Tag Archive | Independents
Posted on August 13, 2015. Tags: Democrats, Independents, Republicans, time
At no moment in modern history (besides 2006) has the Republican Establishment been so categorically despised and now, not later, is the time to fight. John Boehner and Mitch McConnell are powerful men. It is always dangerous to go after men of great power. But in the course of human events, when leadership needs changing […]
Graduated with a degree in Philosophy from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Also studied economics and political science at George Mason.
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Posted on September 25, 2013. Tags: Anomaly, Bearin, Congressional District, Drift, Humphrey, Independents, Jesse Ventura, Ken Cuccinelli, Libertarian Candidate, Old Dominion, Party Candidates, Reform Candidate, Sarvis, Several Polls, Shenandoah, Shenandoah Valley, Southside Virginia, State Senator, Terry Mcauliffe, Washington Post, Washington Post Poll
This election could easily turn into Minnesota 1998 with just a few breaks. Several polls show that the Sarvis support is not an anomaly but seems to be between 8 and 11 percent. This is amazing considering that the Old Dominion is averse to third parties. In the Bearing Drift poll – Sarvis is at […]
Elwood "Sandy" Sanders is a Hanover attorney who is an Appellate Procedure Consultant for Lantagne Legal Printing and has written ten scholarly legal articles. Sandy was also Virginia's first Appellate Defender and also helped bring curling in VA! (None of these titles imply any endorsement of Sanders’ views)
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Posted on July 2, 2013. Tags: Amp, Catholics, College Grads, Democrats, Graduate Degrees, High School Grads, Immigrant Workers, Immigration Reform, Independents, Mechanicsville Va, Middle Age, Opinion Poll, Opinion Research, Passion, Post Graduate, Protestants, Republicans, Research Poll, Single Group, Unemployment Rates
One of the primary roles of immigration reform that is currently being drafted is to expand the immigration worker pool, even though support for immigration worker expansion is VERY low in EVERY single group of U.S. voters (according to Pulse Opinion Research Poll). The percentage who somewhat or strongly support the expansion is only: 30% […]
Tom is a US Navy Veteran, owns an Insurance Agency and is currently an IT Manager for a Virginia Distributor. He has been published in American Thinker, currently writes for the Richmond Examiner as well as Virginia Right! Blog.Tom lives in Hanover County, Va and is involved in politics at every level and is a Recovering Republican who has finally had enough of the War on Conservatives in progress with the Leadership of the GOP on a National Level.
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Posted on June 20, 2013. Tags: Coun, Councillor, Independents, Integrity, Oakham, Openness, Party Vote, Raf Officer, Respects, Rutland, Transparency, UKIP, Whip
Looks like three more local officials (councillors) this time, independents in Rutland, have defected to UKIP! They joined UKIP because UKIP respects the independence of local officials and refuse to bind them to a party vote! Former RAF officer Coun Richardson, who represents the Oakham South West ward, said: “We all stood as independents to […]
Elwood "Sandy" Sanders is a Hanover attorney who is an Appellate Procedure Consultant for Lantagne Legal Printing and has written ten scholarly legal articles. Sandy was also Virginia's first Appellate Defender and also helped bring curling in VA! (None of these titles imply any endorsement of Sanders’ views)
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Posted on June 6, 2013. Tags: Beth Martin, Blood Boil, Co Founder, Conservative Organizations, E Mail, Government Bureaucracy, House Ways And Means Committee, Independents, Irs Abuse, June 19th, Massive Rally, National Tea, Party Groups, Party Leaders, Patriots, Scandals, Tea Party, Tpp, Ways And Means, Ways And Means Committee
The Tea Party Patriots will organize a mass “Audit the IRS Rally” on June 19th in Washington, D.C. with local and national Tea Party groups to protest the IRS’s targeting of conservative organizations. Jenny Beth Martin, the co-founder of Tea Party Patriots, told Breitbart News that the targeted witnesses that testified before the House Ways […]
Tom is a US Navy Veteran, owns an Insurance Agency and is currently an IT Manager for a Virginia Distributor. He has been published in American Thinker, currently writes for the Richmond Examiner as well as Virginia Right! Blog.Tom lives in Hanover County, Va and is involved in politics at every level and is a Recovering Republican who has finally had enough of the War on Conservatives in progress with the Leadership of the GOP on a National Level.
