Dec 25 Are Americans comfortable with political dynasties? By Nancy Benac, Associated Press The Bush and Clinton families keep popping up when it comes to picking a president. It turns out that even though Americans profess to reject dynasties, in politics they're quite comfortable with familiar names. Continue reading
Dec 16 How serious are Jeb Bush’s first steps toward a 2016 presidential campaign? By Ayan Sheikh The PBS NewsHour spoke with Washington Post’s Dan Balz on Jeb Bush’s potential quest for the White House, the first steps politicians take to jump start a presidential campaign and the possibility of another Bush-Clinton bout. Continue reading
Dec 08 Not the way women wanted to make history this election By Domenico Montanaro, Rachel Wellford, Simone Pathe Yes, there’s a recount in an Arizona House race ongoing, but for pretty much all intents and purposes, the runoff election in the Louisiana Senate race Saturday put the final nail in the 2014 midterm elections. Continue reading
Dec 03 The political complications of a ‘Clinton Doctrine’ By Domenico Montanaro, Lisa Desjardins, Rachel Wellford, Simone Pathe Today in the Morning Line: Clinton talks foreign policy GOP nod is still anyone’s guess House and Senate vote on tax extenders today The Clinton Doctrine: Hillary Clinton leads in all major polls for the Democratic nomination — and not… Continue reading
Nov 12 2016 is all about Hillary Clinton and the GOP drama By Domenico Montanaro, Rachel Wellford, Simone Pathe If she were a Republican, she’d be the elephant in the room. In many ways, the 2016 election is all about Hillary Clinton. She leads in all the polls. Republicans have been taking aim at her since she stepped down… Continue reading
Nov 09 GOP’s successful midterm showing shapes 2016 presidential race By Steve Peoples and Ken Thomas, Associated Press The 2016 presidential race was about the new Republican-controlled Congress even before the polls closed Tuesday night. As the GOP rout became clear late on election night, would-be Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton found herself with a ready-made foil in… Continue reading
Oct 31 Gwen’s Take: The Year of the Woman Redux By Gwen Ifill On back-to-back days this weekend, I found myself covering a woman candidate who was furiously peddling herself — to women voters. Continue reading
Oct 31 Forget 2014, everyone wants to talk about 2016 already By Domenico Montanaro, Simone Pathe The presidential election has begun already, right? We are still four days from voting happening Tuesday to decide these much poured-over midterm elections. And yet, there are a slew of headlines already about the next presidential election. Continue reading
Oct 10 Clinton documents show how the White House closed ranks during the Lewinsky scandal By Ken Thomas, Associated Press The papers include lists of talking points, questions prepared for media interviews and efforts to defend the president against impeachment, part of 10,000 pages of records being released from the Clinton administration. The documents did not appear to reveal any… Continue reading
Sep 19 Watch Brooks and Dionne on ground troop debate, Hillary’s chances of running By PBS News Hour New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week’s news, including conflict over President Obama’s strategy to rule out the possibility of using ground troops against the Islamic State, what… Continue watching