2006

It must just be Murphy's Law of blogging, but the most link-worthy news always seems to spring up during days when I am unable to post.  I will t...

Editor's Note:  This post inaugurates a new feature on Pollster, our "Guest Pollster's Corner."  We hope this new forum will provi...

Our most recent update to the Slate Election Scorecard focuses on a new poll in the New Jersey Senate race, but I would like to say a few words about ...

The morning brings two new surveys: One from CBS and the New York Times (article, results, CBS analysis, results on Iraq/terror, elections) and one fr...

Our update to the Slate Election Scorecard yesterday tries to put the results for the generic congressional vote from the USA Today/Gallup survey int...

Our Slate update last night focuses on changes to the Election Scorecard for Governor's races over the last few weeks.  The most notable differen...

Our last Slate Election Scorecard update on Friday night shows a shift in national momentum for the first time, based on recently improving Democrati...

A quick update on last night's Republican Senate primary in Rhode Island.  Incumbent Senator Lincoln Chafee defeated challenger Stephen Laffey by...

The big news yesterday for true political junkies was the release of separate polls conducted simultaneously in 27 of the most competitive districts n...

Time to revisit "incumbent rule," thanks to Mickey Kaus who highlighted this observation last week by Michael Barone's column in U.S. News &...

The nearly final 3.6% margin by which Ned Lamont defeated Joe Lieberman in yesterday's Connecticut Senate Primary (with 98% of precincts counted, Lamo...

I noticed several hundred (at least) incoming Google searches on various combination of "Connecticut exit poll Lieberman Lamont,"  so l...

For those waiting on the results of the today's Connecticut primary, here is a cautionary tale about the limits of polling in a primary election.&n...

Quinnipiac has released another poll in Connecticut this morning that has the political web sites buzzing, perhaps a bit too much.   While t...

By now it seems that the entire political blogosphere has taken note of the latest Quinnipiac poll of Connecticut primary voters showing Net Lamont le...

Of the many national polls released last week, the most intriguing was the survey released by NPR of likely voters in the 50 competitive congressional...