ABC News: Gary Langer 10/18
How a Young Voter is Like a Taxi
President and Mrs. Obama's appearance at Ohio State yesterday carries with it another troubling sign for their party's prospects this year. Relying on young voters in a midterm election is like looking for a cab at 5 p.m. in the rain. You're almost certainly going to get wet. ...

Kaiser (pdf) 10/18
Health Tracking Poll
... While views on reform tightened somewhat this month, the big picture remains the same, with Americans evenly divided between support for and opposition to the new law and those most likely to turn out to vote on Nov. 2 tilting towards the negative. ...

Washington Post 10/18
Poll finds negativity toward federal workers
More than half of Americans say they think that federal workers are overpaid for the work they do, and more than a third think they are less qualified than those working in the private sector, according to a Washington Post poll. ...

New York Times 10/17
Amid Anger at Albany, Poll Shows Support for Cuomo
New York voters are profoundly pessimistic about the state economy, worried that they or someone in their household will be laid off in the coming year, and convinced that Albany is rife with corruption. But in the race for governor, they are rallying not around the gruff outsider who has promised to take a baseball bat to Albany, but around an insider who has spent much of his adult life working in government: Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo. ...

AP 10/17
Those Craving For Change Now Look To The GOP
President Barack Obama's winning coalition from 2008 has crumbled and his core backers are dispirited. It's now Republicans who stand to benefit from an electorate that's again craving change. ...

New York Times 10/15
For Midterm Voters, War Is Off the Radar
... John Mueller, a professor of political science at Ohio State University, said the "rubber band theory" explains the lack of interest in the war. "People mainly think about domestic issues, particularly economic ones, and from time to time their attention is pulled away by international events, but their natural tendency is for it to snap back to what they�re really interested in." ...