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CLAIM: President Joe Biden claimed Thursday he is not losing to former President Donald Trump in several top battleground states. VERDICT: FALSE. Recent polling shows Biden losing to Trump in several battleground states: Trump tops Biden in five of six crucial swing states, a New York Times/Siena College poll found Sunday. Trump tops Biden 49-45 percent nationally, a CNN poll found Tuesday.

The final polls in the 2020 presidential election overstated Joe Biden’s strength, especially in a handful of states. The polls reported that Biden had a small lead in North Carolina, but he lost the state to Donald Trump. The polls also showed Biden running comfortably ahead in Wisconsin, yet he won it by less than a percentage point. In Ohio, the polls pointed to a tight race; instead, Trump won it easily. In each of these states — and some others — pollsters failed to reach a representative sample of voters. One factor seems to be that Republican voters are...

Will all this be enough for mass media to win the day? People will find out next week. Even if Donald Trump had lost the 2016 election, instead of won it in a surprise, the media’s coverage of his campaign and supporters would have been a horrific failure. They presented that race as unwinnable for Trump and as if his support was inexplicable.Their response to their 2016 failures has been not to improve their journalism in any way, shape, or form, but to decide that they didn’t do enough to bias that election in their preferred direction. Their nearly four-year...

A question on a new poll released by Univision, surveying Latinos about the upcoming presidential election, asked registered voters if they died from the Wuhan virus.“Over the past few months, as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, have you, or someone in your household: Died because of coronavirus?” question 42 asked.According to the question results, 89 percent of people answered that they, in fact, did not die from COVID-19, nor did anyone in their household.In addition to questions about current events and voters’ opinions about the presidential election, the poll also asked voters about their support for or opposition to...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – A cliff-hanger presidential election, major issues at stake, an estimated $6 billion spent in the 2012 campaigns and an eight million person increase in the eligible voters all failed to sustain the upward momentum for turnout from 2004 and 2008. Voter turnout dipped from 62.3 percent of eligible citizens voting in 2008 to an estimated 57.5 in 2012. That figure was also below the 60.4 level of the 2004 election but higher than the 54.2 percent turnout in the 2000 election. Despite an increase of over eight million citizens in the eligible population, turnout declined from 131...

Antagonism isn't perpetual If you recently glanced at the polls and the election markets, then you would be forgiven to believe that a landslide election is looming. It's likely not, and the spreads have the potential to revert in surprising ways between now and Election Day. The drumbeat of negative news against Donald Trump may not cause further damage. We've discussed numerously, starting on October 11 and October 12, that Hillary Clinton's runaway spread would revert (here, here, here, here). Of course that's a stand taken against a popular headwind, but also an opportunity to make money on an election...

Over the past week Donald Trump has been outperforming Hillary Clinton by the highest margins since after the Republican National Convention in July, but some of his greatest increases have come from voters already thought to be firmly in the Democrat's corner. Nationally, Trump leads Clinton by 6.7 points (47.7%-41%) in the latest USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times "Daybreak" poll, which tracks around 3,000 voters per day. This also marks the highest percentage that Trump has ever achieved in this poll, with his previous high water mark coming in at 47.4% back in July.One of the contributing factors to Trump's rise...

Yesterday, I reported a new poll that showed Donald Trump +5 ahead of Hillary Clinton in the key battleground state of Pennsylvania. CBS8 reported a story about this poll, conducted by Project Execution, explaining that results showed Trump leading Clinton 41.9% to 36.5%. CBS8 has since mysteriously removed the page with their report on this poll for some reason, perhaps the person who wrote it wasn’t aware it didn’t fit the mainstream media’s narrative of Donald Trump being doomed beyond all hope. The original link to this CBS8 story can be found here, which you can see now comes up...

So much for what Fox News thinks of the two leaders in the Breitbart Primary. It’s pretty clear that Fox has an agenda, and that is to destroy Donald Trump while ignoring Sen. Ted Cruz . On the first count, they failed miserably — while they certainly managed to pull off the second one. For now. In spite of Fox’s efforts — that were so blatant that even Bloomberg noticed — Trump survived Thursday’s debate. And while some may say he slipped just a little, it’s clear he still has the momentum and a big lead. The attempt was so...

(Reuters) - President Barack Obama regained some footing and overtook his Republican rival Mitt Romney in a new Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Friday, a day after the end of the Democratic convention. In what appears to be a convention-induced bounce, Obama jumped ahead in the latest daily tracking poll with 46 percent of 1,434 likely voters saying...

In today's updated Electoral Projection Map and Chart, both John McCain and Barack Obama have an additional state in their column: * Nevada moved into McCain's column as a good-Obama poll moved off the 50-day average. * Colorado moved into Obama's column because a strong McCain poll moved off the 50-day average.

