In a race full of surprises, I’m surprised that Democrats are surprised that Bernie Sanders isn’t quite ready to exit quietly stage left from the presidential contest.
The Vermont senator took one step closer to bowing out on Thursday night, but stopped short of a concession.
“The major political…
More than a dozen Republican presidential candidates spent a year of the nominating contest waiting for someone else to attack and take down Donald Trump. But the GOP contenders had a common goal with a flawed strategy: Trump’s opponents should have attacked the celebrity’s supporters instead of the candidate,…
With the GOP national convention still almost two months away and Donald Trump already wooing skeptical Republicans, it’s too early to know how divided the Republican Party will be in November. But minimizing that divide is critical to Trump’s prospects.
The party’s last serious fracture occurred in 1964, when…
Even though the general election presidential contest between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump hasn’t officially started, it’s impossible to label the race as a toss-up.
The path is challenging for any GOP nominee. Based on how the majority of states are likely to fall, the GOP nominee needs to…
Stu and I have been working together for nearly 15 years and any acute political instincts I’ve developed I owe to him. In many ways, we’ve morphed into the same mind, including our valuations of players in fantasy baseball. But after reading Stu’s column, “Ryan Rides to the Rescue…
The warnings about jumping to conclusions about November are widespread.
I’ve heard that it’s early in the presidential race and that we underestimated Donald Trump last time so we should be careful now. I’ve also heard that Trump’s strength with working-class whites could change the electoral map, giving him…
Donald Trump will be the Republican nominee for president in 2016.
Looking back for the answer to “How did we get here?” and forward to handicapping the general election, one word stands out: assumptions.
There was an assumption that once voters were reminded of any number of ways…
I recently asked a veteran Republican strategist how his party picks up the pieces after what now looks to be a very difficult 2016 election. His answer was quick and decisive: Paul Ryan.
If November’s elections are as messy for the GOP as they now appear, with Republicans failing…
Both Donald Trump and Ted Cruz have glaring weaknesses as presidential nominees, but that’s only the beginning of the GOP's problems. Just as important, the current mix of top issues is simply terrible for Republicans in general and conservatives in particular.
The country moved noticeably to the right starting…
There has been plenty of talk from the two leading Republican presidential contenders about how they will attract voters who didn’t embrace recent GOP nominees.
For Ted Cruz, his pool of new voters supposedly includes conservatives who didn’t bother to vote because they saw few differences between the parties.…
