Aug 24, 2015 – His Republican opponents, both his rivals in the presidential primary contest as well as their apologists in the media, are laboring … This line of attack, however, is disingenuous, for neither are their candidates of choice—Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, Carly Fiorina—particularly … has expanded programs for the mentally ill, fought the nursing home lobby to bring down Medicaid costs and backed Cleveland’s Democratic…

Aug 23, 2015 – Bernie Sanders or the other candidates. … campaign against well-funded Democratic opponents with a huge head start. … He's older, a two-time presidential loser, and he’s going to be challenging the Democratic Party’s legacy of putting the first female…

Aug 21, 2015 – There is also the potential for political risks right when you would be launching your presidential campaign. … She’s been through months and months of pretty much 19 candidates on both sides attacking her every day, and she thrives.” […] … Herself, not merely an investigation that ultimately finds a fall guy in Clinton’s IT team or even among her intimates, to turn Democratic…

Aug 21, 2015 – WASHINGTON - A pivotal campaign issue seems to be all but missing from the 2015-16 presidential primary race – in both parties. … Yet with few exceptions, the presidential candidates are not focusing on those issues, and neither are their parties. … Among the Democratic candidates, its the same snake oil medicine: raise taxes on the wealthy, businesses large and small, boost the…

Aug 20, 2015 – Just eight years ago we were watching candidates for the GOP and Democratic nominations for president start their first series of … Readers will recall that just a year after that 2007 presidential debate the housing, mortgage and financial industries had virtually…

Aug 20, 2015 – absolutely certain mine is not one of the email addresses that are now floating around opposition research firms looking for names of candidates … ; names of friends of candidates; names of donors to candidates; or anyone named Carlos Danger. … For those who have forgotten, Carlos Danger was the stage name of former Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner - husband of the woman…

Aug 20, 2015 – A few months ago, when the first Republican presidential contenders threw their hats into the ring, I tweeted this message a number … But the current crop of Republican candidates makes that meme much harder to maintain. United States Sens. … By contrast, what do we hear from the Democratic Party's frontrunners?…

Aug 19, 2015 – Among the candidates who received the highest net scores: former corporate CEO Carly Fiorina (+12 points), retired neurosurgeon Ben … This week's Fox poll found that she now leads Sanders among Democratic primary voters by 19 percent – 49 to 30 percent. … And a Democratic frontrunner is being investigated by the FBI for sending illegal emails. What next I wonder?…

Sep 5, 2015 – During every presidential election cycle, both Democratic and Republican talking heads trot out the same tired conventionalities that … they predictably use to promote their preferred candidates and undermine those whom they dislike. … And as I’ve shown, Trump’s detractors among his rivals in the presidential contest are hardly conservatives.…

Sep 3, 2015 – And the candidates and parties are feeling it, too. … The Republican and Democratic parties have mirror-opposite problems. … Presidential elections are messy and unpredictable, and this cycle is unpredictable on steroids.…

Sep 3, 2015 – After all, the polling they rely on shows Trump with higher negatives than many of the other candidates in the Republican race. … After two dismal showings in presidential contests both in '08 and '12 it became conventional wisdom among longtime Republican "experts … That means Republicans must not only convert some otherwise likely Democratic voters.…

Aug 29, 2015 – But so far too few candidates, clergy and business leaders have shown the courage to speak out – even as every Democratic presidential…

Sep 17, 2015 – Self-declared socialist and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders entered what his supporters must consider the belly of … Liberal and Democratic speakers at Liberty are not as rare as one might think. In 1983, Sen. … Republican presidential candidates should promote ways for people to escape poverty and for the middle class to climb the economic…

Sep 16, 2015 – Hillary Clinton is hemorrhaging Democratic women, trailing Bernie Sanders in Iowa and New Hampshire, and inspiring deep distrust … presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is going negative, circulating an email that yokes her chief rival Sen. … Martin O'Malley.The Democratic candidates have refrained from criticizing each other directly...Monday's Correct the Record email strays…

Sep 16, 2015 – surgeon Ben Carson, front-runners in the race for their party's presidential nomination. … Meantime, Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential front-runner, has bigger problems. … But 37 percent of white Democratic women say they support her now.…

Sep 15, 2015 – Polls show more Republicans preferring three candidates who have never held elective office over 14 candidates who have served a combined … So Republicans who imposed harsh litmus tests in previous presidential cycles (like asking candidates if they've ever supported a tax … In polls, Democratic voters have stayed loyal to the president.…

Sep 14, 2015 – A recent national Quinnipiac poll asked respondents what words came to mind upon hearing the name of various presidential candidates … Meanwhile, thick clouds still hang over Hillary's presidential bid.   … No wonder the Democratic establishment is beginning to experience flop sweat.…

Sep 14, 2015 – The current process for finding the viable candidates for GOP Presidential nomination reminds me of the nearly arbitrary, popularity … candidates did swell this year compared to past elections. … Not only the expanded number of candidates, but those who deserve to win (or at least do better) are failing in light of those candidates…

Sep 10, 2015 – Conducting only a half dozen debates ahead of the 2016 presidential election is plenty, insists Democratic National Committee Chairwoman … We’re having six debates,” said Wasserman Schultz, who has been under fire from several Democratic presidential candidates over the … No wonder Democratic candidates are crying foul. One person not raising a peep is Hillary Clinton.…

Sep 25, 2015 – Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, once the odds-on Democratic presidential nominee, is up to her neck in an email scandal … Meantime, two other factors are going to affect how the 2016 presidential election turns out. … That's the dismal record the Democratic presidential nominee will have to run on next year -- and the record the GOP nominee will run…

Sep 24, 2015 – "It's deja vu all over again," the most famous of his many zany quotes, seems relevant in light of the latest CNN Republican presidential … Back in 2007, as the housing market in Florida was starting to collapse, a CNN presidential debate in Tampa all but ignored that looming … (By the third hour it looked as if several of the candidates were going to simply melt away from the heat onstage.)…

Sep 24, 2015 – So Walker pulled the plug on his own campaign and got out, reminding Republicans what will happen with so many candidates in the race … "I encourage other Republican presidential candidates to consider doing the same. … The American barons of commerce and industry worry their boring presidential candidate will lose.…

Sep 23, 2015 – By a substantial margin, Donald Trump remains the GOP’s presidential frontrunner. … On the one hand, she styles herself the anti-Hillary candidate, a conservative who, radically unlike the Democratic presidential frontrunner … She has complained that female political candidates are judged by a double standard regarding their physical appearance.…

Sep 23, 2015 – for Americans has helpfully set up "new interactive practice civics tests" to help their new future voters secure a permanent Democratic … Remember: In the 1990s, the Clinton administration first turned immigration policy into a massive Democratic voter recruitment machine … But when it comes to signing up new potential Democratic voters in droves, the feckless feds run a NASCAR-ready well-oiled machine.…

Sep 22, 2015 – As the 2016 presidential selection process proceeds, there is increasing evidence that the political patterns we have grown used to … at the 2000 presidential elections. … We'll see whether the first Democratic debate draws as big an audience Oct. 13.…