Today’s New York Times has an interesting article on southerners’ (particularly Alabamians) views of the presidential election and Barack Obama’s race (Via TPM): “He’s neither-nor,” said Ricky Thompson, a pipe fitter who works at a factory north of Mobile, while standing in the parking lot of a Wal-Mart store just north of...
Obama Running Away With it Among Early Voters
From SurveyUSA via Fivethirtyeight.com: SurveyUSA has a lot of good habits as a pollster, and one of them is breaking out the results of early and absentee voting in states where such things are allowed. So far, SurveyUSA has conducted polling in five states where some form of early voting was underway. In each one, Barack Obama is doing profoundly better among...
An October Surprise McCain Ought to Pursue: Cheney Out, Condi In
Dick Cheney is experiencing a recurrence of a heart problem he’s been living with for some time: Vice President Dick Cheney will receive an outpatient procedure later Wednesday to restore his normal hearth rhythm after doctors found a recurrence of atrial fibrillation, the White House said Wednesday. “During a visit with his doctors this morning, it...
You Can Fool Some of the People Some of the Time, You Can Fool Seven Percent of the People All of the Time
From the New York Times/CBS Poll: a record 89 percent of Americans now say the country has pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track while just 7 percent of Americans say the country is going in the right direction Meanwhile, the electoral map looks very good for Barack Obama. Even Fox News analyst Dick Morris has produced a map showing Obama winning 396...
New NYT/CBS Poll Bears Out One of Clinton’s Laws of Politics
A new poll from the New York Times and CBS finds that The McCain campaign’s recent angry tone and sharply personal attacks on Senator Barack Obama appear to have backfired and tarnished Senator John McCain more than their intended target. . . After several weeks in which the McCain campaign unleashed a series of strong political attacks on Mr. Obama,...
