Race for the White House 2016


CNN Revises Debate Criteria, Benefitting Carly Fiorina

CNN has announced that they are revising their debate criteria, ahead of the next Republican debate on September 16. Under pressure from outside groups and the Fiorina campaign, the news organization said that polls from after Fox News’s presidential debate would be weighted more heavily. Previously, the breakdown was to […]


New Iowa Poll Shows Shrinking Clinton Lead

A new poll from the Des Moines Register and Bloomberg Politics shows more worrying signs for the Hillary Clinton campaign. The latest poll has Clinton under the 50% mark and holding only a single digit lead over her closest competitor, Senator Bernie Sanders (VT). This is one of the first […]


Governor O’Malley Attacks DNC Over Debates

  At the Democrats’ August meeting, each announced presidential candidate had a turn to speak. Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Martin O’Malley, Jim Webb, and Lincoln Chafee were all invited to speak before members of the Democratic National Committee. However, Webb did not attend, protesting the DNC’s fundraising agreement with the Clinton […]


Hillary Clinton Compares Pro-Life Republicans to Terrorists

  Speaking in Cleveland Thursday, Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton compared pro-life Republicans to terrorists. “Marco Rubio brags about wanting to deny victims of rape and incest access to healthcare, to an abortion. Jeb Bush says Planned Parenthood shouldn’t get a penny. Your governor right here in Ohio banned state funding for […]


Fox News Fights Back on Megyn Kelly’s Defense in Trump War

After Republican frontrunner Donald Trump unleashed another wave of attacks at Fox News host Megyn Kelly, the network responded in force Tuesday. First, Fox News head Roger Ailes released a strong statement that blasted Trump and called on him to apologize to Kelly. Although Ailes did acknowledge that Trump almost […]