WATCH THE VIDEO AND PASS IT ON TO YOUR FRIENDS There is a reason that CNN has been known as CLINTON NEWS NETWORK. Rick Kaplan made it so. And now, it gets even better. The man in charge of the polling for CNN is a personal friend and big donor of the Clintons. Learn all about Vinod Gupta. He is in the perfect position to skew poll questions to benefit Hillary. BILL'S UGLY BUDDY (PAYMENTS FROM SCANDAL-TIED FIRM) CNN Pollster Vinod Gupta donates $1000 to Hillary Clinton - "She'll be our next President" CLINTON PAL EYEBALLED (InfoUSA CEO Vinod...

The Bob Corker for Senate campaign on Tuesday released a survey of 600 likely Republican voters that showed Bob Corker with 46% of the vote, Ed Bryant 24% and Van Hilleary 17%. The poll was completed this past Thursday, the evening before early voting began, Corker officials said. Glen Bolger, the Corker campaign’s pollster, said, “These results make it clear that Bob Corker remains in the driver’s seat for the Republican nomination. Both Ed Bryant and Van Hilleary have yet to offer voters a compelling positive reason to support their candidacies, and as result trail by significant margins as voters...

New Jersey: A Rasmussen poll showing Democrat Menendez running away with the race past Republican Kean has been repudiated, or Kean is making a tremendous comeback.  Polls now show Kean has pulled even, the latest showing Kean leading by two points.  Kean’s fundraising is coming on strongly, and he should have the financing to run a strong campaign, although he still trails significantly.  Call this a tossup   Maryland: Cardin’s lead over Republican Steele is shrinking, down to only six points.  But the news is worse for the Democrats: Cardin no longer leads the absolutely broke Mfume, and Steele...

It is probably no surprise that the New York Times is less than pleased with the results of the 2004 election. The newspaper, and its sister the Boston Globe, both publicly endorsed John Kerry. But what was more unusual was the way the newspaper conducted itself on Election Day and on Nov. 3. During Election Day, the Times, as well as many other news organizations, conducted exit polling. Those polls query voters as to their choices when they leave polling stations. As is well known today, the ad-hoc exit polls turned out to be wrong. What is not as well...

Poll: Nearly 1 in 10 Has Already Cast Vote 9 Percent of Likely Voters Have Voted Via Absentee Ballot or Early Voting Analysis By GARY LANGER - While the 2004 election is locked in a virtual dead heat, for nearly one in 10 likely voters it's all over but the counting: They've already cast their ballots. Nine percent of "likely" voters in the ABC News tracking poll say they've voted for president, either by absentee ballot or early voting, a number that's jumped in the last week. Fifty-one percent say they went for George W. Bush, 47 percent for...

American Muslim voters overwhelmingly support Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry over President Bush, according to a new American Muslim Poll conducted by Zogby International for Georgetown University's Muslims in the American Public Square project. By a margin of 76 percent to 7 percent, Muslims back the Democratic ticket over Mr. Bush.

Except for the very original advise he received from Clinton: assail Bush on domestic issues! Now why would Clinton set Kerry up to walk straight into this minefield? After all, when Clinton was running for reelection in 1996: The unemployment rate was 6.2 percent. Today, under Bush, it’s 5.4 percent – with 1.7 million new jobs created and a record of steady job growth for the last 12 months! The inflation rate was 2.6 percent. Today, under Bush, it’s 1.9 percent! ·The mortgage rate was 7.81 percent. Today, under Bush, it’s 5.86 percent – at a 20-year low! And let’s...

LAW OF THE LAND60% of polled Americans:No homosexual marriageLatest survey shows residents rejecting same-sex matrimony by 2-to-1 margin Posted: February 9, 20045:00 p.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com A new poll shows a majority of Americans do not want state laws that would make same-sex marriage legal. The survey was taken after the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court said last Wednesday in an advisory opinion same-sex couples are entitled to marriage and not an alternative, such as Vermont-style civil unions. Only full and equal marriage rights will fulfill its November ruling, four of the seven judges said, paving the way for the nation's first...

Dems find hope in Bush polls By Susan Page, USA TODAY WASHINGTON — President Bush might seem poised for easy re-election, given his healthy 58% job-approval rating in the latest USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup polls. But another number from the surveys conducted over the past two weekends is giving Democrats hope and Republicans heartburn. Asked who they're likely to vote for in 2004, 47% said Bush and 41% the Democratic nominee, whoever that turns out to be. That's not a commanding lead, and it puts Bush's support below 50%, a threshold that traditionally divides safe incumbents from those who are vulnerable. "It's...