The only important election that will likely be truly contested this year is the Virgina gubernatorial race and it is shaping up to be a close one. A new Quinnipiac poll found Republican State Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli and Democrat Terry McAuliffe tied with each other, currently getting 38 percent of the vote in a two person race.

Ohio continues to look like Obama’s firewall

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 [...]

The presidential race has become more competitive in the swing states as a result of the first debate, but the movement in Mitt Romney direction has been modest. According to the latest NBC News/WSJ/Marist polls, the race has only moved a few points in Romney’s direction in Virginia and Ohio, while there has been no [...]

The latest set of NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist polls show the race moving marginally in Mitt Romney’s direction. After multiple bad weeks, it appears Romney’s nose-dive has finally stopped. In Florida and Virginia Romney is almost tied with Obama, but Obama still holds a solid advantage in Ohio.

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 [...]

Another day of polling and another day of bad news for Mitt Romney. According to a new set of NBC/WSJ/Marist polls of likely voters, President Obama leads in the three biggest swing states -  Florida, Ohio and Virginia. In all three state Obama’s lead is outside of the polls’ 3.1% margin of error. Ohio Marist [...]

The most important political news of the day has nothing to do with the Democratic national convention. It is that Constitution Party nominee for President Virgil Goode Jr. has made the ballot in Virginia. Last month Goode turned in over 20,000 signatures to make the ballot, and today a sufficient number were certified as valid. [...]

Before changing their plans due to hurricane Issac, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan were planning to attend their first post-convention campaign rally in Virginia with Senate candidate George Allen. It is too bad because having all three of them campaigning together in Virginia would have been almost poetic, since like it or not, all three [...]

Mitt Romney currently has a five point lead in Colorado, according to the most recent Quinnipiac University/New York Times/CBS News Swing State Poll. While Romney leads in Colorado, Obama still holds the advantage in Virginia and Wisconsin. From Quinnipiac: Colorado: Romney at 50 percent to Obama’s 45 percent; Virginia: Obama at 49 percent to Romney’s [...]