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Political polls usually function as Ouija boards that campaigns and pundits can use to try to predict the outcome of an election. We're more interested in figuring out how voters make the decisions that lead to that outcome. Is it a gut reaction, an emotional response to a candidate...
For Hillary Clinton, engagement with voters in Iowa - as well as her opponents' stepped-up attacks on her there - has come at a cost. She remains the clear front-runner nationally but looks much more vulnerable in the Hawkeye State, where the Democratic race has tightened to a three-way...
Both Democrats and Republicans in Iowa place more importance on character issues than on leadership and experience, which explains why Obama and Edwards have been able to challenge Clinton in the state. And those priorities have hurt the other national front-runner, Rudy Giuliani. Like Clinton, the former New York...
Fortunately for Giuliani, Republicans nationally and in New Hampshire are divided on the question of whether strong leadership or moral character is the most important quality in a President. Giuliani draws high levels of support among G.O.P. voters who are most concerned about national-security issues, and that describes almost...
The news may be bleakest for those who hoped the country might tire of division and acrimony and be ready to come together behind common concerns. Voters in the two parties remain deeply divided over the qualities they seek in a President and the concerns that most worry them. Many...