2016 Campaign Watch

The New York Times has had two critical articles of U.S. Senator Marco Rubio in recent days, with one focusing on he and his wife’s traffic tickets over the past two decades and another on his personal finances. Both articles have been criticized and mocked extensively for their triviality, including by The Daily Show host John Stewart who had the following comments regarding the Times coverage, according to Politico:

The same Times report also found that Rubio used $100,000 from an ...

Larry Sabato is one of the more insightful political observers around, and yesterday he and two associates at the University of Virginia Center for Politics took to the pages of Politico to try to refute three items they consider to be myths regarding the 2016 presidential nomination contest. A few excerpts:

Myth #1: The giant Republican field is unpredictable, almost anybody’s game.

With 10 Republican presidential hats in the ring, and perhaps another 10 to come, we all know the GOP is ...

It was probably inevitable that one candidate would rise up to become the primary rival to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. At the moment, it looks like Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is the one making the strongest case to Democratic voters, at least judging by his performance in a Wisconsin straw poll:

Wisconsin straw poll surprise: A narrow Clinton win

Bernie Sanders scored 41 percent in a straw poll vote at the Wisconsin Democratic Party convention this weekend — finishing a ...