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Joshua Hersh

Afghanistan Shooting: Approval Of The War Is Down, But Is It Really Just Party Politics?

HuffingtonPost.com | Joshua Hersh | Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Public Approval of War in Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Polling Data, Democrats, Afghanistan War Approval, Afghanistan Shooting, Barack Obama, Republicans, World News

WASHINGTON -- The horrific killing of 16 Afghan civilians by an American soldier last weekend has exposed the war effort to renewed and deeper critici...

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Popular Vote v. Electoral College (Why The Media Badly Needs A History Lesson)

Mark Nickolas | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Polls, John McCain, National Polls, Harry Truman, Michael Dukakis, Obama Popular Vote, Media Coverage, Polling Data, Media, Electoral Map, Barack Obama, National Popular Vote, Polling, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, Electoral College, President Bush, Media Bias, Popular Vote, Politics News
Mark Nickolas

It's painful to watch these fools -- they don't know how a five-point popular vote victory almost always translates when it comes to the only metric that matters -- the Electoral College. (Hint: landslide).

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Emily Swanson

Exit Polls 2010: See The Results

HuffingtonPost.com | Emily Swanson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Election Night 2010, Exit Polls 2010, Exit Polls, Exit Polling 2010, Midterm Elections, Polling, Exit Polling, Elections 2010, Polling Data, Exit Polling Data, Pollster, Politics News

See exit poll reports below, or scroll down for a guide on how to read them (and why to treat them with great skepticism) WASHINGTON – Voters wer...

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Corporate Citizenship -- The Most Dangerous Game

Bryan Young | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Polling Data, Poll, Chevron, Corporate Responsibility, Salt Lake Oil Spill, Oil Spill, Corporate Greed, Utah Oil Spill, Green News
Bryan Young

Chevron is planning a bid to access natural resources in sacred parts of the state of Utah and wants to bolster public support by dropping a string of donations around town. They are vultures, make no mistake.

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Mark Blumenthal

Democratic Surge? Part II

HuffingtonPost.com | Mark Blumenthal | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Polling Problems, Gallup Poll Democrats, Gallup Poll, House Vote, Polling, Politics Polling, Democrat Polling, Polling Data, Pollster, Politics News

Last week, I argued that a reported “jump” for Democrats in Gallup’s weekly tracking of the national generic U.S. House ballot was m...

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Sam Stein

GOP Brand Has Declined Since Obama Took Office, According To New Polling Data

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Party Affiliation, Democrats Republicans, Polling Data, Gop Brand, Pollster.com, Republican Identification, Video, Politics News

Despite spending the last 9 months battering the president's agenda, the Republican Party has neither gained any traction with voters nor has it appre...

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Expert Pollster Now Focused Strictly on Seven "True" Swing States

Marlene H. Phillips | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Suffolk University, Polling Data, Political Research, Opinion Polling, Economy, Barack Obama, 2008 Presidential Election, Home News
Marlene H. Phillips

Based on Suffolk's current polling information, Paleologos believes that if just a few states like Ohio and Florida start significantly leaning toward Obama, the election will end in an enormous victory for the Democrat.

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Tapping Barack Obama's Phone

Jonathan Leigh Solomon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Democratic Convention, 2004 Election, Supreme Court, Democratic Base, Necessary Evils, Blue States, New Voters, Polling Data, Mark Penn, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Red States, Undecided Voters, Voter Registration, Pew Research Center, Swing Voters, Politics News
Jonathan Leigh Solomon

When Obama eschewed the pundit's red-blue-purple state preoccupation during his '04 Democratic Convention speech, he was choosing poetry over polls.

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New And Improved HuffPollstrology: Candidates' Horoscopes, Polls And More For February 24

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Opinion Polls, Polling Data, Huffpollstrology, Politics News

Polls have come to dominate the media's horse race coverage of political campaigns. Pundits and reporters constantly use them to tell us who's hot a...

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