[Commentary] Donald Trump has a better shot at winning the Republican nomination for president than almost anybody will allow right now. Yes, he's on the same trajectory as a lot of fly-by-night candidates from the 2012 cycle, and it's easy to imagine he'll collapse sooner rather than later.Source: Donald Trump’s secret political weapon is his mastery of reality TV...
Donald Trump’s controversial comments about Fox News’s Megyn Kelly have been criticized by his Republican opponents. But there’s another, more basic threat to the sustainability of his campaign: the quality of his campaign organization and its consultants.Source: Trump wants to run his campaign outside the GOP establishment. Here’s why that hurts him....
At the height of the scandal over the IRS’ handling of political nonprofits, Lois Lerner privately let loose at her Republican tormentors, saying she invoked the Fifth Amendment because they had been “evil and dishonest” and accusing them of “hate mongering.Source: Lerner slammed ‘evil and dishonest’ GOP inquisitors...
Presidential candidates usually don't run on promises to vacate the White House once they get in office, but that's what Lawrence Lessig said he might do as he begins exploring a protest bid for the 2016 Democratic nomination.Source: Lawrence Lessig wants to run for president -- in a most unconventional way...
The same number of people that would constitute the guest list at a small wedding gave about 30 percent of the money being spent to determine the next leader of the free world. And about half of the money raised so far has come from slightly more than 100 families.Source: The campaign money mess...
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...
