President "Least Popular" meets President-elect "Most Popular" at the White House today
americablog.com 11/10/2008 — I know we've all had our fill of polls, but this latest finding from Gallup adds some perspective to the meeting of Bush and Obama today. It's the ugly past meeting the hopeful future. And, the numbers prove it: From Gallup : Monday's White House ...

Least popular president meets one of the most popular presidents-elect.
thinkprogress.org 11/11/2008 — Today, President-elect Barack Obama is scheduled to meet with President Bush at the White House. The New York Times notes that the visit will be both “historic” and “perhaps awkward,” since Obama consistently criticized Bush ...

The Popular Vote
fivethirtyeight.com 11/5/2008 — Right now, Barack Obama has 63.7 million popular votes to John McCain's 56.3 million, whereas third party candidates have roughly a collective 1.6 million. That works out to 52.4 percent of the vote for Obama and 46.3 percent for McCain ... ...

Bailout: Still Not Popular
reason.com 12/18/2008 — After two months of relentless scaremongering by the nation's elite politicians and journalists, how's that whole bailout thing doing at the polls? Washington Post , Dec. 16: 55 percent of those polled oppose the latest plan that Chrysler, Ford and ...

Olbermann Signs Contract Extension with MSNBC
mediabistro.com 11/10/2008 — MSNBC's Keith Olbermann joined the ladies of The View today. But one piece of news he didn't get to report was about himself. TVNewser has learned Olbermann has signed a contract extension with MSNBC/NBC that takes him through the 2012 election. ...

SNL to Savage Deranged Keith Olbermann
guerillawomentn.blogspot.com 11/2/2008 — After Keith Olbermann learned that Saturday Night Live plans to mock, ridicule and savage him on this week's show, Keith took time off from his full time job of hating Sarah Palin and snuck over to the SNL set: Ben Affleck, who’s hosting “Saturday ...

The Population and the Popular Vote
fivethirtyeight.com 11/30/2008 — In response to our post from earlier this week on the size and scale of Barack Obama's popular vote victory, several readers wrote in to ask how Barack Obama's popular vote total ranks as a share of the United States population at the time of his ...

The most popular election video on YouTube
wizbangblog.com 11/1/2008 — I'm sure a lot of you saw this video. It's no surprise that this video, according to Fox News, is the most popular election video on YouTube, garnering over 11...

Palin More Popular With GOP Voters Than McCain
rasmussenreports.com 11/4/2008 — Republicans are happier with their vice presidential candidate than their presidential nominee, while Democrats feel good about both candidates on their ticket, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. With 59% in a separate ...

Bush is less popular than Nixon in final days
politico.com 11/10/2008 — With 71 days left in office, President Bush is less popular than President Nixon was at the time of his resignation, according to data released Monday by CNN and Opinion Research Corporation.

Making your vote count — First Read 10/17/2008
The RNC and the McCain campaign have gotten what they want: a headline that says the FBI is investigating ACORN for voter-registration fraud. An FBI investigation means the RNC and McCain camp can now use the phrase "FBI investigation" in their TV ...

Obama vs. McCain: Finally some humor — First Read 10/17/2008
"John McCain and Barack Obama swapped self-deprecating jokes instead of campaign jabs” at last night’s Al Smith Dinner in New York.  Some of the greatest hits: MCCAIN : (1) "McCain joked that Democrats had already begun attacking Joe the ...

Battleground: Narrow-victory scenario — First Read 10/17/2008
The New York Times : “Confronting an increasingly bleak electoral map, top aides to Senator John McCain said Thursday that they were searching for a ‘narrow-victory scenario’ and would focus in the final weeks on a dwindling number of states, ...

Obama: Hitting McCain on Medicare — First Read 10/17/2008
The campaign is up with another ad attacking McCain's health care plan. This time, it hits McCain for proposing a cut in Medicare benefits. The Washington Post’s editorial page, which is very hawkish on Iraq and foreign policy, has endorsed Obama. ...

Obama Pulling Away in Newspaper Endorsement Race — FOXNews.com 10/17/2008
Barack Obama picks up the support of The Washington Post and San Francisco Chronicle, adding to his list of newspaper endorsements that's nearly three times as many as John McCain's.