Is Anyone Ready? By Susan Estrich
The knives are out for my friend Bill Clinton. Again.
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August 6, 2008
August 5, 2008
Fear Factor: McCain's Best Bet By Dick Morris
Barack Obama had it half right when he said that the McCain campaign would focus on raising voters' fears about him.
August 5, 2008
Local Television, Cable News Are Primary Sources of Campaign Coverage for Most Americans
Television is the news source of choice for most Americans for information on the 2008 presidential campaign, with local stations having a slight edge over their cable competitors, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
August 5, 2008
Voters’ Trust for McCain on Key Issues Growing
John McCain is now trusted more than Barack Obama on nine out of 14 electoral issues tracked by Rasmussen Reports. The latest national telephone surveys find that McCain has the biggest advantage on the war in Iraq, by a 51% to 39% margin.
August 5, 2008
Offshore Drilling: Candidates Concur on Bad Idea By Froma Harrop
In a rare burst of bipartisan consensus, Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama have agreed on a dreadful proposal: Open more of America's fragile coastlines to offshore oil drilling.
August 5, 2008
Generic Congressional Ballot: Democrats Lead by Ten
The Democrats lead by ten in the Generic Congressional Ballot this week. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone tracking results for this week find that, if Congressional elections were held today, 46% of voters would vote for their district’s Democratic candidate, while 36% would choose the Republican candidate.
August 5, 2008
58% of Adults Want Troops Home from Iraq Within Year
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 58% of Americans want the troops brought home from Iraq within a year.
August 4, 2008
Voters Like Obama’s Energy Credit for Working Families, But Give Mixed Reviews to Windfall Profits Tax
With Barack Obama launching an energy offensive this week to regain ground lost to John McCain and the Republicans, the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that most voters favor the presumptive Democratic nominee’s proposal for a $1,000 energy credit for working families.
August 4, 2008
Affirmative Action Important to 54% of Voters; 58% Reject Programs that Give Special Treatment
John McCain’s rejection of affirmative action as presently constituted drew stony silence from a black audience on Friday, but even Barack Obama has problems with the government’s use of a quota system to advance women and minorities. Both men are careful, too, to suggest that something needs to take its place.
August 3, 2008
Only 22% Say McCain Ad Racist, But Over Half (53%) See Obama Dollar-bill Comment That Way
Sixty-nine percent (69%) of the nation’s voters say they’ve seen news coverage of the McCain campaign commercial that includes images of Britney Spears and Paris Hilton and suggests that Barack Obama is a celebrity just like them. Of those, just 22% say the ad was racist while 63% say it was not.
August 3, 2008
Hey, Britney, You Make Too Much Money
John McCain seems to have scored with a new ad suggesting that his Democratic opponent, Barack Obama, is a lightweight celebrity like Paris Hilton, and recent polling suggests why.
August 2, 2008
Polls Continue to Show an Unstable Presidential Campaign By Michael Barone
Just when you think you've got the presidential race figured out, something comes along to upend your carefully wrought conclusions.
August 2, 2008
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending August 1, 2008
Barack Obama’s travels abroad were the focus of the news a week ago, but our latest polling finds that it really didn’t make any difference in the numbers at all.
August 2, 2008
Number of Democrats in US Declines in July
During July, the number of Americans who consider themselves to be Democrats fell two percentage points to 39.2%. That’s the first time since January that the number of Democrats has fallen below 41%.
August 2, 2008
August Is the Time to Take Obama Down By Dick Morris
When is the McCain campaign going to get serious? It seems to be marking time with softball ads, more appropriate to the soundbites campaign media spokespeople exchange with one another than to strategic paid media hits.
August 1, 2008
Attack, He Said: A Commentary By Susan Estrich
What does Barack Obama have to do with Britney Spears and Paris Hilton? Absolutely nothing, as far as I can tell. A mentally unstable party girl and an heiress/party girl? Did I miss the part where Obama's father was a hotel magnate, where he couldn't be trusted to take care of his children, where he literally partied till he dropped?
July 31, 2008
McCain Talks Straight on Fan-Fred Reform By Lawrence Kudlow
There will be no more business as usual for housing lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac if John McCain is elected president. That's McCain's clear message in a recent hard-hitting op-ed in the St. Petersburg Times and in various straight-talk media interviews.
July 31, 2008
McCain's Oil Drilling Hoax By Joe Conason
Forced to cancel a planned visit to an oil platform off the Mississippi coast last week because of inclement weather -- and the untimely leaking of hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil by a shipwreck in the vicinity -- John McCain finally got his photo op at a Bakersfield derrick on July 28. Speaking on site, the Arizona senator delivered extraordinarily good news to the beleaguered gasoline-consuming public as he explained why we must drill offshore.
July 31, 2008
Could a VP Romney Be Health-Care Tsar? By Froma Harrop
We who obsess over universal health coverage may soon confront a startling development: The only candidate on a major-party presidential ticket to have proposed and implemented a universal plan could well be a Republican. I speak of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, now high on the list of John McCain's possible running mates.
July 31, 2008
Alaska Senate Update By Larry Sabato
It looks like a clean sweep for Alaska in the Senate and House. Both of the Republican incumbents, Sen. Ted Stevens, in office since 1968, and Rep. Don Young, who has held his seat since 1973, appear to be going down to defeat.
