Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, looks at John McCain's apparent willingness to take on the media as a campaign strategy. He also hints that it is the right time for McCain to do so. The public mood sees...

Jay Cost, who I have a great deal of respect for as an honest interpreter of politics, polls and all the assorted bits and pieces that make up the world we political junkies inhabit, cautions about reading too much – or actually anything at all – into...

When a quarterback has been sacked one time too many and begins to make mistakes under pressure commentators sometimes say that he is “hearing footsteps”. So are a number of Democrats after yesterday’s drubbing in Virginia and less-lopsided but...

Both contested races for governor fell to the Republican candidates, with Christie winning in New Jersey and McDonnell in Virginia. Doug Hoffman lot in NY-23, however. Still, this should be considered a warning to Democrats – not just because of the...

And it is a clean sweep for Republicans in Virginia. The Politico reports all statewide Republican candidates won office. Republicans swept Virginia’s statewide elections Tuesday, with gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell leading his party’s ticket to...

Watch the intensity today. Not the polls, the intensity. Polls can measure many things, but one thing they have a hard time getting at is intensity: Yes, people will tell a pollster whom they prefer in a campaign, but do they feel so strongly about...