Nov 1, 2010 – A new SurveyUSA/KING5 poll shows that a measure that would impose an income tax on wealthy people to help pay for education is likely headed to defeat. The sampling released late last week showed 56 percent voting 'no' on Initiative 1098 and 34 percent voting yes.

Nov 1, 2010 – The state's Democratic and Republican parties worked over the weekend to turn out voters ahead of Tuesday's election deadline, but they also were getting in position to fix flawed ballot signatures in case any close races emerge after the Nov. 2 voting deadline. State elections director Nick Handy said Friday...

Nov 1, 2010 – Ruling in a privacy flap, a federal appeals court says the Obama administration must divulge the names of convicts seeking pardons or commutations of sentences. The Obama administration urged the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to rule otherwise. The government said publicizing the applicants’ names...

Nov 1, 2010 – By 38% to 24%, Tuesday's voters are more likely to be using their vote for Congress to send a message that they oppose President Obama than to signal that they support him, while 37% say they will not be sending a message with their vote. Obama has been front and...

Nov 1, 2010 – Americans are less satisfied with the way local congressional candidates are conducting their campaigns in 2010 than in any of the past four midterm election years. Though not appreciably different from the levels of satisfaction in 1998 and 2006, the current reading does mark the first time less than a...

Nov 1, 2010 – My Townhall column is titled "Six Good Reasons to Vote Republican." …

Nov 1, 2010 – The number of Americans who say things are going badly in the country, at 75 percent, is higher than it has been on the eve of any midterm election since the question was first asked in the mid-1970s, according to a new national poll. A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released...

Nov 1, 2010 – Jimmy Carter says he was elected president in 1976 by many of the same elements that fuel the new tea party movement. “I don’t have any criticism of the members of the tea party,” the former Democratic president said Sunday on CNN’s “Reliable Sources.” Carter then claimed “a lot of...

Nov 1, 2010 – Soon-to-be lame duck Harry Reid is promising yet another vote on the perpetually rejected DREAM Act illegal alien student bailout. Univision host Jorge Ramos crowed about it on his Twitter page, promoting an interview with Reid scheduled to air this Sunday.

Nov 1, 2010 – Democratic Governor Joe Manchin still holds a slight lead over Republican John Raese in the final hours of West Virginia’s surprisingly close special U.S. Senate race. The final Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey of the contest finds Manchin with the support of 50% of the state’s Likely Voters, while 46% prefer...

Nov 1, 2010 – Years ago there was a joke (at least I think it was a joke) that Michael Dukakis was earning a handsome income in his post-political life because Democrats were paying him small fortunes not to endorse them, but times, not to mention levels of desperation, change.

Nov 1, 2010 – The “enthusiasm gap” remains as gappy as ever less than 48 hours before voting begins. And that 8,000 “crowd estimate” comes from the DNC, so you know it includes area meter maids, janitorial staff and cockroaches.

Nov 1, 2010 – PRINCETON, NJ -- The final USA Today/Gallup measure of Americans' voting intentions for Congress shows Republicans continuing to hold a substantial lead over Democrats among likely voters, a lead large enough to suggest that regardless of turnout, the Republicans will win more than the 40 seats needed to give them...

Nov 1, 2010 – Joe Miller is favored heading into the final two days of the US Senate campaign in Alaska. 37% of voters say they'll pick him while 30% plan to vote for Scott McAdams and another 30% plan to write in Lisa Murkowski. Miller is winning despite having the worst personal favorability...

Nov 1, 2010 – Republicans enjoy a wide margin of support from likely voters that could help propel them toward winning a majority in the House, new polls suggested Monday. A series of final pre-election polls published Monday unanimously reflected an advantage for the GOP going into Tuesday's elections, propelling the party's optimism that...

Nov 1, 2010 – As work gets underway Monday morning, members of the House Administration committee will receive a letter from Illinois Republican Party Chairman Pat Brady. The letter urges an investigation into shortcomings of election districts tasked with providing absentee voters, specifically combat soldiers, ballots in the time required by law. "I respectfully...

Nov 1, 2010 – Hundreds of Democratic congressional aides, operatives and lobbyists have descended in Las Vegas seeking to help Sen. Harry Reid pull off an 11th-hour win in a race key to his party's efforts to retain control of the Senate. Reid supporters, including multiple labor unions and about 30 aides to...

Nov 1, 2010 – The Justice Department is sending a small pack of election observers to Arizona as Hispanic groups sound the alarm over an anti-illegal immigration group's mass e-mail seeking to recruit Election Day volunteers to help block illegal immigrants from voting. Hispanic voting rights groups say the e-mail is just an attempt...

Oct 31, 2010 – Republicans and Democrats traded last-minute jabs on the Sunday morning talk shows, seeking to leverage late-breaking news in the runup to Tuesday's pivotal midterm election. On Fox News Sunday, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin raised concerns about weakened national security, amid the investigation into bombs shipped as cargo to the...

Oct 31, 2010 – Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin isn’t ruling out a run for the presidency in 2012, but she could be just as happy to sit it out. “I love the position that I’m in now,” given the freedom she has to say what she thinks, she said on Fox News...

Oct 31, 2010 – Nearly a week after his comments drew national attention, the Democratic candidate for Rhode Island governor expressed regret Sunday for telling President Obama to "shove it" upon learning the president would not endorse his campaign. "I have had a lot of time to reflect on my words and I...

Oct 31, 2010 – Nearly a week after his comments drew national attention, the Democratic candidate for Rhode Island governor expressed regret Sunday for telling President Obama to "shove it" upon learning the president would not endorse his campaign. "I have had a lot of time to reflect on my words and I...

Oct 29, 2010 – Florida independent Senate candidate Charlie Crist personally lobbied Democratic candidate Kendrick Meek to exit the race this week, offering him a cross that had been a gift from his sister, Mr. Meek said Friday. Mr. Crist, the Florida governor, had called Mr. Meek, a Miami congressman, earlier that morning,...

Oct 29, 2010 – (CNN) -- One of the more interesting stories of this election is that several congressional Democrats are actively campaigning against Nancy Pelosi as House speaker. This is quite amazing. Let's go back to 1994 -- does anyone remember a single Democrat saying they opposed Tom Foley as speaker? Now...

Oct 29, 2010 – Washington (CNN) -- Six weeks before Election Day, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele was high-tailing it out of town for a 48-state campaign swing before Election Day. "On the bus, baby," Steele said as his motor coach for the "Fire Pelosi Bus Tour" pulled away from Capitol Hill....