There’s no happy ending for the GOP
Coming off of yet another rough week, Donald Trump still trails Hillary Clinton in the race for the White House, by an average of six percentage points in national polls…
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Polls can’t move fast enough to catch the Twitter-speed of Trump’s nuttiness
The results are in: Donald Trump‘s modest post-convention bounce was wiped out by Hillary Clinton‘s larger post-convention bounce. Now practically all convention news has been wiped out by Trump’s own erratic behavior….
Fixing a broken system
Politicians and pundits love to rail on the fact they feel Washington is broken and the system needs fixing. Entire campaigns have been built around the notion of becoming a…
Trump fans are in for a rude awakening
Rally turnout has scores of Donald Trump supporters believing that something is amiss, that the polls are not polling —œWe The People—£ and are some how intentionally ignoring all of…
Does The VP Pick Even Matter?
Is it Pence? Is it a Gingrich? Is it a real pirate or a pretend pirate? Are the stormy GOP waters calm now by the soothing presence of a not…
The baggage of feminism
While gender equality receives widespread support among young women, many have mixed views on feminism. Despite the push by celebrities and pop culture to make being a feminist en vogue,…
Why women should run
When Hillary Clinton accepted the Democratic nominee for president, she made much of the fact that she had cracked one of the “highest and hardest” glass ceilings. As of Feb….
Trump’s immigration ‘softening’ changes nothing with voters
Today in Arizona, Donald Trump will deliver a speech laying out further details about his immigration policy. Thus far defined primarily by his promise to “build a wall” along the…
Whoa! New website for The Pollsters
Whoa! The Pollsters just got a shiny new website just in time for Campaign 2016. Now you can find all of our podcasts, our lovingly written show notes, and links to the…
We’re now part of the Panoply network!
We’re part of the Panoply network of awesome podcasts, including the Slate family of shows, and shows like You Must Remember This & Rookie. Check out their lineup here. Thanks for…