Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Recent Surveys Show Scott Brown Falling Well Short Of Markers Set By Romney, Ayotte In New Hampshire

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Photos from left to right courtesy of Just Jared, Gretyl Macalaster, and Marc Nozell. Apologies for not being able to resist the gratuitou...

"No Man Is A Hero To His Valet" - The Home State Voter Phenomenon In Presidential Politics

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The meaning of the proverb in the title above, as applied to the topic of this piece, is that no politician is a hero to his constituent...
Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Another Special Election Proves To Be Too Tricky For PPP, while Red Racing Horses Finally Shines

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2010 Democratic nominee for Governor looks sternly at her opponent during that race. Her loss last night seems all the more surprising, gi...
Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Ann Richards, She Is Not: Ominous Signs For Wendy Davis On Texas Primary Night

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Photos courtesy of Bettmann/CORBIS and Erich Schlegel/Getty Wendy Davis, as beloved by the liberal grassroots , Hollywood left , and ab...
Friday, February 28, 2014

Newest Michigan Senate and Governor Poll Provides A Great Lesson On Identifying Outliers

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Photo courtesy of A.P. One of the brightest spots for Republicans in the 2014 midterm cycle thus far has been the unexpected competitiv...
Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Buoyed By 2008-like Racial & Partisan I.D. Survey Findings, Sen. Mary Landrieu's Still Locked In A Tight Battle

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Cassidy and Landrieu are locked in a tight battle, though it's Phil Robertson who appears to be the strongest candidate to take on the...
Thursday, February 20, 2014

Predictive Power of (Very) Early Presidential Primary Polling Part VI - The Nominees That Came Out Of Nowhere

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Former Gov. Mario Cuomo (left) was mentioned as a possible presidential contender on three different occasions, and was a polling frontrun...

The Predictive Power of (Very) Early Presidential Primary Polling Part V - 1980 & 2012 Republican Primaries

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Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford were interparty rivals for two consecutive primary cycles. Ford won their first encounter. The two were esse...
Thursday, February 6, 2014

Palin Nearly Ties Senator Begich in Democratic Poll, & the Crosstabs Indicate Room For Growth

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PPP finds that Palin's support among Conservatives, Republicans, and 2012 Romney voters is less unified than Begich's support amon...
Thursday, January 30, 2014

Republicans TIE Hillary Clinton In Latest 2016 Poll, Though Demographics Point To Friendly GOP Electoral Landscape

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The topsy-turvy nature of 2012 GOP primary polling looks to be repeating itself in the 2016 cycle. Seemingly out of nowhere, former Govern...
Thursday, January 23, 2014

Florida Governor Rick Scott Catches Ex-Gov Charlie Crist, In Spite Of Heavily Pro-Obama Electorate

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Photo courtesy of the AP/Steve Cannon. It's amazing what a year can do in politics. Last year about this time, still reeling from t...
Monday, December 2, 2013

It's Public Policy Polling vs. Quinnipiac University in Ohio...Again

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This isn't the first time the two reputable pollsters have presented wildly disparate findings . Though it's becoming standard...