The contests this Saturday have the potential to end one or more Republican candidacies, while Hillary Clinton is faced with a stronger than expected challenge from Bernie Sanders, who proudly describes himself as a “Democratic socialist.” However, Saturday’s contests are unique in that Democrats and Republicans are not competing in the same states on the same days. […]

Now that the New Hampshire primary has concluded, with (as this article is being written) 89% of the vote counted, what are the takeaways? Republicans (1) Essentially, the deck has been reshuffled, as New Hampshire once again has contradicted Iowa’s results; (2) After Iowa, we had noted the existence of three candidate “tracks”: the “Trump […]

Tomorrow, the Presidential contest moves to New Hampshire for its “first in the nation” primary. Three things that are important to understand about New Hampshire: (1) Independents are 44% of the electorate (30% are Republican, and 26% are Democrat), and can vote in (and influence) either party’s primary, (2) New Hampshire voters are less ideological and religious than Iowa, and (3) the […]

It’s countdown time: the Iowa caucus is eight days away on February 1, followed by the New Hampshire primary on February 9. And while a numerical majority of the individual Presidential contests will be held throughout the month of March, it is the Iowa and New Hampshire contests that will winnow down the field and […]