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From GOP pollster Scott Rasmussen's polling shop: Republican Rick Scott continues to hold a small lead over Democrat Alex Sink in Florida’s gubernatorial race. A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in Florida finds Scott with 4...

Polling expert Nate Silver of the New York Times' FiveThirtyEight blog notes: Rasmussen Reports ... came under heavy criticism this year... because its polls showed a strong lean toward Republican candidates. Indeed, Rasmussen polls quite consistently...

Southern Illinois University sociologist Darren Sherkat blogs about an eye-opening result in the recently released General Social Survey poll by the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center: For the first time, a legitimate scientific...

I seem to have somehow gotten crosswise again with The Master Journalist -- my nickname for the self-appointed local media critic whose daily blog that he refuses to call a blog is devoted to summarizing what other people are writing,......

Crude oil and retail fuel prices are falling, but not fast enough to please representatives of a broad coalition of consumer groups demanding long-term action to increase fuel efficiency and reduce dependence on fossil fuels. U.S. households will spend...

by Mark Silva If this is Wednesday, it's time for another "town hall,'' as President Barack Obama sets out to pitch his plans for healthcare reform. The president has his work cut out for him, with a new poll showing......

by Mark Silva Sarah Palin, accusing the Democrats of creating government "death panels'' with "downright evil'' health-care reforms that will decide which elderly Americans live and which ones die, complains that President Barack Obama is making "light of...

Also a Facebook thief plus a wrestling exec goes for a Senate seat....

by Mark Silva "This is not Vietnam in many respects," Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) said in a reported interview during his latest trip to Afghanistan. "We are here in Afghanistan because people attacked us here in the most significant attack......