By Lanny Davis – 9/24/15 I have written before about the media’s anti-Clinton and pro-Sanders bias in reporting poll results in the Democratic presidential nomination contest. If you need any further evidence, take a look at the disparate media treatment when, in the last several days, Hillary Clinton’s poll results have been more positive, both […]
By Lanny Davis – 9/18/15 “Ray, people will come. … And they’ll watch the game, and it’ll be as if they’d dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick, they’ll have to brush them away from their faces. … The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has […]
By Lanny Davis – 9/1/15 Let’s start with hats off to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) — written by someone who is a longtime friend and strong supporter of Hillary Clinton — for the strong showing in The Des Moines Register’s most recent poll. The senator is now within 7 percentage points (37 percent to […]
By Lanny Davis – 8/25/15 You would never know it by reading the mainstream media or watching this morning’s or Sunday’s cable news hosts and talking heads doing their usual negativity pile-on about Hillary Clinton’s alleged troubles due to emails and a possible entry in the race, due to those alleged troubles, by Vice President […]
By Lanny Davis – 7/30/15 At about the same time Donald Trump was surging to the top of Republican presidential polls — after calling illegal immigrants from Mexico rapists and challenging John McCain’s heroism because he was shot down and imprisoned — Time magazine’s cover showed former President Bill Clinton, progressive Democrat, and former President […]
By Lanny Davis – 7/23/15 If there were any realistic alternative to having no nuclear deal with Iran — an alternative that seemed more likely to prevent or substantially delay Iran’s development of a nuclear bomb — I would oppose the Obama administration’s deal without any doubt. But I’m still yet to be persuaded by […]
By Lanny Davis – 7/16/15 On June 25, the results of two polls of likely New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary voters were published by their sponsors: CNN-WMUR and Bloomberg/Saint Anselm College. The polls were conducted during the same time period(the prior week), with a similar total sample of Democratic likely voters (about 400) and the […]
By Lanny Davis – 6/28/15 On June 9, 1954, Republican Sen. Joe McCarthy of Wisconsin, chairman of a House subcommittee investigating communism in government, was confronted by attorney Joseph Welch during nationally televised hearings. McCarthy had carried on his anti-communism innuendo campaign through congressional investigations for several years. Now, before a national audience, he attacked […]
By Lanny Davis – 6/26/15 As I watched Hillary Clinton deliver her formal announcement speech last Saturday at Roosevelt Island in New York City, I went through kind of a time warp. What year is this? I remembered the first time I met her: It was in September of 1969, when she was an incoming […]
By Lanny Davis – 6/25/15 “Mobs of reporters and cameramen and other Big Timers were out there wearing bush jackets with leather straps running this way and that and knocking back their Pepsi-Colas and Nehis and yelling to each other and mainly just milling about, crazy with the excitement of being on the scene, bawling […]