During the last Republican primary debate, the focus took a strange turn when Senator Ted Cruz was asked about his position that the Democrats’ efforts to equalize wages between men and women are just “political show votes.” Senator Cruz responded first with describing his mother, sister, and aunts—all of whom were single mothers—to show his … Read more
If he has nothing else going for him in the presidential race, Donald Trump has charisma. His provocative comments and trademark mannerisms grant him the power to elicit extreme reactions in the American people. According to polling since the beginning of the race, Trump’s primary basis of support has been coming from the far right of the … Read more
While tensions were certainly high between the GOP candidates during the third Republican Debate, in an unexpected twist, the GOP candidates launched most of their attacks on the CNBC moderators. What started out as a cordial affair gradually broke down as candidates began by accusing the moderators of asking malicious questions, and then eventually took the … Read more
Chris Christie entered Wednesday night’s debate with more on the line than any other Republican candidate. According to RealClearPolitics, Christie has fallen in the polls from a high of 20% in December 2013 to a paltry 2% average in the four most recent national polls. In fact, it’s easy to forget that less than a … Read more
Falsehoods, missteps, and exaggerations are endemic to all political debates, especially presidential ones. An informed viewer often times feels frustrated by the end of these discussions, annoyed especially by the candidate’s ability to say anything unchallenged. In the last Republican Debate, though, the moderators exhibited that same frustration and were able to press the candidates … Read more
Last week’s Democratic debate hosted in Las Vegas was an entertaining mixture of political theater, quips between the candidates, and most importantly, proof that a debate without the personal combat exchanges seen in the Republican debates is a much smarter debate. The civility of the discourse allowed the moderators to lean into the candidates about … Read more
After watching the first Democratic presidential debate, I am sure of one thing: the race to succeed President Barack Obama and become the standard bearer of the Democratic Party has come down to two people. Assuming Vice President Biden does not throw his hat in the ring, the Democrats are left with the 67-year-old former … Read more
The Democratic frontrunners, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, expressed a variety of policy differences at the first Democratic debate. The biggest difference between the two presidential hopefuls, however, was a deeper ideological one. While Sanders championed his democratic socialist views, Clinton presented herself as a “progressive who wants to get things done.” This division is … Read more
On Tuesday, October 13, at 8:30 p.m., the first of several Democratic primary debates kicked off, quite appropriately, in Las Vegas—the perfect location for the event’s despairing losers to gamble and drink away their pain. Despite nearly two hours of unenlightening, repetitive, circumlocutory debate, minimal new information came to light and no poll standings changed substantively. In spite … Read more
Former Governor of Rhode Island Lincoln Chafee had one of his only opportunities of the 2016 campaign to make a name for himself at last week’s Democratic Debate on CNN. In the shadow of the Clinton-Sanders battle, and with poll numbers hovering around one percent, Chafee had nothing to lose and everything to gain. At … Read more