Polls, polls, polls

They’re coming out too fast to keep track of. Generally, they point to a slight Clinton lead in most states voting tomorrow, but who really knows? In an election that’s […]

Monday, February 4, 2008 Though I’ve been relying on the New York Times to find out where the candidates have been popping up, the Washington Post website actually has a […]

Monday, February 4, 2008 We worried about football vs. politics in Massachusetts last week, but now it’s New York’s problem.

The past couple of days have brought three radically different polls on the Massachusetts Democratic presidential primary next Tuesday. Rasmussen has Hillary Clinton up by six points, 43-37, over Barack […]

Hillary Clinton remains in California after last night’s debate, with appearances in San Diego, which backed Bill Clinton in the 1992 primary, and San Francisco, which has voted against the […]

The Super Tuesday polls are getting way beyond any possible explanation. Survey USA, which yesterday gave Hillary Clinton a 24-point lead in Massachusetts, today gives Barack Obama a four-point lead […]

Harvard University professor Edward Glaeser is peeved at presidential candidates who promise a little somethin’ somethin’ to voters in early primary states. From today’s Boston Globe: [We] should demand more […]

Lots of new polls posted at RealClearPolitics today, but I’m not sure how much stock to put in them, given that none take into account last night’s Democratic debate and […]

Barring a last-minute surge for Mike Huckabee next Tuesday, or at least one brokered convention this summer, the next president of the US will be Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Barack […]

Today is all about California. Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are in Los Angeles for their first two-candidate debate, which will air at 8 p.m. on CNN. A Rasmussen […]

As of noon, the RealClearPolitics average of polls for the Democratic nomination has Hillary Clinton leading Barack Obama by 43 percent to 34 percent, but most of the polling was […]

Barack Obama is spending this Wednesday in pursuit of Western votes: He had a "community gathering" this morning in Denver. A recent poll gave Obama a slight lead in Colorado, […]

Note that one of the Florida primary maps has been corrected. Maybe it’s better not to make so many maps so quickly on a "morning after"!

Today’s New York Times has a cool map showing where the Republican presidential candidates have campaigned leading up to today’s Florida primary. (Go here and look for the pop-up graphic […]

Following the model of yesterday’s map of California, below is a map of how New York counties have voted in the Democratic primaries of 1980, 1984, and 1992. One big […]

In today’s Boston Globe, Peter Canellos has a good column pointing out the similarities between Mitt Romney and George Herbert Walker Bush, "both sons of prominent politicians whose careers stalled […]

The prospect of the New England Patriots capping a historic undefeated season with a victory in the Super Bowl this Sunday in Arizona already has officials discussing plans for a […]

Averaging the six most recent national polls, RealClearPolitics has Hillary Clinton at 43 percent, Barack Obama at 33 percent, and John Edwards at 14 percent. According to polls in individual […]

Monday, January 28, 2008 There will be lots of maps in this space before and after Super Tuesday, now that we know there will be highly competitive primaries in both […]

The map below groups California’s 58 counties by voting patterns in the last three competitive presidential primaries on the Democratic side: 1980, when Ted Kennedy beat Jimmy Carter (45 percent […]