Year: 2016

I wonder if anyone has come up with workable definition of a base election. The idea is simple enough. Some elections are won not by winning an argument with the other side and persuading swing voters or independents or...

There seems to be a pretty strong consensus on the right that South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley’s State of the Union rebuttal speech was a badly misguided attempt to hurt Donald Trump’s chances of winning the...

I began a reply to centerfielddj…a generalized pain in my ass most times on this site, but I continue to try to answer him because his kneejerk leftiness is a useful tool…on Booman’s recent post Trump and the...

Yesterday, Kevin Drum expressed some astonishment that Gallup polling shows that Americans are simultaneously satisfied with how their personal lives are going and deeply dissatisfied with their country. One of our feature...

I don’t really remember the last time a candidate had as good a day in polling as Sanders had today BEFORE Iowa. Iowa Sanders +5 (Quin) Clinton +6 (PPP) NH Sanders +14 (monmouth) National Clinton 47, Sanders 41 (NYT) These...