Presidential Election Archive
Archives for September 2016

Getting attention made Trump successful — but picking on the less powerful now makes him seem scary.

“It’s not like I’ve said anything that could be so bad.”

It wasn’t audible on TV, but it did affect the sound in the room.


Female campaign reporters tell New York magazine what it’s really like at Trump rallies.

They think the GOP nominee has made a very damaging blunder.

He’s blowing a race that favors the GOP.

He started tweeting about the former Miss Universe just after 5 am.

Women’s magazines are a secret weapon in politics. Hillary Clinton has noticed.



Mark Rutte and Lars Løkke Rasmussen are the most libertarian prime ministers.

Presidents need to hear bad news. Donald Trump can’t handle it.

An analogy that gets something important right — and a lot wrong.


Looking at the cases for large effects, modest effects, and no effect at all

Johnson: “I’m having a brain…”