It was a Super Tuesday for both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton as they trounced their less-famous rivals on the biggest day in the 2016 presidential campaign. The real estate billionaire won 7 out of 11 states on the Republican side while the former Secretary of State won 8 out of 12 contests on the […]
After months and months of campaigning, bloviating, debating and four state elections, the big one comes on Tuesday, when the voters in 12 different states cast their ballots for one of the seven candidates still running to be the President of the United States. This piece is straight analysis so there will be no Trump-Cruz-Clinton-Sanders […]
How angry are you? The 2016 presidential nominating contest has turned into a game of who can scream the loudest. Republicans are angry at Barack Obama. Democrats are angry about obstructionist Republicans in Congress. And the American people are angry at the entire political system. So, led by a red-haired bombastic billionaire and enabled by […]
With his stunning blowout victory tonight in the Nevada caucuses, billionaire Donald Trump has now won three contests in a row in the derby to be the 2016 Republican nominee for president. Trump won with a staggering 46% of the vote, 22 points better than second place finisher Marco Rubio (24%), with Ted Cruz coming […]
The Republican debate this past Saturday in South Carolina began with a somber moment of silence in honor of Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia, who passed away earlier in the day. What transpired in the ensuing two hours was anything but somber: it was the most vicious cage match in this continuing reality show drama […]
Tonight the citizens of New Hampshire made their collective voices loud and clear: as far as they’re concerned, politics as usual is over. The Live Free or Die state voters rendered a decisive result by conferring landslide victories upon the two biggest outsider candidates in the race, the self-funded billionaire Donald Trump and the self-described […]
On Tuesday, nearly 600,000 residents of New Hampshire are expected to go to the polls and cast their mark behind one of the 11 Republican or Democratic candidates running for President of the United States. In this brief post, I’ll handicap the likely results. What’s fascinating about tomorrow’s primary is that the outcome is so […]
After over six months of debates and punditry, real human beings actually had the opportunity to support presidential candidates tonight and the results are…. — Ted Cruz was the definitive winner of the Iowa caucuses, besting Donald Trump by 4 points (28% to 24%), with Marco Rubio finishing 3rd (barely) at 23%. — Hillary Clinton […]
Well sports fans, the games finally begin on Monday with the Iowa caucuses. Hundreds of thousands of residents of the Hawkeye State will see endless political advertisements cease and will have the opportunity to officially put their marks behind their preferred candidate to be the President of the United States. In this post, I’m going […]
Has Donald Trump finally put his foot in his mouth in such a way that his campaign for the presidency starts to sink? That’s the question on the minds of the tens of millions of Republican voters around the USA that are weighing the decision about whether to support a traditional politician or to back the […]