2012 Gender Gap Could Be Historic — But Not Necessarily Why You Think
A slew of new presidential polls released this week not only confirm a long-established gender gap among voters, but also suggest that the male-female preference divide in this year's presidential...
View ArticleSwing State Debate Watchers Give First Round To Romney, And Lehrer The Loss
We headed to Virginia's Prince William County, a swing county in a swing state, to watch Wednesday night's presidential debate with four undecided voters — three of whom voted for Barack Obama in 2008,...
View ArticleOld Dominion May Hold Keys To White House, Senate
Barack Obama made history in Virginia four years ago when, on his way to winning the White House, he became the first Democratic presidential candidate to capture the state in more than four decades....
View ArticleHow Ohio Could Swing The Election
Kentucky may be the site for tonight's debate between the vice presidential candidates, but the monster swing state of Ohio remains the focus of White House dreams for President Obama and Mitt Romney....
View ArticleDebate Decision: A Family Still Divided In Swing State Ohio
Tom Barnes is a 70-year-old retired grain farmer born in Ohio. He's the son of a school teacher turned farmer, and now himself the father of four, grandpa of eight. It's clear that he adores his...
View ArticleIn Neck-And-Neck Nevada, Voters We Met In February Offer Few October Surprises
With eyes on the presidential debate in New York, we decided to turn ours to the swing state of Nevada, where President Obama and GOP challenger Mitt Romney are battling mightily over the state's small...
View ArticleDebate Watchers Get A Town Brawl
There will be blood. Or at least a lot of aggressive walking and glaring, vigorous head-shaking and interruptions, all glazed with equal parts feigned respect and visceral distaste. This season's...
View ArticleObama Battling To Maintain Women's Vote, Seen As His Key To Victory
After President Obama's self-described somnolent first debate performance, his female supporters lit up social media and tagged the campaign with complaints about his failure to talk about their...
View ArticleDespite Obama's Nevada Advantages, Romney Campaign Betting On State
Pundits and prognosticators have long opined about President Obama's built-in advantages in Nevada, where he captured more than 55 percent of the vote in 2008. And with good reason. Democrats have a...
View ArticleRape Comments Complicate But Don't End GOP Senate Takeover Chances
The enthusiasm with which Democrats seized upon Senate candidate Richard Mourdock's philosophizing about God's plan for unborn children of women impregnated by rape may have suggested the Indiana...
View ArticleGay Marriage On Ballot In Four States; Obama Endorses Measures
Six states and the nation's capital have recognized the legality of same-sex marriages, either by law or by court order. But over the past decade and a half, each of the 30 states to consider...
View ArticleHow To Read The Post-Sandy Polls
Hurricane Sandy's on-the-ground devastation has yet to be cataloged, and how the violent storm may affect the presidential campaign with just a week to Election Day is equally uncertain. Will President...
View ArticleIf Presidential Election Held Today, Clint Would Beat Oprah
File this under "I didn't really think there was anything else I could learn about or care about swing state voters, and then came this." Swing state voters by 42-38 percent would prefer a President...
View ArticleWhat Romney's Run Means For Mormonism
Win or lose on Election Day, Republican Mitt Romney has already made history as the first Mormon to win a major party presidential nomination. But has his race for the White House changed Americans'...
View ArticlePotential Election Day Firsts: Races To Watch
Election Day is promising many firsts — and not just the obvious ones. Yes, the country could get its first Mormon president if Republican Mitt Romney is elected. And of course, it could get its first...
View ArticleGOP Eyes Gains As Voters In 11 States Pick Governors
Voters in 11 states will pick their governors tonight, and Republicans appear on track to increase their numbers by at least one, with the potential to extend their hold to more than two-thirds of the...
View ArticleGubernatorial Battles: Republican Takes N.C., Democrat Wins N.H.
Voters in North Carolina put a Republican in their governor's office for the first time in two decades, and New Hampshire elected a new female Democratic governor. But the closely watched tossup races...
View ArticleDid SuperPAC Money Hurt Romney More Than It Helped?
Republican strategist Karl Rove's on-air refusal to accept his own network's election night call putting Ohio in President Obama's win column dominated the blogosphere Wednesday. And, why not? Rove's...
View ArticleRepublicans Scramble To Repair Breech With Hispanics
Paging Jeb Bush. Your party needs you. In the aftermath of Tuesday's election losses, Republicans have been scrambling to formulate a fix for what went wrong. A big part of that calculation involves...
View ArticleMeet The New GOP, Same As The Old GOP?
There has been no dearth of post-election Republican self-flagellation. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, on the eve of heading out to a meeting of Republican governors in Las Vegas, warned the GOP to "stop...
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