Brendan Nyhan

Month: February 2016

  • New NYT: Hillary Clinton’s flawed message

    From my new Upshot column: Political campaigns are supposed to promise hope and change, but Hillary Clinton is not offering enough of either — one of the most important reasons that she barely won Iowa and lost by a wide margin to Bernie Sanders in New Hampshire.

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  • New NYT: The downside of dynastic politics

    From my new Upshot column: Why have Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton struggled so much during this campaign? It might seem as if the public is weary of Bushes and Clintons and has turned against dynastic politics, but voters don’t usually punish politicians for being members of political families. Becoming a long-term member of the

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