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“Too close to call.” “Within the margin of error.” “A statistical dead heat.” If you’ve been following news coverage of

Speculation abounds these days about whether this fall’s presidential election will produce a dramatically different electoral map than the virtually

“Poll Finds Obama’s Run Isn’t Closing Divide on Race,” reads the headline on the front page of the July 16th

Want to fix an election? No, I’m not proposing any Election Day shenanigans, but rather some preventive maintenance for a

Nobody now knows the exact contours of the November 4th Electoral College map. Nobody will know them until after the

In a recent Crystal Ball article, Michael Baudinet of the University of Virginia Center for Politics argued that despite a

Much has been made in the past of presidential candidates’ campaign theme songs, but there would be no more appropriate

A question that keeps arising in connection with this year’s presidential race is why, given the extremely favorable political environment

For the first time in 40 years, the Democrats and Republicans are each on the verge of nominating a candidate

Justin M. Sizemore, the latest guest contributor to the Crystal Ball, is a University of Virginia alumnus and attorney who

Maybe one of the most intriguing – and nefarious – aspects of this long-running Democratic presidential campaign is that the

With the long and contentious Democratic nomination race finally winding down, the attention of the media and the public is

As Barack Obama prepares to move from the primary to the general election phase of the 2008 presidential election, he