Matthew Dowd

ABC: McCain 'Distorted' Obama, Palin an 'Empty Designer Suit'

Examining "what went wrong" with John McCain's campaign, ABC's David Wright charged Wednesday night that by asserting Barack Obama would "be redistributionist in chief" McCain had "distorted Obama's policy positions" (how that...

Did John McCain Want to Lose the Election?

While some journalists argue Palin cost McCain the election, others argue he didn’t want to be president in the first place. Why McCain Might Have Sabotaged the Race In the wake of his loss in the presidential election,...

GOP In Trouble When It Comes To Younger Voters

People across the country are waking up to the news that Democrat Barack Obama is president-elect. Matthew Dowd is an independent political strategist, and was the chief strategist to the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign in...

Economy Tops Voters' Concerns in Choosing President

Proportion of Black Vote Is Only Slightly Higher Than in 2004 The first presidential election returns are in, and Democrat Barack Obama is projected to have won Vermont while Republican John McCain is projected to have captured...

Economy, Health Care Top Voters Concerns in Choosing President

Proportion of Black Vote Is Only Slightly Higher Than in 2004 The economy is the overwhelming issue for voters casting their ballots in today's historic presidential election, according to early exit polls. Despite the...

Diane Sawyer! Suddenly Pops Up at Times Square!

Who knew ABC's studio was right in Times Square? Well, we did, but we forgot. Diane Sawyer reminded us when she got up from herperch for the first time in a while--George Stephanopoulos and Charlie Gibson appear to be the only...

The Electoral College split: what the pundits predict

The winner of today's presidential election is the candidate who wins more than 50 per cent of the 538 Electoral College votes, each state being allotted votes according to their population (Vermont, for instance, has three,...

Whoopi and the Perils of Punditry

Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, November 4, 2008; 9:59 AM It has been two years and one week since Barack Obama told Tim Russert that he was going to think about running for president, opening a door that he had...

McCain Hopes to Make Polls Wrong

McCain Hopes All the Polls are Wrong -- Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., gives a thumbs-up before giving a speech at a rally Oct. 8, 2008, in Strongsville, Ohio. "Heading into Tuesday's election,...

George's Bottom Line (George Will, ABC News contributor: Electoral Vote - 378 Obama)

don't know how much kool-aid they drank this morning....... Election Night Predictions November 02, 2008 9:36 AM This morning on our This Week Roundtable we made our predictions for Tuesday night's outcome: Mark Halperin, Time...

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