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                            January 30, 2008McCain May Win, Romney Can't: A Commentary By Dick Morris
  
One fact remains pre-eminent — McCain has a much better chance of winning the election than does former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R).

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                            January 29, 2008McCain Wins Florida, Heavily Favored to Win Nomination
  
John McCain won Florida’s Republican Presidential Primary and moved a giant step closer to capturing the Republican Presidential nomination.

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                            January 29, 2008Connecticut: Clinton 40% Obama 40%
  
The first Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Connecticut’s Democratic Presidential Primary shows the race couldn’t possibly get any closer.

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                            January 29, 2008Florida: McCain 31% Romney 31%
  
For most of the past week, John McCain was slightly behind Mitt Romney in Florida’s Republican Presidential Primary.

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                            January 29, 2008Florida: McCain 31% Romney 31%
  
For most of the past week, John McCain was slightly behind Mitt Romney in Florida’s Republican Presidential Primary.
January 29, 200859% Want Troops Home from Iraq Within Year
  
A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 59% of Americans would like to see U.S. troops brought home from Iraq within a year. 
January 29, 2008Will Michael Bloomberg, Ron Paul Run Third Party Campaigns in 2008?
  
Twenty-six percent (26%) of American voters believe New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is at least somewhat likely to make a third-party or independent bid for the White House in 2008. That includes 5% who say he is Very Likely to do so.
January 29, 2008Small Business Economic Confidence Tumbles to 18-Month Low
  
Few small business owners started out the year with confidence in the direction of the U.S. economy, according to the Discover Small Business Watch. 

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                            January 29, 2008Hudson Employment Index(SM) Remains at Record Low in January
  
The Hudson Employment Index(SM) held steady in January as worker confidence decreased by only three-tenths of a point to 89.0.
January 29, 2008Passion Gap: Democrats More Committed to Candidates Than Republicans
  
Thirty-four percent (34%) of Americans say they are passionately and deeply committed to one of the Presidential candidates this year. A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 47% of Democrats are that passionate, but only 28% have the same level of deep commitment to a candidate.
January 29, 2008Economic Stimulus Package Gets Lukewarm Reception From Voters
  
Forty-one percent (41%) of American voters favor the economic stimulus package agreed to by the President and the House of Representatives. A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 26% oppose it while 33% are not sure.
January 28, 2008Florida: Clinton 47% Obama 25%
  
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in Florida finds Senator Hillary Clinton leading Barack Obama by nineteen percentage points, 47% to 25%. 
January 28, 2008Obama - And Kennedy -Raise the Stakes: A Commentary by Dick Morris
  
Barack Obama used his victory in South Carolina to change the dialogue with the Clintons in the presidential race. He has taken Hillary’s and Bill’s attempt to use the race issue and replied with a clever move. He has basically called their bluff.

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                            January 28, 2008Strange to Say, But John McCain is the Republican Frontrunner
  
Strange as it may seem to many who wrote off John McCain last summer, the Arizona Senator is now the frontrunner the Republican Presidential nomination (a fact that sends chills down the spine of many conservative activists and pundits). 
January 28, 2008Hillary's Brown Firewall: A Commentary by Robert D. Novak
  
LOS ANGELES -- Sen. Hillary Clinton is relying on the big Latino vote as her firewall to prevent losing the California Democratic primary Feb. 5, the most important of 22 states contested on Mega Tuesday. But that reliance, say both pro-Clinton and anti-Clinton Democrats, is fraught with peril for the Democratic Party's coalition by threatening to alienate its essential African-American component. 
January 28, 2008Maybe Something Really Has Changed in the Race for the Democratic Nomination
  
Barack Obama’s landslide victory in South Carolina was expected. So were most of the details including the huge gap along racial lines. 
January 27, 2008Florida: Clinton 44% Obama 25%
  
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in Florida finds Senator Hillary Clinton leading Barack Obama by nineteen percentage points, 44% to 25%. Earlier this week, Clinton held a twenty-five point advantage, 51% to 26%. 

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                            January 27, 2008Florida: Romney 33% McCain 27%
  
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in Florida shows former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney earning 33% of the vote while Arizona Senator John McCain attracts 27%.

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                            January 26, 2008Obama Wins South Carolina
  
Barack Obama won South Carolina’s Democratic Presidential Primary by an overwhelming margin on Saturday. 
January 26, 200840% See Economy as Top Voting Issue
  
Forty percent (40%) of voters now see the economy as the most important voting issue of Election 2008. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that nothing else comes close.