As it enters its frenetic final week the presidential race is drawing more close attention than any such contest in 28 years, a testament to a campaign that has been the closest by some measures in pre-election polls dating back even further – to 1960, or even to the early […] Read more »
Advantage Obama In Hunt For 270 Electoral Votes
President Barack Obama is poised to eke out a victory in the race for the 270 electoral votes needed to win re-election, having beaten back Republican Mitt Romney’s attempts to convert momentum from the debates into support in all-important Ohio, according to an Associated Press analysis a week before Election […] Read more »
Looking at the polls & state of the campaign in the homestretch
CNN’s State of the Union: Bill McInturff, Anna Greenberg and Mike Duffy speak with Candy Crowley. Read more »
Does Obama Have a White Voter ‘Problem’?
Some polls have found that white support for President Obama has dropped to unprecedentedly low levels, and this topic is getting no end of media attention. Gawker wrote “Gee, White Voters really don’t like Barack Obama. Huh.” But this misses a central point: Since the mid-1970’s Democrats have had a […] Read more »
Romney closes Obama’s lead to split Ohio
Boosted by a surge among male voters who think he’s the best candidate to fix the economy, Republican Mitt Romney has come back to tie President Barack Obama in battleground Ohio. They are deadlocked at 49 percent in a new Dispatch/Ohio News Organization poll. Obama was ahead by 5 points in […] Read more »
How True Drew? Linzer Still Sees Obama As A Heavy Favorite
Emory University political scientist Drew Linzer, who created and runs the Votamatic website, paid a visit to Middlebury College last Wednesday to discuss why, based on his forecast model, he believes President Obama is still the heavy favorite to win the presidential election. [cont.] Matthew Dickinson, Middlebury College Read more »