Polls

Consider this column as notes from the (election) battlefield.

• I wrapped up my part of the election coverage early Wednesday morning. All the local stories were filed and edited, the local election results lists were complete, and everything was well in hand.

It was the end of a long campaign for everybody, and honestly, I looked forward to no more phone calls from election pollsters and watching TV without being bombarded by ads of Mitt Romney telling me how he had “watched” Mia Love run her small Utah city as mayor and we all needed her in Washington because of the bang-up job she did. To be fair, and so the Republicans don’t yell at me, I was just as tired of Jim Matheson’s ads featuring Republicans from all walks of life voicing their support for the veteran congressman.

My relief lasted only as long as it took to make a last check of the wires. It all came crashing down when the first thing that popped up was a Washington Post story, speculating on whether Vice President Joe Biden might run for president in 2016.

WASHINGTON - Two recent national polls showed one of the presidential candidates moving ahead of the other.

They just couldn’t agree on which one.

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama, boosted by support from women voters, holds a four-point lead nationally over Republican challenger Mitt Romney, according to a poll released Tuesday.

A slew of new polls suggests that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is lagging behind President Obama in several crucial swing states.

The polls may be the best indicator yet that a post-convention bounce has given the president’s campaign a surge of momentum 53 days before the election - at least for now.

FARMINGTON — Election judges Barbara Gorringe and Darlene LeFevre, who between them have 65 years of poll-working experience, have hung around like a ballot chad through electronic voting, closed primaries and larger voting precincts.

WASHINGTON -- Almost two weeks after President Barack Obama announced his support for same-sex marriage, polls provide some measure of the impact -- zero.

FARMINGTON — Scheduling a majority of the June 26 primary and Nov. 6 general election polling locations at schools allows Davis County clerks to consolidate and save the county thousands of dollars in poll-sitter costs.