Obama's Still Up but Ohio Looks Tight
Obama's up by slim margins in two Ohio polls, a national poll has Obama up by five, Michigan might be up for grabs, Obama's up by eight in a Wisconsin poll, and Europeans like Obama.
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Obama's up by slim margins in two Ohio polls, a national poll has Obama up by five, Michigan might be up for grabs, Obama's up by eight in a Wisconsin poll, and Europeans like Obama.
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Today in Poll Watch: An NPR poll shows just how perplexing the presidential race is a week away, it's a dead heat in the Florida Senate race, and a poll today shows Elizabeth Warren up by 7 points over Sen. Scott Brown in Massachusetts.
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As Sandy clean-up begins in New York City, the presidential horse-race, now officially a week before the election, slows—but doesn't quite come to a complete halt.
Today in Poll Watch: it's still a tight race for the senate in Massachusetts, polls make small movements in the national race, and another poll makes North Carolina a dead heat.
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was involved in a car accident on Interstate-15 in his home state of Nevada and has been taken to University Medical Center in Las Vegas.
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With Ohio now the make it or break it state in the presidential race, its citizens are being inundated with propaganda: in fact, Julie Bykowicz of Bloomberg News reports that watching all of the presidential advertisements that aired in Ohio in the past month would take 80 days nonstop.
As the outrage train over Lena Dunham's Obama ad rolls on, Eric Kleefeld at Talking Points Memo dug up something that might confuse disgusted conservatives: Ronald Reagan also made a voting as first sexual experience joke, and his was dirtier.
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Today in Poll Watch: Two polls have contradictory results on whether President Obama or Mitt Romney is winning women, Romney has a big leg up with white voters, and PPP shows everything all tied up in North Carolina.
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Today in Poll Watch: Gallup has brought Romney's lead down to three, Murphy is now up by six in Connecticut, a new poll shows cause for concern for Obama when it comes to enthusiasm, and two polls show how tight it is in Ohio.
No rest for the campaign weary: Obama is traveling about 5,300 miles today with attempts to win over voters in Iowa, Colorado, a stop in California to talk to Jay Leno, then a stop in Las Vegas before an overnight trip to Florida.
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Today in Poll Watch: President Obama won the debate, tracking polls are up and down, and Sen. Ben Nelson's lead is shrinking in Florida.
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Today in Poll Watch: Numbers raise questions about just how many opinions the debates affected, Obama's up in his crucial state of Ohio, and national polls give Romney the upper hand.
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National polls other than Gallup indicate the race is tight, Obama is up in Wisconsin and maybe Iowa, and Rasmussen has Romney up by five in Florida.
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Trick-or-treaters better appreciate their treats this season.
Today in Poll Watch: In Maryland, marriage equality is leading, the Democrat is up in Ohio's Senate race, and Romney takes a seven-point Gallup lead.
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Today in Poll Watch: Insta-polls give President Obama the second debate, and the Connecticut Senate race is still in a dead heat.
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A new poll from USA Today/Gallup finds the candidates equally favorable heading into tonight's debate, Romney's up by as much as four in two polls, but Obama's up by three in another, Pennsylvania is looking closer, and rural swing state voters are going big for Romney.
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National and tracking polls show varying results, a USA Today/Gallup poll has Romney up in swing states thanks to women but the Obama campaign sees a problem, and Romney is doing better with Latinos in Florida than he does with Latinos nationwide, and fewer voters think Obama will win Tuesday's debate.
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Today in Poll Watch: It's unclear who won the vice-presidential debate, and Mitt Romney is leading President Obama in Florida and New Hampshire.
Mitt Romney tapped the television show Friday Night Lights' slogan "Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose" on his way to the presidential debate last week, then used it in a fundraising letter, but the show's creator does not approve.
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