With less than three months until the election, Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has still yet to spend a dime on TV commercials. The sum — or lack thereof — was confirmed in a recent update from NBC News and tracking firm Advertising Analytics, which have been jointly charting spending throughout the election cycle.
New school year, new survival strategy. Faced with declining enrollment and a growing challenge from independent charter schools, the Los Angeles Unified School District opened the academic year Tuesday highlighting one balm for its problems: 16 new magnet schools. The nation’s second-largest school system hopes to replicate its established, successful magnets — which have strong test scores, diverse student bodies and waiting lists.
BROWNSVILLE – Until the day she was arrested, 53-year-old Vicenta Verino spent years canvassing poor, elderly and mostly Latino neighborhoods, harvesting mail-in ballots for candidates who paid her to bring in votes. Her crime: unlawful assistance of a voter, an offense that would not have been prevented by the state’s voter ID law.
wo election experts from opposite sides of the country met Tuesday at the Hammer Museum to discuss the factors which may lead to a close victory for Hillary Clinton in November’s presidential election.
CLEVELAND, OHIO — Ohio residents Art Ledger and John Meehan disagree often: on whether to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, on how to address gun violence, and, yes, on whether the United States is ready for a female president. In online communities and dining rooms across the country, disagreement on any sensitive topic […]
UCLA’s Lynn Vavreck and American University’s Allan Lichtman explain why The 2016 presidential race was primed to be a “squeaker,” even before Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump became the chosen candidates, said Lynn Vavreck, UCLA political science and communication studies professor, based on objective data and dispassionate interpretive keys that have nothing to do with […]
“Even more surprising was the way Trump weaved national security into his messaging on race, ethnicity, and identity. It was a surprising messaging package because of its explicit nature. I would have expected to see this played with much more subtlety. I was also shocked that so many people thought this kind of rhetoric was […]
Late last week, WikiLeaks released private emails stolen from the Democratic National Committee. Experts suspect the documents were obtained by hackers affiliated with the Russian government. Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager has even charged that the Russians are trying to use the emails to help elect Donald Trump.
Supporters of Donald Trump got an unexpected plea on Saturday: a request to send the billionaire money. It was an “emergency” request, the Hill reported, representing an urgent need for an infusion of $100,000 to put ads on the air in battleground states. Why Trump couldn’t simply write a check to cover the costs apparently wasn’t explained, […]
Donald Trump descended the famous escalator in Trump Tower one year ago Thursday to launch a presidential campaign that seemed so outrageous, provocative and unconventional that it was dismissed as reality television. A year later, Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee. His showman style — with its brass-knuckled tactics, defiance of decorum and itchy-Twitter-finger approach […]
