Not much has changed since the race for the Democratic Presidential nomination began over the summer. Former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Sen. Bernie Sanders still lead the field and the debate last night in Texas didn't change that. Elizabeth Warren's support has increased since June, but Biden retains the lead and support for he and Sanders hasn't changed much since the Spring. Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Kamala Harris had spikes after good debate p

The 2020 election cycle will kick into high gear this fall and all of us will be inundated with polling data about the upcoming congressional and presidential elections. Some of the head-to-head match-up polls [Joe or Bernie v. Trump, for instance] have very little value at this point in the race. However, even this far in advance, congressional generic ballot polling has been highly predictive in past elections. It's simply a measure of which party's candidate the respondent

Sen. Amy Klobuchar of MN got the biggest applause line in last night's first Democratic debate while also offering the most withering appraisal of Donald Trump's chaotic foreign policy. Star Tribune: "Klobuchar offered her sharpest words for Trump on foreign policy, saying he should not have backed out of the Iran nuclear deal and that he conducts international diplomacy haphazardly. “This president is literally, every single day, 10 minutes away from going to war,” Klobuchar

The first of many Democratic presidential debates will be held tonight in Miami. The top 20 candidates have been divided into two groups that will debate tonight or tomorrow. Joe Biden has been leading in the polling so far based on name recognition and his prominent role in the still very popular Obama administration. His closest competitors have been Sen. Bernie Sanders, the surprising Mayor Pete Buttigieg [whose name we may all learn to pronounce tomorrow], and Sen. Elizab