What is going on in Kentucky?
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | July 6th at 01:30 PM |
With the help of the Real Clear Politics, here are the last few polls of the Kentucky Senate race. PPP: Randal Paul +1. RR: Paul +25. SUSA: Paul +6. RR: Paul +8, Paul +7. And now we have PPP: Tie. Why is PPP running so much further toward Jack Conway than the other two pollsters?
Tied in Georgia
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | July 6th at 11:00 AM |
John Oxendine has long held the lead on the Republican side of the Georgia primary for Governor, but if InsiderAdvantage’s poll for WSB is accurate, that has changed. It’s tied says this poll, and Karen Handel made it one.
Ehrlich takes a lead in Maryland
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | July 5th at 12:30 PM |
In sports there’s an old saying that I like to quote: “It’s not a rivalry until both sides win.” I’m thinking it’d be wise to extend that to political polling, and say that a race isn’t truly close until both sides have led. In that case, the Maryland Governor’s race is truly close now.
Tech Update
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | July 2nd at 02:00 AM |
I keep harping endlessly on the fact that Free Press wants centralized, nationalized media in America, and one logical consequence of their Internet plans is to have single payer Internet. Well, this isn’t a theoretical problem. Finland just implemented it. Quoth Boy Genius Report: Thanks to a new law that comes into effect today, every single citizen of Finland now has a legal right to | Read More »
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Fiorina calls out Boxer and Obama on border security
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | July 1st at 06:04 PM |
In the past some have questioned Carly Fiorina’s commitment to securing the border from the invasion of illegal aliens, but she’s issued a strong statement challenging Babs Boxer and Barry Obama on their “cynical” disregard for our nation’s security. A key highlight: “The President talked about accountability in his speech. It is true – more accountability is needed, and that starts with the federal government’s | Read More »
Swinging Democracy Corps’ Generic Ballot
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | July 1st at 05:30 PM |
(H/T to Liberty Central) So Greenberg Quinlan Rosner did another generic ballot for Democracy Corps, as Democrats try to find messages that will stem the Republican tide. But how are things looking now, and what does the Swingometer say about it?
Internet Roundup
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | July 1st at 12:16 AM |
Here a few updates in the intersection of Internet, the law, and politics: Free Press is still being hypocritical: They took out a full page ad denouncing (in true Communist style) FCC Chairman Genachowski for having one closed door meeting with the likes of AT&T and Verizon. Free Press has had over 30. By their own standard, the FCC has sold out to the neo-Marxist | Read More »
Fisher leads Portman despite Ohio rejecting the PPACA
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | June 30th at 02:30 PM |
We have two new polls to look at on the Ohio Senate race, one from Quinnipiac University and the other from Public Policy Polling. The results are very similar, so I think it’s pretty safe to say that for the moment, Lee Fisher leads Rob Portman, though by a hair.
California Proposition 19: The next stand for federalism?
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | June 30th at 02:30 AM |
California’s going to have a busy ballot in November. In addition to voting for Governor, Senator, and more statewide offices than you can shake a stick at, we’re going to have a long list of initiative statutes and constitutional amendments to deal with. One of the more interesting ones is numbered 19. Proposition 19, the Regulate, Control, and Tax Cannabis Act of 2010, if passed | Read More »
Kos duped by Research 2000 fraudsters
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | June 29th at 04:01 PM |
At the beginning of this month, Markos Moulitsas finally saw that Research 2000′s polls were worthless, something that some of us could see all along. Feeling the sting, he apprently had a report done to check to see if he was being misled. Sure enough: his investigators found obvious, convincing evidence of fraud, fraud that he apparently didn’t notice while making regular posts on these | Read More »
Kansas Senate: Moran up big, Democrats split
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | June 29th at 01:30 PM |
SurveyUSA polls usually bring a wealth of information to those of us without any sort of subscription, but this poll the Kansas Senate primary was conducted for KWCH and we apparently don’t get to see the usual large tables SurveyUSA churns out. We do get to see who’s winning and who’s losing though, so let’s check on that.
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On the Obama cybersecurity bill
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | June 28th at 02:00 PM |
So, the Cybersecurity bill is back, fully formed as the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act (PCNAA). When I first highlighted the bill in August of 2009, I summarized it like so: S. 773, a bill by West Virginia Sen. Jay Rockefeller, Democrat, would create new “emergency” powers for the President, a ‘cybersecurity’ Enabling Act of sorts, that would give the President the authority | Read More »
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Simulating the latest Cook House ratings
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | June 27th at 12:30 AM |
On Thursday the latest House ratings from the Cook Political Report came out. I think it’s high time we re-ran those numbers in a simulation of the national election, and see what the ratings suggest for November.
Rossi Ties Murray
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | June 26th at 07:20 PM |
It’s the weekend, so I will be brief, but I saw this poll and thought I’d mention it: After so many polls showing him competitive or even close, Dino Rossi has registered a tie with Patty Murray in the Washington Senate race.
Just a reminder: the Marxists at Free Press are also frauds
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | June 25th at 12:39 AM |
Free Press, the Communist organization founded with the goal of “media reform,” which should be read as the nationalization of mass media in America, is still shouting about the great injustice at the FCC. That injustice is, of course, the shocking revelation that the FCC is meeting behind closed doors with industry stakeholders before making any firm decisions about the Internet, and in particular the | Read More »
Wal-mart Moms: This year’s catch phrase?
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | June 24th at 07:01 PM |
Wal-Mart decided to do its own generic ballot poll, so it’s no surprise that the cutesy demographic group that’s coming out of it is ‘Wal-Mart Moms.” But if they’re real, they’re real, right? So who are they?
Neck and Neck in New Mexico
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | June 24th at 02:42 PM |
Via Real Clear Politics we now turn to this Magellan Strategies poll of the New Mexico Governor’s race. New Mexico is a swingy state, capable of going with either party for Senate, Governor, or President, that swung sharply against Republicans in recent years. But right now the race for Governor is nearly even.
Landmark shift in the Gallup enthusiasm readings
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | June 24th at 12:42 PM |
National Journal noticed an event in the Gallup voter enthusiasm polling: Republicans have gone off the scale, while Democrats have fallen far off from 2006. Since 1994 the numbers have tracked with victory and defeat, with the party ahead in enthusiasm winning the House, but this scale is… well, just look.
Free Press: Too radical even for Obama officials
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | June 24th at 01:13 AM |
Some were skeptical when the idea was raised of a split between FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski and the Communist organization known as Free Press. We’re so used to the President being the furthest left holder of his office since the Carter years at the earliest, that we forget sometimes there are real unabashed hammer and sickle wavers out there. Just look at what Robert McChesney | Read More »
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One month out for the Georgia Republicans
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | June 23rd at 08:23 PM |
Roy Barnes seems to have his party’s nomination sewn up for Governor of Georgia, but the Republicans have seven names on the ballot, with three over double figures. SurveyUSA took a look. Barnes is well over 50 for the Democrats, but a runoff appears certain for the Republicans. The only question is which two will make it?