Sunday morning brought a bonanza of new Senate polls. Marist College, on behalf of NBC News, released new surveys in Kansas, Iowa and North Carolina. YouGov released its latest round of polling in every Senate race in conjunction with CBS News and The New York Times. But the polling had […] Read more »
Kansas Surprise: Orman Leads Roberts by 10 in NBC/Marist Poll
Independent candidate Greg Orman is leading incumbent Republican Sen. Pat Roberts in Kansas by 10 points, while Democrats have a slim lead in North Carolina’s contest and both candidates are in a dead heat in Iowa’s Senate race, new NBC News/Marist polls find. CONT. Carrie Dann, NBC News Read more »
Battleground Tracker: Kansas complicates Republicans’ Senate path
Republicans remain the favorite to win Senate control in November but have been been unable to cement their lead heading into the final month, the new CBS News Battleground Tracker finds, with the Democrats are hanging in across a number of close races. CONT. Anthony Salvanto, CBS News Read more »
A campaign about nothing is still about Obama
It has become commonplace to describe the midterm political contests as the Seinfeld election — a campaign about nothing. In fact, that’s not correct. This is an election that is still very much about how people view President Obama. CONT. Dan Balz, Washington Post Read more »
Senate Update: A Reality Check On The Polls And Our Forecast
… In the 2012 presidential election, there was a long stretch of the campaign when the national and state polls disagreed. State-level surveys showed President Obama in better shape than national polls. The state polls ended up being more accurate, but it’s always best to have a check on the […] Read more »
Voters sour on Congress; country’s direction makes them wince
Most Americans view the country moving in the wrong direction and don’t see their financial futures getting better anytime soon, attitudes likely to make it harder for Democrats to do well this fall, according to a new McClatchy-Marist poll. CONT. David Lightman, McClatchy Read more »