Kyle Bell

Last week Republicans took control of the House of Representatives for the first time since 2006. The reasons are more complicated than some would lead you to believe, but put simply, it was a mix of high unemployment, a huge money advantage for Republicans by corporate benefactors, dissatisfaction with Washington gridlock, and demographics in midterms [...]

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The website for my book on the 2008 election, An Election to Remember, is now live. It will be updated with reviews, sample chapters, press material and a Q&A section. I decided to purchase two domains in case people forgot “an” in the title: anelectiontoremember.com and electiontoremember.com. Both of them will work and provide you [...]

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Now that health care reform has passed both chambers of Congress and is going to be signed into law today by President Obama, the election year political messaging begins. A lot of attention has been given to the 17 House Democrats seeking re-election in districts John McCain won in 2008 after having voted for health [...]

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The Republican Party is moving far to the right, as was expected following the exit of independent voters in 2006 and 2008. The Tea Party wing of the party is clearly winning out. Two polls confirm the radical thinking of the few remaining members. The polling firm PPP asked respondents whether Barack Obama won last [...]

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With the election of the first African American president, Barack Obama, America won in last night’s election. Not only will he be the first black president, he will also be the first Democrat to win a majority of the popular vote since Jimmy Carter in 1976. With not all of the vote yet counted, Obama [...]

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Our last electoral map update was on June 22. Now that we are in August, you would imagine that a lot has changed over the course of a month and a half. Not really. Surprisingly, the race has remained remarkably steady. The last major event to happen that changed the dynamics of the race was [...]

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This week’s update is going to be a little different than the last. We are now going to have three maps:       Will show states that favor either Obama or McCain and states that are competitive with the difference being less than 10% The second map will show the same states that favor [...]

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Hello everyone! The last time I posted was on May 29, 2008. Hillary Clinton was still officially in the race, but the primary season mathematically ended on her weeks prior to that. She has finally since given it up, endorsing Barack Obama this past Saturday. The wounds will begin to heal after 17 months of [...]

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Kylebell.com is switching from primary to general election mode by introducing the 2008 Election Projection page and map. I will include two maps: one will be based on polling, state demographics, historic trends and previous results and the other will be my personal projection for November 4, 2008 between Barack Obama and John McCain. Both [...]

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