Showing posts with label Election 2016. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Election 2016. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 08, 2019

Where Do Voters Get Their Ideas About Electability?

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To his fiercest critics ranging from the ideological center all the way to the far left, Donald Trump is both a danger to the health of the ...
Wednesday, August 15, 2018

A Few Political Consequences of the Democratic Surge Among College-Educated Whites

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The Pew Research Center recently released an informative report on the composition of the American electorate , based on a survey of citizen...
Wednesday, December 07, 2016

Forget the '60s—The Real Generation Gap Is Happening Right Now

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Since the election last month, we have seen a parade of analyses examining how Clinton supporters differ from Trump supporters along the div...
Tuesday, November 08, 2016

Podcast Interview

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Yesterday I talked to Marc Chavannes of the Dutch podcast The Correspondent about the American elections of 2016. You can listen to our con...
Friday, November 04, 2016

Think Politics Will "Get Back to Normal" After Tuesday? This IS the New Normal!

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We've reached the stage of the presidential campaign in which everyone who's either a participant or a close observer has reached a ...
Tuesday, October 25, 2016

The "Republican Party" Doesn't Make Strategic Decisions—Individual Republicans Do

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The 2016 election is still two weeks away, and yet the likely outcome is sufficiently apparent that news media post-mortems are already begi...
Thursday, October 20, 2016

Post-Debates Recap: Is 2016 An Exception Or the New Normal?

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Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton engaged in the final scheduled debate last night, passing a milepost marking the home stretch of the campai...
Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Paul Ryan's Job Just Keeps Getting Harder

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The luck of the Irish is not smiling on Paul Ryan. Last week, I noted that the probable loss of Donald Trump in the presidential race has p...
Friday, October 14, 2016

The Sky Is Blue, the Pope Is Catholic, and Evan McMullin Will Not Become President

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The American founders' creation of the electoral college as our nation's unique mechanism of presidential selection offers the under...
Thursday, October 13, 2016

Why Paul Ryan's In More Trouble Than Mitch McConnell

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The events of the past two weeks have taken a lot of the suspense out of the outcome of the presidential race, unless you're the kind of...
Monday, October 10, 2016

2nd Debate Recap: Back to the Tape

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I wrote earlier that Donald Trump's real audience tonight was the press and other Republican politicians  more than the voters. On this ...
Sunday, October 09, 2016

Trump's Audience Tonight: Other Republicans & the Media

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Tonight's presidential debate employs a "town hall" format, in which candidates take questions from undecided voters in attend...
Saturday, October 08, 2016

Trump: So Now What?

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A few points on the unfolding drama: 1. The virtually unanimous opinion of the news media is that Trump has suffered catastrophic damage d...
Wednesday, October 05, 2016

VP Debate Recap: Some Things We Learned Last Night

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1. Pence's performance demonstrated that the Trump campaign is in fact capable of supplying adequate preparation for a candidate in adva...
Monday, October 03, 2016

It's Not Just Millennials: Third Party Candidates Always Do Better With Young Voters

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Over the last few weeks, reporters have published a number of stories  about the struggles that Hillary Clinton has faced in convincing m...