A lot of people thought that 2004 would be the year illegal brown people scared rednecks into voting to reelect George W. Bush. How wrong they were. No, 2004 wasn’t the Yard Man Election, it turned out to be the year of the well-dressed confirmed bachelor. As Bush ran for his second term, by pure coincidence, eleven states had ballot initiatives to amend...

Diane Fanning is the kind of person every politician meets on the campaign trail. He or in this case she, labors under the mistaken belief that she is gifted with extraordinary insight and knowledge others simply don’t possess (despite having access to the same information). This misapprehension of reality leads, inevitably, to the kind of public display...

The election is still a month away, but it’s no longer close: Barack Obama is pulling ahead — way ahead of John McCain. In at least two states which haven’t voted for a Democrat in decades, North Carolina and Virginia, Obama leads by double digits. It’s tempting to believe that the Virginia numbers are a fluke or that the poll is an...

Political Wire reports on a new poll which finds Obama leading in….North Carolina: A new Public Policy Polling survey in North Carolina finds Sen. Barack Obama has taken the lead over Sen. John McCain for the first time, 47% to 45%. Key finding: “Over the last year there’s been a strong relationship between the number of North Carolinians...