Presidential First Pitch

One of the oldest traditions in Washington has the President of the Unites States throwing the ceremonial first pitch for one the beltway teams (Senators, Orioles, Nationals) on opening day. Somewhere along the lines baseball and politics ended up mixing together.

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Obama Wins!

The long national nightmare is over. Well... mostly over. It's still several months until the inauguration and if 2000 taught America anything, the election isn't over until the results are certified.

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Calculating Fox's Bias, One State At A Time

When I was in college I had a rather eccentric roommate who, every year around this time, would lose himself in an arcane ritual known to his friends as "Bowl Calculus." The enormous whiteboard upon which we had scribbled a half-semester's worth of timelines, circuit diagra …

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Whatever RCP's reasons were for excluding ARG from its averages, none of those reasons should have changed over the past 48 hours. Did ARG suddenly improve its level of disclosure? No.

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Real Clear Politics' state poll "averages" and its projected Electoral College votes cannot be trusted

For the last several months, I have periodically said to those who would listen that the state polls used to make up (and I mean make up) the Electoral College numbers are worse than meaningless.

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As demand for political polls and punditry skyrockets during the presidential election season, Real Clear Politics (realclearpolitics.com) has emerged as a Web site to watch.

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Obama's Appeal Depends on Your Definition of Change By Stuart Rothenberg Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) continues to promise change and stress his ability to unite Americans. It's a feel-good campaign built on soaring rhetoric and good intentions.

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It's Martin Luther King Day - or, as the Hillary Clinton campaign might prefer to call it, Martin Luther King/Lyndon B. Johnson Day - but this is no time for a holiday break. Not with Barack Obama calling Bill Clinton a liar on national TV.

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Note to Iowans and New Hampshirites

I am going to take my time to pick apart what I see as reasons not to vote for certain Republicans contending for the party nomination for the Presidency.

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Polls Gone Wild

....and not in a good way. There have been some articles out there about how polls are meaningless or biased or spun by the media, but this isn't one of those articles.

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Independent political website with news, commentary, data, and other resources.

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