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March 2016

March 02, 2016

Super Tuesday results

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton were big winners on Super Tuesday. In the Republican race,...

March 02, 2016

Voting for authoritarianism

Free and democratic societies, historically, come to an end when the people freely and democratically...

March 01, 2016

Super Tuesday

This is a critical day for the presidential candidates of both parties. Today nearly half of...

March 01, 2016

Who should I vote for?

Today I cast my vote in one of the Super Tuesday primaries, along with lots...

February 2016

February 29, 2016

Political developments

(1) Former presidential hopeful New Jersey governor Chris Christie endorsed Donald Trump for president. This,...

February 25, 2016

Debate post-mortem

What are your thoughts on the Thursday night Republican debate? Who won? Who improved his...

February 25, 2016

Republicans debate tonight

The Republican presidential nominees hold their 10th debate tonight on CNN, starting at 8:30 p.m....

February 25, 2016

“We’re voting with our middle finger”

Donald Trump supports Obamacare, higher taxes, and gun control. He is weak on abortion, private...

February 24, 2016

Nevada results

Donald Trump won big in Nevada, taking 45.9% of the vote and winning 14 delegates....

February 23, 2016

Tonight the Republicans caucus in Nevada

The Democratic caucus in Nevada was last Saturday. Nevada Republicans caucus tonight. Trump, being a...

February 23, 2016

Dirty tricks

First the Cruz campaign circulated a false rumor that Ben Carson was quitting the race,...

February 22, 2016

The delegate math

We focus on the number of votes candidates rack up. But an Associated Press story...

February 20, 2016

Jeb Bush quits the race!

Jeb Bush has dropped out of the Republican presidential race. From: Jeb Bush suspends his...

February 20, 2016

Today’s South Carolina primary and Nevada caucus

The presidential race may get a lot clearer after today. We'll announce the results when...

February 19, 2016

South Carolina primary & Nevada caucus

Saturday is a big day for the presidential race. The Republicans will have a primary...

February 12, 2016

Clinton’s desperation

I missed the Democratic debate. What happened and where does it leave the Democratic race?...

February 11, 2016

Democratic debate tonight

The Democratic presidential candidates will clash tonight in a debate hosted by PBS at 9:00...

February 11, 2016

Christie, Fiorina quit the race

Showing that hurting your opponent doesn't necessarily help you, Chris Christie--who took apart Marco Rubio...

February 09, 2016

New Hampshire votes today

Today is the New Hampshire primary. The two scariest candidates, to many people's minds, are...

February 08, 2016

Fireworks at the debate

I missed the debate on Saturday, but I heard there were some fireworks. Everybody ganged...

February 06, 2016

Republican debate tonight

The Republican presidential candidates will be debating tonight, just before the New Hampshire primary on...

February 04, 2016

Rand Paul quits–what happened to libertarianism?

Rand Paul is dropping out of the presidential race. I'm disappointed. To me, he represented...

February 04, 2016

Rick Santorum quits–why Rubio benefits & not Cruz

Rick Santorum, who won the Iowa caucuses last time in 2012, has dropped out of...

February 02, 2016

Iowa results

Three Republican candidates rose to the top in Iowa, with a surprisingly close number of...

February 01, 2016

Iowa caucuses tonight

Tonight the presidential campaign, that has seemingly been going on for so long, gets started...

January 2016

January 29, 2016

Bernie Sanders is a “none”

Bernie Sanders finally said where he stood on religion. He is Jewish by birth, but,...

January 28, 2016

Live-blogging tonight’s Trumpless Republican debate

This may be a crazy night. Donald Trump is boycotting the debate on Fox because...

January 28, 2016

Republican debate tonight

The next Republican presidential candidate debate will take place tonight on Fox News at 9:00...

January 27, 2016

Weird political news

The political landscape keeps getting stranger and stranger. Three new examples after the jump.Donald Trump...

January 20, 2016

Ted Cruz on Christianity, Christians on Ted Cruz

Ted Cruz, like Donald Trump, is also talking a lot about Christianity. He says, "we...