general election

Election Night 2014 was a triumphant night for professional Republicans. They had seemingly beaten back and vanquished the barbarians of whatever was left of the Thing That Had Been Called the Tea Party. They had run smart, slick, sane campaigns in purple states like Colorado. Most importantly, they had expanded their majority in the House of Representatives and won control of the Senate—an outcome that seemed well within their grasp during the previous midterm cycle of 2010.

Recently, we exposed the main reason people will be voting for either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton: simply to block the other candidate from winning.

Now we find the motivation behind the responses: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are set to be the two most disliked general election candidates of modern times.

It's not just "angry blue collar white men," that are supporting Donald Trump. Having received a record number of votes in a Republican nomination campaign and winning in some of the richest and best-educated counties in the country adding to victories in his more traditional strongholds of white working-class neighborhoods, statistician Nate Silver found - after reviewing exit poll data in 23 states - that Trump voters' median household income was higher than the median in every state, sometimes by a wide margin; and that 44% of Trump voters have c

Bret Stephens isn’t bothered by the prospect of a Clinton victory:

Submitted by Thad Beversdorf via FirstRebuttal.com,

I’ve been recently tracking the Presidential odds on PaddyPower, an Ireland domiciled online gambling site.  Here are the current odds: