California Sen. Barbara Boxer leads GOP challenger Carly Fiorina by 4 points in a new Reuters/Ipsos poll, and Jerry Brown leads Republican Meg Whitman by 6 points in the gubernatorial race. The numbers are in line with other polling firms’ findings ove…

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Ohio Democratic Senate candidate Lee Fisher and Republican Rob Portman are running one of the more competitive races in the country, a new Quinnipiac poll finds (June 22-27, 1107 RV, MoE +/- 3%). The two are statistically tied, with Fisher leading by 2…

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Public Policy Polling took a look at the Wisconsin Senate race, and finds that Senator Russ Feingold is potentially in for big trouble.  His approval rating is a tepid 42/42 split, and he earns only 45% of the vote against his two largely unknown chal…

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Big announcement from the White House just blasted out via email: THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 29, 2010 Statement by the Press Secretary on H.R. 3951 On Monday, June 28, 2010, the President signed into law: H…

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New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo continues to run well ahead of his Republican opponents, former Rep. Rick Lazio and businessman Carl Paladino, a new Rasmussen poll finds (June 24, 500 LV, MoE +/- 4.5%). The result shows little change since April…

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The latest Harris Interactive polling indicates that 2/3 of American adults give the President unfavorable marks on his handling of the economy.  Table I shows the 15-point drop that the President has suffered since March of 2009.  Other portions of …

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A new Rasmussen poll finds Louisiana Sen. David Vitter continues to poll over 50% and leads Democratic Rep. Charlie Melancon by 18 points. The survey (June 24, 500 LV, MoE +/- 4.5%) was conducted after news broke that in 2008 a Senate aide to Vitter wa…

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On RCP, Thomas Sowell writes about the Supreme Court’s ruling on Chicago’s gun ban, taking issue with Justice Breyer’s assertion that judges should “consider the basic values that underlie a constitutional provision and their contemporary significance….

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