Election 2016

According to a Reuters poll, Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee, held on to a 6-point lead over Republican rival Donald Trump. The survey, released Friday, came a day after she…

Photo: Michael Vadon While Donald Trump enjoys the last glow from his nomination at the Republican National Convention and returns to the campaign trail, others are talking about the possibility…

The Democratic National Convention (DNC) just finished. For four nights, the lineup of speakers highlighted an increasingly diverse country that could soon see the first female president. There was a…

International trade is shaping up to be one of the major issues in this year’s presidential campaign. Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, is squarely at odds with Republican groupthink…

When it comes to the emails in Hillary Clinton’s past, she surely wishes she could hit delete and make the whole thing go away.   Donald Trump, on the other hand,…

Throughout the primaries, Donald Trump regularly boasted that the polls showed him with a substantial lead over his rivals.   And the polls that didn’t?  Well, those he brushed off as…

Does Trump Put the “Don” in Donald? No doubt about it – Donald Trump tells it like it is.  He boasts that he’s not part of the establishment, and he’s…

image: Gage Skidmore He didn’t want to be Speaker of the House…but now he is.  When asked about becoming the presidential nominee in the event of a contested Republican Convention,…

As presidential candidates began to throw their hats into the ring almost a year ago, many Americans prepared to be bored.  After all, it looked like a long road ahead. …

Presidential election years tend to bring a lot of people out of the woodwork with opinions on who should be our next president – and why.  Most of them are…