Obama Polls

Poll: Obama Has 10-Point Lead In Virginia, Race Tight Elsewhere

AP | The Associated Press | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics

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THE POLL: CNN/Time magazine/Opinion Research Corp., presidential race among likely Colorado voters (9 electoral votes). THE NUMBERS: Barack Obama, 51...

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Obama Dominates Among Early Voters In Five Swing States

FiveThirtyEight | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics

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SurveyUSA has a lot of good habits as a pollster, and one of them is breaking out the results of early and absentee voting in states where such things...

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Obama's Battleground Travel Could Help Explain Lead

The Wall Street Journal | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics

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Sen. Barack Obama, his running mate and his wife have appeared at twice as many events in swing states as their Republican counterparts, which may hel...

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Sam Stein

Obama Aides: Record Cash Raised In September, Polls Show McCain Ads Backfired

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.12.2008 | Politics

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With the presidential campaign approaching its final stretch, Barack Obama finds himself in an enviable position. One official close to the campaign...

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More Polls Show Obama Leading In Battleground States

Bloomberg | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics

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Democrat Barack Obama leads Republican presidential nominee John McCain in battleground states of Ohio, Pennsylvania and Minnesota, according to new p...

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Florida GOP Holds Secret Crisis Meeting Over Obama's Rise In Polls

St. Petersburg Times | Posted 11.02.2008 | Politics

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Florida Republican leaders hastily convened a top secret meeting this week to grapple with Sen. John McCain's sagging performance in this must-win sta...

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Jason Linkins

MSNBC's Todd: Race, Polls At 'Tipping Point': 'This Should Really Scare The McCain Campaign'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.02.2008 | Politics

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On MSNBC this morning, in-house polling guru Chuck Todd told the Morning Joe panel that the race had reached a "tipping point," with tonight's vice-pr...

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Polls: Obama Leads In Three Critical States

AP | LIZ SIDOTI | Posted 11.01.2008 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Recently trailing or tied, Democrat Barack Obama now leads Republican John McCain in a trio of the most critical, vote-rich states ...

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McCain Camp: We're Going On Attack As Obama Takes Lead

Washington Post | Posted 10.29.2008 | Politics

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In the two weeks that the Wall Street financial crisis has dominated the political debate, the presidential race has shifted from what had been essent...

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No Obama Tees! Obscure Laws Banning Electioneering May Cause Hassles At the Polls For Voters

NYCity News Service | Posted 10.26.2008 | Home

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A widely circulated email is warning potential Obama voters to leave campaign buttons and T-shirts home on Nov. 4 -- or risk getting turned away from the polls.

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Obama Aims To Flip Indiana

AP | TOM DAVIES | Posted 10.25.2008 | Politics

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INDIANAPOLIS — Democrats typically skip right over reliably Republican Indiana when plotting presidential campaign strategy. Not Barack Obama....

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Obama Advancing On The Ground, Under Pollsters' Radar

Daniel Nichanian | Posted 10.12.2008 | Home

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Daniel Nichanian

It increasingly looks like this election will be determined by investments on the ground, in local precincts across the country, an area of the campaign Obama has excelled at but that polls don't pick up on.

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Why Is Obama Slipping? Because He Won't Say Which Side He's On.

David Sirota | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics

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Is he going to finally start publicly declaring that he's taking the majority's side in the struggle to stop the Republicans class war, elites be damned?

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Obama Camp Manager: Stop "Hyperventilating" Over National Polls

CBS News | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics

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With John McCain's traveling press corps cooling their heels here as they waited for McCain to wrap up a fundraiser, Barack Obama's campaign knew a ca...

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Obama Camp Manager: Don't Read National Polls

LA Times | Posted 09.26.2008 | Politics

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David Plouffe, an architect of Barack Obama's surprise ascension to the pinnacle of the Democratic Party, did not look today like a fellow under dures...

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Do Obama's Sinking Poll Numbers -- Signal History Repeating for Democrats?

John Zogby | Posted 09.21.2008 | Politics

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John Zogby

As much as voters may prefer the Democrats on most issues, McCain is winning the contest of defining who has the character and personality that swing voters expect in a president.

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McCain Gains Nationally, Leads In Florida; Indiana Even

Daniel Nichanian | Posted 09.20.2008 | Home

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Daniel Nichanian

It's a good thing for Democrats that the convention is just around the corner and that the party will soon regain control of the race with news of Obama's vice-presidential pick.

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Dialogue: Should People Worry About Obama?

Marc Ambinder | Posted 09.18.2008 | Politics

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Herein, a fictional conversation between two supporters of Barack Obama's. Call them "Ax" and "Rod." One is concerned about Obama's campaign. The oth...

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Sam Stein

Obama: You'd Think This Would Be Easy

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.18.2008 | Politics

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Barack Obama implicitly acknowledged on Monday that common sense suggests he should be doing better in his campaign for the president. "We've got wo...

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Why McCain Has Caught Obama and What Obama Can Do About It

Cenk Uygur | Posted 08.11.2008 | Politics

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Cenk Uygur

If Obama doesn't start attacking, he -- and the rest of us -- will be sitting around on November 5th shaking our heads wondering what the hell happened.

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Can Obama Really Win This Thing?

Andy Ostroy | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics

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It's going to take a lot more than a brilliantly choreographed series of photo-ops with foreign heads-of-state for Obama to convince voters that he has the chops to actually be president.

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Rachel Weiner

Obama's Post Trip Bounce

HuffingtonPost.com | Rachel Weiner | Posted 08.04.2008 | Politics

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Asked yesterday about the political effect of his trip abroad, Barack Obama told the New York Times, "I wouldn't even be surprised if in some polls we...

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Poll: "Sharp Reversal" For Obama With Hispanic Voters

Posted 08.01.2008 | Politics

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John McCain has been courting Hispanic voters heavily. But according to a new Pew Research Center poll, it hasn't done him much good: Hispanic regis...

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Rachel Weiner

Poll: Obama Holds Solid Lead In Ohio

HuffingtonPost.com | Rachel Weiner | Posted 07.29.2008 | Politics

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A new Public Policy Polling survey shows Obama with a solid 48-40 lead in Ohio: Obama trails McCain 46-42 among white voters, but his 91-6 advantag...

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Reuters/Zogby Poll: Obama Has Seven Point Lead, But He's Losing Independents

Reuters | Posted 07.24.2008 | Politics

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Democrat Barack Obama has a 7-point lead on Republican John McCain in the U.S. presidential race, and holds a small edge on the crucial question of wh...

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