On Sunday, the day after Antonin Scalia's death threw the political world another curveball, Fix Boss Chris Cillizza wrote that the Supreme Court vacancy would be a good thing for one man: Ted Cruz.Source: Counterpoint: How a Supreme Court vacancy could weaken both Cruz and Trump...
Conventional wisdom dictates that the presidential race is typically won by the candidate best able to appeal to the collective better angels of the American public, the person who can make us believe that hope and change, for example, is actually possible.Source: 2016: The ‘race to the bottom’ election...
On Monday, Donald Trump held a rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, where he merrily repeated a woman in the crowd who called Ted Cruz a pussy. Twenty-four hours later, Donald Trump won the New Hampshire primary in a landslide.Source: The rise of Donald Trump is a terrifying moment in American politics...
For months, the specter of a contested Republican convention has lingered over the crowded race for the nomination.Source: Reid: Contested Democratic convention 'would be kind of fun'...
Don’t be fooled by what might sound, at times, like complaining about a “crazy,” “scary,” “topsy-turvy” presidential campaign taking place in a “parallel universe.” Journalists are in media nirvana.Source: A brokered convention? A third-party candidate? Welcome to the media’s nirvana....
In the run-up to their big presidential campaign moments, the big media players in Iowa and New Hampshire gave voters a useful online feature, an interactive calendar that let them track where candidates were appearing in person. Down in South Carolina, it’s different.Source: Warning: The dirty tricks are about to start...
About every two weeks last summer, former Navajo National Councilman Daniel Tso took his white Nissan truck on a tour of oil wells and fracking sites in northwest New Mexico. What he saw there concerned him.Source: Amid federal gridlock, lobbying rises in the states...
The 2016 election has thrust populist candidates and big-spending outside groups to center stage. These trends further marginalize the traditional role of the national political parties.Source: Going After the Big Bucks...
President Donald Trump wouldn’t be beholden to special interests, he says. Why? Because billionaires aren’t paying for his campaign.Source: Is Donald Trump self-funding his campaign? Sort of...
Alexandria, VA – The Center for Competitive Politics (CCP), America’s largest nonprofit working to promote and defend First Amendment rights to free political speech, assembly, and petition, today released an issue brief showing that money spent by candidates and super PACs was negatively coSource: “Big Money” Fails to Buy Iowa and New Hampshire Voters...
