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New Ohio Polls Suggest Clinton Holding Steady
The latest polling in Ohio shows that the gap between Clinton and Obama, which had been narrowing over the last weeks, seems to have stabilized, or...

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Hillary Making Late Surge In Texas?
Could mw be right? Could Andrew Sullivan’s worst nightmares come true? Two polls show Hillary closing the gap and even leading in Texas. First, Public Policy Polling (pdf) shows H...

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Obama Supporters Want A Longer Contest?
Surprising findings from a recent Pew survey. Because while Barack’s supporters want superdelegates to follow the popular sentiment, th...

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Wanna Take A Survey About Politics?
I was contacted tonight by a student who’s trying to get some people interested in politics to answer a survey about the candidates, et...

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Rasmussen: Obama Leads Texas, Pennsylvania Now Tight
Remember, if Obama wins Texas, it’s all over. That’s been the Clinton campaign’s contention all along, and even Bill said if...

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Obama Gains Big In Pennsylvania
Another firewall state for Hillary seems to be fading away. From Quinnipac: Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, surging among younger voters, has cut Sen. Hillar...

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Hillary’s Male Problem
This is just one poll, but if the findings are correct it’s a significant reason why Dems should think twice about making Hill the hei...

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Half Of US Would Attack Iran?
That’s the latest from a poll conducted by USA Today and Gallup. Here’s more… While 46% of those surveyed say military action should be taken either now or i...

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Rudy’s Soft Underbelly
While it's fresh, check out the LA Times-Bloomberg poll on the three early contests. Like the analysis from last month on Rudy's Frontrunner Status,...

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2008 matchups in CA, OR, and WA
We've seen SUSA matchups in Missouri, New Mexico, and Ohio here, and Alabama, Kentucky, and Virginia here. Today, we have numbers from the L...

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Republicans Losing the Youth Vote
They had Gen X, but now the new youngins are particuarly disenchanted. From SFGate: Young Americans have become so profoundly alienated from Republican ideals on issues ...

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