Hillary gave a great speech. Bill gave a great speech. Barack gave a really great speech. That's what everyone is saying, and who am I to disagree? Of course, I've never been to a convention, Republican or Democratic, where everybody didn't say on Thursday night that it was a really great speech. Truth is, I can barely remember most of them.
Barack Obama got the expected bounce from a successful Democratic National Convention, but the week was bookended by both candidates’ surprise choices for their running mates.
Sarah Palin has made a good first impression. Before being named as John McCain’s running mate, 67% of voters didn’t know enough about the Alaska governor to have an opinion. After her debut in Dayton and a rush of media coverage, a new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey finds that 53% now have a favorable opinion of Palin while just 26% offer a less flattering assessment.
As this is written, with a deadline looming, I have not heard Barack Obama's acceptance speech at Invesco Field and have not learned who is John McCain's choice for vice president.
Can he win in November? Yes, Barack Obama was the best Democrat in the field. Start with his charismatic yet cool demeanor.
More voters are convinced after four days of convention-watching that Senator Joseph Biden was the right pick as Barack Obama’s running mate, but nearly a quarter still aren’t sure.
Just days after Michelle Obama addressed the Democratic National Convention, a Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that her favorability ratings have reached their highest levels since tracking began and she is now viewed more favorably than Cindy McCain.
One measure of how well John McCain kept his choice of a Vice Presidential running mate secret is that 67% of voters nationwide have no opinion one way or the other about Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that she is unknown to 78% of women.
John McCain is about to name his running mate, and, of the three names most commonly heard, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney is by far the candidate most preferred by voters, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
Friday’s results from the Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll show a bounce for Barack Obama. After leading by just one or two points for most of August, the Democratic hopeful opened a three-point advantage over McCain last Friday—the day before he announced Joe Biden would be his running mate.
Many political campaigns run against the wrong candidate. The opportunity to pick on a vulnerable target is so tempting that they are lured into attacking someone who isn’t running. In 1992, the Republicans unleashed their convention barrage at Hillary and left Bill unscathed.
The focus at the Democratic National Convention Thursday night is on nominee Barack Obama’s historic acceptance speech, but a man who takes the stage earlier in the evening was in Obama’s place eight years ago and remains one of the party’s most popular members.
American voters are more optimistic about the nation’s future than they have been in over four years. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 45% of voters think America’s best days lie ahead, while 37% think they have come and gone.
Who is Barack Obama? What have voters been telling Rasmussen Reports about the man who has energized his fellow Democrats and tonight officially becomes the first African-American presidential candidate of a major U.S. political party?
As the Democrats convene in Denver to celebrate Hillary Clinton and nominate Barack Obama, a tiny minority of her supporters continues to behave petulantly. They whine, they bluster, they agitate themselves and each other.
In some ways, the Dems confab sounds a bit like a Republican convention. For example: Nuclear energy? It's big here. The daily convention edition of the National Journal has been running pro-nuclear energy ads on Page Two every day -- and touting the support of Democratic Party biggies.
Three out of four Democrats (74%) say the party’s ongoing national convention has unified them as they roll out now in full force to put their nominee, Barack Obama, in the White House. Just 14% think the convention has not unified them.
Hillary Clinton just gave the last major speech of her 2008 campaign. Or perhaps was it the first of her 2012 campaign. She said vote-for-Barack enough times and at enough volume to protect her from accusations of trying to sabotage Obama's chances in November, not that she won't be accused.
There's no Obama-Biden bounce, according to the latest tracking polls. In fact, as of Wednesday morning, Scott Rasmussen reports a 47-46 one-point lead for John McCain. Gallup has the race even and indicates that conservative Democrats -- including married women -- are peeling away from Obama-Biden.
Her words were emphatic: "Barack Obama is my candidate and he must be our next president." Hillary Clinton's endorsement was unambiguous and she held nothing back.
