Young Americans don’t care much for political parties. According to the Pew Research Center, 48 percent of millennials (ages 18-33) identify as independents. That’s almost as many as identify as Democrats (28 percent) and Republicans (18 percent) put together.Source: The waning influence of American political parties...
How politics and government really work, and why they don’t. There’s no evidence to support Donald Trump’s claim that Ted Cruz played a role in a super PAC’s attack on his wife.Source: Super PACs and Trump’s Wife: How a Photo Dispute Highlights Weakness in Campaign Finance Rules...
Buzz Cuts:• Trump is losing in Wisconsin. But why?• RNC unveils contested contention website• Sponsors balk at backing Republican convention• Hillary grabs big lead in home state showdown with Trump• Clean inside and out TRUMP IS LOSING IN WISCONSIN.Source: Trump is losing in Wisconsin. But why?...
Early money is like yeast, or so goes the saying, implying that when you raise and spend big money early, it leads to more campaign cash.Source: The top 10 big-money Senate races in 2016 — so far...
Congress has a love-hate relationship with the lame-duck session — that brief, frenzied window after an election but before the new members and/or president are sworn in where much of the work lawmakers have been putting off all year suddenly gets done.Source: Why conservatives want to cancel Congress’s lame-duck session, explained...
Donald Trump's timing in the 2016 presidential campaign has been impeccable. He got into the race just as dissatisfaction with the crop of candidates was rising. He began peaking as fall turned to winter, right in time for a series of critical votes nationwide.Source: Donald Trump picked a terrible time to have his worst week of the presidential race...
A trio of veteran GOP strategists is leading a new California effort to deny Donald Trump the Republican presidential nomination. With mail-in voting for the state’s June 7 primary set to begin in early May, Rob Stutzman, a Sacramento-based consultant who worked for Gov.Source: Anti-Donald Trump campaign forming in California...
Voters experienced long lines at the polls for Arizona's presidential primaries Tuesday because of fewer polling sites this year in Maricopa County. Polling sites were overwhelmed for Tuesday's Presidential Preference Election after county officials reduced the number sites to save money.Source: Arizona primary: Maricopa County had one polling site for every 21,000 voters...
For weeks, some Democrats have been sounding the alarm about not enough polling places in Maricopa County for Tuesday's presidential primary.Source: Maricopa County election officials writing off voters? You bet...
Republican Presidential candidates weighed in after President Obama made his SCOTUS nomination last week. While the commentary varies, the theme is the same throughout: Republicans want Americans to have a say in the next appointment.Source: GOP Presidential Candidates Share Their Opinions on Obama's SCOTUS Nomination...
