The fact that the usual suspects responded in the usual ways to President Trump’s State of the Union speech does not make their analyses wrong – it just makes them predictable, and thus a less useful barometer for how the speech played outside the NYC-……Continue Reading The State of the Union, According To Trump! Hallelujah (Sort of)!
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Why Clinton Supporters Shouldn’t Panic
First the bad news for Clinton supporters. The national polls have indisputably tightened since Clinton’s peak post-convention bounce in early August. On August 8, the HuffPost aggregate polling had her up by 8.4%, 48.3%-39.9% over Trump, consistent with pundits’ predictions that this would be a blowout election. As of today, however, her aggregate lead is down […]…Continue Reading Why Clinton Supporters Shouldn’t Panic
Why They Really Support Trump: The View From The Campaign Trail
Last Saturday I attended a Trump rally in Windham, New Hampshire – a relatively affluent town (median income was $127,868 in 2014) of just under of 15,000 people located in the southern portion of the Granite State. Regular readers will know that I’ve attended several Trump rallies, but this was the first one since I […]…Continue Reading Why They Really Support Trump: The View From The Campaign Trail
What I Saw in Cleveland: Trump Rocked, But Can He Roll?
The measure of an effective convention is the size and durability of the boost (if any) it produces in the nominee’s support. Early polling results suggests Trump may have received a small boost in his support from the recently-concluded Republican convention, mostly from previously undecided Republicans, but it’s still too early to judge whether, and […]…Continue Reading What I Saw in Cleveland: Trump Rocked, But Can He Roll?
Does Trump Have His Eye On The Newt?
We have entered a political lull between the period in which Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton became their party’s presumptive nominees and the party conventions signifying the kickoff to the general election campaign. In a bid to drum up items of interest during this slow news period, the media will spend an inordinate amount of […]…Continue Reading Does Trump Have His Eye On The Newt?
Why Trump Is Losing…er….Winning This Race
Donald Trump is losing the presidential race. I know, because the pundits are telling me so. According to them, Donald Trump has endured a very bad week – no, a very bad month! – one that has severely damaged his presidential candidacy. Beginning with his questionable attack on the ethnic heritage of Judge Gonzalo Curiel, […]…Continue Reading Why Trump Is Losing…er….Winning This Race
Is Trump More Honest Than Hillary?
The latest Quinnipiac nationwide survey of registered voters has Hillary Clinton holding a slight lead over Donald Trump, 45%-41% (margin of error of +/- 2.5%). That’s consistent with the polling averages at Huffington Post, which have Clinton up 42.7%-40.8%, and at RealClearPolitics, which has Clinton leading Trump 44%-42.5%. Of course, as I’ve noted before, head-to-head […]…Continue Reading Is Trump More Honest Than Hillary?