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Sara Murray reports on politics. Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will attend the governors meeting next week with President-elect Barack Obama , her spokesman said this afternoon. While Bill McAllister , Palin's spokesman, said he hadn't spoken to the governor at length about the meeting, he said he expects her to bring up energy issues. Obviously she wants to communicate Alaskas goals in assisting America...
Gerald Seib and SaraMurray of the Wall Street Journal link to my latest TRB column : There’s been much post-election discussion about whether the size of President-elect Barack Obama’s win gives him a “mandate” to govern the way he sees fit. Jonathan Chait of The New Republi c weighs in, answering that question with a clear “yes.” I certainly can't blame Seib and Murray for reaching...
SaraMurray reports on the presidential race from Charlottesville, Va. What makes the youth vote tick? It's no surprise that many young find Sen. Barack Obama inspiring. But beyond that, what does the youth vote, which is surging toward Obama this year, care about? On a trek through Charlottesville, Va., young voters had plenty of answers: the economy, foreign policy and a leader they...
SaraMurray reports on the presidential race. The gap between John McCain and Barack Obama in major battleground states is shrinking, but Obama still has the lead, particularly in all-important Pennsylvania. A new Quinnipiac University Polling Institute survey puts Obama ahead 47% to 45% in Florida, the same as last week and within the poll’s margin of error. McCain made slight gains...
Sara Murray reports on the 2008 election. As the votes are tallied, one expert said turnout will be on par or will slightly surpass 2004, but it won't be historic. Between 126.5 million and 128.5 million votes were cast this year, Curtis Gans , director of American University's Center for the Study of the American Electorate, said in a report. He partly based his projection on unofficial vote tallies...
Sara Murray reports on the election. Some 120 million ballots had been counted by this afternoon, and the number this year is on track to beat 2004. In fact, 2008 could mark the highest turnout rate since the Richard Nixon-Hubert Humphrey matchup in 1968 when 62.5% of eligible voters cast ballots. Michael McDonald , a voting expert and associate professor at George Mason University, predicted the total...
Sara Murray reports on the election. Barack Obama sailed to a comfortable win in Electoral College votes last night, but was it really a landslide? This is what a landslide looks like: 1984 Electoral map (The American Presidency Project) Consider some unquestionable presidential landslides. In 1972, Republican Richard Nixon raked in 520 votes compared with 17 for George McGovern , who won Washington,...
Sara Murray reports on the presidential race from Charlottesville, Va. What makes the youth vote tick? It's no surprise that many young find Sen. Barack Obama inspiring. But beyond that, what does the youth vote, which is surging toward Obama this year, care about? On a trek through Charlottesville, Va., young voters had plenty of answers: the economy, foreign policy and a leader they can be proud...
Sara Murray reports on the presidential race. The gap between John McCain and Barack Obama in major battleground states is shrinking, but Obama still has the lead, particularly in all-important Pennsylvania. A new Quinnipiac University Polling Institute survey puts Obama ahead 47% to 45% in Florida, the same as last week and within the poll’s margin of error. McCain made slight gains in Ohio but the...
Sara Murray reports on mixing politics and pumpkins. With 11 days to go before Election Day, Barack Obama supporters haven't stopped searching for new and innovative ways to promote their candidate. And now they're carving his likeness into pumpkins. (After all, Halloween's only eight days away.) Yes, there are at least three Facebook groups and a handful of websites dedicated to Obama lanterns and...
Sara Murray reports on the presidential race. Sen. John McCain has lost his advantage on the golden economic issue for Republicans: taxes. The latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll shows that, when asked who would better handle the issue of taxes — the one area where the Republican nominee once had an edge — 48% said Sen. Barack Obama , and 34% said McCain. Earlier this month the candidates were...
Sara Murray reports on the presidential race. Sen. BarackObama is outpacing Sen. John McCain in the battleground states that can deliver the largest electoral prizes as swing voters, anxious about the economy, pull his way. Obama leads in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania, according to new polls from the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute . The best news for him is certainly in Ohionormally considered...
Read here article by SaraMurray and Gerald F. Seib Given that it now appears Gov. Sarah Palin will finish the campaign without ever holding a press conference or making an appearance on the Sunday interview shows, Christopher Hitchens, writing on Slate , wonders whether the press should even continue to cover her. Noting that Sen. Lindsey Graham, an adviser to Sen. John McCain,...
Sara Murray reports on the 2008 election. The latest region Republicans are losing voters is in the exurbs — the outer suburbs — the Washington Post reports today . But Robert Lang, a Virginia Tech Metropolitan Institute demographer, argues that it wouldn’t have to be that way — if only Republican presidential nominee John McCain had chosen a different running mate than Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin . Sarah...
