Undecided Voters

Two weeks ago, the conventional wisdom was that televised presidential debates weren’t going to matter much this year. Then a TV debate took place in Denver on Oct. 3, and we are still talking about Big Bird being threatened, moderator Jim Lehrer...

WGN Morning News invited some undecided voters to get their reaction on what they thought of the first presidential debate.

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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — In a presidential race seemingly frozen in place for months, the advantage has shifted toward President Barack Obama after a series of miscues by Mitt Romney, punctuated by the Republican challenger's comments about people...

They come because of Barack Obama. They stay because of Mitt Romney. So say the volunteers streaming into Romney for President storefronts in Florida. The Romney campaign is opening campaign offices across the state and cranking up phone banks —...

The latest political TV commercial airing in Pennsylvania and other so-called swing states reaches right into the hearts of voters who supported Barack Obama in 2008 but may now be feeling disillusioned. Crossroads GPS, the powerful political group...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Among the slick, million-dollar ads for the likes of Pepsi and Honda during the Super Bowl this Sunday, viewers in Washington will see a far more modest spot. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino will be...

Undecided voters had another chance Wednesday to reach a conclusion on which three Somerset County commissioner candidates will be elected Nov. 8. Democratic incumbents Pamela Tokar-Ickes and John Vatavuk sat alongside Republican challengers Jeff Henry...

Tuesday's debate may have starred Barack Obama and John McCain, but it wasn't really about them. Rather, it was about an odd and extremely powerful creature in American electoral politics: the Undecided Voter. It was the Undecided Voter whom Gallup...

Voters leaning toward John McCain found themselves drawn to Barack Obama. Obama-leaners found themselves entranced by words from McCain. And several voters who were undecided at the start of Tuesday's presidential debate found themselves in exactly the...

These days, it's pretty hard to walk the streets of a California city without seeing same-sex couples -- shopping, strolling, holding hands, sometimes accompanied by children. What used to be called, self-consciously, "public displays of affection" are...

The british have a more sophisticated and accurate lexicon to describe their elections than we crass Americans do. U.S. politicians aggressively "run for election," while British candidates more calmly "stand for office." And what we call "swing voters,"...