This week in the War on Voting: Obama and House Democrats fight voter suppression
That's Dorothy Cooper, who you've met before. She's 96 years old and almost wasn't going to be able to vote this year because stringent new voter identification laws passed in her state, Tennessee, intended to, well, keep people from her like voting. ...
Daily Kos Elections Polling Wrap: Some states tighten, but road to 270 for Mitt Romney remains tough
A rash of new polling out today shows more good news for Mitt Romney than bad news. Quinnipiac has a big improvement for the GOP nominee in the key battleground states of Florida and Ohio, with Romney even moving into an incremental advantage in the S...
Daily Kos Elections Polling Wrap: Rare unity on the presidential trackers, but are they accurate?
For the first time, we get both uniform movement and results from the pair of daily tracking polls (Gallup and Rasmussen). Both of them edged incrementally in the direction of the president, and both polls also showed exactly the same result: a 46-46 ...
Daily Kos Elections Polling Wrap: The Rasmussen disconnect deepens
Critiques of Rasmussen polling from the left have become something of a time-honored tradition, particularly here at Daily Kos. Today, though, it is not just a matter of them being on an island. It is a matter of them showing two politicians at equal ...
Daily Kos Elections Polling Wrap: The presidential state of play on day #1 of the general election
So, I've been out of the loop a bit today. Has anything relevant to the 2012 election happen today?
Not that the primary wasn't already a done deal, but I suppose it's nice to make it semi-official. Unless, of course, you sense that the suspension of ...
This week in the War on Voting: Florida’s voter registration problem
Last year, Floridans enacted a voter registration law severely limiting the ability of third parties, like the League of Women Voters, to do the essential function of helping people register to vote. You might remember the case of Jill Cicciarelli, a ...
This week in the War on Voting: Blocking the electoral vote
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The Brennan Center for Justice has identified 189 electoral votes in 2012 coming from states with new restrictive voting laws.
Since the beginning of 2011, 13 states passed, or are on the verge of passing, restrictive voting laws tha...
Daily Kos Elections Polling Wrap: Mitt Romney can win the GOP primary. But can he win the general?
Apparently, I am no better than the rest of the traditional press. Just yesterday, I wrote the following:
The best Romney can hope for, and this is a very legitimate possibility, is that the media will treat the nomination contest as a non-event from ...
Daily Kos Elections Polling Wrap: The consistently inconsistent cycle continues
Mitt Romney scores a big, momentum building win! Only to lose the very next contest.
The Gallup tracker finally shows Romney putting some daylight between himself and Rick Santorum! Only to tighten back up in the next few days.
Rasmussen has Romney de...
