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Even before The Washington Post reported on a 2005 recording of Donald Trump making crude comments about exploiting his celebrity to sexually assault women, Hillary Clinton's campaign was on the upswing. Her strong performance in the first presidential debate had pushed her national polling numbers up fairly quickly. Not as quickly as after the party conventions, mind you, but even before a new NBC-Wall Street Journal poll released on Monday, she led by about five points. Then the new poll came out. As always, one poll could be an outlier. This poll has a relatively high margin of error of...

In 2008 and 2010 that is all we heard, Independents, Independents, Independents.... How many times did we hear "It's the Independents that decide the election". Remember that?? Well look how that's changed today. But oddly enough, we don't hear anything about the oh-so valuable "Independents" from the National NotWorks about it. Is Obama really "running away" with this election like they keep trying to portray or "running from it"??? Hmmm.... If Independents decide the elections, these numbers look like Obama's going to get another shellacking. Media Ignore Independents' Swing Toward Romneyby Dustin Hawkins September 27, 2012 Not long ago, Independents...

In several battleground states, President Barack Obama is either tied within the margin of error or pulling ahead, which is getting a lot attention from the media. We get updates on every swing state there is. But here's one statistic we don't hear much about: Gallup reports that 22 percent of swing-state voters say they may still change their minds. Those one-in-five who say they might change their minds includes 10 percent who currently say they support Obama and 7 percent who support Romney. In swing states that are within the margin of error, that's huge. And we're not hearing much about that at...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Here's Jeremy in Toledo as we start on the phones. I'm glad you called, sir. Great to have you with us. CALLER: Hey, Rush, how are you? RUSH: Very good. Thank you. CALLER: Hey, I gotta tell you first off, I can't begin to express to you what an honor it is to talk to you after being a listener for over 20 years. RUSH: Thank you, sir, really very much. CALLER: Nor can I express or do I think you'll ever be able to truly understand everything you have done over the years means to me...

Certain media polls indicating Obama is ahead of Mitt Romney by as much as 10 to 12 points in swing states seem to spell disaster for Romney, but what they really say about the Obama campaign may just surprise you? The absurdity of the skewed sample models in those polls is one thing, but what conservatives need to understand is that polls skewed to heavily favor Democrats logically point to one very important fact - Obama is in big trouble. For one thing, Democrats and the liberal media are taking a huge chance by touting polls showing Obama up by...

This needs to be stopped- Duncan Hunter is not fairly represented in the polls! From: Heidi Thiess Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 8:04 AM To: Subject: Your Polls Are Incomplete, and Thereby Skewed To the staff of RCP: I have noticed that in NONE of your polls and poll coverage do you include Duncan Hunter. Worse, Fox News draws their poll data from yours and places it front and center on their Politics Page. You cannot cut Duncan Hunter. He is a campaigning, viable candidate, in good standing, who has paid his dues to be on the ballot in each...

<p>I have to say I was still surprised by the news of Howell Raines' and Gerald Boyd's resignation. It wasn't because they didn't deserve to resign. What has happened to the country's paper of record in the past two years has been nothing short of horrifying. From blatant imposition of left-liberal spin, to fabrications, to corner-cutting by Raines favorites to the trashing of the NYT brand, it has been an extraordinary story of how one person could do that much damage in so short a time. But I still feared that the close relationship between Mr. Raines and the publisher of the Times, Arthur Sulzberger Jr., would ensure his survival. I was wrong. How thrilled I am to have been wrong.</p>