2008 Pollster Report Card The table below is an assessment of pollster performance in the 2008 Presidential election. The pollsters were graded on both the accuracy of their final poll (popular vote) and the...
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As Mitt Romney was giving a speech in Jefferson County on Sunday night to open what will likely be the defining 11 days of his campaign, a new poll came out that is potentially worrisome for the Republican presidential nominee.It’s not the headline-grabbing 6-point...
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Thoughts on a few different stories:
Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin, a Democrat, is running for the Wisconsin U.S. Senate race against former governor Tommy Thompson. Thompson's campaign, though campaign senior adviser and spokesman Brian Nemoir, stated in an e-mail...
According to the Associated Press, Randy Newman is weighing in on the presidential election, and he's playing the race card through a song he wrote called "I'm Dreaming." The piano tune features the refrain: "I'm dreaming of a white president." It is full of satirical,...
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Quite a few Texas voters are seeing dead people in the mirror these days when they go to brush their teeth in the morning.In Houston, high school nurse Terry Collins got a letter informing her that after 34 years of voting she was off the Harris County rolls. Sorry."Friday of...
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The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows Mitt Romney attracting support from 48% of voters nationwide, while President Obama earns 45% of the vote. Two percent (2%) prefer some other candidate, and five percent (5%) are undecided. The...
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Bain Capital, the private equity firm co-founded by Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney – and portrayed by President Barack Obama’s supporters as a gang of corporate raiders – has pumped nearly $4.5 million into Democratic campaigns and causes, public...
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Who better understands American families, Barack Obama or Mitt Romney? Who would you rather lead us into war? Who’s a bigger liar? Are voters suspicious of Mormonism? And which candidate would win in a fistfight? Yahoo! News and Esquire teamed up to commission pollster...
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Hustler founder Larry Flynt has offered $1 million for damaging information about Mitt Romney's finances. Flynt detailed his offer in a full-page ad in Sunday's edition of The Washington Post. The ad will also run in Tuesday's USA Today, according to Adweek magazine. ...
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Is Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin facing a cash crunch? Todd Akin’s TV ads are, reportedly, being yanked from stations across the state because his campaign isn’t paying the bills.KOMU-TV in Columbia says it received half of the payment for an ad buy, and when it...
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Hundreds of millions of Americans will cast their ballots this November, but the votes that matter the most are cast by members of the Electoral College months later. As seen in the latest polls below, President Obama continues to hold a strong lead in the Electoral...
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Schedule and Moderators Announced for US Presidential Debates President Barack Obama and Joe Biden will face Mitt Romney and newly-minted VP pick Paul Ryan in a series of four televised debates. We'll be covering...
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Mitt Romney in London: Plenty of Room for Improvement As an American in London, Mitt Romney's closest analogue is Otto from A Fish Called Wanda. British Twitter users find the presidential hopeful to be amusing at...
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Mitt Romney's Family Spelling MONEY with T-Shirts: 'Shooped There's been a photo floating around Facebook recently depicting Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney and his family onstage at some sort of event, wearing...
Mitt Romney NAACP Video: That Could Have Gone BetterMitt Romney's attempt to make friends during a speech at NAACP headquarters did not go too well. It didn't help his case (or his image as an out-of-touch rich guy) that he described health coverage in America as...
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