Want the scoop on hot races around the country? Get the digest emailed to you each weekday morning. Sign up here. Leading Off: • CO-06: Sometimes it's just amazing when Republicans reveal what lies truly deep in their hearts—amazing not because o.....
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If you believe the House of Ras, over the last week the presidential election has moved clearly in the direction of Barack Obama, as a once-formidable Mitt Romney lead has evaporated. Fox News echoes that movement in the president's direction,..
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Carol Shea-Porter (D) Public Policy Polling (PDF). 5/10-13. New Hampshire voters. MoE ±4.4% for NH-01 and 3.9% for NH-02. (6/30-7/5/2011 in parentheses): Carol Shea-Porter (D): 47 (41) Frank Guinta (R-inc): 43 (48) Undecided: 10 (10) Ann McLane Kust.....
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Want the scoop on hot races around the country? Get the digest emailed to you each weekday morning. Sign up here. Leading Off: • MN-08: The establishment is certainly rallying around ex-Rep. Rick Nolan, as he seeks an unlikely comeback to the..
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Welcome to ass-backwards Wednesday, where Republicans breathlessly flog a CBS poll, while Democrats turn to Fox News for a counterpoint. No shit. It's been that kind of a week on the political data front. Democrats took a number of hits this..
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Break out the champagne because the MTV Movie Awards are finally legal. And what would a 21st birthday party be without some rockin' music? To celebrate this huge milestone we looked back at Movie Awards performances of yesteryear and, man,..
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We won't disagree that the Oscars are Hollywood's fashion Super Bowl, but we like to think stars have the most fun dressing for MTV awards shows. I mean, where else can one wear something like this? Thankfully, most starlets err..
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Want the scoop on hot races around the country? Get the digest emailed to you each weekday morning. Sign up here. Leading Off: • LA-03: In case you missed it, GOP freshman Jeff Landry, the last member of the House who hadn't..
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Some conventional wisdom got sorely tested today, in the relatively smallish sampling of polls released on this primary Tuesday (if you are voting in Nebraska, Idaho, and Oregon). President Obama is in trouble! (Unless you count New Hampshire, where a.....
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Wisconsin state capitol Public Policy Polling for Daily Kos. 5/11-13. Likely voters. MoE: ±3.4% (4/13-15 results): Tom Barrett (D): 45 (45) Scott Walker (R-inc): 50 (50) Hari Trivedi (I): 2 (2) Undecided: 3 (3) As you can see, the results from our n.....
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Want the scoop on hot races around the country? Get the digest emailed to you each weekday morning. Sign up here. Leading Off: • NE-Sen: If Republican-affiliated pollster We Ask America's new numbers are right, we're in for a remarkable upset in..
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While more attention will undoubtedly get paid to the presidential numbers today (including nearly a half-dozen new state polls that broke over the weekend), there are two sets of numbers downballot that ought to command quite a bit of attention,..
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Want the scoop on hot races around the country? Get the digest emailed to you each weekday morning. Sign up here. Leading Off: • CA-26: The DCCC hasn't filed any independent expenditure reports in CA-26 yet, but Republican-turned-independent Linda .....
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Pennsylvania: From 1st place to 4th Place Who is the new #1?! For regular readers of these descents into electoral junkie-dom on Sunday Kos, they will note that this is the third installment in a series to determine, somewhat subjectively, what state.....
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Our status as political junkies, to say nothing of the 24-hour news cycle, has a tendency to desensitize us to major election-related news events. This week was an excellent case-in-point. By the time Indiana Sen. Dick Lugar conceded defeat on..
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Rasmussen's status as an infallible pollster to the right, and a inevitable source of derision to the left, has been well established for years. But, looking at some of their recent polling (most notably, their daily tracking poll of the..
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Rep. Jay Inslee (D) SurveyUSA for KING-TV. 5/8-9. Washington voters. MoE: ±4.2% (2/13-15 in parentheses): Jay Inslee (D): 38 (39) Rob McKenna (R): 40 (49) Undecided 22 (12) Back in February, it looked like the gubernatorial race was starting to slip.....
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Want the scoop on hot races around the country? Get the digest emailed to you each weekday morning. Sign up here. Leading Off: • House Race Ratings: In case you haven't seen them yet, Daily Kos Elections just published our inaugural House..
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With the presidential race in a bit of a holding pattern (especially with most of us waiting a few days to see what sea change, if any, emanates from the president's historic announcement on Wednesday), today's Wrap discussion will focus..
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In 2011, PPP asked 11,995 registered voters their opinion on gay marriage on behalf of DailyKos and SEIU. With this many responses, we can answer some questions about where public opinion stood last year, where it might be going, and..
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