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El Paso Times
| 6 months ago
A poll released Friday by a national Latino research organization said President Obama captured 77 percent of the Hispanic vote in New Mexico, a powerhouse showing that enabled him to carry the state...Sen.-elect Martin Heinrich, also a Democrat,...
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The Independent
| 6 months ago
It was one of the most bitter and negative campaigns ever, and living in a swing state we were bombarded with phone calls and attack ads. My family was divided; some strongly backed Obama, and others were Romney fans. Thankfully I left for the UK...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 6 months ago
AFP According to Twitter, there were 31 million tweets on election day, with the site hitting a peak of 327,452 tweets-per-minute the moment TV networks called the race for President Obama. That was a record pace for the micro-blogging network, and...
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United Press International
| 6 months ago
U.S. voters may have returned the same leadership to Washington on Election Day but that doesn't mean they expect the status quo to continue, observers say. President Barack Obama (C), First Lady Michelle Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and his wife...
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The Columbus Dispatch
| 6 months ago
One of the most contentious issues for news organizations during this presidential campaign was polling. The Dispatch has a long history of producing an accurate poll, one that journalists and news organizations from across the country look to for...
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The Daily Sentinel
| 6 months ago
Once adopted, these standards will likely be in place for a long time, so it is prudent to make the standards tougher now and relax them later, if future findings indicate a need. I read recently that in drilling-friendly Texas, the industry and...
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Summit Daily News
| 6 months ago
That's what disappointed Republican spinners kept saying Tuesday night as they watched Mitt Romney's hopes crash and burn in swing state after swing state. How many times did I hear a Republican talk about how their party's deep bench of future all-...
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Canadian Free Press
| 6 months ago
Maybe it is time to try the winning philosophy of putting conservatism on the ballot against liberalism? P So, how's that whole, Let's nominate the next in line, moderate, GOP establishment candidate working out? Answer: Not good. Not good at all. ...
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Canadian Free Press
| 6 months ago
Barack Obama will be aborting our economy, aborting our traditions, and aborting our civilization itself...My attitude about this was that if Barack Obama didn't carry the female vote, I'd accept a demotion to PVT in political prognostication and...
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Associated Press
| 6 months ago
Forget political pundits, gut instincts, and psychics. The mightier-than-ever silicon chip seems to reveal the future. In just two weeks this fall, computers models displayed an impressive prediction prowess. It started when the first computer model...
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The Washington Times
| 6 months ago
From the social conservative point of view, the election results were bad...President Obama actually has been one of the most positive things to happen to the conservative movement in a very long time. He has positioned himself squarely against...
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Canadian Free Press
| 6 months ago
The broadcast networks, the big daily newspapers, the newsweekliesthey're done, they said. It's only a matter of time, and everyone who works there knows it...Although liberal news outlets are losing viewers and readers, Obama's victory has...
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Gawker
| 6 months ago
You eagerly anticipate never speaking to or hearing from almost all of these people ever again. And years later, everyone wakes up and realize that the nerds secretly won. Still, there are a few things and people that I can't help but be sad to see...
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Tech Dirt
| 6 months ago
Right after the election, Time published an account of a massive and extremely sophisticated datacrunching team working to get President Obama re-elected. The new megafile didn't just tell the campaign how to find voters and get their attention; it...
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Los Angeles Times
| 6 months ago
It's been a long, exhausting campaign season for political pundits, and on Thursday a tired but clearly exhilarated Rachel Maddow stopped by The Colbert Report to discuss the results of Tuesday's election. It was by any measure a very good night for...
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New York Observer
| 6 months ago
During the waning weeks of the election, New York Times poll wonk Nate Silver served as a totem for many liberals in the face of pundits and pollsters who predicted a victory for Mitt Romney. Mr. Silver's predictions for the outcome of the election...
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The Journal Gazette
| 6 months ago
In any case, no, thank you, experts and geniuses, for the following utterances made in the days and weeks before President Obama was re-elected Tuesday by 303 to 206 in the Electoral College (and maybe with Florida's 29 votes, too): It comes down to...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 6 months ago
Republican recriminations intensified on Thursday as the party's billionaire backers questioned how Mitt Romney had won fewer votes than John McCain in 2008 despite their lavish funding of his campaign. As counting concluded, the Republican candidate...
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Seattle Times
| 6 months ago
After decades of relying on predictions from political pundits and wildly gyrating polls, Americans saw a small band of number crunchers redefine the business of election forecasting. Armed with computer simulations and confidence in cold, hard data,...
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Washington Post
| 6 months ago
The Washington Post Ann Romney said one thing during her husband's presidential run that no one can dispute. This is hard,'' she said, referring to the slog. (Actually, being president is hard, too, as George W. Bush once noted 11 times in a single...
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Miami Herald
| 7 months ago
Though votes are still being tallied, President Obama is all but assured a victory in Florida because the lion's share of the outstanding ballots come from Democratic-heavy counties. Obama leads Republican Mitt Romney by 55,832 votes or 49.9 percent...
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NY Daily News
| 7 months ago
Stories This was my last election as a young voter, the group of highly-sought-after 45 million eligible 18-to-29 year-olds...He had a chance to win our votes, and with it, the presidency, but he whiffed...Not because young people have a crush on...
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The Globe & Mail
| 7 months ago
Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney waves to supporters before conceding the race during his election night rally, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012, in Boston The Associated Press video Tonight, in this election, you,...
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The Columbus Dispatch
| 7 months ago
Unfortunately for Republican Mitt Romney, there are a lot more votes in Ohio's car country than there are in coal country. The former Massachusetts governor, saddled with a perception that he was willing to let the domestic auto industry go belly up,...
