2016 Campaign Watch

Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson is polling in the low-to-mid teens in many polls, and some are looking at him as a potential factor in the 2016 election. But while the former New Mexico governor’s small-government approach might seem a natural fit for many Republican voters, and therefore make him more likely to peel votes away from presumed Republican nominee Donald Trump, the polls suggest Hillary Clinton is losing slightly more votes than Trump, as an analyst at FiveThirtyEight.com shows:

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FBI Director James Comey yesterday announced that presumed Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton will not be indicted for mishandling classified information on her home-based private e-mail system. But as Chris Cillizza of The Washington Post observes, she’s likely to continue to be haunted by this issue:

Hillary Clinton’s email problems might be even worse than we thought

FBI Director James B. Comey dismantled large portions of Clinton’s long-told story about her private server and what she sent or received on it during a ...

Donald Trump‘s views and rhetoric on trade may bis apparently becoming a concern to Democrats, according to a Washington Post article this morning:

Trump’s anti-trade rhetoric rattles the campaign message of Clinton and unions

Of the many ways Trump, the GOP’s presumptive presidential nominee, has scrambled the 2016 campaign, it is his position on trade that has presented one of the most unexpected challenges for his rival, Hillary Clinton, the likely Democratic nominee. In an election season animated by economic anxiety, Trump, ...