2008 Election Results

President Barack Obama's re-election campaign is beginning to express some confidence that the president's historic, yet politically risky, embrace of gay marriage may not hurt him in the November election.Click to Continue »  

President Barack Obama's re-election campaign is beginning to express some confidence that the president's historic, yet politically risky, embrace of gay marriage may not hurt him in the November election. In a conference call announcing efforts to get ...  

In this diary earlier today we learned the story of an elderly veteran who went for his daily outing to his local rec center while wearing an Obama T-shirt. He got crosswise with election law because the center was also functioning as an early ...  

Yes, presidential elections are ultimately won in the electoral college, but the college usually follows the popular vote ... said they would definitely vote in November elections. In these states, approval for Obama's handling of the mortgage ...  

With several potentially intriguing downballot primaries on the docket for Tuesday, plus the expected post-primary lull at the top of the ballot, the focus of the Wrap today takes on a distinctly non-presidential flavor. Sure, there is still some polling on the battle for the White House between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. And there are a handful of analytical points that deserve to be made: the national polling (to say nothing of the...  

Wednesday did not have an absurdly high volume of polling, but what we saw could most definitely elicit a little sideways glance, and a quick scratch of the head. Is it possible that there are nineteen points of difference between Barack Obama and Shelley Berkley in Nevada? Rasmussen says so. Is it possible that, after every political observer has written his obituary, that 6-term Sen. Dick Lugar survives next week, after all? A new poll says...  

Admirable as President Obama’s decision was to support same-sex marriage last week, its implications for his reelection chances are still being debated. Indeed, the latest polling has been less than reassuring. Both a New York Times/CBS News ...  

Clearly, the lesson for this week: don't ask Steve Singiser to make predictions. This week, on the assumption that the load of political polling on the presidential race was about to dip, with Mitt Romney effectively cemented as the GOP nominee, we began to add downballot polling to our nightly synopsis of polling data. And ... the next day? A return to pollmageddon, it seems. Over fifteen polls grace this midweek edition of the Wrap. With...  

The good news for Romney? These people exist. The bad news? There really aren’t that many of them. [National Journal, 3/27/12] Hotline Executive Editor Josh Kraushaar writes that the biggest misconception this election season is the depiction ...  

Kicking off a five-stop fundraising blitz in his hometown of Chicago, President Obama contrasted his policies with those of the GOP presidential candidates, declaring to a ballroom of supporters that November's election will mark a "make-or-break moment" for America.  

Chicago (CNN) – Kicking off a five-stop fundraising blitz in his hometown of Chicago on Friday, President Barack Obama contrasted his policies with those of the Republican presidential candidates, declaring to a ballroom of supporters that November's election will mark a "make-or-break moment" for America. "They have a simple philosophy: We are better off when [...]  

Rasmussen has Romney dead even with Barack Obama in a national trial heat! And yet both ... the bank in this election cycle, it is that whatever meme you are eager to generate, no matter your partisan preference or dog in the fight, will be ...  

John J. Pitney, Jr. says that presidential elections depend on the big things: bread and butter, war and peace. Reality trumps rhetoric.