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New Emerson College Polling/The Hill state polls find former President Donald Trump with a slight edge on President Joe Biden in Arizona (47% to 43%), Georgia (45% to 41%), Wisconsin (47% to 44%) Nevada (46% to 43%), Pennsylvania (47% to 45%), and Michigan (46% to 45%), while Biden splits with Trump in Minnesota (45% to 45%) [newly added to the list of Battleground States].

Minnesota has backed Democratic presidential candidates for nearly half a century and rarely receives much attention during the final stages of the race. This is when campaigns typically focus their resources on more traditional swing states like Florida or Pennsylvania. But Minnesota will feel like a genuine battleground on Friday as President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, campaign here to mark the beginning of early voting. They’re expected to avoid the state’s most populated areas near Minneapolis to focus on largely white rural and working-class voters, some of whom shifted to Republicans for the first time in...

Rattled, dismayed, and shaken, President Obama's national campaign is divided into two camps: impassive warhorses and anxiety-ridden newbies. The battle-scarred operatives have been doing nonstop psychic triage since the first presidential debate, calming nerves and reassuring the shaken that campaigns have their ups and downs. "This is the first time in this entire campaign some of the new people have seen a bad run," said a senior Obama strategist. "The veterans are telling them they need to ride it out." That became a bit easier around noon on Wednesday when the first patch of internal polls came back from key...

INDIANAPOLIS -- Secretary of State Todd Rokita said Monday that his office has found evidence of "multiple criminal violations, including possible state and federal racketeering laws" in connection with fraudulent voter registration applications filed in Lake County...

Amid reports of the John McCain camp narrowing the number of states in which it is truly competing, all eyes in the political world have turned toward Pennsylvania (in part because that's where the candidate spent his day hard at it on the stump). With polls showing Barack Obama poised to win at least four states President Bush carried in 2004 -- Iowa, New Mexico, Virginia and Colorado -- the question has become which major state could McCain snatch from the Democratic column to maintain GOP control of the White House. That's where Pennsylvania, with its 21 electoral votes, comes...

Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell has written two separate memos to the Obama campaign in recent days begging for Sen. Obama to come back and campaign in his state. In the memos, Rendell, a former Hillary Clinton supporter, admits to being "a little nervous" about Obama's chances in the Keystone state. Rendell says that the McCain camp is making a strong push for Pennsylvania, with Sen. McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin spending significant time and resources there recently. Rendell wants Sen. Obama to return to his state and make three appearances to blunt McCain's momentum. He recommends a visit to what...

Many pundits say that election 2004 was about morals; moral voters pulled it for bush while immoral ones for kerry. Since crime is consequence of immorality, crime rates by county, especially in battleground states, should resemble election results.

I have debated whether or not to post my story – stories like mine are sometimes misconstrued as pretentious or frivolous. BUT I’ve come to the conclusion if I don’t, then the opportunity with which I was blessed, as your run-of-the-mill, middle-aged rabid Packer fan to meet the President will have been squandered. As the result of an auto accident years ago, I have residual medical problems, making it almost impossible to hold down a full-time job. The upside, I have more time for volunteer activities, primarily focused on conservative issues and the Republican Party. My husband is a Vietnam...

Anybody doubt North Florida is Bush Country? The president spoke at a rally at Alltel Stadium today before a crowd estimated at 40,000. By comparison, last night John Edwards spoke in Metropolitan Park (downtown Jax) before a crowd of 2,500.

WASHINGTON - Ralph Nader asked the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday to place him on the ballot in Pennsylvania for the Nov. 2 election. In a sign the high court planned to move swiftly, Justice David H. Souter immediately requested that Pennsylvania officials file a response to Nader's emergency request by 2:30 p.m. today.

Today's edition of the Review Journal says "Poll says Bush has Big Lead". This is the Mason Dickson poll from yesterday. That's great to read but long ago, I promised myself that I will get involved in the Get Out the Vote (GOTV) campaign here in Las Vegas. I have memories seared in my brain from Election 2000, when I lived in Boca Raton, Florida - Ground Zero. I've told countless people since then how I observed the evil, criminal corrupt Democrat Party attempt a coup during those 36 days. They are trying the same thing again here in Nevada....

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. HARRISBURG - More Pennsylvania voters believe U.S. Sen. John Kerry has a better plan than President Bush to strengthen the nation's economy, which ranks as voters' No. 1 issue, according to a new statewide poll. The Massachusetts Democrat holds an 11-point lead over Bush on the economy, 51 to 40 percent. Kerry's lead is bigger regarding job creation and lowering the cost of health care, the poll reveals. Bush holds a slight edge on having the better plan to respond to the threat of terror, 48 to 44 percent. The candidates...

CREVE COEUR, Mo. (Reuters) - Kathleen Balducci is a hot commodity in the 2004 presidential race -- as an undecided voter in a battleground state, she and other Missouri swing voters will play big roles in deciding the next occupant of the White House. With polls showing President Bush (news - web sites) and Democrat John Kerry (news - web sites) locking up their base supporters in an extremely tight race, Balducci and a few million uncommitted voters in a handful of key states like Missouri could be kingmakers in November. "I haven't seen a real turnover with the economy,...