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Posted on January 11, 2013. Tags: Abysmal Record, Ben Cardin, Biden, Caucus, Chuck Hagel, Chuck Schumer, Finish Line, Independents, Jeffrey Goldberg, Jewish Names, Jewish Populations, John Brennan, Joshuapundit, Nod, S Council, Secretary Of Defense, Senate Democrats, Surrogates, the council has spoken!, Tom Friedman, Usual Suspects
The Council has spoken, the votes have been cast, and the results are in for this week’s Watcher’s Council match up. The president’s mask is off, and it didn’t take long did it? This week’s winner, Joshuapundit’s The Hagel And Brennan Nominations And What They Tell Us about Obama is my view of what President […]
Tom is a US Navy Veteran, owns an Insurance Agency and is currently an IT Manager for a Virginia Distributor. He has been published in American Thinker, currently writes for the Richmond Examiner as well as Virginia Right! Blog.Tom lives in Hanover County, Va and is involved in politics at every level and is a Recovering Republican who has finally had enough of the War on Conservatives in progress with the Leadership of the GOP on a National Level.
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Posted on November 5, 2012. Tags: Computer 2000, Computer Model, Computer Program, Democrats, Election Year, Independents, Neutral Model, Nod, Party Affiliation, Percentages, Poll Results, Polls, Presidential Elections, Presidential Races, Pundits, Ratios, Republican, Republicans, Skew, Table Id, Transparency, Voter Turnout
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. […]
Tom is a US Navy Veteran, owns an Insurance Agency and is currently an IT Manager for a Virginia Distributor. He has been published in American Thinker, currently writes for the Richmond Examiner as well as Virginia Right! Blog.Tom lives in Hanover County, Va and is involved in politics at every level and is a Recovering Republican who has finally had enough of the War on Conservatives in progress with the Leadership of the GOP on a National Level.
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Posted in News, Poll
Posted on November 5, 2012. Tags: Abc News, Democrat, Democrats Republicans, Demographic Information, Demographics, Final Polls, Final Result, Gallup, Gap, Gender Gap, Independents, Last Poll, Lead, Momentum, Nbsp, Nbsp Nbsp Nbsp Nbsp Nbsp, Party Id, Point Turnaround, Poll, Polls, Pollsters, Presidential Election Results, Rac, Rasmussen Poll, Several Polls, Statistical Tie, Tally, Type Line, Uptick, Wapo
In the following polls, I have graphed the skew – shown in green – and the Obama lead – shown in purple for all of the polls averaged at Real Clear Politics as of this morning. Rasmussen is showing a 1 point Romney lead for their final tally, but they have yet to post the […]
Tom is a US Navy Veteran, owns an Insurance Agency and is currently an IT Manager for a Virginia Distributor. He has been published in American Thinker, currently writes for the Richmond Examiner as well as Virginia Right! Blog.Tom lives in Hanover County, Va and is involved in politics at every level and is a Recovering Republican who has finally had enough of the War on Conservatives in progress with the Leadership of the GOP on a National Level.
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Posted on November 1, 2012. Tags: Computer Model, Computer Modeling, Demographics, Independent Voters, Independents, Modeling Software, New Computer, Party Affiliation, Presidential Elections, Rasmussen, Ratios, Real Clear Politics, Republican Resurgence, Republican Sweep, Republicans, Significant Numbers, Skew, State Offices, State Senate, Voter Turnout
Virginia Right! has created a new computer modeling program that allows us to plug in the poll demographics of today’s polls and calculate the results based on the actual voter turnout as far as party affiliation in the presidential elections of 2000, 2004 and 2008. In addition, the software calculates the what-if scenario if Republicans, […]
Tom is a US Navy Veteran, owns an Insurance Agency and is currently an IT Manager for a Virginia Distributor. He has been published in American Thinker, currently writes for the Richmond Examiner as well as Virginia Right! Blog.Tom lives in Hanover County, Va and is involved in politics at every level and is a Recovering Republican who has finally had enough of the War on Conservatives in progress with the Leadership of the GOP on a National Level.
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Posted on October 2, 2012. Tags: Apples To Apples, Candidate Names, Disappointment, Dr Harry, Election Cycles, George Allen, Harry Wilson, Independents, Last Poll, Liking, Percentages, Political Affiliation, Political Science Professor, Respondents, Roanoke College, Second Chance, Tim Kaine, Virginia General Assembly, Virginia Senate Race, Virginians
Dr. Harry Wilson, Political Science Professor at Roanoke College released a poll today which is a second chance to gauge the Virginia Senate race between George Allen and Tim Kaine. The last poll showed George Allen leading Tim Kaine by 8 points. And as a Conservative, the results of the poll were to my liking […]
Tom is a US Navy Veteran, owns an Insurance Agency and is currently an IT Manager for a Virginia Distributor. He has been published in American Thinker, currently writes for the Richmond Examiner as well as Virginia Right! Blog.Tom lives in Hanover County, Va and is involved in politics at every level and is a Recovering Republican who has finally had enough of the War on Conservatives in progress with the Leadership of the GOP on a National Level.
