Connecticut: McCain vs. Obama

2008: CT-4 | 2006: Governor, Senate, CT-2, CT-4, CT-5

Polling Data

PollDateSampleObama (D)McCain (R)Spread
Final Results----60.638.3Obama +22.3
RCP Average09/24 - 10/22--55.336.0Obama +19.3
Hartford Courant10/18 - 10/22502 LV5631Obama +25
Rasmussen10/14 - 10/14500 LV5639Obama +17
SurveyUSA09/24 - 09/25686 LV5438Obama +16

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Recent Commentary & News Stories

- Center Right Nation Leans to the Left - Thomas Schaller, Baltimore Sun

- The Era of Division Remains - Stuart Rothenberg, Roll Call

- What's at Stake in Georgia's Senate Runoff - Michael Grunwald, Time

- The Truth About the Election - Elizabeth Drew, NY Review of Books

- Mr. Jefferson and Mr. Hamilton - John Feehery, Politico

See All Connecticut: McCain vs. Obama Commentary & News Stories

Polling Data

PollDateSampleObama (D)McCain (R)Spread
Final Results----60.638.3Obama +22.3
RCP Average09/24 - 10/22--55.336.0Obama +19.3
Hartford Courant10/18 - 10/22502 LV5631Obama +25
Rasmussen10/14 - 10/14500 LV5639Obama +17
SurveyUSA09/24 - 09/25686 LV5438Obama +16
Rasmussen09/16 - 09/16500 LV5341Obama +12
Rasmussen07/31 - 07/31500 LV5340Obama +13
Research 200006/30 - 07/02600 LV5735Obama +22
Rasmussen07/01 - 07/01500 LV5235Obama +17
Quinnipiac06/26 - 06/292437 LV5635Obama +21
Rasmussen05/29 - 05/29500 LV4744Obama +3
Quinnipiac03/19 - 03/241697 RV5235Obama +17
Rasmussen03/11 - 03/11500 LV5038Obama +12
SurveyUSA02/26 - 02/28640 RV5534Obama +21

All Commentary & News Stories

- Center Right Nation Leans to the Left - Thomas Schaller, Baltimore Sun

- The Era of Division Remains - Stuart Rothenberg, Roll Call

- What's at Stake in Georgia's Senate Runoff - Michael Grunwald, Time

- The Truth About the Election - Elizabeth Drew, NY Review of Books

- Mr. Jefferson and Mr. Hamilton - John Feehery, Politico

- Iraq's Costly Success - Michael Gerson, Washington Post

- Obama's Transformational Network - E. J. Dionne, Houston Chronicle

- Can 'Progressives' Be 'Liberals' Again? - Michael Lind, Salon

- Electoral Polarization Persists Under Obama - Jay Cost, RealClearPolitics

- Lessons Spoke to Nation's Mood - Larry Sabato, Richmond Times-Dispatch

- Gergen & Hart Analyze Obama's Win - Jann Wenner, Rolling Stone

- Myths About a Mythic Election - Chris Cillizza, Washington Post

- How Political Eras End and Begin - Ron Suskind, NY Times Magazine

- A Center-Left Nation - Tod Lindberg, Washington Post

- Palin's Unfortunate Coattails - Wall Street Journal

- The Obama Presidency and a New Liberal Order - Peter Beinart, Time

- Obama Gets the Clinton Band Back Together - Smith & Brown, Politico

- Obama's Promise to Pro-Lifers - E.J. Dionne, Houston Chronicle

- The Party of the South and Nowhere Else - Steve Kornacki, NY Observer

- America Throws Long - Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal

- Youthfulness The Idiom Of American Politics - Rich Lowry, New York Post

- For Women, It's Not Gender But Agenda - Ellen Goodman, Boston Globe

- Soundbites the Least of Bush's Mistakes - Marie Cocco, Indianapolis Star

- This Election Has Not 'Realigned' the Country - Jennifer Marsico, WSJ

- Goodbye, Reagan Democrats - Stan Greenberg, New York Times

- Some Positive Election Reactions from the Right - Dennis Prager, Townhall

- Why Obama Looks Like a One Termer - James Pethokoukis, US News & WR

- Pride in our Past, Hope in the Future - Madeleine Albright, Huffington Post

- The Democrats' Secret Health Care Plan - Jonathan Cohn, New Republic

- Conservatives, We Blew It - P.J. O'Rourke, Weekly Standard

- The Law of Unintended Economic Consequences - Wesbury & Stein, Forbes

- The Failure of Big Government Conservatism - Ralph Reiland, American Spectator

- Have We Witnessed a Revolution? - Blake Dvorak, RCP

- Was Last Week's Vote a Realignment? - Jay Cost, RealClearPolitics

- The New Liberalism - George Packer, The New Yorker

- The McCain I Know - Mark Salter, The Daily Beast

- Three Men for Today's Challenges - Richard Cohen, Washington Post

- A Disturbing Trend For the GOP - J.C. Watts, Las Vegas Review-Journal

- How Obama Won - Ryan Lizza, The New Yorker

- Obama Has Much to Prove - David Shribman, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

