And it's a good idea to snapshot these scurrying beasts before they run off and sample the race now that Paul "Medicare Crusher" Ryan is Romney's pick for Vice Presidential nominee. This way next week we'll have a clean picture of how that choice has affected the race.

There were eight polls via Pollster.com and Real Clear Politics this week ( ( Read more... )

While I got to not rest for a week at BARGE. But now it's back to data crunching. There were five national data points last week: Rasmussen Tracking, Gallup Tracking, YouGov, PPP, and Democracy Corps. There was also a Pew poll released this week which was, however, dated last week, which I did not count (even though it has Obama +10 over Romney ( Read more... )

A mere six national polls from last week. The average:

Obama : 46.7
Romney: 44.3

Lined up with previous weekly polling averages:

Obama : 46.7 44.3 46.7 47.4 47.3 46.8
Romney: 44.3 44.4 44.3 45.0 44.3 44.3

Best news for Obama: Latest poll in Ohio showing him up by 6%, boosting the RCP average to 4.9%. For Obama, win Ohio, win the election ( Read more... )

Another six national polls to average.

Obama: 47.3%
Romney: 44.3%

Compare with last week's average:

Obama: 46.8%
Romney: 44.3%

The big news for Obama: he might have a shot at Arizona.
The big news for Romney: he edged ahead of Obama in Florida.

Its only April, but we have no less than six very recent polls pitting President Obama vs. Governor Romney -- Gallup, NBC/WSJ, PPP, Quinnipiac, Rasmussen, and YouGov. Averaging ( Read more... )

You are the most vile, unprofessional ,and despicable member of the US House of Representatives.

Florida US Congressman Allen West, in an email to Florida US Congresswoman and Chair of the Democratic National Committee Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, cc'ed to the leadership of the House of Representatives.

PoliticoAnd they just keep coming... Perhaps ( Read more... )

If the United States were as dense (population-wise!) as New Jersey, we'd have three and a half billion people.

(Alternatively, using Florida, we'd have one billion people).

Via Yglesias

And it had three surprising results ( Read more... )

The Obama administration parceled out $2 billion Monday for high-speed rail projects in the Northeast, Midwest and California, repurposing a pot of funds rejected in February by Florida's new Republican governor...

California got $300,000,000 of the $2,000,000,000 Florida's governor left in a paper bag in a classroom sent back to Washington with ( Read more... )

China is in control of the Panama Canal. -- Allen West, Republican Congressman from Florida

No musician's lyrics are more often cited than [Bob] Dylan's in court opinions and briefs

Via Daily Kos