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Posted on October 1, 2012. Tags: Abc News, Cross Tabs, Decline, Demographic Breakdown, Head Comparison, Important Things, Independents, Last Poll, Latest Poll, Music List, Obama, Other Ones, Party Makeup, Percentages, Precious Thing, Republicans, Respondents, Stupid Questions, Wapo, Washington Post
The last poll that ABC News / Washington Post released was done September 7-9 2012. This poll had a “Skew Rate” of +9 in favor of the Democrats. (See this analysis.) The Cross Tabs, located here, show the percentages of Republicans, Democrats and Independents sampled at the very bottom of the poll just beneath thoes […]
Tom is a US Navy Veteran, owns an Insurance Agency and is currently an IT Manager for a Virginia Distributor. He has been published in American Thinker, currently writes for the Richmond Examiner as well as Virginia Right! Blog.Tom lives in Hanover County, Va and is involved in politics at every level and is a Recovering Republican who has finally had enough of the War on Conservatives in progress with the Leadership of the GOP on a National Level.
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Posted on September 28, 2012. Tags: Apples To Apples, Apples To Apples Comparison, Belief That, Democrats, Double Digits, First Poll, Fox News, Heavy D, Independents, Losing Ground, Mitt Romney, Momentum, New Fox, News Poll, Point Advantage, Political Poll, Polls, Republicans, Second Time, Web Poll
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 […]
Tom is a US Navy Veteran, owns an Insurance Agency and is currently an IT Manager for a Virginia Distributor. He has been published in American Thinker, currently writes for the Richmond Examiner as well as Virginia Right! Blog.Tom lives in Hanover County, Va and is involved in politics at every level and is a Recovering Republican who has finally had enough of the War on Conservatives in progress with the Leadership of the GOP on a National Level.
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Posted in Featured, News, Poll
Posted on September 25, 2012. Tags: Accurate Data, Ahead, Associated Press, Bookmark, Democratic Base, Democrats, Democrats Republicans, Double Digits, Gfk, Hartford Courant, Independents, Internal Numbers, Mainstream Media, Margins, Monmouth, Numeric Grade, Obama, Openness, Political Poll, Poll Check, Polls, Pollsters, Rasmussen, Republicans, Statistical Samples
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 […]
Tom is a US Navy Veteran, owns an Insurance Agency and is currently an IT Manager for a Virginia Distributor. He has been published in American Thinker, currently writes for the Richmond Examiner as well as Virginia Right! Blog.Tom lives in Hanover County, Va and is involved in politics at every level and is a Recovering Republican who has finally had enough of the War on Conservatives in progress with the Leadership of the GOP on a National Level.
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Posted in News, Poll
Posted on September 11, 2012. Tags: Barack Obama, Conservative Friends, Cross Tabs, Democratic Opponent, Demographic Data, Free Ride, George Allen, Independents, Internals, Jets, Liberal Friends, Marketing, Mitt Romney, New Poll, Polls, Presidential Race, Proprietors, Republican, Republicans And Democrats, Senate Candidate, Shred, Tim Kaine, Virginia Senate
UPDATE: This is a good poll. I just received the cross-tabs from Gravis Marketing and the sample was 39% Democrats, 36% Republicans and 23% Other (Independents.) My only criticism is that there were too many Republicans and Democrats and too few Independents. But since the sample polled 3% more Democrats than Republicans and the relatively […]
Tom is a US Navy Veteran, owns an Insurance Agency and is currently an IT Manager for a Virginia Distributor. He has been published in American Thinker, currently writes for the Richmond Examiner as well as Virginia Right! Blog.Tom lives in Hanover County, Va and is involved in politics at every level and is a Recovering Republican who has finally had enough of the War on Conservatives in progress with the Leadership of the GOP on a National Level.
