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Throughout the fall, I will be posting numerous updates on these two races, given the fact that they are the only high profile races this year, but also because they provide an excellent indication of what will happen next year. In Virginia, all the polls have Jerry Kilgore, the former Attorney General, leading Tim Kaine, the Lieutenant Governor, by 7-10 points. While the incumbent Democrat, Mark Warner, is fairly popular, there is no indication that it is helping Kaine. In 2001, Warner narrowly defeated the Republican nominee in spite of the fact that the Virginia GOP was divided. Kilgore seems...

President George Bush is gaining on John Kerry in New York after holding the Republican Convention there. A Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday shows a post-convention bounce for the president –something Kerry did not achieve. Kerry leads Bush by just six percentage points in the race for New York’s 31 electoral votes, 47 percent to 41 percent. A month ago, the Democrat led by 18 points.

Those of you here who are polipundit.com readers may know me as Alexander K. McClure, the site's resident polling junkie. I remember in 2000 Gallup's daily tracking poll. Do any of you know if the daily tracking has already began?

At last! Some good news today! Congressman Rodney Alexander has switched parties!

President, SC Bush (R) 51% Kerry (D) 44% Other/Undecided 5% U.S. Senate, SC DeMint (R) 48% Tenenbaum (D) 41% Other/Undecided 11%

New SC Poll Shows DeMint Leading First post run-off poll has DeMint at 50%; Presidential race will be a drag on Tenenbaum (The following is an excerpted press release from the National Republican Senatorial Committee this morning) Washington, D.C. – Congressman Jim DeMint’s strong and impressive victory in last Tuesday’s Republican run-off in South Carolina has him well positioned as the general election heads into high gear. A poll conducted this week shows him holding a firm lead over Democratic challenger Inez Tenenbaum – 50% to 43%. ...The poll shows that DeMint’s name ID equals that of Tenenbaum’s, while overall...

Sam Dash and Archibald Cox died on Saturday night...anyone notice the coincidence?

President Bush leads John Kerry by 6 percentage points in the battle for Ohio, a state that could decide who wins the White House, according to a statewide Plain Dealer poll. Ohio voters surveyed say they favor Bush over Kerry, 47 percent to 41 percent. Consumer advocate Ralph Nader draws 3 percent, though he has yet to qualify for the Ohio ballot. Nine percent say they are undecided. Though Bush is given low marks for his handling of the economy and the war in Iraq, those who say they favor him cite his moral character and his stewardship over the...

President George W. Bush leads Democratic challenger John Kerry 45 – 39 percent among Pennsylvania voters, with 8 percent for independent candidate Ralph Nader, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today. This compares to a 44 – 40 percent lead for President Bush, with 7 percent for Nader in a March 17 poll by the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN uh-pe-ack) University. In a head-to-head race, without Nader, Bush leads Kerry 46 - 42 percent. In the two-candidate race, Republicans back Bush 80 – 10 percent, as Democrats back Kerry 73 – 17 percent and independent voters go with Kerry 48...

http://members.aol.com/RVSNorton/Lincoln45.html A timeline of the Great Emancipator's last day on Earth.

President George W. Bush gets a negative 40 -- 56 percent approval rating, his lowest ever in New York. Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry beats President Bush 49 -- 35 percent in New York State, with 6 percent for independent candidate Ralph Nader. With Nader out of the race, Kerry tops Bush 53 -- 36 percent.

President Bush's campaign roll-out dislodged a few supporters from Democratic rival Sen. John Kerry in Pennsylvania, and Sen. Arlen Specter's campaign is holding on "against a fierce challenge" in the Republican primary, a new Keystone Poll finds. Last month, a survey conducted by Franklin & Marshall College's Center for Opinion Research showed Bush trailing the Massachusetts senator, 47 percent to 46 percent. The new poll, sponsored by The Patriot-News, WGAL-TV and other media organizations, shows Bush with what poll director G. Terry Madonna termed "a narrow lead," 46 percent to 40 percent. "It shows that Bush had a better campaign...

Today is the 150th birthday of the Republican Party. I wanted to create a thread for everyone to state what it means for him/her to be a Republican, if he or she is one. Today we remember the deeds and ideas Party of Lincoln, of McKinley, of Roosevelt, of Eisenhower, of Reagan, and of G.W. Bush. Let us go forth into the future attempting to live up to such a heritage.

KABUL (Reuters) - Time is running out for Osama bin Laden, the U.S. military said Wednesday, as American and Pakistani forces step up operations against al Qaeda and Taliban militants along the Afghan-Pakistan frontier. In the latest statement of growing confidence that al Qaeda's mastermind and other senior militant figures will be captured or killed soon, the U.S. military in Afghanistan spoke of "renewed urgency" in hunting down key terror figures.

February 20, 2004--President George W. Bush now leads Massachusetts Senator John F. Kerry by six points in the latest Rasmussen Reports Presidential Tracking Poll. As of this morning, Bush attracts support from 49% of the nation's likely voters while Kerry is the choice for 43%. At the same time American Research Group has Kerry at 48% and Bush at 46%. However Bush leads the generic Democrat by two points. Obviously Gallup seems to be the outlier here, and Kerry is riding a bounce from his victories.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Democrat Ben Chandler leads Republican Alice Forgy Kerr in their race to represent the 6th Congressional District, according to a newspaper poll. In the Bluegrass Poll, published Thursday by The Courier-Journal, 49.4 percent said they supported Chandler compared with 39.6 percent for Kerr and 11 percent undecided. The poll, which surveyed 466 self-described likely voters, has an error margin of plus or minus 4.5 percentage points. Thus, Chandler holds a slight lead when accounting for the error margin. The vacancy was created in December when Republican Ernie Fletcher took office as Kentucky governor. The race has drawn...

Statistically, two are tied in latest MSNBC pollBy Mike Stuckey MSNBC Politics Editor Updated: 7:00 a.m.ET Jan. 26, 2004 Howard Dean is riding a rollercoaster in the New Hampshire polls. As quickly as he sank in the surveys following his dismal third-place finish in the Iowa caucuses, Dean is rising again — so dramatically, in fact, that he is in a statistical dead heat with Sen. John Kerry in the latest MSNBC/Zogby Reuters Poll released Monday

Today's Blue State Report will consist of polling data from the following five states-New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Iowa, and California. Together, those states account for 129 electoral voters, or nearly half of those won by Bush's Democratic opponent in 2000. New York (31 electoral votes)-A Marist Poll the other day showed that "President George Bush’s approval rating is currently 52% among New York State's registered voters. This is an increase since a similar poll conducted last September. 47% do not rate his job performance positively." Voters were nearly evenly split on whether they would vote to re-elect the President....

I can't put in the data since it is in table format. Maybe someone, like the mod, can help.

District of Columbia Democratic Presidential Primary Updated 1/13/04 9:20 PM ET 68% Precincts Reporting Incumbent* declared winner Candidates Votes % Howard Dean 7,586 42 Al Sharpton 6,254 35 Carol Moseley Braun 2,092 12 Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich 1,465 8 Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. 220 1 Arthur H. Jackson Jr. 109 1 Florence Walker 104 1 Vermin Supreme 56 0 Harry Braun III 29 0 Jeanne Chebib 18 0 Lucian Wojciechowski 11 0 Source: AP EDITOR'S NOTE: Primary results are only advisory. Official allocation of D.C.'s 16 pledged delegates to the National Democratic Convention occurs during the D.C. Democratic Caucus on...