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Compare the pollsters link under the map for a detailed co mparison. Other than the Rasmussen tracking polls, which average data over 7 or 14 days and thus don't move quickly, the only poll today is the 13th poll i n Oklahoma since Sept. The answer is simple: control of the US Se nate may hinge on the race between Brad Carson and Tom Coburn th ere. The polls are really about the Senate race, but once you have order ed a poll (typically for $10,000 to $15,000) depending on the number of questions, asking about the presidential race doesn't add much to the co st. Carson is currently slightly ahead, but it is very tight. Based on today's polling data, it looks like the new Senate will be 51 Re publicans and 49 Democrats (including independent Jeffords who caucuses with the Democrats).
While I don't talk about the Senate rac es every day, there are almost-daily updates to the Senate page. It is n ow listed on the menu as well as at the bottom of the page. The battle f or the Senate may motivate many people to vote in states where the presi dential race is a done deal, such as Oklahoma, South Dakota, Alaska, and others. There is also a huge battle for the House, but senators are mor e fun to watch in action.
The site has had technical problems repeatedly in the past several days a nd has been down several times. I didn't want to discuss this, but I don 't want anyone to think the problem was an incompetent hosting service. The site has been subjected to a full-scale, well-org anized, massive attack with the clear intention to bring it down. The at tackers have tried repeatedly to break in, but the server is a rock-soli d Linux system which has stood up to everything they threw at it and has n't crashed since I got it in May While our troops are fighting and dyi ng to bring freedom of speech to the Iraqi people, there are forces in A merica who find this concept no longer applicable to America. I don't kn ow who is behind this attack yet (although we are working it), but it is too professional to be some teenager working from a home PC. Given that all the hate mail and threats I get come entirely from Republicans, I c an make an educated guess which side is trying to silence me, but I won' t say. For $150, I upped my server capacity by adding an additional Pentium 4 with lots of bells and whistles.
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RSS information page now and print it out for future use. I f the site goes down, you won't be able to get to it then. It is still there, but you h ave to go the actual file each day. As I said yesterday, I think the current map is actually a better pr edictor of the outcome than an average of the past 30, 60, or 90 days, n o matter how weighted. Media news: The Sinclair Broadcast Group, which reaches about 1/4 of all American homes, has ordered its stations to pre-empt regular programming just before the election to run a long attack ad on John Kerry thinly d isguised as a documentary on Vietnam.
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