EPIC JOURNEY

This blog continues the discussion we began with Epic Journey: The 2008 Elections and American Politics (Rowman and Littlefield, 2009).The next book in this series is The Comeback: the 2024 Elections and American Politics (Bloomsbury, 2025).

Thursday, April 7, 2016

Concern About Crime is Up

At The Daily Beast last year, Lloyd Green said that crime would return as a major national issue. ` From New York to Chicago , Balti...

Cruz Trolls the Bronx

The New York Daily News reports: Ted Cruz got the Bronx cheer Wednesday from angry New Yorkers upset over the Republican presidential cand...

Explaining Cruz's Victory in Wisconsin

Nate Cohn writes at The New York Times : Donald Trump ’s loss in Wisconsin — his biggest defeat in a primary so far — is being interprete...

Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Trump, California, and Rotten Boroughs

At Western Journalism last summer, James V. Lacy made an important point about Trump's strength in California: Tim Donnelly is no Do...

Democrats: It's All About the Net

Sanders won the Wisconsin primary by a wide margin, about 55-43 percent. Because of proportional allocation, he won 47 delegates to Clinton...

Clueless Candidates

Besides populism, Trump and Sanders have something in common. They do not know what they are talking about. Jonathan Capehart writes a...

Tuesday, April 5, 2016

GOP Rotten Boroughs

David Wasserman writes at FiveThirtyEight about Trump’s “ rotten boroughs ." where mere handfuls of voters (relatively speaking) are k...

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