A "substantial" number of the roughly 100,000 U.S. combat troops to be pulled out of Iraq by Aug. 31, 2010, will remain in the war zone through at least the end of this year to ensure national elections there go smoothly, senior Obama administration officials say. ...more

February 27, 2009

Florida voters want Charlie Crist to remain governor instead of going to the U.S. Senate, but he is a strong contender for either race, new poll results show. ...more

February 19, 2009

Florida voters want Charlie Crist to remain governor instead of going to the U.S. Senate, but he is still a strong contender for either race, new poll results show. ...more

February 18, 2009

The beginning of the end is setting in for Hugo Chavez. The authoritarian Venezuelan president is holding a referendum Sunday on a constitutional change that would allow him to run for president indefinitely. Pollsters say Chavez leads slightly, but the election is mostly irrelevant. Barring an oil miracle, the former army paratrooper is slowly imploding on the spike of his economic mismanagement and corruption, like any of a number of populist strongmen before him. ...more

February 13, 2009

With "Big Game Bob" at the helm, Oklahoma finished another season with a big, lame flop. ...more

January 10, 2009

Texas coach Mack Brown has a theory about bowl games. "If the teams are fairly even, the team that wants to be there the most and has the edge and is more motivated usually wins," Brown said. ...more

January 5, 2009

Hey, did you hear? Santa Claus is laying off Rudolph after the big night. ...more

December 21, 2008

We are a different country now. When millions of Americans went to the polls Nov. 4, we didn't know whether a black man could be elected president of the United States. Pundits and pollsters said Barack Obama was almost certain to win, but history and experience told us we couldn't be sure until it really happened. ...more

December 7, 2008

In-person exit polling shows that more and more voters only have cell phones, and increasingly they vote differently from those who still have landlines at home. In 2008, those most likely to be cell-only - younger voters, minorities, people with low income - were among Democrat Barack Obama's strongest supporters. It's the latest indication that excluding cell users - as many pollsters still do - can reduce the accuracy of telephone polls. ...more

November 11, 2008

Barack Hussein Obama - won enough electoral votes to become president of the United States. ...more

November 6, 2008