Republican Mark Sanford has closed the gap with Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch in the South Carolina first district special election to take place on Tuesday. … It’s not as if voters all of a sudden like Sanford, the former South Carolina Governor who is most well known nationally for cheating […] Read more »
Cuccinelli has early lead over McAuliffe in Virginia governor’s race
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II has an early lead over businessman Terry McAuliffe in their race for governor, a new Washington Post poll shows, even as most voters in the commonwealth have yet to engage in the nationally watched contest. Six months before Election Day, Cuccinelli (R) has a […] Read more »
In Massachusetts, Kids Poll the Darndest Things
The first post-primary poll in next month’s Massachusetts Senate special election was released Thursday, but while the survey carried the name of a prominent Boston university, it wasn’t conducted by the school or its faculty. The automated poll was conducted by a newly-reinstated student group on campus. That didn’t stop […] Read more »
Sanford vs. Colbert Busch: A Very ‘Special’ Election
A former Republican governor of a deeply Republican state is running for a deeply Republican U.S. House seat, but he is best known for claiming to be walking the Appalachian Trail while he was actually visiting his mistress in Argentina, and he has a court date two days after next […] Read more »
MA Senate: Markey holds vulnerable lead as Gomez gives Sullivan run for his money
A new poll conducted by the Western New England University Polling Institute is concluding that while U.S. Senate hopeful and Congressman Edward Markey, D-Mass., is the special election front-runner he is perceived to be, U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch may be the Democrat best positioned to defeat any of the Republican […] Read more »
What early polling can – and can’t – tell us about 2013’s key US elections
Polls taken early in the election season are a most interesting phenomenon. The media loves them, while some think they are a waste of time. The record shows that early surveys can tell us a lot about where a race will end up in the case of midterm House and […] Read more »