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Posted on September 11, 2012. Tags: Cnn, Cnn Abc, Cnn Poll, Democrats And Republicans, Double Digits, Election Republicans, Ibd, Independent Voters, Independents, Mainstream Media, Obama, Opinion Research, Party Makeup, Poll Analysis, Real Clear Politics, Republicans And Democrats, Romney, Single Point, Wapo, Waste Of Time
Well, there they go again. Polls should measure public opinion, not attempt to sway it. What makes for a good poll these days? Well, the same as always. A good sample size, I prefer at least 1,000. And most importantly, a party makeup that realistically reflects the public at large. These days, I accept a […]
Tom is a US Navy Veteran, owns an Insurance Agency and is currently an IT Manager for a Virginia Distributor. He has been published in American Thinker, currently writes for the Richmond Examiner as well as Virginia Right! Blog.Tom lives in Hanover County, Va and is involved in politics at every level and is a Recovering Republican who has finally had enough of the War on Conservatives in progress with the Leadership of the GOP on a National Level.
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Posted on August 13, 2012. Tags: Analytics, Biden, Bump, Dead Heat, Democrats, Independents, Mitt Romney, New Poll, Obama, Paul Ryan, Percentage Points, Pollster John Zogby, Presidential Choice, Running Mate, Screams, Sky, Suits, Swing States, Wolf, Zogby Poll
While the Democrats feverishly work to make up stuff about Paul Ryan, most do not believe their over-hyped “sky is falling” screams. They have gone to the well far too often to cry wolf – or race card as suits their needs. But the Ryan pick by Mitt Roment has already closed the race to dead even in […]
Tom is a US Navy Veteran, owns an Insurance Agency and is currently an IT Manager for a Virginia Distributor. He has been published in American Thinker, currently writes for the Richmond Examiner as well as Virginia Right! Blog.Tom lives in Hanover County, Va and is involved in politics at every level and is a Recovering Republican who has finally had enough of the War on Conservatives in progress with the Leadership of the GOP on a National Level.
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Posted on July 13, 2012. Tags: Audience, Boyhood Hero, Campaign Need, Civil Rights Commission, Civil Rights Law, Dignity, Dr King, Governor George Romney, Independents, Man Of Faith, Many Things, Marquette, Michigan Constitution, Michigan Governor, Naacp Speech, Period Of Time, Reference, Short Period, Sorts, Vietnam War
Little noticed in the NAACP speech, which I thought was a nice effort because Romney challenged his audience and did not pander to them, is his reference to the civil rights work of his father, former Michigan Governor George Romney (George Romney was my governor for a short period of time when we lived in […]
Elwood "Sandy" Sanders is a Hanover attorney who is an Appellate Procedure Consultant for Lantagne Legal Printing and has written ten scholarly legal articles. Sandy was also Virginia's first Appellate Defender and also helped bring curling in VA! (None of these titles imply any endorsement of Sanders’ views)
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Posted on July 12, 2012. Tags: Condi Rice, Condoleezza Rice, Conservatives, Dr Martin Luther, Dr Martin Luther King, Drudge, Experience Knowledge, Independents, Judgement, Martin Luther King, Massachusetts Governor, Mitt Romney, Obama, Oval Office, President Choice, Pro Choice, Racists, Secretary Of State Condoleezza Rice, Smart Woman, State Condoleezza Rice
Drudge is reporting that Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is one of the finalists for the VP nomination. That is an interesting choice. Mitt Romney needs someone with experience, knowledge and conservative credentials to boost his stock with the base and bring Independents and women over to the former Massachusetts Governor’s side. We know Condi. Very smart […]
Tom is a US Navy Veteran, owns an Insurance Agency and is currently an IT Manager for a Virginia Distributor. He has been published in American Thinker, currently writes for the Richmond Examiner as well as Virginia Right! Blog.Tom lives in Hanover County, Va and is involved in politics at every level and is a Recovering Republican who has finally had enough of the War on Conservatives in progress with the Leadership of the GOP on a National Level.
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Posted on July 7, 2012. Tags: Ann Romney, Bill Kristol, Bush Foreign Policy, Campaign Event, Clout, Condi Rice, Condoleezza Rice, Cutting Hair, Dick Cheney, GOP, Independents, Life Experience, Mitt Romney, Park C, Park City Utah, Rasmussen Poll, Romney Campaign, Secretary Of State Condoleezza Rice, Social Conservatives, State Condoleezza Rice, Target, Unfavorable Ratings, Vetted, Vp, Weekly Standard
I was thinking about this posting when I went to get my hair cut (at Shear Innovations in Mechanicsville – give them a try) and I mentioned the idea of former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for Vice President and the lady cutting hair next to me said that was a great idea! She was […]
Elwood "Sandy" Sanders is a Hanover attorney who is an Appellate Procedure Consultant for Lantagne Legal Printing and has written ten scholarly legal articles. Sandy was also Virginia's first Appellate Defender and also helped bring curling in VA! (None of these titles imply any endorsement of Sanders’ views)
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