The Democratic mantra is "Nevada, Wisconin and Ohio." Sort of like "Tippecanoe and Tyler too." except much less catchy. Win those three states and Obama wins the Electoral College, barring some incredibly unlikely loss in a state considered true blue. The Republican mantra is "The state polling averages are wrong, Nate Silver is wrong, Intrade is ( Read more... )

Who better to and who better than me... to come up with programs to do away with Medicaid and Medicare?

Poll

Via The Nation

New polling has resulted in some signficant re-evaluations in the Senate races in MA and WI, and Nate Silver has come out with his Senate race ratings. I thought that I would redo my Senate ratings without first looking at 538's predictions, and see how we compared ( Read more... )

No one was resting this week. At least fourteen pollsters released national Presidential polls this week! They are not all to be found on RealClearPolitics, but I try to track them down wherever they try to hide. (The weirdest thing about RCP listings? They are happy to include statewide PPP polls for President, but they do not include the ( Read more... )

Latest Rasmussen poll out of Missouri for Senator ( Read more... )

In a question of overwhelming importance to the very fabric of our Republic, a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals panel this morning ruled 3-0 that there is no evidence that Nevada's law requiring 'None of the Above' to be a ballot choice is unconstitutional ( Read more... )

Do you consider the average politician to be ethical, or not?

Ethical: 21% 
Not ethical: 63%

Asked by PPP of Nevada likely voters.

Democrats got trounced. (Aside from the fact that they went six for six in New York State Assembly races ( Read more... )

The unexpected has become the expected, so expect the expected tomorrow. Two Congressional special elections, one in NY-09 and the other NV-02, will roll tomorrow, along with six special elections for the New York Assembly, the latter of which I know nothing about except that most of them seem to be in or around New York City ( Read more... )

Democrats could not keep their New Hampshire special elections streak going. The Republican won by a convincing margin, despite 17% of the vote going to the Libertarian. See here for some background. There is one more New Hampshire special election scheduled in the near future, on September 20th ( Read more... )