Obama would win a landslide second term — in Canada
President Obama is the candidate preferred by two-thirds of voters in a country with which the U.S. shares a 4,000-mile border, according to a Globescam poll conducted for Great Britain’s BBC World...
View ArticlePolls show very small Obama gains with a week to go
As the East Coast braced to endure Hurricane Sandy, the release of new polls on Monday showed a tiny shift toward President Obama in the nation’s political winds. The polls, taken after last week’s...
View ArticleBattleground poll: Obama is holding lead in Ohio
President Obama is holding onto a five-point head in the crucial “Battleground” state of Ohio, exactly the 50-45 percent advantage over Mitt Romney he held a month ago, according to a Quinnipiac...
View ArticleMayor Bloomberg endorses Obama, cites climate change
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, portions of his city still underwater, has endorsed President Obama for reelection, citing the 44th president’s initiatives to counter climate change and saying that...
View ArticleDown to the wire with Barack and Mitt: Polls
Mitt Romney was up at 50 percent last week in the daily ABC News/Washington Post tracking poll, but now President Obama enjoys an “advantage” of exactly seven-hundredths of one percent. Obama has...
View ArticleHoward Schultz for Obama, Dino Rossi for Romney
Prominent local voices are being raised at the conclusion of Campaign 2012. Starbuck’s CEO Howard Schultz was once leader of an abortive effort by business leaders to force cooperation between...
View ArticlePolls: Snapshots of a close election across America
The 2012 race for President remained tied in national polls released Friday by Ipsos-Reuters and ABC News and the Washington Post. A bevy of Battleground state polls continued to show President Obama...
View ArticleVery slight momentum for Obama in final poll
The final NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll of campaign 2012 shows President Obama with a 48-47 percent advantage over Mitt Romney, a one-point uptick for the president amidst signs that developments...
View ArticleABC News/Washington Post poll: 50-47 for Obama
The candidates remain closely matched, the gap is within the margin of error, but President Obama has taken a 50-47 percent lead over Republican Mitt Romney in the last ABC News/Washington Post daily...
View ArticleIt’s the economy, stupid: CBS exit poll
Sixty percent of voters identified the state of America’s economy as the most important issue in casting their ballots, according to an early CBS News exit poll on election day. Results from the survey...
View ArticleThree GOP seats in U.S. Senate fall, Democrats to keep control
Republicans have already lost three of the 10 GOP-held U.S. Senate seats at stake in the 2012 election, leaving Democrats poised to maintain their majority in Congress’ upper chamber — a goal that...
View ArticlePolitics: Bloopers and dubious achievers of 2012
“When I make a mistake, it’s a doozy,” New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia said a couple generations ago. Washington saw its share of doozies in 2012 as politicians stumbled over their tongues, campaign...
View ArticleBad news at Fox News? Hannity’s ratings plummet
The viewers of “Hannity” on Fox News listened all fall as the host relentlessly attacked President Obama while guest conservative-entertainment celebrities like Dick Morris, Ann Coulter and Peggy...
View ArticleHispanic Republican activist runs against DelBene
A former Microsoft engineer and Republican Hispanic activist is poised to announce his candidacy against Democratic U.S. Rep. Suzan DelBene in Western Washington’s sprawling 1st Congressional District....
View ArticleWhy Sen. Ted Cruz should head for solidly ‘blue’ Washington
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, comes across as a White House hopeful hostile to both Washingtons, decrying compromise in the U.S. capital but also promising to repeal same-sex marriage and stressing that...
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