During a slow week during the Democratic convention, there wasn't a whole lot of polling work being done out in the field. Rasmussen, which is the largest provider of polling data this cycle, took the week off, but CNN filled the void with four polls in swing states. Overall there were eight polls in eight states. And despite

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The United States and Iraq have come to a preliminary agreement that could possibly have United States military personnel withdraw from the cities by June of next year. This “timetable” would be contingent upon Iraq meeting certain milestones. The United States would withdraw from Iraq proportionally as the milestones are met.

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By her own admission, GMA (Gloria Macapagal Arroyo) rightfully assessed that over the last decades; our republic has become one of the weakest, steadily left behind by its more progressive neighbors.’ Forty years ago, we were only second to Japan in economic stature, and way ahead of Singapore , Hong Kong , Malaysia , and Thail

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There were quite a few new polls this past week (plus one day). With 29 polls in 20 different states, there was as much chance this week for a large number of shifts as we've seen in number of weeks. However, the changes from one category to the next are still confined mostly to the the swing states or states where the number

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The Democrats dubbed the 109th congress, led by Republicans, as the do nothing congress but it appears as though the current congress has done less than any other congress in the last twenty years.

Don’t get me wrong, the Democrats have managed to do something, just look at this list:

Congress has saluted such milestones

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Some of you may have noticed over the last few days that the little “digg this” icon that used to appear on my posts is missing. It is not because I no longer wish to have my posts “dugg”, it is because digg no longer wants anything to do with me.

Last week I tried to access my account on Digg and found out that my account

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By now you have heard about what President Obama had to say about Clarence Thomas, but in case you haven’t let me refresh your memory.

“I don’t think that he was a strong enough jurist or legal thinker at the time for that elevation, setting aside the fact that I profoundly disagree with his interpretations of a lot of the C

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As if conservatives needed yet another reason to turn their backs on the man that turned his back on conservatives, we find out that John McCain is seriously considering Joe Lieberman as his running mate.

John McCain is seriously considering choosing a pro-abortion-rights running mate despite vocal resistance from conservati

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Judicial Watch, a government watchdag group, wants Nancy Pelosi and Al Gore investigated for the commercial that ran featuring her and Newt Gingrich talking about global warming. As I first wrote about here, this commercial appears to have broken the restriction of free speech bill otherwise known as McCain-Feingold campaign fi

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With just six new polls from five states out, there were some shake ups throughout FHQ's various depictions of the race's dynamics. North Carolina and Texas are a toss up and a lean state, respectively and both continue to hold steady in those positions favoring McCain. The same is true of Maine, though the Pine Tree state is

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McLie is maybe a new nickname for him. Before he lied to a fellow veteran about his voting record on veteran issues. Now he lied about energy. He said that he has never missed any crucial vote on energy. McCain hasn’t voted in the senate since April 2008, so obviously logic isn’t his strong suit. When you don’t vote in the

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A simple gut feeling may suffice here, however, I cannot help but over-analyze even the simplest of questions. Why provide a feeling when we can put the data we have to good use? With that in mind, what is underpolled? We can go about answering that question in a couple of ways. The simplest way is to take an average. With the

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Ted Kennedy's ominous diagnosis last week underscores what is going to be a major issue in this presidential campaign: age. Rep. John Murtha (PA-D) has said McCain is too old, Howard Dean has said it won't be an issue and McCain himself has taken the self-deprecating route on his age. But like Nixon's five o'clock shadow du

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Each state is ranked from the most Democratic (upper left corner) to the most Republican (bottom right corner) based on FHQ's weighted average of the polls in each state. The background color for each state corresponds to the color you'll see the map two times each week. Though DC is not shown, it is assumed to be ranked abov

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A week after Clinton emerged from the Colorado state convention with one extra delegate (compared to her estimated share in the precinct level vote), Obama returned the favor by duplicating his Nevada gain at Alaska's state convention last night. During the February 5 caucuses in the Last Frontier, Obama just missed out on gai

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