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JAY COST:: The State of the Race | The Weekly Standard
By MB Snow at August 27, 2012 | 12:48 am
BY JAY COST -- With just over two months until Election Day, Barack Obama holds a narrow lead over Mitt Romney in the race for the presidency. The lead is shallow, however, and a careful look at the landscape reveals significant weaknesses for the president. The key question remains whether Romney can capitalize on them. President Obama has enjoyed a lead over ... Go To Article
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POLLS:: Tight races put undecided voters in control | The Columbus Dispatch
By MB Snow at August 27, 2012 | 12:20 am
The closest Dispatch Poll in modern history shows the races for president and U.S. Senate in a dead heat in battleground Ohio. For the record, Republican Mitt Romney holds a “lead” of 0.22 percentage point over President Barack Obama. That’s a mere 2 votes out of more than 1,730 cast for president in the mail poll. By comparison, Sen. Sherrod Brown has a ... Go To Article
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GRAPHIC: Where Do Obama and Romney Currently Stand in the Swing States? | FoxNews
By MB Snow at August 23, 2012 | 1:00 pm
According to the latest Real Clear Politics average, President Obama’s lead is shrinking in many swing states. via GRAPHIC: Where Do Obama and Romney Currently Stand in the Swing States? | Fox News ... Go To Article
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SHOCK POLL:: Obama could lose Illinois | DC
By MB Snow at August 20, 2012 | 12:57 pm
By Alexis Levinson -- President Barack Obama could lose his home state of Illinois in November, a new poll shows. A poll conducted by Illinois-based pollster and political strategist Michael McKeon found Obama leading Republican Mitt Romney by 49 percent to 37 percent in Cook County, the home of Chicago. That puts him ahead by a far thinner margin than expected in a ... Go To Article
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RASMUSSEN:: Reaction to Ryan: A Gap Between Mainstream America and Official Washington – Rasmussen Reports™
By MB Snow at August 20, 2012 | 12:50 am
One of the things Mitt Romney's selection of Paul Ryan as his running mate ensures is a series of polling questions over the coming months asking voters what's more important: creating jobs or cutting government spending; helping the economy or cutting deficits; repealing the president's health care law or focusing on the economy. These questions reflect the way ... Go To Article
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POLLS:: Positive views of Ryan jump higher after pick – WaPo
By MB Snow at August 14, 2012 | 10:19 am
Posted by Jon Cohen -- Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan — the freshly minted Republican vice presidential candidate — got an immediate ratings boost in the wake of his selection as Mitt Romney’s running-mate, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. Republican vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., gives a thumbs-up at a rally Sunday, August 12, ... Go To Article
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POLL:: Romney leads in Colo., Obama in Va., Wis. – CBS News
By MB Snow at August 9, 2012 | 10:42 am
By Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Anthony Salvanto, Fred Backus, Stephanie Condon (CBS News) Two states that Barack Obama won in 2008 - after going for former President Bush in 2004 - are now split between President Obama and Mitt Romney, according to the latest Quinnipiac University/CBS News/New York Times swing state poll. Romney is ahead of the president in the ... Go To Article
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JAY COST:: The Race Is Romney’s to Win | The Weekly Standard
By MB Snow at August 8, 2012 | 1:05 pm
BY JAY COST -- The conventional wisdom in the presidential race is that President Obama is a clear favorite. We hear this from the pundits in the press, we see it in the InTrade odds, and various predictive models built around the polling averages tell us this. But I disagree. For starters, I believe it is based upon a historically naïve view of summer political ... Go To Article
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ELECTION 2012: Numbers favor GOP in battle for control of Congress | WashEx
By MB Snow at August 6, 2012 | 12:05 am
With Congress embarking this week on a monthlong recess despite its failure to act on several critical issues, Democrats unleashed a pre-election public relations assault, accusing Republicans of ignoring the middle class, abandoning bipartisanship and instead catering to the wealthy and the far-right Tea Party. The strategy looks tough on paper, and might resonate ... Go To Article
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POLL:: 2008′s New Voters Sour on Obama in 2012 – WashWire – WSJ
By MB Snow at August 1, 2012 | 12:05 am
By Peter Nicholas -- In this Dec. 9, 2008 file photo, then-Sen. Barack Obama with his wife Michelle, left, and talk-show host Oprah Winfrey, take part in a campaign rally in Columbia, S.C. New voters rallied behind then-Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign in 2008, embracing a fresh-faced candidate with an intriguing personal story and message. Getting them to sign up ... Go To Article
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