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Category Archives: US Presidential Election 2008

Presidential election minus 29 days

Tuesday, October 7, 2008 – 7:55 pm

As much for personal amusement as anything else, I will henceforth be doing my own polling aggregates for swing states. To account for the fact that state polling lags behind the nightly national tracking polls, each result is adjusted according to the change in the Real Clear Politics national average since the date of the [...]

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Palin versus Biden debate thread

Friday, October 3, 2008 – 10:56 am

Call it as you see it here. The purpose of this thread is to quarantine the kind of partisan name-calling that is the hallmark of live debate discussion from the main thread, so I won’t quite be holding commenters up to this site’s normal high standards. The other thread remains open for those wishing to [...]

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US election minus 36 days

Tuesday, September 30, 2008 – 5:42 pm

Either due to the market meltdown, the debate or both, much has changed in Gallup tracking poll land since our last thrilling instalment.

We also have this entertaining survey on Australian attitudes to the presidential race from UMR Research, showing 66 per cent of respondents preferring Barack Obama against 13 per cent for John McCain. Sarah [...]

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US election minus 40 days

Friday, September 26, 2008 – 1:16 am

Gallup’s three-day tracking poll shows the situation in the US presidential race throughout September as follows:

Barack Obama held a slight lead as the month began, which seems to be the long-term status quo. Then came the Republican convention and Sarah Palin bounce, which briefly put McCain well ahead. This moderated into a slight lead [...]

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US election minus 48 days

Thursday, September 18, 2008 – 10:13 pm

A new thread for discussion of matters American, as the polls return to level pegging following the Republicans’ convention bounce.

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US election minus 54 days

Friday, September 12, 2008 – 5:30 pm

A thread for the discussion of the American elections, now a little less than eight weeks away.

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Presidential election minus 17 weeks

Tuesday, July 8, 2008 – 4:41 am

A new home for another fortnight or so’s worth of top quality US election repartee. I’m only one minor irritation away from pulling the plug on these threads, so please try not to annoy me (annoy each other by all means, but not me).
UPDATE (9/7/2008): After careful reflection, I have decided this will be the [...]

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Presidential election minus 19 weeks

Tuesday, June 24, 2008 – 4:01 am

Introducing another round of comments action in the endless US presidential election campaign. Participants are encouraged to try their luck in the IRC room:

The Poll Bludger’s irc gateway, using the PJirc applet.

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Presidential election minus 21 weeks

Thursday, June 12, 2008 – 12:07 pm

Duke it out here. Those participating in the US election threads are advised that they do so at their own risk.

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“No decisions tonight”

Wednesday, June 4, 2008 – 11:52 am

The headline says “CNN projects Obama clinches nomination”, but during what in many ways has sounded like a concession speech, Clinton has declared: “I will be making no decisions tonight”.

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