Let me make it clear that my company, a polling firm, has no client in the healthcare arena. … In the 2008 race we showed Barack Obama winning in states like Florida, North Carolina and Virginia. We were right. … As a result, a man who Time magazine named as one of The 100 Most Influential People in the World, whose entire job is to take polling…
being seen as a harbinger of next year's midterm elections, Republicans are leading in this year's two gubernatorial races in Virginia … There is now a body of polling data to suggest that the generic congressional ballot has closed," said Jennifer Duffy, senior editor … make it difficult for the party to hold onto the gains it made in the 2006 midterm and 2008 presidential elections," the respected polling…
RealClearPolitics shows McDonnell as 6.3 percentage points in the lead, based on aggregate polling data. … The Virginia Beach and Richmond areas also have favored Republicans since Nixon. … Obama's victory in Virginia was hugely related to high black voter turnout, especially in the Virginia Beach area.…
The contests for statehouses in New Jersey and Virginia are the best referenda the country could ask for on Obamacare, and Congress … Recent polls show that Republican Bob McDonnell in Virginia leads his opponent Creigh Deeds by double digits. … Polling on the health care scheme being pushed on the country show its support plummeting and opposition soaring.…
Yesterday, Virginia gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell gave the GOP response to President Obama's weekly address. … McDonnell gave the address only a few days after Obama attended a campaign event for McDonnell's opponent in Virginia, one of the two … "In Virginia, where Democrat R.…
Jon Corzine, running in one of two (Virginia is the other) off-year gubernatorial elections. … RealClearPolitics’ average of recent polling shows a 51-39 lead for Christie.…
Florida, Virginia and North Carolina all went for George W. Bush in 2004 and then for Barack Obama four years later. … Current polling suggests that Republican candidates that run on a platform of "less is more" won't necessarily be seen as being negative … Early polling shows that former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is a likeable new player in GOP politics.…
The Virginia race does not merely reflect national trends; it will help determine those trends. … No Virginia Democrat would have picked such a strategy before the campaign began. … In Virginia, neither Obama's charm nor culture-war attacks seem to be working.…
At a recent campaign stop at the Eden Center, a Vietnamese strip mall in Falls Church, Virginia, McDonnell visited no less than half … He also loves the votes: an estimated 20,000 Vietnamese Americans reside in Virginia, most in the northern region from where McDonnell … The charge is that McDonnell’s transportation plan sucks money from Virginia schools.…
The latest Washington Post poll — which has given the most conservative estimates of McDonnell's lead throughout the Virginia gubernatorial … That's up from a 7 point lead when the Post first started polling in August, and four points ahead after the smoking gun thesis the … The survey also said that 7 out of 10 likely Virginia voters have no confidence that President Obama's eleventh-hour campaign appearance…
RealClearPolitics, a national polling aggregator, shows that Americans are becoming less and less thrilled about the direction of the … Gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia appear to be heading in different directions but are, in fact, two sides of the same … In Virginia, a state that swung first in 2006 to Democrat Jim Webb in his Senate race then further to Obama in 2008, Republican Bob…
machines in Washington, D.C., neither party lost in the recently concluded off-year elections held in New Jersey, New York and Virginia … We’ll see, but Republicans and Democrats should consider this: Three weeks before election day Hoffman was polling at 16% with less…
trillion-plus dollar deficits, are all adding up in voters’ minds,” said Ed Goeas, President and CFO of The Tarrance Group, a Republican polling … Independents went to Republican Bob McDonnell over Democrat Creigh Deeds 63-36% in Virginia, and independents voted for Republican…
One of the big lessons indicates that when it comes to issues of homosexuality, polling is utterly unreliable—there’s almost always … Even though Bob McDonnell in Virginia is a principled, articulate conservative, he campaigned as a problem solver and pragmatist, and…
Governors in New Jersey and Virginia. … It appeared that she had conceded her votes to Conservative Party candate Doug Hoffman, who had been polling double-digits ahead of … Deeds has resorted to last-minute Obama PR, with the President swooping in and trying to hustle up the black vote in southern Virginia…
The two races that will deservedly garner the most attention next Tuesday are the elections for governor in New Jersey and Virginia … Since his announcement he has seen steady and sizable gains, polling as high as 17 percent, and has directly contributed to Gov. … And in Virginia, history is on the side of the Bob McDonnell.…
The most recent polling for a special election in this strongly Republican district shows a three way race between the Democratic nominee … Those broadcasts, and an endorsement from the states leading newspaper, caused a spike in his polling numbers: the latest average from … the impression of a conservative tidal wave next Tuesdaya tidal wave that could easily materialize with likely GOP victories in Virginia…
Just that one maladjustment to polling data can make overall anti-reform sentiment look like just the opposite. … In other words, if the national polling on this health care turkey were to be done in a balanced and straightforward way, we'd likely … I find it utterly baffling that congressional Democrats in places like Virginia, North Carolina, Florida and other swing states don't…
The operative question today for Steele and his party, in the wake of winning governorships in Virginia and New Jersey, both Democratic … As independent voters move away from Democrats and lean back toward Republicans, which is what happened in Virginia and New Jersey, … and what polling over the year has shown to be happening nationwide, will Republicans build a solid new tent?…
The other seats Democrats have targeted, in Arizona and Virginia, still look like longshots. … The Quinnipiac polling director detects the obvious: “Ned Lamont's Democratic primary win was based on a very small percentage of voters…
I never brought politics up, by the way, in case y'all are worried I was push-polling or guiding the conversation. … Of course, you gotta note that most of this polling came before the North Korea story broke, so folks' proirities may shift dramatically … You also gotta note that even the NYT noticed the non-reaction among evangelicals in Virginia.…
Caveats on exit polling, from the RNC. Bad track record from '04:
Ohio: NEP Projected Sen. … Kerry Won By 2.3%;
Virginia: NEP Projected a Dead Heat – President Bush Carried By 8%
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Exit polling got it wrong in 2000 and wrong in 2004 (4% off in 2004)
An exit polling caveat. … VIRGINIA:
In 2004, exit polling had the presidential within 1%, yet President Bush won by over 8%. … I can't tell you much about it, since I'm in Northern Virginia, which is crazy blue.…
HH: And Virginia, you’re confident about Allen? … , NVA, with what they called the rest of Virginia, ROVA. … And they said that language in Northern Virginia meant something different than the rest of Virginia.…
McAuliffe (Virginia Governor) - Republican Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has opened up a slight lead over Democrat Terry McAuliffe … The Virginia GOP is also rolling out a new tagline against McAuliffe, noting that the Democrat "won't release his taxes, but he will … Early polling is surprisingly tight, given the state's lefty politics. …
