A totally biased and unreasonable list of blogs that I think you might enjoy reading.
Former Democratic National Committee chairman and Clintonite Terry McAuliffe has confirmed that he intends to run for governor of Virginia next year. He joins state delegate Brian Moran, from Alexandria, and state Senator Creigh Deeds, from Bath County…
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Reading through the punditocracy over the past few days, there are the predictable post-mortems on the election, including a lot of hand-wringing about the GOP defeat and whether Democrats have somehow built a “new majority.” Why Obama WonLet’s start w…
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We were tempted to ignore it, but what the heck. Today the Curmudgeon is 50 years old. That’s right, we’ve put a half century on this body and brain, and hope to get another half century out of it before we kick off.The good news: we’ve got almost as m…
Seen in North Carolina, on I-40 near I-95 (thanks Favorite Uncle Dave).
Democratic challenger Tom Perriello has ousted Republican incumbent Virgil Goode in Virginia’s 5th Congressional district.Returns in the district have see-sawed back and forth over the past couple of days as county boards of elections conducted a canva…
This morning we speculated that Fairfax County was still sitting on 80,000+ absentee votes that had not yet been tabulated.We were right–just a short while ago, the Virginia Board of Elections finally posted the Fairfax numbers: 100,456 absentee ball…
We’re sure there’ll be much more on this at sites like Pollster.com, illustrated by nice graphics and backed up with data, so we’ll be brief: the polls were right this time around.We followed the pre-election polls religiously as part of our project to…
Regular Curmudgeon readers know we’ve focused heavily on the “early voting” phenomenon this election season. Our compilation of polls that included separate results for those who had already voted proved quite popular, generating more than 18,000 hits …
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We don’t have final numbers yet, but it’s likely that Virginia shattered its records for both sheer numbers of absentee ballots cast and the percentage of the total vote that absentee ballots made up.Just as an example, in the Curmudgeon’s Arlington Co…
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There are still a few loose ends in Virginia:First, and foremost, it looks like the 5th Congressional District race between Democratic challenger Tom Perriello (pictured here) and GOP incumbent Virgil Goode won’t be decided until the Va. Board of Elect…
Continue reading " Virginia Election Wrap-Up: Perriello, Nye, Obama’s Margin "
It looks like Virginia will really be BLUE.Not only did Obama carry the state–probably by 4-5 percentage points when all is said and done (we don’t yet have any Richmond City ballot, or Arlington and Fairfax absentee, which will be huge), but Mark War…
Trust us. Virginia will pretty easily go for Obama. Just over half of Arlington and Fairfax Counties, both big Obama strongholds, have reported. At this point two years ago, Jim Webb was way behind. Obama is already ahead, by a small margin. His m…
A new Virginia poll from Public Policy Polling has 16% of its sample having already voted. Among those, Obama has a huge lead, 63%-36%.Overall, Obama leads by 6 points, 52%-46%.Get out and vote!
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A week from Monday, the Curmudgeon will turn 50 years old.And today, XCurmudgeon got it’s 50,000th visitor.We hope it doesn’t take us until we’re 100 years old to reach the 100,000th visitor!
Readers of XCurmudgeon will, by now, know that we’ve been heavily focused on the early voting phenomenon over the past couple of weeks, including posting the results of all polls that include a component for those who have “already voted” HERE.As of ye…
Several states out west are well into their early voting periods, such that new polls of those states are picking up more than 50% of the voters who have already cast their ballots. Based on those exit polls, we can pretty much call the race already fo…
Continue reading " The Race Out West: A Done Deal For Obama In WA, OR, CO, and NM "
Several states out west are well into their early voting periods, such that new polls of those states are picking up more than 50% of the voters who have already cast their ballots. Based on those exit polls, we can pretty much call the race already fo…
Continue reading " The Race Out West: A Done Deal For Obama In WA, OR, CO, and NM "
Over the past two weeks, we’ve been carefully compiling data on early voting: demographic data on early voters, as well as polls that separately break out the preferences of respondents who’ve already voted–akin to (but not nearly as scientific as) el…
Continue reading " Early Voting Polls and Demographic Data: All Here! "
We’ve been poring over polls this week, looking for early voting data, and we’ve found a bunch.(For a compilation of more than 50 polls with early voting data, click HERE.)We found an interesting poll today, from Fox News. You know, the Fair and Balanc…
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In this University of Texas poll, 23% of Texans said Obama is a Muslim.