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What the First Democratic Cattle Call Reveals About the State of the Presidential Race
Hours before the first face-off of the Democratic presidential campaign, former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley stood in the far left corner of the White Star Ale House, a sleek bar in downtown Cedar Rapids, greeting a line of voters, some committed, others not so much.
Read More >>The Candidates Who Can’t
Which presidential candidates have a low to nonexistent chance of winning?
Read More >>2016 Predictions Require Caution
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 ... Read More >>
Here’s the Real Reason Hillary Clinton Has a Lock on the Democratic Nomination
Hillary Clinton is a near-lock for the Democratic nomination for many reasons, but among the most significant is that her challengers have minimal appeal to the party’s base of African-American voters.
Read More >>Jim Webb Announces Presidential Campaign
Former Virginia Senator Jim Webb announced his campaign for the White House yesterday, using a post on his campaign web site’s blog to break the news. The Washington Post reports:
In uphill 2016 bid, Jim Webb brings conservative bent to Democratic field
Former Virginia senator Jim Webb announced Thursday that he will run for president, setting himself on an uphill trek for the Democratic nomination with little national name recognition and scant financial support.
Webb adds a decidedly more conservative option for Democratic voters ... Read More >>
Jeb Bush, Donald Trump lead GOP candidates, still trail behind Hillary Clinton: poll
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and real estate mogul Donald Trump lead the GOP presidential candidates in a new CNN/ORC poll released Wednesday, but the poll shows they both still lag behind former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, a Democrat.
Read More >>Jim Webb emerges as conservative summit’s favorite Democratic candidate
Former Virginia Sen. Jim Webb won the Western Conservative Summit Democratic
presidential straw poll Sunday, running well ahead of former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.