Brittany Brees is Drew Brees' wife. She and her husband created the Brees Dream Foundation in 2003 "to help advance cancer research, care for cancer patients, and help rebuild schools, parks, playgrounds, and athletic fields in New Orleans, San Diego, and Purdue communities." She and Drew Brees met during the Super Bowl MVP's sophomore ye […]

Our policies have helped move us from a situation where we were losing a nightmarish 750,000 jobs per month to one in which we are a lot closer to adding jobs, on net, on a regular basis. […]

Here's a question for the ages: How is it that high-profile men like John Edwards and Eliot Spitzer don't realize they'll get busted for cheating? Because... […]

States can't do traditional deficit spending. But they can do precisely what we need most: put bond measures on ballots that would create capacity-building, capital projects and put people to work. […]

Feb. 8 (Bloomberg) -- American International Group Inc. named Peter Hancock, described by a former employer as an "architect" of the derivatives business, to oversee finance and risk, including the insurer's money-losing credit-default swap unit. More on AIG […]

Fresh from the virginity quips – which, as one of you lot pointed out in comments,  makes us wonder when we’re going to get a “Better Party to Manage” poll on that issue – comes a new episode of Tony running with scissors on the female vote. The audio (all 20 seconds of it) can [...] […]

This weeks Essential Report has the primaries running 44 (down 1) / 38 (steady) to Labor, washing out into a two party preferred of 55/45 the same way – a one point gain to the Coalition since last weeks Essential. The Greens are on 10 (up 1), while the broad “Others” are on 8 (steady). [...] […]

Continuing on from Part 1 of the Nielsen where we looked at the vote estimates, we’ll now take a bit of a squiz at the additional questions in the poll. There we three questions on the ETS/climate change and one on means testing the private health insurance rebate – so we’ll deal with the latter, [...] […]

Today’s Nielsen via Fairfax stable comes primaries running 42 (steady)/ 41 (up 4) to Labor, washing out into a two party preferred of 54/46 the same way – a 2 point gain to the Coalition since the last Nielsen poll in November. The Greens are on 10 (down 3) while the broad ‘Others’ are on [...] […]

Something we don’t pay much attention to around this place are the various political betting markets – so from now through until the election, we’ll have Betting Market Friday as a regular post. Essentially, what we’ll do is look at the federal election prices from five betting agencies – Centrebet, IASbet, Sportingbet, Betfair and Sportsbet [...] […]

A few of you have asked about polling comparisons between the early stages of the Latham and Abbott leaderships. While there’s certainly some similarities in the way that each leader had an impact on the polling metrics in their first few poll outings, there’s some considerable differences between the two when it comes to the [...] […]