- Election '08: Irony Abounds - George Will, Sacramento Bee

- The Week Americans Reclaimed Their Country - Frank Rich, NY Times

- The Unity Fantasy - Andrew Ferguson, Weekly Standard

- The GOP's Deep Hole - Norman Ornstein, Los Angeles Times

- The Right Needs to Get Centered - Rich Lowry, Washington Post

- Triumph of Temperament, Not Policy - Michael Barone, US News & WR

- A Mandate for Progressivism - David Sirota, Salon

- Rahm Emanuel: Expect a Pragmatic White House - Jason Riley, WSJ

- Obama: Radical Moderate - Christopher Caldwell, Financial Times

- America Should Be Proud - Bob Herbert, New York Times

- Now It's Our Turn to Hope - William Kristol, Weekly Standard

- Obama's Risky Emanuel Pick - Steve Kornacki, New York Observer

- What the Recession Means for Foreign Policy - Richard Haass, Wall St. Jrnl

- Gingrich 2012? - Robert Novak, Chicago Sun-Times

- Barack Obama, CEO in Chief - Nina Easton, Fortune

- Obama's Calm Demeanor Will Be Tested - Ann McFeatters, Boston Herald

- How Obama Should Handle the Press - George Packer, New Yorker

- 'Center-Right' America Lurches Further Left - Mark Steyn, OC Register

- Slow Learning Republicans - Jonathan Chait, New Republic

- The Republican Challenge Going Forward - Fred Barnes, Weekly Standard

- Why I'll Miss President Bush - Jim Towey, Wall Street Journal

- Obama Will Never Be a Forgotten President - Robert Dallek, The Telegraph

- A Better Fiscal Stimulus - Chicago Tribune

- A Real Realignment - Harold Meyerson, Washington Post

- Moderates Made Obama President - Doug Schoen, New York Daily News

- Chief Executive or Business-Basher? - John Gapper, Financial Times

- Swing Voters Don't Want Big Government - Pat Toomey, WSJ

- The Meaning of Obama's Win - Nancy Gibbs, Time

- Stepping into the Sunshine - Eugene Robinson, Washington Post

- Closing the Door on Victimhood - Joan Vennochi, Boston Globe

- Make Haste Slowly, President Obama? - Victor Davis Hanson, NRO

- Note to Obama: Now Is the Time to Be Bold - Errol Louis, NY Daily News

- Now We Know: The Left's View of US Is Wrong - Greg Sheridan, Australian

- 'Yes We Can.' But Can He? - Timothy Garton Ash, Globe and Mail

- How the President-Elect Did It - Karl Rove, Wall Street Journal

- Landslide That Doesn't Feel All Liberal - Froma Harrop, Providence Journal

- Unity? No, Thank You - David Harsanyi, Denver Post

- Glow of Obama's Win Good Enough For Now - John Heilemann, NY Mag

- Republicans: 1st Day of the Rest of Your Lives - Stuart Rothenberg, Roll Call

- What Would Goldwater Do? - George Will, Washington Post

- A Masterclass in Democracy - Times of London

- The World Cheers, Russia Challenges - Washington Post

- Meet Obama's Real Opposition - Wall Street Journal

- Goodbye, Bradley Effect - Boston Globe

- GOP Must Choose Between Two Futures - David Frum, The Telegraph

- Dems Add Suburbs to Growing Coalition - MacGillis & Cohen, Wash Post

- Miraculous March to the White House - Steve Forbes, Forbes

- The Audacity of America - Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune

- It Is a New Day in America - Laurence Tribe, Forbes

- Obama Recognized the Desire for Change - Gerard Baker, Times of London

- Obama's Transcendence is Beyond Race - Ron Fournier, Associated Press

- Ten Reasons Why Obama Won - Carl Cannon, Reader's Digest

- America's History Gives Way to Its Future - Kevin Merida, Washington Post

- Tide Turned as Economic Crisis Peaked - Monica Langley, Wall St. Journal

- The Age of Obama: Will He Govern as He Ran? - Jon Meacham, Newsweek

- McCain's Concession - Stephen Hayes, Weekly Standard

- World Welcomes Obama with Open Arms - Christiane Amanpour, CNN

- A Huge Victory for Chicago - Carol Marin, Chicago Sun-Times

- In the Democratic Senate, Could Moderates Rule? - Jay Carney, Time

- In Lincoln's Shadow - Michael Cohen, New York Times