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US Election 2016

Trump loyalists said the media focused on interpreting Mr. Trumps’ toxic rhetoric too literally rather than taking him seriously.  Despite polling data that indicated a Clinton victory, voters agreed and seem to have taken Mr. Trump seriously and not literally.  America now has its’ strongman and the world is anxiously …

“One of Mr. Lichtman’s “Keys to the White House” is the charisma of both the incumbent and challenging party’s candidate.  Mr. Trump has changed and defied the rules of conventional Presidential politics but remains disliked by many.  Mrs. Clinton, never charismatic, is also disliked.  Perhaps Mr. Licthman could add another …

Tomas Mega                                                                                                                                                                       The last weeks of July saw Americans enduring eight days of national political conventions, ending in the selection of the candidates to run for President.  As conventions go, they were similar in the pomp that cloaks all national political conventions, but they were historic …