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Sarah Palin Serves Tea Party Delegates Red Meat and Certainty
My Left Breast Put Fancy TSA Scanner to the Test
From a Grass Roots Tea Party, a PAC Blooms
At Nashville Tea Party: Saving the Country, Waiting for Palin
Polls
One Massachusetts Odds-Maker: Scott Brown a 3-to-1 Favorite Over Martha Coakley
By Bruce DrakeNate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com has digested all the recent polls and run them through a statistical model he uses to predict Senate races. His verdict? Republican Scott Brown has a 74 percent chance to beat Democrat Martha Coakley in the race to fill the seat of the late Sen. Edward ...
Another Poll Shows Democrat Blumenthal with Big Lead in Conn. Senate Race
By Bruce DrakeThe polls so far seem to be leaving little doubt that Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, who became the Democrats' candidate when Christopher Dodd decided not to seek re-election, has a commanding lead over the three Republicans who want to be their party's nominee for the ...
Republican Hopefuls Running Neck-and-Neck With Democrat Bennet in Colorado
By Bruce DrakeEmbattled Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet finds himself running even or marginally ahead of three Republican contenders for his seat, according to a Research 2000/Daily Kos poll conducted Jan. 11-13. That's not great news for an incumbent but it is a better showing than a Rasmussen Reports poll ...
Brown Widens Lead Over Coakley in New Poll
By Bruce DrakeOn the eve of the Massachusetts special election for Senate, a new American Research Group poll, conducted Jan. 15-17, says Republican Scott Brown has increased his lead over Democrat Martha Coakley among likely voters to 52 percent to 42 percent, with 2 percent backing Liberty Party candidate ...
Challenges Grow for Gillibrand's Re-Election Prospects in N.Y.
By Bruce DrakeA possible primary challenge from former Tennessee Rep. Harold Ford appears to be the least of Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's problems. A plurality of voters would rather see someone else than her elected as senator and, for the first time, more of them regard her unfavorably than favorably, according to ...
Bennet Trailing GOP Contenders for his Colorado Senate Seat
By Bruce DrakeDemocratic Sen. Michael Bennet, appointed last year to fill the seat of Ken Salazar when he was named as President Obama's Interior Secretary, is running behind three Republican hopefuls for the job, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll conducted Jan. 13. ...
Boxer Faces a Tightening Race for her Senate Seat in California
By Bruce DrakeDemocratic Sen. Barbara Boxer has bare leads over three potential Republican opponents but despite her status as a three-term incumbent, the level of her support tops out at 46 percent, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll conducted Jan. 14. ...
Majority Say Obama Hasn't Accomplished Much in First Year
By Bruce DrakeFifty-two percent of Americans say President Obama has accomplished nothing or not very much after almost a year in office, according to a Washington Post/ABC News poll conducted Jan. 12-15. Forty-seven percent believe he has accomplished a great deal or a good amount. ...
Another Poll Shows Scott Brown Edging Martha Coakley in Massachusetts
By Bruce Drake
Massachusetts Republican state Sen. Scott Brown is leading Democrat Martha Coakley, the state's Attorney General, by 48 percent to 45 percent among likely voters in Tuesday's special election with 2 percent backing Libertarian Joseph Kennedy and 5 percent undecided, according to an American Research ...
Gillibrand Has Early Lead Over Ford for N.Y. Senate, If He Runs
By Bruce Drake
The talk that former Tennessee Rep. Harold Ford might challenge Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand for the Democratic Party's nomination has caused a big stir in New York politics. Still, for all the political problems that have faced Gillibrand, she leads Ford in a primary race by 43 percent to 24 percent ...
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