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This blog writer at the German Marshall Fund of the United States (found at Real Clear World) warns us solemnly:  Let’s hope the Alternative for Germany fails for good: But absent a concerted and determined effort by Germans and all Europeans to refute AfD’s populism and consign it to political no-man’s land, the crisis in [...]

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EXCITING NEWS!  ConservativeHome is reporting a new poll conducted by Lord Ashcroft (I hope he’s related to my old hero, former AG John Ashcroft) showing this headline: Lord Ashcroft: Liberal Democrats 5% Ahead in Eastleigh But the headline should be: UKIP SURGES IN EASTLEIGH! Now, UKIP is in THIRD place, with 21%, NINE points over [...]

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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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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 [...]

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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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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 [...]

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The Hill writes today, “Two-thirds of likely voters say the weak economy is Washington’s fault, and more blame President Obama than anybody else, according to a new poll for The Hill. It found that 66 percent believe paltry job growth and slow economic recovery is the result of bad policy. Thirty-four percent say Obama is the most [...]

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While ‘Democratic’ Senatorial Candidate Timmy Kaine pushes for more and more Obama change as the number one cheer-girl for the Neo-Marxist in the White House, America just ain’t into the change Obama has wreaked on brought to our shores. A new poll shows that most Americans believe Barack Obama has upheld his campaign promise to change America, 56% say that [...]

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Poll: Most want Supreme Court to overturn individual health care mandate By Leigh Ann Caldwell  CBS  June 7, 2012   CBS News Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto.   A new CBS News/New York Times poll reveals that nearly seven in ten Americans [...]

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Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli leads Lt. Governor Bill Bolling 51% to 15% in a brand new poll. Wow! That’s a pretty stunning number. According to CNN: Cuccinelli, who will face Virginia Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling in 2013, led his rival 51%-15%, the Quinnipiac University survey indicated. Cuccinelli’s popularity among Virginia GOP voters was also reflected [...]

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There are two kinds of polls. Those intended to “take the pulse” and get an accurate picture, and those skewed to attempt to influence thoughts and opinions. Political candidates hire pollsters to get an accurate picture of how they are doing, where they are doing well, and where they need improvement. These are the important [...]

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Roanoke College has released a new poll of Virginians that shows the presumptive Republican Candidate for US Senate George Allen increasing his lead over Democrat Tim Kaine 45% to 37%. As always, I look at the numbers behind the polls to see if they pass my “believability” test, or if the results are skewed and [...]

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Quinnipiac released a poll that shows George Allen leading Tim Kaine 44% to 42% in Virginia’s US Senate race. Other candidates on either side were not polled, but there was an option for the generic “someone else” that totaled 2%, combining alternate candidates on both sides. There are some other interesting bits in this poll, [...]

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While we are at the just at the beginning of what is sure to be a heated GOP primary, a new poll released yesterday gives Herman Cain double digit lead, favored by 24%, over other potential GOP candidates. Coming in second is Mike Huckabee with 12%. The Iowa poll is important because, since 1972 the [...]

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Ed West wrote in the Daily Guardian blog that the UKIP is surging in polls, especially among young people. Two recent YouGov polls have put UKIP on 5 per cent including one which, hilariously, put them above the Liberal Democrats in the 18-24-year-olds age group. The young know that they have decades to live (Lord [...]

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How quickly things change. Just over a week ago, we wrote: As of today, August 22, 2010 Republicans could pick up a maximum of 12 seats in the US Senate giving them a total of 53 seats. And not one seat more. Well, we also said: With two and a half months remaining before election [...]

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First the good news: Real Clear Politics cites the WSJ in re conservative support for GOP Senate nominee Sharron Angle: Well, a new poll out by Rasmussen shows Ms. Angle jumping to an 11-point lead over the incumbent, thanks to solidifying party support. Eighty-eight percent of Republicans support her compared to a mere 68% of [...]

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A strange thing happened to Marco Rubio on his way to a Republican Primary victory over Charlie Crist. Crist decided he would rather run as an Independent than lose the Republican nomination to Rubio. Admittedly, Crist was looking at an embarrassing primary loss with Rubio polling at 57% to Crist’s 28%. So, Crist did the only honorable thing a career politician can do when his own party no longer wants him – he quit the party.

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My, my, my.

How the mighty have fallen.

And it is a dead heat among all voters.

A stunning new poll conducted by Newsmax/Zogby reveals that Massachusett’s new Republican Senator-elect Scott Brown could defeat President Barack Obama in a presidential election.

The Newsmax/Zogby poll released Tuesday found that the pair would be statistically deadlocked if the presidential election was held today.

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