Commenter “chaddogg*” has some questions about whether pollsters’ inability to properly survey cell-phone-only voters (who tend to be young) means that news organizations are underestimating support for Obama: I have a question, Ana Marie: Are the polls missing youth voters, and thus UNDERSTATING Obama’s numbers? Here’s why I’m wondering this: 1) These polls are conducted [...]
Romney has announced a surprise swing into California this afternoon; though, at just over four hours, the visit is really more of a bunt. Ambinder suggests that the motivation for the trip is “to either create some buzz about a tightening in the state, or.,..reflecting a tightening in the state.” Recent polls do show Romney [...]
A sampling of the campaign spam from the campaigns and national committees in the past twelve hours after the jump; it’ll give you an idea of how campaign are framing stories to the media (Clinton says Obama is a hypocrite!), what narratives they’re pushing (McCain: Inevitable), and who has the biggest press staff (I’m guessing [...]
Sure, being on the campaign trail has its advantages when it comes to reporting: time with the candidate, access to voters, bonding with your colleagues and prying gossip from staff. But that’s not how most people experience a campaign or make up their minds about a candidate. They experience Super Tuesday the way those of [...]
Romney derangement syndrome. UPDATE: Some more Mitt stories of interest: Robert Draper’s wry observations from GQ: Occasionally, he revealed himself anyway. During one Ask Mitt Anything session in Indianola, Iowa, a young woman in a parka stood up to ask the candidate a question. “What concerns me,” she began as she stood before a man [...]
The Democrats have a particularly complicated set of rules, which make it much harder for the candidates to figure out how to approach these primaries, and for the rest of us to figure out even what constitutes a win. This is not a system designed for either clarity or speed. I tried to sort some [...]
