Joe Conason sums it up perfectly: The polls that had showed Barack Obama well ahead of Clinton were not so much wrong as misleading — or at least badly interpreted by journalists too eager to write Clinton’s political obituary. In fact, the polls correctly measured Obama’s share of the vote. What happened during the contest’s […]
So the big story of the day is how Hillary ended up winning last night, despite all the polls showing Obama would win it. It’s interesting how the media’s predictions totally fall flat and give them a new day full of news. One very interesting point to make. This morning on MSNBC they were blaming […]
Today’s New York Times has a look at a newly released report on voter fraud that is very interesting. It appears that a lot of politics may have gone into this report to change the outcome, and the final report was approved by the 2 Republicans and 1 Democrat on the commission. A federal panel […]
In today’s radio address: To get the votes they needed to pass the bill, the Democrats who control the House also included billions of dollars in domestic and pork barrel spending for local congressional districts. This spending includes things like $74 million for peanut storage, $25 million for spinach growers, and a host of other […]
Since their announcement yesterday of the return of Elizabeth’s cancer, the pundits have taken to the news channels to try and analyze why Edwards is staying in the race. People such as Rush Limbaugh have even gone as far as saying this was some big political stunt and if her cancer doesn’t give him a […]
Here is a summary of the polls in the last week for the Ohio Senate Race Poll Date DeWine (R) Brown (D) Quinnipiac 10/17 41% 53% Rasmussen 10/16 41% 46% SurveyUSA 10/12 40% 54% Bliss Institute 10/10 36.3% 35% AVERAGE 39.6% 47% With numbers like that it is no wonder why the GOP has […]
What Kos says: The other big story of the night is that three — count ’em — THREE incumbents lost tonight. There are foul omens indeed for incumbents everywhere. People are pissed, they’re not happy, and they want change. In GA-04, Hank Johnson crushed McKinney 59-41. In MI-07, Republican Rep. Joe Schwarz lost to Tim […]
Firedoglake is coming and going right now because of excessive traffic. This really isn’t shocking since the polls are closed in Connecticut now and everyone is looking for results. We are grown up and won’t blame political opponents for the site going down. Here is a current update on results: Connecticut (Updates 11:01) 713 of 748 […]
I changed over the polling system today to a new and improved system. This system works much like the old one, with one major exception. I can now run multiple polls and even run polls just in posts. It will help with getting the opinions of my readers better. The old polls are no longer […]
SurveyUSA has released a number of polls regarding the current situation in the Middle East and the results are very interesting. 56 % disapprove of Bush’s handling of the situation in the Middle East, opposed to 35% approval 84% believe our military needs to stay out of the situation and 52% believe we should keep […]