Support for continued U.S. involvement in Afghanistan has taken a sharply negative turn with 50 percent of Americans saying the U.S. should not be involved while 44 percent believe fighting the war is the right thing to do, according to a Quinnipiac University poll conducted Nov. 8-15. Six percent were undecided. In all of Quinnipiac’s [...]
California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman, asked Tuesday whether she would promise to stop airing negative campaign ads, was booed by some audience members, mostly women, when she refused to do so. The exchange came at a conference sponsored by California first lady Maria Shriver, who shared the stage with her husband, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Republican [...]
The Republican Primary taking place in Delaware on September 14 between Rep. Mike Castle and the Tea Party Express candidate, Christine O’Donnell, continues to heat up. The race pits a moderate-to-liberal establishment Republican against a conservative Tea Party Favorite whom some worry may not be ready for prime time. Even some conservatives are split over [...]
President Obama’s speech Tuesday night marking the end of combat operations in Iraq drew a largely — but not universally — negative response from Republicans. One particular sticking point for many Republicans was the president’s failure to tip his cap to the apparent success in Iraq of the counterinsurgency “surge” strategy — authored by Gen. [...]
American politics has an August tradition: Incumbents and challengers fan through the nation claiming credit for the good they’ve done, blaming the other side for all manner of horribles — and then blaming each other for the “blame game.” Guess which strategy generally catches the most traction with voters? Trying to cash an electoral check [...]
First-term GOP Sen. Richard Burr holds a statistically-insignificant lead over Democrat Elaine Marshall in North Carolina’s Senate race, an outcome that probably has more to do with Burr’s high negatives among voters than progress by Marshall, according to a Public Policy Polling survey conducted July 27-31. Burr is ahead of Marshall, the secretary of state, [...]
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