By ThePresidentialCandidates.US on Nov 19, 2008 in Barack Obama | 7 Comments
With the massive failure of George W. Bush’s presidency over the last 8 years and failure of the GOP’s usual character assassinations during this election, the Republican party finds themselves in danger of becoming a fringe party at worst and a regional party at best. If the nonsensical reaction to Obama’s landslide victory is any [...]
By ThePresidentialCandidates.US on Nov 17, 2008 in Barack Obama | 0 Comments
Although it seems somewhat crazy to already be polling approval ratings for someone who will not even become President for another two months, that’s exactly what Rasmussen Reports is doing. On 11/6, Obama’s approval rating was at 52% (closely corresponding to the 53% Obama won in the popular vote.) As of 11/17 (today) that approval [...]
By ThePresidentialCandidates.US on Nov 12, 2008 in Barack Obama | 0 Comments
This site will be going on a hiatus until action heats up for 2012. Obviously it’s hard to project much about the 2012 election at this time. What we do know is that unless something tragic happens, Barack Obama will be the Democratic nominee. We also know that all of the attacks used against Obama [...]
By ThePresidentialCandidates.US on Nov 12, 2008 in Barack Obama | 2 Comments
The final popular vote spread from the RealClearPolitics.com poll average was Barack Obama +6.5, the final spread at Pollster.com (which includes more polls than RCP) was Obama +7.6, and the final projection from FiveThirtyEight.com was Obama +6.1 The (not quite) final actual popular vote? Obama by 6.5 So much for the Bradley effect and the [...]
By ThePresidentialCandidates.US on Nov 5, 2008 in Barack Obama | 1 Comment
Pollster.com is a site which takes all of the polls and averages them together. In this entry I’m going take a look at the Pollster numbers state by state vs the results. Obama’s advantage (or disadvantage) in each state in the polls vs. the results: STATE: polls vs. results (Obama under or over perform) Alabama: [...]
By ThePresidentialCandidates.US on Nov 5, 2008 in Barack Obama | 1 Comment
As I’m sure you are well aware, Democrat Barack Obama won the election yesterday handily both in the popular vote and in the electoral college. The numbers are not yet final as we are still waiting to find out who won Missouri (McCain has a small lead) and North Carolina (Obama has a small lead.) [...]
By ThePresidentialCandidates.US on Nov 3, 2008 in Barack Obama | 1 Comment
Tonight at midnight Barack Obama became the first Democrat since Hubert Humphrey in 1968 to win Dixville Notch, NH with 15 votes to John McCain’s 6 votes. 21 votes? Yes, all 21 of Dixville Notch’s registered voters made their voices heard. The tiny town has a long tradition of holding tallying their votes before anyone [...]
By ThePresidentialCandidates.US on Nov 3, 2008 in John McCain | 2 Comments
Sarah Palin appeared on the SNL special tonight and in a live sketch (via satellite) that was apparently supposed to be funny but was instead actually quite creepy. Watch it here: Go to VoteForChange.com to find your polling location.
By ThePresidentialCandidates.US on Nov 3, 2008 in Barack Obama | 0 Comments
Barack Obama’s grandmother died today. Her name was Madelyn Dunham and she was 86 years old. She had been battling cancer. Obama had taken a couple of days off from the campaign in late October to visit her in Hawaii because he wanted to be sure to see her before she passed away. She had [...]
By ThePresidentialCandidates.US on Nov 3, 2008 in Barack Obama | 0 Comments
These national polls were all released today: Gallup: Obama +11 Rasmussen: Obama +6 Zogby: Obama +7 Research 2000: Obama +6 NBC/WSJ: Obama +8 Diageo/Hotline: Obama +5 Battleground: Obama +6 DCorps: Obama +7 AVERAGE: Obama +7 Of course the only poll that really matters is the one on November 4th (that’s TOMORROW!) Make sure that you [...]