President Obama appears to hold a significant edge in early voting In basically every important swing state, which should given him a built-in advantage heading into November 6th. The Obama campaign ground game has been very successful at convincing Democrats and Obama supporters to cast their ballots well ahead of election day.

While it is mathematically possible for Romney to win without Ohio it would be very difficult. Ohio remains Obama firewall even as nationally his lead slips.

There’s a slew of new swing state polling out today. In addition the the Marist polls, there’s also a new set of CBS News/NYT/Quinnipiac polls. From Quinnipiac: COLORADO: Romney 48 – Obama 47, compared to Obama 48 – Romney 47 Sept. 19 VIRGINIA: Obama 51 – Romney 46, compared to Obama 50 – Romney 46 [...]

For the past few weeks the news for Senate Democrats has been mostly positive, but the closeness of the open Senate race in Connecticut is the rare piece of very good news for Republicans. The latest Quinnipiac poll of the state shows Republican Linda McMahon with a one point lead over Democrat Chris Murphy. From [...]

Overwhelmingly, the American people think it would be better for one party to control both Congress and the White House. Apparently, the last two years of continuous fighting between President Obama and House Republicans as they stumbled from one artificially created crisis to the next has convinced voters that divided government only results in crippling [...]

Voters don’t like Romney and they don’t think he could do a better job than Obama. A candidate can’t win if that is how the electorate views them.

In the past few days three new polls of Virginia have found President Obama with a lead outside of the margin of error. Mitt Romney has managed to gain no traction in the state. The polling indicates the size of Obama’s lead is basically unchanged from a month ago, but voters are now more locked [...]

The race for the Connecticut Senate seat has turned into a remarkably close contest. The latest PPP poll finds that Democrat Rep. Chris Murphy holds only a four point lead over Republican Linda McMahon. McMahon is best known for being president of World Wrestling Entertainment, where she made her personal fortune. PPP (8/22-23) Connecticut Senate [...]

Republican Linda McMahon actually holds a small lead in the Connecticut Senate race. According to a new Qunnipiac poll she holds a three point lead over Democrat Chris Murphy in the race to replace Joe Lieberman. From Qunnipiac: 4. If the election for United States Senator were being held today and the candidates were Chris [...]

President Obama continues to lead Mitt Romney in the two biggest swing states, Florida and Ohio, according to a new Quinnipiac/CBS/NYT poll. With a combined 47 electoral votes between them, it will be very difficult for Romney to possibly win without beating Obama in at least one of them. The poll also found that Obama [...]