Polling Data

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

Marlene H. Phillips | Posted 10.02.2008 | Home

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.

Read Post

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

Mark Nickolas | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics

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).

Read Post

The Poll Masters And Their Dupes

Levan Moulton | Posted 08.06.2008 | Home

Read More: Mainstream Media, Polls, Fox News Polls, Mainstream Media Polling, Msnbc, Youth Vote, News Agaenda Polls, Poll Tracking, Polling Data, Sean Hannity, Fox News Obama Risky, Fox Obama Risky, Hirse Race Coverage, Home News
Levan Moulton

Polls are flawed but also deeply politicized by the media people reporting the data they serve up. The intention is not to inform but to report a neck-and-neck race.

Read Post

Tapping Barack Obama's Phone

Jonathan Leigh Solomon | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics

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.

Read Post

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

Posted 02.23.2008 | Politics

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...

Read Whole Story