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September 5, 2008 7:14:54 AM CDT


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  • July 2008
    • Forget the Polls: Obama's a Nov. Shoo-In

      Forget the Polls: Obama's a Nov. Shoo-In

      (Newser) - It’s hard to reconcile Barack Obama’s narrow lead in the polls with the massive enthusiasm that seems to surround his campaign, so Clive Cook of the Financial Times has some advice: Ignore the polls. Midsummer polls are notoriously worthless, he says. Instead, he touts political scientist Alan Abramowitz’s “election barometer,” which has correctly called 14 of the last 15 elections. It’s predicting an Obama landslide. More »

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      Barack Obama   John McCain   Obama 2008   McCain 2008   poll numbers   election history

    • History Against McCain Winning Third Term for GOP

      History Against McCain Winning Third Term for GOP

      (Newser) - In all six elections since 1928 in which one party had 8 consecutive years in the White House, the incumbent party lost popular vote ground; in four, Americans voted for change. That's bad news for John McCain, Robert David Sullivan writes in the Boston Globe , because George Bush only won 50.7% of the national popular vote in 2004. More »

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      John McCain   George W. Bush   Al Gore   New Jersey   Pennsylvania   Delaware   incumbents   election history

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