GOP’s Delegate Allocation Rules Are Helping Trump
Changes that the Republican National Committee made to delegate allocation rules in response to what happened in 2012 are helping Donald Trump in 2016.
Changes that the Republican National Committee made to delegate allocation rules in response to what happened in 2012 are helping Donald Trump in 2016.
It’s Super Tuesday, and both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are likely to go a long way toward securing the nominations of their respective parties.
Ever since last week’s debate, the race for the Republican nomination has come to resemble a schoolyard fight among a bunch of nine year-olds.
There’s little doubt that Hillary Clinton will win today’s South Carolina Primary, the only question is how big a win she’s likely to score.
Bizarrely, the Marco Rubio campaign seems to be telling donors that their candidate may have to hope for a brokered convention to win the GOP nomination.
Donald Trump won his third contest in a row in Nevada, putting him one step closer to inevitability.
Donald Trump is back on top, but the field below him remains as confused as ever.
January’s Jobs Report was nothing to write home about.
With less than a week to go before voting starts, Donald Trump continues to dominate the GOP race, with Ted Cruz the only candidate even close to looking like a viable challenger.
St. Louis will lose its second NFL team in 28 years as the Rams go home to LA.
The decision by a Cleveland Grand Jury to decline to indict a police officer in the shooting of 12 year old Tamir Rice raises once again questions about how the law handles shootings involving police officers.
Ben Carson threatens to leave the GOP over recent reports about plans for a brokered convention, but with his poll numbers collapsing one wonders why anyone would care if he did.
The quadrennial fantasy of a brokered convention, which American politics has not seen since 1952, is rearing its head again, and it’s no more likely now than it was when we talked about this four years ago.
The Justice Department has launched a widespread investigation into the operation of the Chicago Police Department in the wake of the murder of LaQuan McDonald.
A leaked memo from a top Republican adviser tries to tell vulnerable Senate candidates how to deal with the possibility that they’ll be stuck with Trump on the top of the ticket.
Two months after seemingly promising to remain loyal to the Republican Party, Donald Trump is again refusing to rule out an independent run for the White House next year.
A new poll shows that Democratic voters are less engaged in the 2016 campaign right now than Republicans are, but that probably doesn’t mean that much for next year.
Whether they like it or not, it’s becoming quite apparent that Republicans may have to get used to the idea that Donald Trump really could be their nominee next year.
Polling shows that Republicans increasingly see Donald Trump as Presidential and trustworthy. The rest of America disagrees.
Donald Trump and Ben Carson remain at the top of the Republican Presidential field heading into the second debate on Wednesday.
Two candidates with no political experienced whatsoever are tied in Iowa as Republican voters continue to reject anyone with political experience.
Donald Trump is still in the lead of the Republican circus, but the rest of the field remains uncertain in the wake of the first debate.
There have been some changes in the race for the Republican nomination.
It’s a Donald Trump debate, where the facts are made up and the truth doesn’t matter.
The low-polling candidates met in an early debate. It was about what you’d expect.
Donald Trump is center stage, John Kasich is in, and Rick Perry is relegated to the kid’s table.
The last three polls to be released before Thursday’s debate show Donald Trump continuing to solidify his lead.
The first of a series of polls in anticipation of next week’s debate shows Donald Trump still at the top, with a surprise coming out of Ohio.
The current Republican primary polls are “measuring a unicorn electorate” yet effect the outcome of the race.
A police officer in Cincinnati has been indicted for murder in a case that seems to be a pretty clear cut example of improper use of force.
With just over a week to go, Republican candidates for President are fighting for the movement in the polls that could get them in to the August 6th debate.
His remarks about John McCain’s military service don’t seem to be hurting Donald Trump with Republican true believers.
Ohio Governor John Kasich looks good on paper, but his campaign seems as though it’s unlikely to get out of the starting gate.
Despite his remarks about John McCain, Donald Trump is likely to be around for some time to come.
Surely it’s time to put a woman on American currency again, but why go after Alexander Hamilton?
A Judge in Cleveland has found that there is probable cause to charge a Cleveland Police Officer with murder in the death of Tamir Rice, but that is hardly the end of the matter.
The Cleveland Police Department has agreed to submit to significant monitoring in the wake of a damning Justice Department investigation.
A Cleveland police officer has been acquitted of manslaughter and other charges in a case that resulted in the death of two African-American individuals.
With 14 candidates vying for the Republican nomination, TV execs are scrambling to make the debates watchable.
President Obama is taking steps to reduce police militarization, but there’s much more that needs to be done.
Lindsey Graham says that, if elected president, he would summarily kill anyone thinking about joining ISIS.
The Republican debate stage in 2016 is going to be even more crowded than it was in 2012.
The Baltimore Police Department will finally be under the Federal microscope. But it took the death of Freddie Gray for it happen.
There is no excuse for last night’s rioting in Baltimore, but that should not deflect attention from the problems with that city’s police.
Pundits and political scientists agree that, if the 2016 presidential election were today, we’d have a much better idea who would win.