Will men pull Obama over the finish line in Connecticut?

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 […]