My view is that the consensus of evidence so far points toward Mitt Romney having received a small bounce in the polls of perhaps two or three percentage points from the Republican convention in Tampa, Fla. Oddly enough, however, you can’t really find a poll that seems to reflect a […] Read more »
Obama, Romney Bet on Waning Sliver of Undecideds
They make up only a sliver of the electorate, roughly 4 to 7 percent. We’re talking 1 million to 2 million people at most, in just a handful of critical states. They tend to be younger, female, and clueless about politics. They are the undecideds. Better yet, they could be […] Read more »
What Obama must do to win re-election
Nearly half of American voters say they’ll vote against President Obama no matter what. … With the presidential contest up for grabs, what does Obama need to do at the Democratic National Convention to build a lead over Republican challenger Mitt Romney? Here are several goals that, if achieved, would […] Read more »
No Signs of GOP Convention Bounce Yet
… We have been monitoring the potential impact of the Republican convention on the presidential race on a day-by-day basis. So far, we don’t see an impact. … We do have some new data that reinforce the tentative conclusion that the Republican convention did not change the race. The results, […] Read more »
Economic ups and downs of the presidency
… Here is a look at how the stock market and unemployment rate during President Obama’s time in the White House stack up against recent incumbent presidents vying for a second term. [cont.] Karen Yourish and Laura Stanton, Washington Post Read more »
The Cost of Living Blues
… Voters in a Pew survey released on Aug. 22 place more of the responsibility for the nation’s economic problems on Congress, on financial institutions, on corporations, on the Bush administration and on foreign competition than they do on the Obama administration. The central goal of the Romney campaign over […] Read more »