In the waning days of the 2014 midterm elections, as the political sands shifted decidedly away from many Democratic candidates, The New York Times published a roundup of the party’s decisions to abandon races once considered competitive to shore up vulnerable incumbents.Source: Why political journalists shouldn’t report on internal polling...
Over nearly two decades, Donald J. Trump has given more than a little thought to a third-party presidential candidacy. How serious he is about it for 2016 is about to be tested. Mr.Source: It’s Not the First Time Donald Trump Has Flirted With a Third-Party Run...
WaPo editorial.Source: “Happy birthday to the Voting Rights Act”...
Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren once called Baker V. Carr, the 1962 case which led to the “one-man, one-vote” rule, the most important of his tenure. That was saying quite a lot considering his was the court that handed down the watershed Brown decision desegregating America’s schools.Source: Murphy’s Law...
As Donald Trump faces a growing backlash from conservative media over his recent attacks on a Fox News host, one prominent right-wing outlet remains firmly in his corner: Breitbart News, which has set itself apart by plastering its homepage with fawning headlines about the candidate,Source: Breitbart Staffers Believe Trump Has Given Money To Site For Favorable Coverage...
Vox has this story, saying that Donald Trump could not run in Michigan outside the major parties in November if he had first been on the Michigan presidential primary ballot. The story is incorrect.Source: Vox Misinforms its Readers About Michigan’s Sore Loser Law...
‘Fewer than 400 families are responsible for almost half the money raised in the 2016 presidential campaign, a concentration of political donors that is unprecedented in the modern era,” the New York Times breathlessly reported last Sunday.Source: GOP Campaign Spending 2016 : Big Money is Nothing New...
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump's appearance in Thursday night's GOP debate in Cleveland just made it harder for him to run as an independent candidate for president. As expected, Thursday night’s Republican debates on Fox News featured plenty of fireworks from frontrunner Donald Trump.Source: A Trump independent run got harder Thursday night...
Ohio has had a sore loser law since before 1958. It says, “3513.Source: Ohio Secretary of State Re-Defines “Declaration of Candidacy” so as to Say Donald Trump’s Remarks Mean He Cannot Appear on General Election Ballot...
