The final Des Moines Register poll before Caucus Night shows Donald Trump leading the GOP field, and Hillary Clinton with a narrow lead over Bernie Sanders, but much of the final outcome will depend on who shows up for the respective party caucuses.
With mere days until voting starts, the possibility of Donald Trump running the table in the February primaries and caucuses, or nearly doing so, is more and more likely.
With less than a week to go before the Iowa Caucuses, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are fighting a closely-pitched battle that will depend largely on turnout.
With less than a week to go before voting starts, Donald Trump continues to dominate the GOP race, with Ted Cruz the only candidate even close to looking like a viable challenger.
After grabbing a lead at the end of last year, Ted Cruz has seen Donald Trump completely reverse fortunes in Iowa with just one week to go before voting starts.
Hillary Clinton and Marco Rubio have won the endorsement of the Des Moines Register, but it’s unclear how much this will help their respective campaigns.
Marco Rubio’s campaign strategy depends on a lot of hope, and no small degree of ignoring reality.
Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders clashed in the final debate before the Iowa Caucuses in the context of a race that has appeared to become tighter than it was before Christmas.
With almost no sign that he’ll be able to turn his campaign around, many of Jeb Bush’s top campaign donors are looking to jump ship to other candidates.
The attacks on Ted Cruz’s eligibility to be President have no legal merit, but they appear to be having an impact with at least some Iowa voters.
Polling is continuing to show a tightening in the race for the Democratic nomination, even though most Democrats continue to believe that Hillary Clinton will be their eventual nominee.
There are signs that Ted Cruz’s rise in the Hawkeye State will be short-lived.
Rand Paul and Carly Fiorina are the biggest losers in the lineup for the latest Republican debate on Thursday.
The Democratic race in Iowa and New Hampshire is tightening, according to new polling, but this still seems to be Clinton’s race.
With under a month to go before voting starts, the race for the GOP nomination looks about the same as it did before Christmas.
Mike Huckabee says he’ll drop out if he doesn’t finish in the top three in Iowa. He should probably start packing his bags now.
As we head into Christmas, there doesn’t seem to be much peace on Earth or good will toward men among Ben Carson’s advisers.
Donald Trump remains firmly at the top of of the GOP field in what is likely one of the last polls of the GOP race for 2015.
Donald Trump and Ted Cruz are surging in state polls as we head toward the holidays.
We won’t have Lindsey Graham to kick around anymore.
If you were looking for evidence that the race for the Democratic nomination is basically over, you need look no further than last night’s Democratic Debate.
The first post-debate polls of the GOP race have more good news for Donald Trump.
Previewing the fifth Republican debate, and the last Republican debate of 2015.
A pair of new national polls shows a new trend in the GOP race heading into the final debate of 2015.
Ted Cruz surges to a lead in the latest Iowa poll, setting up a seemingly inevitable showdown between the Texas Senator and Donald Trump.
Rand Paul is likely to miss the main stage for next Tuesday’s debate, so his campaign is already calling on CNN to change the rules.
Ben Carson threatens to leave the GOP over recent reports about plans for a brokered convention, but with his poll numbers collapsing one wonders why anyone would care if he did.
The quadrennial fantasy of a brokered convention, which American politics has not seen since 1952, is rearing its head again, and it’s no more likely now than it was when we talked about this four years ago.
Notwithstanding the hopes of many Republicans, Donald Trump continues to be the person to beat in the race for the party’s 2016 Presidential nomination.
Donald Trump continues to have a commanding lead in the Granite State, but it’s unclear whether he can translate poll support into votes when the primary rolls around.
Donald Trump and Ted Cruz have mostly avoided attacking each other, but if the polls are any indication that detente may be about to come to an end in the Hawkeye State.
Donald Trump just keeps leading in the polls, and Republicans keep arguing that it can’t last.
The latest national poll of the Republican race shows Trump continuing to lead, Ben Carson fading, and Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio rising while the rest of the field is stagnant or sinking.
Chris Christie has gotten the endorsement of the biggest newspaper in New Hampshire, but it’s not clear that this will have any impact on the race.
Polls are quite useful in the right circumstances, but knowledge, complexity, and timing all have to be taken into account in determining what they are telling us.
The GOP “establishment” isn’t planning to take on Donald Trump directly and instead relying on Republican primary voters to come to their senses. They may be waiting for something that will never happen.
In the news from the campaign trail and in the polls, there are clear signs that Ben Carson’s days as a top contender in the GOP Presidential race are coming to an end.
Even as the focus of the Presidential race shifts to national security, Donald Trump continues to lead the race.
It’s Election Day in Louisiana again, and voters have the same crappy choices they usually end up with.
Different criteria than in the past, but there may not be much of a change in the participants.
Barring some event that would essentially be historically unprecedented, Hillary Clinton will be the Democratic nominee for President in 2016.
Seemingly disproving yet another round of predictions of his imminent demise, Donald Trump continues to dominate the race for the Republican nomination.
Well this could be a game changer.
Fluctuations continue, but the Republican Presidential field appears to be sorting itself out as we near the beginning of a new phase of the campaign.
Republican Matt Bevin picked up what comes as a surprise win to many observers, and that sets up a big fight over what had been a PPACA program that the White House has touted.
Republicans have apparently gone insane.
More good news for Hillary Clinton, and a sign that the race for the Democratic nomination, to the extent there really is a race at this point, is close to being over.
Donald Trump remains the favorite of those likely to vote in New Hampshire’s Republican Primary, but Marco Rubio is starting to inch up in the polls in the Granite State.
Marco Rubio has won the support of a top Republican donor and bundler, giving a much needed boost to his campaign.
