[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...
New Hampshire’s law banning voters from posting pictures of completed ballots online squelches free speech and isn’t needed to prevent election fraud, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. In his ruling, U.S.Source: “Federal judge in New Hampshire: Ballot ‘selfies’ are free speech, don’t encourage voter fraud”...
Source: Donald Trump Is Frugal With His Cash in Republican Presidential Race...
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...
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...
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...
WaPo editorial.Source: “Happy birthday to the Voting Rights Act”...
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...
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...
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...
