With not much to say about the 2012 presidential campaign in January of 2010 (Obama’s approval rating is at a decent 50% as of the most recent Gallup polling and he leads all potential Republican opponents in polls) it seems like a reasonable time to take a look back at the 2008 presidential campaign which […]

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 cellphone […]

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: -22 vs. […]

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.) […]

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 else. […]

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:

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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 […]

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 make your voice heard by voting. This is an historic […]

You know things are looking bad when your VP candidate is already making plans to run in the next election:

The latest (and last?) pathetic smear attempt on Barack Obama by the John McCain/Matt Drudge/Fox News campaign is that Obama will somehow “bankrupt the coal industry.” There’s one huge problem with this smear:
McCain has the exact same position as Obama on coal.

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