71% Willing to Vote for Woman President, 73% for African-American
Seventy-one percent (71%) of the nation’s voters say they would be willing to vote for a woman for President. Seventeen percent (17%) say they would not and 11% are not sure.
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February 17, 2008
February 17, 2008
Oregon: Obama Leads McCain, McCain Leads Clinton
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone poll in Oregon shows John McCain leading Hillary Clinton 45% to 42%.
February 17, 2008
Pennsylvania: Obama 49% McCain 39%; McCain 44% Clinton 42%
In an early look at potential general election Presidential match-ups in Pennsylvania, Barack Obama leads John McCain while McCain is in a toss-up with Hillary Clinton.
February 16, 2008
Partisan Economics: Democrats, Republicans Have Fundamentally Different Perceptions of the Economy
The economy has emerged as a top voting issue for Election 2008, but that broad topic means different things to different people.
February 16, 2008
Wisconsin: McCain 51% Huckabee 30%
In Wisconsin’s Republican Presidential Primary, the latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey finds John McCain attracting 51% of the vote and holding a twenty-one point lead.
February 16, 2008
Hillary's "McGovern" Problem: An Inside Report by Robert D. Novak
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Strategists for Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign believe it is imperative to identify her high-flying opponent, Sen. Barack Obama, with the "McGovern wing" of the Democratic Party -- but they want to keep their candidate's fingerprints off the attack.
February 16, 2008
A Super Fight Down the Road: A Commentary by Michael Barone
It's appropriate that our two major political parties are depicted as different animals. Forty days and forty nights out from the Iowa caucuses, the elephant and the donkey seem very different indeed. The Republicans have been split on attitudinal lines, between varying strains of conservatism and moderation.
February 15, 2008
Ohio: McCain 50% Huckabee 33%
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Ohio’s Republican Presidential Primary shows John McCain earning 50% of the vote while Mike Huckabee attracts support from 33%. Five percent (5%) of the state’s Likely Republican Primary Voters support Ron Paul and 12% are undecided.
February 15, 2008
Texas: McCain 45% Huckabee 37%
In the Texas Republican Presidential Primary, John McCain holds a modest eight-point advantage over Mike Huckabee. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of the race shows McCain earning 45% of the vote while Huckabee attracts 37%. Ron Paul is the choice for 7% and 11% are not sure.
February 15, 2008
Texas: Clinton 54% Obama 38%
When Election 2008 began, long before the first votes were cast, Senator Hillary Clinton led in the national polls but trailed Barack Obama in the key state of Iowa. Many remarked upon the difference between those national and state numbers.
February 15, 2008
The Heat in the Kitchen: A Commentary by Susan Estrich
My friends who are also Hillary's friends, many of them classmates and fellow Wellesley women, keep e-mailing me about their concerns, not so much with the campaign, but with the outright meanness and hostility the media seem to be heaping on our friend.
February 14, 2008
Remaking New Orleans: An Inside Report by Robert D. Novak
NEW ORLEANS -- The imposing presence of Robert A. Cerasoli as the city's first inspector general is the clearest sign that Hurricane Katrina's changes wrought on New Orleans in 2005 were not limited to physical devastation. By declaring war on municipal corruption, Cerasoli has signaled that life in the Big Easy no longer will be so easy.
February 14, 2008
Schemes We Have Seen: A Commentary by Froma Harrop
During the push to privatize Social Security, the idea's foes were accused of not trusting the American people to manage their own money. The naysayers prevailed, and aren't we glad.
February 14, 2008
In Defense of Conservative Talk Radio: A Commentary by Michelle Malkin
The most anti-conservative rhetoric against conservative talk radio these days is coming from supposedly free-market conservatives. It's disgusting.
February 14, 2008
Nevada: Obama 50% McCain 38%
Nevada has cast its Electoral College Votes for the winning candidate in seven straight Presidential Elections. The last four have been very competitive with nobody carrying the state by more than four percent of the popular vote.
February 14, 2008
Colorado Senate: Schaffer 44% Udall 43%
The tight race for Colorado’s open United States Senate seat has remained virtually unchanged over the past two months.
February 14, 2008
Ohio: Clinton 51% Obama 37%
New York Senator Hillary Clinton leads Illinois Senator Barack Obama by fourteen percentage points in the latest Rasmussen Reports poll of the Ohio Democratic Presidential Primary. Clinton currently earns 51% of the Buckeye State vote while Obama attracts 37%.
February 14, 2008
Wisconsin: Obama 47% Clinton 43%
The Democratic Presidential Primary in Wisconsin may be the most competitive contest between Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton since Super Tuesday. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey shows Obama with a narrow four-point advantage over Clinton, 47% to 43%.
February 14, 2008
What's Waiting for Obama: A Commentary by Joe Conason
For the next month or so, the conservative valentines will arrive every day at the headquarters of Barack Obama's presidential campaign.
February 14, 2008
The Case for McCain: A Commentary by Lawrence Kudlow
Some things in life are quite simple. Here's one of them: Sen. John McCain is going to be our next president.
