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Hillary Clinton Leads the Pack in Bloomberg Popularity Poll
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is the most popular political figure in the nation, receiving a favorable rating of 64 percent in a Bloomberg National Poll released Tuesday. Following close on her heels is the first lady, Michelle Obama, with a 62 percent positive rating. The two women ...
How Obama Can Avoid Becoming Jimmy Carter
By Matt LewisPresident Obama is in danger of becoming Jimmy Carter. This is not an original observation. His "Carteresque" tendencies were on full display during the recent CNBC town hall meeting when a supporter -- lamenting her present economic condition -- asked Obama, "Is this my new reality?" Obama's ...
Is 2010 the Year Voters Turn Polls on Their Heads?
By Walter Shapiro
As connoisseurs of presidential primaries know well, New Hampshire voters are notoriously contrarian – mischievously rewriting the media's story line by voting for Hillary Clinton (2008), John McCain (in a 2000 landslide), Pat Buchanan (1996) and Gary Hart (1984). Cosseted by the candidates ...
Why Nancy Pelosi Thinks She Can Hold the House
By Melinda Henneberger
Either Nancy Pelosi really does think her Democrats are going to do much, much better than expected at the polls in a little over a month -- or the House Speaker should have gone to Yale Drama and given La Streep some real competition. Ever since White House press secretary Robert Gibbs first ...
Democrats' National Campaigns Rake in More Money Than GOP in August
By Tom Diemer
Hoping against hope? Despite polls indicating big trouble in the midterms, the Democratic Party's national campaign committees out-raised and out-spent their Republican counterparts in August. The Democratic National Committee raised $10.9 million last month, compared to the $7.9 million collected ...
GOP Has 2-in-3 Chance of Winning Majority in House, New Forecast Shows
By Politics Daily StaffRepublicans have a two-in-three chance of claiming a majority of House seats in the November elections, according to a new forecast by FiveThirtyEight.com's Nate Silver. The GOP gains could rival or exceed those of 1994, when the party took a net of 54 seats from the Democrats, Silver ...
Gallup, Barna: A Tale of Two Polling Operations and Their Curious Midterm Numbers
By Jeffrey Weiss
Two polls were recently released. One indicates the Democrats are in deep trouble come November. The other not so much. Polls taken today are about as meaningful as preseason football games, but it's still a puzzlement. Let's do a tale of the tape: In this corner, weighing in with 1,540 ...
White House: Rangel Charges 'Very Serious,' Trial is 'Right Course'
By Politics Daily Staff
Moving ahead with a trial-like proceeding in Rep. Charles Rangel's ethics case is the "right course" for Congress, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Friday. Gibbs also predicted Democrats would retain control of the U.S. House, despite political setbacks and the weak economy. "There is ...
Handicapping the 2010 Election: The Five Biggest Mysteries
By Walter Shapiro
Fifteen weeks until the election, political prophets are peddling the kind of glib certainty about the future normally found at an astrologer's convention. From Joe Biden ("I don't think the losses are going to be bad at all") to House Republican Rep. Pete Sessions ("We will be slightly over 40") ...
Blanche Lincoln, Bill Halter Likely Face Run-Off After Primary in Arkansas
By Suzi Parker
Long before Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln drew two Democratic primary opponents, she was in the crosshairs of a wide array of political foes. From the right, Arkansas Tea Partiers singled her out at their December Christmas bash by chanting "Bye, Bye Blanche." On her left were a multitude of ...
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