Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
This morning, I read a fantastic article by Nathan J. Robinson in Current Affairs titled: Unless the Democrats Run Sanders, a Trump Nomination Means a Trump Presidency. Several months ago, I would have disagreed with this statement, but today I think it’s entirely accurate.
There are two opposing narratives among Republicans to explain how their party’s standard-bearer has lost the popular vote in five of the last six presidential elections, despite GOP dominance in state legislatures and governor’s mansions across the country.
Submitted by Raul Ilargi Meijer via The Automatic Earth blog,
A week after the New Hampshire Presidential Primaries, what lessons, if any, can we take from the dramatic victories of two outsider candidates? Former New Hampshire resident and occasional Automatic Earth contributor Nelson Lebo weighs in.
The new PPP South Carolina poll was conducted entirely after Saturday’s debate, and it appears that Trump suffered no damage from his criticisms of George W. Bush. Trump continues to lead with 35% to 18% for Cruz and 18% for Rubio. Iraq war dead-enders thought that Trump had finally gone too far, but that’s because they were judging his statements by their own very ideological and self-serving standards.
The race for the Republican presidential nomination went from circus to melee over the weekend.
The latest debate saw the candidates hurling insults at one another on stage in a truly epic (if absurd) verbal grudge match that at times appeared as though it might devolve into a fist fight. As Donald Trump acknowledged in an interview with CNN, the hopelessly contentious nature of the race threatens to weaken the GOP going into the national elections.