Presidential election 2008

As we progress through the presidential election year, I’ll be posting maps and spreadsheets showing how American political geography has changed over the past 60 years, and how those trends […]

Thanks again to Michael Barone for linking to the 10 Regions of American Politics. But Barone did say that some of the regions "don’t make much sense to me." That’s […]

Dave Leip’s Atlas of Presidential Election now has separate maps showing current state-by-state polls for an Obama-McCain matchup and a Clinton-McCain race. For what it’s worth, the aggregate of polls […]

Welcome, Michael Barone readers. (My copy of his Almanac of American Politics is always near my computer.) To elaborate on the point that Barack Obama seems to be doing best […]

The Atlantic’s James Fallows can’t resist blogging about the American presidential campaign from China. This particular post is about the audacity of the Clinton campaign in getting its messages out […]

The chart below shows how the two leading Democratic presidential candidates, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, have been faring in our 10 Regions of US Politics. The figures include all […]

You can’t open a browser this morning without stumbling onto some election analysis, so I won’t go over the minutiae from the exit polls from Ohio and Texas. But it […]

There’s chatter about Clinton and Obama (presented here in alphabetical order) forming a unity ticket to bring this interminable Democratic primary campaign to a close, the problem being that both […]

Slate.com’s Daniel Gross discusses the high number of natural disasters — that is, snowstorms, tornados, and the like that are declared disasters by the federal government — during presidential election […]

Though Ohio isn’t quite as kaleidoscopic as Wisconsin, its voting patterns in Democratic presidential primaries is pretty colorful. And, as in Wisconsin, the political diversity of its major cities often […]

When he first uttered it in an earlier debate, it could be passed off as slip of the tongue.  But after last night’s debate, it became hard to ignore:  Barack […]

Brendan Nyhan has some nice graphs plotting Barack Obama’s support in primaries and caucuses by several variables, including education levels and the number of white Southern Baptists in a state. […]

Tuesday, February 19, 2008 David Eisenthal has already come up with the theory that this year’s presidential election will follow the storyline of The West Wing. Now Peter Porcupine sees […]

The Washinton Post has an easy-to-read list here, but it doesn’t include any suggestion of how they’re leaning. All Democratic congressmen and governors are included; the category "distinguished party leaders," […]

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 […]