CivicForumPAC

A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in the Bay State finds Deval Patrick (D) with 39% support, while Republican Charlie Baker picks up 34% of the vote. Democrat-turned-Independent candidate Tim Cahill continues to trail with 18%. One percent (1%) prefer some other candidate and eight percent (8%) are undecided. The current figures  Read more »

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul and Democratic nominee Jack Conway remain within single digits of each other as Paul holds a nearly five-point lead, the latest cn|2 Poll found. Asked which candidate they would support if the Nov. 2 election were held today, 42.1% of likely voters favored Paul, while 37.4% would vote for  Read more »

For much of this year, it seemed a near mathematical impossibility that Republicans could score the 10-seat net gain needed to flip the Senate, which is split between 59 Democrats (including two independents who caucus with Democrats and largely vote with the party) and 41 Republicans. As recently as six weeks ago, I wrote in  Read more »

Eight weeks out and you don’t have to be a political professional to feel what’s in the air: The Republicans have a big win coming. The question in the House races is: Will they get to 218? Will Republicans pick up the 39 seats they need to win control of the 435-member chamber? Another way  Read more »

Alarmed by the hobbled financial status of the Republican National Committee, state party leaders now are turning to outside groups — or creating their own — to ensure they have a robust voter turnout operation in November that can swamp the competition. In Ohio, a group of Republican activists in July created a new, tax-exempt entity called Freedom Vote  Read more »

Democratic Senator Harry Reid and his Republican challenger Sharron Angle are still neck-and-neck in Nevada’s race for U.S. Senate. The latest Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey of Likely Voters shows the candidates tied with 45% of the vote each. Five percent (5%) prefer another candidate and six percent (6%) more are undecided. Reid and Angle  Read more »

According to a Ballotpedia.org study, the Republican Party is taking more of a hit from term limits in the 2010 state legislative elections than the Democratic Party. Nationally, 15 state legislatures are subject to term limits and in 14 of those states, a general state legislative election is scheduled for November. A total of 375  Read more »

In the contest for U.S. Senate, incumbent Democrat Barbara Boxer remains locked in a tight fight with Republican challenger Carly Fiorina, according to this latest SurveyUSA poll conducted exclusively for KABC-TV Los Angeles, KPIX-TV San Francisco, KGTV-TV San Diego, and KFSN-TV Fresno. 3 identical SurveyUSA tracking polls have shown the contest within the theoretical margin  Read more »

Colorado Republicans appear set to replace embattled gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes. Maes has been losing the support of prominent backers since a story broke that he embellished his record as a police officer in Liberal, Kan. Now Tea Party groups are turning on the candidate they once supported. “Alright Dan Maes — it’s time for you  Read more »

Democrat Alexi Giannoulias and Republican Mark Kirk are wounded rivals running neck and neck for the U.S. Senate seat once held by President Barack Obama, a new Tribune/WGN-TV poll shows. After a bruising summer of controversies, both major party candidates have work to do to win key swing voters while at the same time exploiting their opponent’s weak spots,  Read more »