Polls and elections: Southern discomfort? Regional differences in voter decision making in the 2000 presidential election.
The contemporary American South continues to experience dramatic changes in population, economics, and partisanship that have fundamentally altered the political landscape of not only the region but the entire nation. The wide-ranging effects of these developments on electoral behavior are not entirely understood, but it is unquestionable that the...

The presidential elections & women's health.
When Americans vote, we do more than select our favored candidate. The act of voting presents a real opportunity to express our views about the direction the country should move in the future. In just a few months, we'll go to the polls once again and choose our next...

US presidential elections could affect IT deals.
Byline: Sujata Dutta Sachdeva NEW DELHI: Indian ITES players should feel happy as reports suggest the US economic slowdown will increase demand for global services in 2008. But on the down side, the presidential elections next year could delay contract signing. This was revealed by NeoIT, the...

Shifts in Last Two Months of Election Not Uncommon; Average change in "gap" since 1936 is 6.6 points.
Byline: Frank Newport Synopsis: An analysis of the relationship between post-convention Gallup Poll results in previous presidential elections and the eventual election outcome shows that the "gap" between candidates shifts on average by 6.6 points, and that the gap narrows more often than it expands as Election...

The case for McCain: the Republican nominee offers what voters have demanded.
IT is nearly axiomatic in modern American political history that the stage for transformative presidential elections is set by the congressional elections that precede them: the Republican rout in 1958 leading to the Kennedy-Johnson years; the Republican resurgence in 1966 presaging Richard Nixon's breaking of the New Deal majority...

Rhetoric vs. reality.
FEW PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS seem to alter the direction of American politics in important ways. One could cite the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 and Ronald Reagan in 1980. The others only have brought changes on the margins of history. Far more often it is events, not elections,...

Columnist goes for broke with more idioms than you can shake a stick at.
I'd like to tell you that this is the best column I've ever written, however you can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig. Or something like that anyway. Who would have thought that in one of the most hotly contested presidential elections in...

How will the US choices play out in the Middle East? Bruce Macphail reports on the run-up to the US presidential elections in November and what changes might take place when there is a new occupant of the White House.
THE RESULT OF the US presidential election, which will be held on 4 November, is very difficult to predict as the three remaining candidates all perform well in national polls. The latest head-to-head polls suggest Republican John McCain versus Democrat Hillary Clinton would lead to a McCain victory with...

Oregon's presidential pull wanes this time.
Byline: David Steves The Register-Guard Wondering why your TV isn't delivering many of those punchy Obama and McCain ads you hear about on cable news? Eager to get revved up at a presidential campaign rally like the ones that fired you up last March? Hope...

A Ticklish position: Republicans run against the first black presidential nominee.
GUESS who came to dinner, during the presidential election of 2008? Barack Obama, the junior senator from Illinois--and he is the first black nominee ever. This is big and cheering news, given American history. And no fair saying that he's not a descendant of slaves. And no fair saying...