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Rudy’s Frontrunner Status
An interesting NY Times piece today by Michael Cooper highlights the camapign's distorting the Giuliani fiscal record as NYC mayor (so that he doesn't have to rely...

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The Prince Of Darkness On Hillary’s Lead
He says that Dem insiders don’t consider it a big deal. Me neither… Democratic insiders who are not neutral in the presidential race do not t...

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Ron Paul: Will Online Turn Into Offline?
I’ve written about this pretty extensively now. Wired picks up the meme: Paul’s offline poll numbers remain low. Just 2 percent of Iowans surveyed at the end of July said they would vote for him in the 200...

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Who Do You Trust? Apparently Not Romney.
Gallup just conducted a recent poll about a few topics, and boy does Romney have some catching up to do. I guess the “empty suit” ...

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Sentiment On Withdrawal
From Chris Cillizza's WaPo poll analysis: Let's Parse the Polls! A look at the profile of the 29 percent who want to pull out all troops now produces a somewhat unconventional picture. Women are more likely tha...

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Why Won’t He Listen To US?
There’s an interesting meme bouncing around right now: Bush is so unpopular that he can do whatever he wants and not suffer any further ...

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Beyond Poll Numbers: Microtargeting Political Preference
As anybody in marketing will tell you, the targeting trend is going toward more and more personalized messages, or “microtargeting.” An...

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America Wants Troops To Come Home
The polls keep coming and the opposition keeps growing. Basically, America is pissed. From CBS: More Americans than ever before, 77 perce...

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New SUSA approval ratings of key senate targets
From SUSA's latest multi-state tracking polls. Most of the MoEs are around 4-5%. Trend lines are from 5/14. IOWA Harkin (D) | Tracking graph |...

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George W Bush determined to unite us.
On the eve of the 2000 election, George W Bush clearly articulated why we should vote for him, and why he should be our president: “Responsible leadership sets a ...

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Which poll comes from Fox?
Today, NBC/WSJ released a new poll showing Bush with a 29/66 approve/disapprove rating. The "approve minus disapprove" number is -37. In th...

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