On June 30, 2011, an enthusiastic Mitt Romney arrived here in the heart of the Lehigh Valley determined to make Pennsylvania a presidential battleground state. … A key assumption underpinned Romney’s appearance in Allentown — that the working class whites who once dominated this great industrial center would back the […] Read more »
SNL: The Undecided Voter
This election will be determined by the undecided voter. Uh oh. Read more »
Undecided voters: Who are they and how much do they matter?
Undecided voters are few, angry, and not particularly focused on the campaign, according to members of a roundtable discussion with CNN Chief Political Correspondent Candy Crowley on “State of the Union.” [cont.] CNN Read more »
Can Romney replicate Bush’s 2004 path to victory? It looks dicey.
There’s little question that come Nov. 6 President Obama won’t equal the 365 electoral votes that the then-candidate Obama won in the 2008 election. But the bigger and more important question when it comes to the electoral college conversation is whether former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney (R) can come close […] Read more »
Romney team is both defiant and realistic
After one of their worst weeks of the general election campaign, Mitt Romney and his advisers are scrambling to refocus their message and make up ground lost to President Obama in several battleground states. … Romney advisers now interpret the state of the race from two somewhat contradictory perspectives. On […] Read more »
Growth of early voting transforms electoral strategy
Election Day is more than six weeks away, but by Nov. 6 tens of millions of Americans — perhaps as many as 40 percent of all voters — will have cast their ballots in the presidential race and other contests. The robust growth in early voting, either by mailed absentee […] Read more »