick Hillary Clinton for the first time this cycle. A month ago, Mr. Trump was 10.6 points behind Ms. Clinton in the RealClearPolitics...
