Polling Data

Sam Stein

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics


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...

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

Marlene H. Phillips | Posted 11.02.2008 | Home


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.

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

Mark Nickolas | Posted 09.07.2008 | Politics


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).

Tapping Barack Obama's Phone

Jonathan Leigh Solomon | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics


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.

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

Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


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...