Month: August 2016

“The Donald Trump campaign is counting on “undercover voters” to win in November.” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/23/donald-trump-campaign-news-polls-kellyanne-conway

I confess that I struggle like an inept cultural anthropologist to understand the mindset of the typical Fox News viewer, but I wonder if there will be a difference in how the male and female fans of that network react to the...

So middleclass and underclass whites may have decided to stop being the veal pen for Republican elites?  Can they attract enough serious planners to actually gain power for some populist planks that are not idiotic? Might...

Nate Cohn: Mrs. Clinton is up by around seven percentage points in polling averages. But historically, a seven-point victory for the president’s party in the national popular vote is not the way to start a wave election. Richard...

I don’t remember another time that I was moved to re-blog something from Markos Moulitsas, but here it is. Donald is smiling, his son Barron is … sad and lonely way out there in the hinterlands, and Melania is...