I was not a really big fan of Rush Limbaugh’s “Operation Chaos”, but the fact is he led a sizable number of Repubs and others to register as Democrats in order to vote in the primaries. Here is one example of the havoc he was able to achieve: Joe Lenski, executive vice president of Edison […]

OK, this would be a stretch and a shocker to the dems, but there seems to be some indications CA may fall into the battleground state category: But Republicans aren’t giving up on California. California Republican Party chief operating officer Bill Christiansen said some private polls put the two candidates within five points of each […]

Been contemplating a post on polls and statistics for a few days now. The ebb and flow of the polls has me a bit perplexed. The national pattern is not synchronized with the state level polls.  Many key states are either in the “toss up” or very weak “lean” categories. normally blue states (e.g., PA, […]

Is Palin from small town America? Yes. Is she uneducated, blind to the larger world around her, unable to handle the give and take of politics? No. The jury is coming to a conclusion on Sarah Palin, but from what I can see from all those feathers she ‘ruffled’ in Alaska (e.g., the PSEA union […]

ARG is out with a bevy of national and state polls in the past few days which are interesting, to say the least. In the national numbers (note: scroll down to Sep 16th item) McCain is up 48-45, a 9 point shift since the end of August. But the internals are really interesting for Obama: McCain has gained […]

Charles Franklin over at Pollster.com has done some excellent analysis showing how the McCain-Palin wave is washing across the nation, not just in red states as the Obama campaign is claiming (in a clear fit of denial): Obama advisor David Axelrod is quoted in today’s Washington Post article by Dan Balz and Peter Slevin:     “I think […]

Some more poll news out today on the rising Palin wave amongst the electorate.  In Ohio Palin is deemed to be the candidate, among the top four, Americans most identify with (watch those attacks libs, you are insulting the electorate!): A factor in the GOP boost is that more respondents, 31%, identified Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as […]

Are biased polls going to shift reality or hide it? We will soon find out whether the 4th estate controls the mood of the nation or is really as out of touch as the Sarah Palin selection has shown this past week (is it only a week?). Jim Geraghty has some foreshadowing of two state […]

On Friday Obidenama had a 6 point lead in the newly launched Hotline daily tracking poll. Today that lead is gone and the poll shows a dead heat. Right in line with other horrible poll news coming out today. I think we can thank both Governor Sarah Palin for bring new blood and life to […]

Where is The Surge in McCain support coming from? Well, if you look at the latest Gallup numbers you see McCain-Plain taking all the undecideds – and then some: When McCain was last well up on Obama (Jan 08) undecideds where 5%. When Obama was well up on McCain (prior to GOP Convention) undecideds were […]