Daily Kos Elections Weekend Digest: The state/national divide persists in battle for the White House
For the first time in recent history, Mitt Romney actually held the advantage in the majority of national polls released this week, besting the Democratic incumbent in five of the nine national polls dropped this week.
President Obama, however, still ...
Daily Kos Elections Polling Wrap: What’s the trend? It’s a tougher question than you think.
If you believe the House of Ras, over the last week the presidential election has moved clearly in the direction of Barack Obama, as a once-formidable Mitt Romney lead has evaporated. Fox News echoes that movement in the president's direction, though ...
Daily Kos Elections Polling Wrap: Bizarro world as Democrats hail great poll from … Fox News?!
Welcome to ass-backwards Wednesday, where Republicans breathlessly flog a CBS poll, while Democrats turn to Fox News for a counterpoint.
No shit. It's been that kind of a week on the political data front. Democrats took a number of hits this week from...
Daily Kos Elections Polling Wrap: Tuesday brings mixed signals all over the polling map
Some conventional wisdom got sorely tested today, in the relatively smallish sampling of polls released on this primary Tuesday (if you are voting in Nebraska, Idaho, and Oregon).
President Obama is in trouble!
(Unless you count New Hampshire, where a...
Daily Kos Elections Polling Wrap: Eyepopping downballot numbers kick off the week
While more attention will undoubtedly get paid to the presidential numbers today (including nearly a half-dozen new state polls that broke over the weekend), there are two sets of numbers downballot that ought to command quite a bit of attention, both...
The states to watch on Election Night 2012: Six months to go
Pennsylvania: From 1st place to 4th Place
Who is the new #1?!
For regular readers of these descents into electoral junkie-dom on Sunday Kos, they will note that this is the third installment in a series to determine, somewhat subjectively, what state...
Daily Kos Elections Weekend Digest: May 8 primaries bring another jolt to the 2012 cycle
Our status as political junkies, to say nothing of the 24-hour news cycle, has a tendency to desensitize us to major election-related news events. This week was an excellent case-in-point. By the time Indiana Sen. Dick Lugar conceded defeat on Tuesday...
Daily Kos Elections Polling Wrap: Rasmussen versus the world
Rasmussen's status as an infallible pollster to the right, and a inevitable source of derision to the left, has been well established for years. But, looking at some of their recent polling (most notably, their daily tracking poll of the presidential ...
