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According to Rasmussen Reports, Barack Obama’s approval ratings are dropping fast: Daily Presidential Approval Index. The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Approval Index for Sunday shows that 36% of the nation’s voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing as President. Twenty-five percent (25%) Strongly Disapprove ...
Barack Obama, Economy, Stimulus, Polls, Rasmussen, Approval Ratings
Iowahawk crunches some numbers, does the math, and decides it’s all about Balls and Urns.
In the latest Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll, Barack Obama’s lead over John McCain has dropped to 5 points. Among likely voters: Obama - 49% McCain - 44% Margin of error - 2.9 points.
A surprise from the Associated Press, as most other polls put Obama way ahead of McCain: AP presidential poll: All even in the homestretch. WASHINGTON (AP) - The presidential race tightened after the final debate, with John McCain gaining among whites and people earning less than $50,000, according to ...
The latest Fox News poll of registered voters: Barack Obama - 46% John McCain - 39% UPDATE at 10/10/08 11:14:23 am: The RealClearPolitics averages: Obama - 49.5% McCain - 43.3%
The latest Gallup daily tracking poll: Obama’s Lead Expands to 11 Over McCain.
In Slate Magazine, William Saletan says the polls are so stacked against John McCain, there’s no possibility he can win. The race is over. Oh, wait. That was eight years ago, and he was talking about George W. Bush. Why Bush Is Toast. Since Labor Day, the media have ...
Looking around the web this morning, we see a whole lot of silly, meaningless Internet polls asking who won last night’s debate—and in quite a few of them, Joe Biden seems to be doing quite well, even coming out ahead of Sarah Palin. Curious, isn’t it? Why would Biden be ...
Election 2008, Sarah Palin, Joe Biden, Debate, Polls, Progressives, Moonbats
The latest polls reported by Fox are not good news for the McCain campaign. In the swing states of Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, Obama’s lead has grown significantly. Florida: Obama - 51% McCain - 43% Ohio: Obama - 50% McCain - 42% Pennsylvania: Obama - 54% McCain - 39% The ...
“Be zen. Freaking out over crappy pollsters is just lame.”
Big trouble for the little messiah: Poll shows McCain in 5-point lead over Obama. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a sharp turnaround, Republican John McCain has opened a 5-point lead on Democrat Barack Obama in the U.S. presidential race and is seen as a stronger manager of the economy, according ...
Barack Obama’s campaign is running on hope, and stalling out in public opinion polls. In the two months since Barack Obama captured the Democratic nomination, he has hit a ceiling in public opinion polling, proving unable to make significant gains with any segment of the national electorate. While Obama ...
Barack Obama’s polling “bounce” from his overseas extravaganza was very short-lived. The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that Barack Obama’s Berlin bounce is gone. Obama now attracts 44% of the vote while John McCain earns 42%. When “leaners” are included, it’s Obama 47% and McCain ...
The latest Gallup poll shows a significant “bounce” for Barack Obama following his Pseudo-Presidential World Tour: Gallup Daily: Obama 49%, McCain 40%.
I’m not putting up a silly internet poll after tonight’s Democratic debate, because the losers are now doing their best to flood any and all silly internet polls. The craziness has reached epidemic proportions, and all the candidates are slugging it out in this imaginary arena. This may be ...
In a big improvement, the LGF poll application now uses Ajax (Javascript and PHP) techniques to let you vote and see the results without reloading the page. The ‘Show’ button will still take you to a separate page, where you can view and vote on any LGF polls that are ...
LGF, Technical Info, Database, MySQL, Abstraction Layer, PHP, Refactoring, Polls, Olmert, Israel, Winograd
Another piece of the LGF Blog Engine’s MySQL makeover was completed over the weekend—our polling application. This was kind of a tough one to convert from flat files; had to rethink the entire data model in SQL terms, and ended up with a complex but very flexible multi-table design that ...
LGF, Technical Info, Database, MySQL, Abstraction Layer, PHP, Refactoring, Polls
The newest addition to the LGF Blog Engine is visible in the two preceding entries; there’s now a simple interface by which I can embed polls directly into LGF blog posts. A word on the scientific validity of this or any other internet poll: there is none. These are supposed ...