Presidential Election Archive
Archives for February 2016


Hillary Clinton hasn’t been declared the winner in the Iowa caucuses, but she gave a triumphant speech late Monday night.


Why the guy who finished in third is being declared a winner.


Donald Trump’s campaign is all about how he’s a winner. So what does he do when he’s not winning?


Trump put a positive spin on his second-place Iowa finish, despite saying that anything but first place amounted to a “big, fat, beautiful waste of time.”


Yes, it seems stupid. But it’s worth taking seriously.


Schadenfreude at its best.


The rich’s tax cut is 103 times bigger.


Ted Cruz surprised pollsters and shocked the Republican establishment by taking first place in the nation’s first presidential caucus.


His new 19 percent federal sales tax would be a political disaster.

A deep dive into why, exactly, Iowa is so important.


Donald Trump has been leading all the latest polls.


Sanders spokesperson: “It’s sad and telling that their campaign doesn’t think they can win without these kinds of tactics.”


Things are not so straightforward as “the first place person did the best, the second-place person did the second best.”


Come for the Bernie-Sanders-as-Larry-David hilarity, stay for the great takedown of Donald Trump’s sexism.


Their answers were all over the map.