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The Results Are In: The Media Officially Loves (Covering) Christine O'Donnell
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News
(Nov. 2) -- Has navel-gazing reached an all-time low? Pew's Project for Excellence in Journalism released a study of the most news covered candidates. And the result is that everyone in the media is now covering a study of what they already covered. Pretty meta. Seriously though, Christine O'Donnell has the most media coverage by a long shot. Nobody knew her name two months ago. How did she do that? The Delaware Tea Party Senate candidate -- who has given very limited national media access -- was the lead figure in 160 news stories over the past 11 months, despite only seriously making ...
Poll Shows an Electorate Aligned With the Tea Party -- and Hidden Risks for GOP
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Aug. 3) -- The Atlantic's Steven Schier, a political science professor at Carleton College, takes a look at a recent Pew Center survey, which finds that American voters identify themselves more closely with the tea party than the Democratic Party. "This would appear to be very bad news for the Democrats in 2010 -- and, in the short term, it probably is," Schier writes. When voters were asked how they identify their own political views, the results also seem to bode poorly for Democrats. Forty percent of voters describe their political views as conservative, 36 percent as moderate and 22 ...
Mitt Romney vs. Tim Pawlenty on Healthcare: 2012 Campaign Begins?
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyMitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty are both publicly criticizing the healthcare reforms from President Obama and the Democrats currently being debated in Congress. At the same time, the two Republicans are jabbing at each other on an alternate approach to healthcare issues, seemingly establishing their differences in advance of 2012 campaigns for the White House. ...
Contrary to Prior Report, Three Different Polls Give Obama High Marks
By Dylan and Ethan Ris - Politics DailyRegular readers of Political Machine may have perused our site's earlier report, Obama's Disapproval Rating Reaches New High, and come to the conclusion that the wheels are coming off the presidential wagon. We'd like to offer a different perspective, with the help of four national polls.First, the poll referenced in the "Disapproval" article. That was from Rasmussen Reports, which on the one hand is well-respected for its accuracy in the 2008 election. On the other hand, the poll is featured on a web page with banner quotes from Larry Kudlow, Michael Barone and Bill Frist and with ads ...
Disregard National Polls
By David Knowles - Politics DailyThough we're loathe to admit it, we all love the horse-race aspect of political campaigns. To that end, every four years we study the seismic activity of national polls and stupidly forget that they don't matter one little bit. Obama is up 14% says Pew! Obama is in a virtual tie says an outdated Gallup model! Even though we know better, we, the glassy-eye fish of the electorate, bite into that bait every single time as though it was the first time we'd ever seen a worm. Damn you, electoral college! You mock our love of national numbers at every turn. Sure, it's our own fault for ignoring your ...
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