A new slant on the US presidential race

Washington

I was watching President Barack Obama address the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, last week with a veteran journalist who has covered presidential election campaigns since the 1970s, and was hoping to pick his political brain and figure out what was going on and what was going to happen.

Didn't the 2016 presidential campaign remind him of the 1980 race to the White House, I wondered - pointing out …