In what was highly predictable, Donald Trump won each won all five Atlantic state Republican primaries tonight (Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Connecticut and Rhode Island). In the meantime, Hillary Clinton won the biggest Democratic prizes of Pennsylvania and Maryland plus Connecticut and Delaware. Bernie Sanders won just one state, tiny Rhode Island. While Trump still has […]
Even as he is poised to claim his biggest victory yet in Tuesday’s New York primary, Donald Trump is back on the warpath, this time against the Republican National Committee and what he has described as a “rigged” and “corrupt” nomination process. What particularly piqued Trump’s ire is the state of Colorado, which did not […]
Every once in a while, the universe gives you a mulligan. It could be a second ball off the first hole, a second chance at the “one who got away,” or a second run at the presidency (see Hillary Clinton). This is not a political piece. It’s a reflection on one of the greatest golf […]
After a furious four-week period in which voters in 30 states cast ballots for either the Democratic or Republican presidential nomination, we are now in a period of calm. For the Republicans, there is only one nominating contest in the next 21 days, the Wisconsin primary next Tuesday, April 5th and possibility of a contested […]
Tomorrow the citizens of two more states (Utah and Arizona) will cast ballots for one of the five remaining presidential candidates, with the Democrats also caucusing in Idaho. The Democratic race is functionally over. Even if Bernie Sanders wins every remaining state, Hillary Clinton will still be the nominee, short of a major development in […]
Tomorrow, the voters in five big, important states will state their preferences and have the potential to significantly alter the trajectory of the presidential derby. Those states, most of which will be swing states in the general election, are Florida, Ohio, Illinois, North Carolina and Missouri. Some are calling tomorrow Super Tuesday 2; I’m calling […]
From the very beginning of the 2016 race for the Republican nomination for President of the United States, I was touting the virtues of Ohio Governor John Kasich. I felt that the popular governor of a critical swing state who also had extensive experience in Congress on budget and national security issues had the perfect […]
It was a Super Tuesday for both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton as they trounced their less-famous rivals on the biggest day in the 2016 presidential campaign. The real estate billionaire won 7 out of 11 states on the Republican side while the former Secretary of State won 8 out of 12 contests on the […]
After months and months of campaigning, bloviating, debating and four state elections, the big one comes on Tuesday, when the voters in 12 different states cast their ballots for one of the seven candidates still running to be the President of the United States. This piece is straight analysis so there will be no Trump-Cruz-Clinton-Sanders […]
How angry are you? The 2016 presidential nominating contest has turned into a game of who can scream the loudest. Republicans are angry at Barack Obama. Democrats are angry about obstructionist Republicans in Congress. And the American people are angry at the entire political system. So, led by a red-haired bombastic billionaire and enabled by […]