Virginia Right!

A person I admire very much who I know is a strong follower of Christ asked me today:  Is Governor McDonnell a honorable man?   Is he a believer [in Christ]? I answered (after a long pause) YES, I believe the governor is a honorable man and is a believer.  I am very disappointed with the [...]

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We have been predicting for some time that House and Senate Republicans were going to cave in to higher taxes. Every one of these Republicans has said many, many times “you don’t raise taxes on anyone in a recession – period!” So Senate Republicans would have us believe that they were completely at the mercy [...]

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With news reports today noting that in fiscal cliff negotiations President Obama is “sticking to the liberal line and frustrating Republicans on the other side of the bargaining table,” “offering nothing new to rein in spending and overhaul entitlement programs,” and that his unserious offer last week “is attracting praise from the left for his [...]

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This is really getting old. Nobody gives a damn about Susan Rice’s race. The White House sent Rice out after the Benghazi Terrorist Massacre to spread the false narrative that some video had caused the whole thing. Race has nothing to do with is. Susan Rice is either a lackey or was completely ignorant of the facts and should [...]

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A lot of the pundits are looking at the polls and the race in general and comparing it to past presidential races. I created a computer program to tell us what the results would have been if the polling ratios in this year’s polls were applied to historic models of past presidential elections. The results are interesting. [...]

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Word has been spreading that the Obama campaign was pulling out of North Carolina and speculation is that Virginia will not be far behind. It would seem that CNN has made it official. Obama and CNN concede North Carolina to Romney. CNN is moving its classification of the swing state from true “toss up” to “lean Romney.”Four years [...]

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Turning the tables on Democrats. This is just too good.  Caleb Bonham got a bunch of Democrats to call Republicans obstructionists.  Watch their answers when the tables are turned. Democrats set up. In this video they are asked if Republicans are obstructing Obama’s agenda. “They should help Obama.” “They want Obama to fail.” When Democrats [...]

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Comparing this post debate poll from WaPo / ABC to the last one they did before the debate 15 days ago, there are some things that jump out at you. The earlier poll sampled 3% more Democrats than Republicans (33% D’s, 30% R’s) a +3 lean towards Democrats and the latest poll samples 9% more Democrats [...]

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Pew Polling released a new poll tabulating data that they collected after the Republican debate. The poll was taken between 10/4 and 10/7. The results show Mitt Romney with a 4 point lead on Barack Obama 49% to 45%. The previous poll by Pew showed Obama with an 8 point lead over Romney 51% – [...]

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Quick Facts on Politico Poll Taken 10/1 – 10/4: Earlier Politico Poll (9/24 – 9/27) showed Obama +2 over Romney Latest Politico Poll (10/1 – 10/4) shows Obama up by a single point (+1) over Romney Latest Poll sampled 3% more Democrats than earlier poll (9/24-27 poll Democrats +5 – Latest poll Democrats +8) Normalized poll [...]

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The data and charts are posted here on Political Poll Check. The Short Version: After a few weeks of collecting and compiling data for Political Poll Check, we finally saw our first poll come in for a second time around (since we began collecting data). This gives us the first opportunity to compare the same [...]

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I have been watching the polls with a keen interest of late. As I look into the Cross Tabs and Demographics of the numerous polls that seem to favor Obama, what I find is that the polls sample Democrats at a much higher rate than is reasonably believable. Real Clear Politics is supposed to be [...]

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There they go again. Another day another skewed poll. But the good news is that after “Normalization” to correct the Democratic leaning of the poll Republican Mitt Romney actually has a 3 point lead, not a 6 point Obama advantage as the poll pretends to show. The complete analysis of this Bloomberg Poll is here. [...]

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Please bookmark Political Poll Check today and know what the polls are really telling us! A new site is now in operation that corrects the polls that are so badly skewed by the Mainstream Media and are intended to demoralize Republicans and engage the Democratic base. These polls are using some pretty wild statistical samples [...]

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Bub-bye Obama Bounce! The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows Mitt Romney attracting support from 47% of voters nationwide, while President Obama earns 46% of the vote. Three percent (3%) prefer some other candidate, and five percent (5%) are undecided. This is the first time in a week that Romney has held [...]

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Just in: Charlotte – The Democratic National Convention Committee (DNCC) today announced that convention programming, originally planned for Bank of America Stadium on Thursday, September 6, would be moved to Time Warner Cable Arena, the site of the first two days of the 2012 Democratic National Convention, due to severe weather forecasts. The DNCC also [...]

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I was amazed by this article in the progressive Mother Jones magazine about VP nominee Paul Ryan.  Here’s the conclusion: The problem here is simple: there is no silver bullet liberal response to Ryan’s Medicare charges. This is because, rhetorical excesses aside, his charges are basically correct. Why would Mother Jones concede the most contentious [...]

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Rasmussen came out today with a new poll of 500 likely voters that shows the Virginia Senate race between Republican George Allen and Democrat Tim Kaine dead even at 45% each. But there are some very interesting numbers in the poll that might come as a bit of a surprise if you pay attention to the [...]

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Monmouth University just released a poll that over-sampled Democrats 33% to 27% and shows Obama leading by only 1%. Rasmussen and Gallup are presently showing Romney leading by 1 and 2 points respectively. Real Clear Politics has Obama ahead by 2.5 points but they are still adding in 3 polls prior to Paul Ryan being selected [...]

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