Author: DJ Drummond

I have always found opinion polls to be fascinating, and yet I often mistrust the way in which polls are built and their results reported. It also occurs to …

Via CNN: Let me be as clear as possible," Obama said. "I think people's families are off-limits, and people's children are especially off-limits. This shouldn't be part of our …

In an earlier article, a reader noted that he was suspicious of CNN's "Poll of Polls". Frankly, he was right to do so. What CNN, Real Clear Politics, and …

John McCain out-planned Barack Obama. That is the summary of what happened this last week. Senator Obama apparently planned on the normal course of events as he prepared for …

Wow, what a situation. In the last day, Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty have taken themselves out of the running for McCain's running mate, and a lot of buzz …

45 years ago today, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King expressed the fervent hope that by the time his chidren grew up, their character would matter and their race …

Back in 2004, I determined a general measure of bias in the Presidential election by polls. I did the same thing for this year, which may be useful in …

So says Gallup: "It's official: Barack Obama has received no bounce in voter support out of his selection of Sen. Joe Biden to be his vice presidential running mate. …

As often happens in these things, we are told that this election is about the economy. That's no surprise, people often vote by how they feel about their jobs …

So, Senator Barack Obama has tapped Senator Joe Biden to be his running mate this fall. Senator John McCain may or may not know whom he wants, but in …