Tag: election
member name: Alan Waldman
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September 18, 2006 12:16 PM EDT --
The latest Rasmussen Report (9/18) shows Democrat Jon Tester now leads Republican bribe taker Conrad Burns by a whopping 9%--his biggest lead in some time. Since February, when the two were tied, until . . .
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October 11, 2006 01:48 PM EDT --
According to a July 7, 2006 report from Verified Voting--(VerifiedVoting.org)--15 states still have no paper trail or audit procedures and are therefore vulnerable to voting fraud. They are: TX, NE, IA, . . .
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October 16, 2006 01:56 PM EDT --
Excerpted from Daily Kos:
INDIANA (8th CD)
Indiana State U for the Evansville Courier & Press. 10/5-12. Likely voters. MoE 3.9% (9/6-21 results, registered users).
Hostettler (R) 32 (32)
Ellsworth . . .
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October 12, 2006 03:50 PM EDT --
Political pundit Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center For Politics, declared today that Democrats are now likely to take 221 to 225 House seats next month (with 218 being a . . .
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October 17, 2006 05:21 PM EDT --
In the latest reported polls, Democrats are leading in the races for all their own seats and also lead in contests for five Republican seats in: Pennsylvania (by 13%), Montana (+7%), Rhode Island . . .
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November 03, 2006 11:04 AM EST --
Ratings by eight organizations devoted to environment, children's rights, civil rights, workers' rights, reproductive rights and education (ADA, NARAL, NAACP, LCV, PTA, CDF, SEIU and ACLU) have . . .
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September 14, 2006 06:21 PM EDT --
Pew Research came out with a highly detailed look at American opinions going into the midterm election season (today, 9/15/06), and most data are encouraging for Democrats and people who want to see a . . .
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October 02, 2006 05:31 PM EDT --
Do you think Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's involvement in military planning efforts has done more to help the U.S. efforts in Iraq, or more to harm the U.S. efforts in Iraq? Harmed: 57%, Helped: . . .
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October 15, 2006 12:06 PM EDT --
According to the three latest Virginia senate polls, George "Macaca/I'm No Jew" Allen has pissed away his healthy polling lead. The latest survey (Washington Post) finds him only leading . . .
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October 30, 2006 01:59 PM EST --
Although five key races remain close, Democrats now lead in polls for the six GOP Senate seats they need to regain control. The latest polls put Dems ahead by 11% in PA, 20% in OH and 10% in . . .
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October 07, 2006 04:11 PM EDT --
Excerpted from http://www.slate.com/id/2148600/?nav=tap3:
Senate Race Summary for Oct. 6:
Rhode Island has gone blue. A new survey from USA Today/Gallup shows Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse leading incumbent . . .
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October 23, 2006 05:44 PM EDT --
Excerpted from the latest (10/23) report from National Journal Group:
It now looks as if the Democrats are poised to win the 15 seats they need to win control of Congress. The question is: Can the battle-tested . . .
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October 31, 2006 12:06 PM EST --
Excerpted from Taegan Goddard's Political Wire (http://politicalwire.com):
So far this campaign cycle, the political parties have spent "nearly $160 million in ads attacking congressional candidates," . . .
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November 08, 2006 03:52 PM EST --
Montana went Democratic, so Dems have won five of the needed six GOP Senate seats and lead in the very close Virginia race by 1% (6697 votes) with 99% counted.
Dems took 27 House GOP seats and an Indpendent . . .
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September 22, 2006 01:37 PM EDT --
Excerpted from Will the Next Election Be Hacked?
By Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Rolling Stone, Thursday 05 October 2006 Issue
Fresh disasters at the . . .
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September 29, 2006 11:10 AM EDT --
In the last few days, Survey USA has released 15 new poll results for Senate, House and Governor seats, and Rasmussen has posted four more. But the most significant of all is the latest Rutgers-Eagleton . . .
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October 10, 2006 12:19 PM EDT --
A series of new polls show Bush and his GOP-led Congress dropping in popularity after the House sex scandal. USA Today/Gallup gave Democrats a powerful 23% lead over Republicans in the battle for Congress, . . .
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October 17, 2006 04:17 PM EDT --
Gallup has just learned that 48% more Americans disapprove of the job done by the current Republican Congress than approve of it: 71% vs. 23%. That is the same level of dissatisfaction as in Oct. 1994--when . . .
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October 19, 2006 12:46 PM EDT --
Excerpted from Reuters article of 10/18:
With congressional elections less than three weeks away, the Republican party's approval ratings are at an all-time low, with approval of the Republican-led . . .
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October 20, 2006 10:16 AM EDT --
According to a recent report from Congressional Quarterly (http://www.cqpolitics.com/risk_rating_house.html), Democrats are favored to take Republican Kolbe's Arizona 8 House district; they lead in four . . .
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