[OP: Sorry this post was such a mess for so long today! I went in to fix a glitch in the source link on my phone while I was away from home this afternoon and the formatting of the whole thing somehow got completely borked. I had to wait until I got home (just a few minutes ago) to get on an actual computer and fix it ( Read more... )

How do you predict a general election with Donald Trump ( Read more... )

Good news for those of us who live in fear of the words President Donald J. Trump: The latest batch of polling suggests that the presumptive Republican nominee is losing ground to Hillary Clinton, becoming even more unpopular among key demographic groups, and-perhaps most telling of all-facing a potential backlash to his hate-filled, xenophobic ( Read more... )

Among all of the nation's governors, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder has experienced the largest drop in support from his constituents as the Republican has struggled to handle the Flint water crisis ( Read more... )

Covering elections isn't only about math. Just ask Carl Diggler.


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What they really show is a candidate who hasn’t been attacked.

Trailing in the Democratic presidential race, Bernie Sanders has one last gambit. He wants to persuade the party’s superdelegates-officeholders, luminaries, and party officials who can vote at the convention-that he’s the Democrats’ best hope to win the general election. Never mind ( Read more... )

Donald Trump leads Hillary Clinton by 2 points in a head-to-head matchup, according to a new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey.

Trump gets 41 percent to Clinton's 39 percent in the new poll.This poll differs from recent polling, which all show Clinton, the Democratic presidential front-runner, holding a lead over her Republican counterpart. ( Read more... )