2016 Campaign Watch

With the field for the 2016 nomination nearly filled out, political pundits and prognosticators of all stripes are making their assessments about who is a viable candidate and who is not, which “lane” a given candidate is competing in and who they might be blocking, and how the overall campaign is likely to play out. One prominent forecaster, Sean Trende of RealClearPolitics.com, takes to Politico Magazine this morning to urge a little caution about how much stock to put in ...
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Politico has two articles on Texas Senator Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign this morning, one highlighting a sophisticated voter profiling program being used to identify likely supporters and another suggesting some of his high-profile endorsers may cause him some embarrassment.

The first reports on the Cruz campaign’s use of a “psychographic” firm. For some reason the fact the company is owned in part by a Cruz donor is the focus of the story, but the really interesting part about the article is ...
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One month from today, ten Republican candidates for President will walk out onto the stage in Cleveland, Ohio for a debate. Left off of that stage will likely be six additional candidates. And that’s causing problems for some, according to Bloomberg Politics:

The Republican Debate Selection Process Is a New Wild Card in Presidential Politics

A month from now, 10 Republican presidential candidates will walk out onto a primetime debate stage in Cleveland and confront each other face to face for the first ...