While Republicans spend cash on big ad buys, Democrats are pulling ahead where it matters. Snuffing out Donald Trump’s candidacy may lower the rest of the Republican field’s chances of beating Hillary Clinton.Source: 2016 Elections : The GOP’s Foolish TV Fixation...
First of all, let’s not shed any tears over the fall of Kevin McCarthy. Though the Republican majority leader is well-liked by his colleagues, he seems to have even less of a vision for where the GOP should go than the famously visionless John Boehner.Source: The Real Reason for the Chaos in the House...
After a terrible, no-good, very bad year, the GOP establishment ends with a whimper.Source: The Party’s Over...
Kevin McCarthy will not be the speaker of the House.Source: Kevin McCarthy’s implosion signals a full-blown Republican revolution...
To national GOP Chairman Reince Priebus, it must seem like he has the reverse Midas touch. Everything he touches turns to straw. It’s often the case that party leaders want to rerun the last election instead of focusing on the one they’ve got.Source: Republicans need a new plan to beat Donald Trump...
Gallup gives up the horse race - POLITICOBut after a bruising 2012 cycle, in which its polls were farther off than most of its competitors, Gallup told POLITICO it isn't planning any polls for the presidential primary horse race this cycle. And, even following an internal probe into what went wrong last time around, Gallup won't commit to tracking the...
These political scientists may have just discovered why U.S. politics are a disaster - The Washington PostBut new research by Nolan McCarty, a professor at Princeton University, and other political scientists suggests this disgust — and America's political dysfunction — won't be that easy to fix. Working with political scientist Boris Shor and economist John Voorheis, McCarty has released a new study that shows that the growing...
RELEASE : 2015 CPA-Zicklin Index Expands to Cover S&P 500More of America’s largest publicly traded companies are bringing sunlight to their corporate expenditures on politics, the fifth annual CPA-Zicklin Index of Political Disclosure and Accountability shows on the eve of a blockbuster election year for political spending. For the first time, the 2015 CPA-Zicklin Index has been expanded to measure...
Is pro-Bush super PAC obscuring spending? | Center for Public IntegrityBut it’s not clear that Right to Rise USA, the super PAC formed by Republican Jeb Bush prior to his presidential bid, is either. The super PAC’s biggest single vendor this year through June is a mysterious limited liability company, LKJ, LLC, whose owners are hidden behind the state of Delaware’s...
The argument is interesting, but it’s ultimately quite speculative. Even if one accepts their demographic math, their assertion only works if the 2016 election is extremely close (which is far from a given), and even then there are good reasons to think that these four electoral votes won’t be the sole factor that makes the difference.Uniform Swing – If 2016...
