Dec 27, 2016 – . […] Conservative opponents of a direct vote say it would give an unfair edge to large, heavily Democratic cities and states … Second, it’s a rare occurrence that the winner of a presidential election wins the Electoral College and not the popular vote. … A presidential candidate cannot easily prevail by dominating just a few heavily populated regions or municipalities.…

Dec 27, 2016 – Retiring Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid had an interesting analysis of the prospective Democratic candidates looking to challenge … Already the Democratic leadership in Congress is up in age. … The 75-year-old Bernie Sanders has not ruled out a 2020 presidential run either.…

Jan 10, 2017 – Stars aligned themselves with the Democratic Party, which championed these social divisions. … We saw this in the recent presidential election, as scores of celebrities threw their support behind Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton … Whether making videos slamming Trump on behalf of establishment candidates like Clinton or fronting for globalist conventions like…

Jan 6, 2017 – election represent the most recent expression of Moscow’s longstanding desire to undermine the US-led liberal democratic order, but … We assess Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the US presidential election. … Russia’s goals were to undermine public faith in the US democratic process, denigrate Secretary Clinton, and harm her electability…

Jan 23, 2017 – Harry Reid (D-NV), decided to nuke the filibuster rules for presidential appointments. It's quite the embarrassment.  … They brainstormed Democratic nominees, plotted legislation, planned rollouts. … Yet, when you look at the list of 21 possible candidates for SCOTUS, the list isn’t absurd.…

Jan 23, 2017 – is surely your right to say and do as an American is not what is best for our country at this perilous and treasured time of presidential … The dignity of the office and the legacy of over two centuries of highly contested democratic elections demands more than hateful rhetoric … They understand the respect that the office of the President deserves in our democratic republic.…

Jan 20, 2017 – traditional ride from the White House with the departing president, leaving President Barack Obama to tough it out alone in the presidential … The Democratic donkey was born on a cartoonist's easel at the time then-presidential candidate Andrew Jackson was called a jacka--, … Later, we watched Americans whose candidates had lost adjust to the day with stoic appreciation.…

Jan 18, 2017 – PARIS -- It dawned on me while watching the French Socialist Party presidential primary debate over the weekend just how old-fashioned … As the candidates debated marijuana legalization and lamented not having taken in enough Middle Eastern migrants, the ideology that … Le Pen is the only viable presidential contender in France who is not an establishment fixture.…

Jan 30, 2017 – The truth is Hillary Clinton was an unattractive presidential candidate who did little to inspire Democratic voters to go to the polls … None of the other three most recent Democratic presidential nominees—Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, and Al Gore—inspired great turnout … If the far-left elitists controlling the Democratic Party have their way, the Democratic Party will likely become a European-style…

Jan 30, 2017 – Whoever the next Democratic nominee is, Republicans will be worried about them taking our guns, raising taxes and expanding government … The Electoral College was intended to force candidates to spend time in small states and it does this very well. … For one thing, going by the popular vote would cause the candidates to spend most of their time in states like California, Texas, New…

Feb 12, 2017 – So, Donald Trump would have won 1.4 million more popular votes than Hillary Clinton if it weren’t for California’s legions of Democratic … Michael Moore said that if you add up Clinton’s vote totals with that of third party candidates, 54 percent of the country didn’t vote … Yes, some might have gone to Clinton if these candidates vanished from the ether. But some would have certainly gone for Trump.…

Feb 11, 2017 – We’ve written about the Democratic Party’s woes extensively, especially at the state and local level where they have been virtually … The losses are so deep that it might have wiped out a new generation of Democratic talent. … “That demonstrates the importance of recruiting strong candidates all the way down the ballot.”…

Jan 8, 2016 – The 2016 presidential campaign is fully underway as it races toward the November election to decide who can lead and protect our country … He began running for president the day he was sworn in, and lately has been soaring in the GOP's presidential polls. … The Democratic candidates are no better.…

Jan 7, 2016 – Debbie Wasserman Schultz resign from her position has chair of the Democratic National Committee. … Many liberals, including some of the Democratic presidential candidates, have echoed the group’s complaints, suggesting the DNC is … “Democratic leaders have considered replacing Chair Wasserman Schultz before,” the statement reads.…

Jan 7, 2016 – We will know - or we will think we know - who won on both the Republican and Democratic sides by about 11 PM Central Time. … In Iowa in the wintertime there isn't very much to do, and in a Presidential year every candidate campaigning for anything shows up … at any event involving any Presidential candidate to buddy up to the press corps following him or her.…

Jan 6, 2016 – Presidential nominees are not yet taking up space in most people's minds. … But candidates' odds are somewhat off on that site because bettors may not trade more than $850 per candidate. … Sadly, Hillary Clinton is a 95 percent favorite to win the Democratic nomination and has a 55 percent chance of becoming our next president…

Jan 6, 2016 – But they later turned out to include a former Arkansas Democratic director of political affairs, the president of the Islamic Society … --A young woman named "Journey" who questioned the candidates on abortion and whom CNN failed to properly identify as an outspoken … Bill Richardson's Democratic presidential bid. --A staffer for Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill.; a former intern for Rep.…

Jan 20, 2016 – Other allies are worried about other over-the-top GOP candidates, like freshman Texas Sen. … The contest for the Democratic presidential nomination, between former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and Vermont Sen. … Bernie Sanders, who calls himself a "democratic socialist, is growing nastier, too.…

Jan 19, 2016 – As Republicans prepare to cast their first presidential ballots in Iowa and New Hampshire, the field remains dominated by "outsider … " candidates Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, while establishment favorites Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, John Kasich and Marco Rubio have been … stay home and tempting an aggrieved candidate to mount a third party or independent presidential campaign.…

Jan 17, 2016 – In the 1800 presidential election, a Federalist newspaper warned that under Thomas Jefferson, "murder, robbery, rape, adultery and … Not the 1940s, when our politics were so fractured that in the 1948 presidential election, the leftist Progressive Party and the white … supremacist States' Rights Democratic Party each got more than 2 percent of the popular vote.…

Jan 16, 2016 – You may have noticed that Paul Ryan and the Republican presidential candidates were guests of the Jack Kemp Center in North Carolina … Unfortunately, there is no Democratic Jack Kemp. … There are some very wealthy Democrats who support reform but very few Democratic candidates.…

Jan 15, 2016 – Instead, he's got a plausible, if not yet entirely probable, shot at the Democratic presidential nomination. … According to OpenSecrets.org, of the top five organizations -- i.e., unions and corporate PACs -- that give to federal candidates,…

Jan 14, 2016 – Yet, it’s a piece of Bizarro Theater that captures how abortion has become the lynchpin for the Democratic Party. … To help them in this effort, Planned Parenthood, who we all know is one of the many groups allied with the Democratic Party, has tapped … Burgess managed Democratic Sen.…

Jan 14, 2016 – platform Change.org launched their new mobile web app and desktop site, Change Politics, Thursday morning, increasing access to candidates … in the presidential field. … Through Change Politics, users can submit questions directly to participating candidates, search through the endorsements from prominent…

Jan 14, 2016 – The battle brewing between the two headline-making Democratic presidential candidates, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, reached … Should Sanders beat her to the Democratic nomination, Clinton claimed the party would be forced to “rip up” the Affordable Care Act … “Clinton’s attacks on a Democratic Party rival over universal health care marks a very public flip flop by her and her campaign," Sanders…