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Five takeaways from Trump’s South Carolina win.
South Carolina is a red state. The GOP candidates know that a win here can lead to the party nomination.
With the results in, Trump stands proudly on top of what looks like a five-way car crash. What now?
For 100 years, retail politics has ruled the New Hampshire primary. We may be seeing a new dynamic emerge in 2016.
Two political scholars evaluate the fourth GOP debate. This round was more about the issues, and less about the moderators.
The Republican base wants its country back from the “insiders” – by which it means anyone with conventional expertise.
His poll numbers are tanking. He’s cutting staff. It’s time for Jeb to deliver – or go home.
The generation who grew up during the Cold War and came to age through the unrest of Vietnam and the civil rights movement still dominate American politics.
Candidates beware! History suggests that book writing presidents are not necessarily the best presidents.
The angry right wing of American politics is mired in a swamp of outrage and victimhood. ‘Twas ever thus.
In shedding the caricature of a conservative pundit, Colbert can have more substantive conversations with his guests, while still employing his unique brand of satire.
The ten candidates who made it onto Fox News’s debate stage ranged from the serious to the seriously off-base.
Fox News is using polling to justify their picks for the GOP debate, but the way they averaged those polls was a little fast and loose.
Picking 10 top GOP candidates from five national polls isn’t as easy as Fox News wants you to believe. Here are some ways it could – and probably is – going wrong.
Last Saturday, presidential hopefuls Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley were booed and heckled by liberal activists at a town hall discussion at the Netroots Nation annual conference. Why would attendees…
Fox News and its embrace of the Donald is pulling our national conversation – and the 2016 Republican campaign – to the right.
Jeb Bush recently announced his candidacy for president by declaring that “our country is on a very bad course” and promised to fix this with the striking promise of “4% growth, and the 19 million new…
When considering US elections it pays to “follow the money” – and not just the campaign donations. Head to the bookies, not the polls, to see who’s really in with a shout.
The public may be warmer to big brother George than pundits believe.
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