“The West Wing” election?

David Eisenthal marvels at the parallels between the last season of The West Wing and a possible Obama-McCain match-up in the fall, with Obama played by Jimmy Smits and McCain […]

Ted Olson, who represented the Republicans before the Supreme Court in its attempt to untangle the 2000 presidential election, is gleeful that this year’s Democratic nomination may be decided by […]

Even the Census Bureau is caught up in election fever. Its website has an elections page that summarizes the demographics of each state holding a primary or caucus. Both Maryland […]

Few states have had as many competitive presidential primaries as Maryland, which has elements of North and South, urban and rural, and white and black America. The map below shows […]

More detailed numbers to follow, but I’ve been tracking how the Democratic candidates are doing in counties that were carried by certain other Democratic candidates in past primaries. Despite Ted […]

Sunday, February 10, 2008 In my column today on local politics for the Boston Sunday Globe’s City Weekly section, I look at the increasing use of personal email pleas and […]

Jay Fitzgerald at Hub Blog already flagged this, but the most startling passage in today’s New York Times post-mortem of the Mitt Romney presidential campaign, written by Michael Luo, was […]

Matt O’Malley has a great rundown on how Boston’s 22 wards voted in Tuesday’s Democratic presidential primary. (It’s also on Blue Mass Group.) With most election analysis centered on county-by-county […]

The maps below show where Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama ran up the biggest margins against each other on Super Tuesday (in other words, where they didn’t count votes, they […]

Crunching the numbers from Super Tuesday (and the preceding primaries), I noticed that Hillary Clinton has done especially well in counties that swung toward the Republicans in the 2004 presidential […]

Friday, February 8, 2008 There’s more data, and speculation, on Obama’s weak showing among white Catholics at PolySigh. One commenter offers this theory: "This is probably more of an ‘Irish […]

In an online chat, the Washington Post’s Paul Kane says that it’s mathematically impossible for the rest of the Democratic primaries to determine a nominee: Ohio is not at all […]

The map below shows the ratio of votes cast in the Democratic presidential primary to those cast in the Republican primary this year. As has been widely reported, the Democratic […]

Lots of Super Tuesday maps to come in this space soon… In the meantime, the New York Times has county-by-county results for the Democrats here and for the Republicans here. […]

Go to Dave Leip’s Atlas of US Presidential Elections for good charts on the primary votes so far. One interesting data point: Though Barack Obama is now considered a slight […]

There may be another hurdle for Barack Obama in that he’s running against a de facto incumbent, and many voters don’t even consider an alternative if they’re satisfied with the […]

We’re now in the zone between public opinion surveys and hard numbers for today’s presidential primaries. The first results should come from Georgia, which stops voting at 7 p.m. In […]