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News Headlines for Independent Voters 10/6/09

By Nancy Hanks | Related entries in Bloomberg, Independents, New Jersey, New York City, News

News Headlines for Independent Voters 10/6/09
Independent Voters
On healthcare and other hot issues: Follow the independents–The number of voters not tied to Democrats or Republicans is expanding fast. Both parties need to adjust. (By the Christian Science Monitor’s Editorial Board) Were the 2010 elections to occur today, 43 percent of independents say they would vote Republican [...]

October 6th, 2009 | Permalink| 5 Comments »

News Headlines for Independents

By Nancy Hanks | Related entries in Independents, New Jersey, New York, News, Pennsylvania, Politics

INDEPENDENT VOTERS
If you want to call it “fickle” to leave the two-party system behind in favor creating a new political culture, call me fickle!

2010: Fight for fickle kids (By: Eamon Javers, Politico) Stanford University political science professor Morris Fiorina is convinced that both political parties haven’t yet grasped the scale of the change that’s happening [...]

August 4th, 2009 | Permalink| 6 Comments »

Obama Wins New Hampshire, Connecticut, Maine, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey

New Hampshire was expected, but still a swing state in the grand scheme of things.
The others were not surprises in the least.
A total of 56 electoral votes.

November 4th, 2008 | Permalink| No Comments »

Quinnipiac: Obama Leads McCain By 6 In New Jersey

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Democrats, McCain, New Jersey, Polls

Obama – 45%
McCain – 39%
This represents a slip of 1% since polling was done in late February.
Key demo findings…
Obama has a double-digit lead among women, 46%-35%, and men split 44%-44%. McCain leads among Independent voters, 42%-40%.
And concerning Hillary…
More than half (53%) of New Jersey voters say Obama should not pick Hillary Clinton as his vice [...]

June 12th, 2008 | Permalink| No Comments »

Obama Adds 2 More Superdelegate, +9 For Today

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Democrats, Hillary, New Jersey, Super Delegates!!!, Virginia

This time it’s Vernon Watkins of Cali…
“The election is over, everybody knows that. Obama has won,” said Vernon Watkins, one of the two Californians.
Also, Joe Johnson of Virginia has apparently endorsed, but there are scant details about this anywhere.
Post-Pennsylvania delegate pickups:
Obama – 40
Clinton – 12.5
Total superdelegates:
Clinton – 273.5
Obama – 269
However, the AP reports that [...]

May 9th, 2008 | Permalink| No Comments »

Hillary Picks Up A Superdelegate, Loses One

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Democrats, Hillary, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Super Delegates!!!

This is almost the exact same post I wrote a couple days ago, and so far she’s simply running in place, unable to add any to her total.
First, she lost Rep. Donald Payne from New Jersey with the congressman citing the reason as trying to pull the party together…
“After careful consideration, I have reached the [...]

May 9th, 2008 | Permalink| No Comments »

Clinton Takes New Jersey, New York

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Hillary, New Jersey, New York

More good news for the Clinton camp, but we’ll see how the delegate count shakes out.
Bottom line, Clinton has won big in the Northeast.

February 5th, 2008 | Permalink| No Comments »

Zogby: Obama Up By 13 In California

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, California, Missouri, New Jersey, Polls

Is it New Hampshire all over again?
In California, which alone provides more than one-fifth of the Democratic delegates needed for the nomination, Obama led Clinton by 49 percent to 36 percent, the poll found. The margin of error was 3.3 percentage points.
Clinton pulled into a 5-point lead in New Jersey, 46 percent to 41 percent, [...]

February 5th, 2008 | Permalink| 3 Comments »