Welcome to the new party of Lincoln: President Obama and the Democratic Party opened their arms to Republicans — without compromising their liberal values. The Democrats make their pitch to a new silent majority: Obama and company have fashioned themselves into the party of common decency. Scott Lemieux on why the Left’s opposition to Tim Kaine is misplaced: As in so many things, it's the party, not the politician, that decides. Michael Bloomberg’s speech made the Hillary hater’s case for Hillary. Trump lies more often than Clinton, but Americans think she’s more dishonest — here’s why. Jillian Jordan and David Rand on the science behind Hillary Clinton’s problems with trust. For first time, Trump’s image on par with Clinton’s. Hillary Clinton is bad at speeches for the exact reasons she’d be a good president.
And then there was Trump: If you’re Hillary Clinton, how do you deal with an opponent for whom there is no precedent in presidential politics? Hillary Clinton is running not just as the Democrat but as the candidate of democracy itself. After lying low, deep-pocketed Clinton donors return to the fore. Jesse A. Myerson on an anti-Trump electoral strategy that isn’t pro-Clinton. Can the monster be elected? Michael Tomasky reviews The Gamble: Choice and Chance in the 2012 Presidential Election by John Sides and Lynn Vavreck and Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government by Christopher H. Achen and Larry M. Bartels. Michael Moore on 5 reasons why Trump will win. Ilya Somin on the logic of voting for a lesser evil. John Halle and Noam Chomsky on an eight point brief for LEV (Lesser Evil Voting).
