Posted on 05/12/2008 9:11:00 PM PDT by Red Steel
The race for North Carolina remains close as the presumptive nominees from both major political parties begin the general election campaign season.
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the Tar Heel State finds John McCain earning 48% of the vote while Barack Obama attracts 45% support. A month ago, before the state’s Democratic Presidential Primary, McCain and Obama were tied at 47% each. Nationally, McCain and Obama are quite competitive in the Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll.
McCain now leads by thirteen percentage points among men but trails by five among women. Obama does well among those who earn less than $20,000 or more than $75,000 annually while McCain is strongest among middle-income voters. McCain leads by twenty percentage points among Investors while most non-Investors support Obama. McCain leads among those who are married while Obama leads among those who are not.
Rasmussen Markets shows that Republicans are currently given a 78.0 % chance of winning North Carolina’s fifteen Electoral College Votes this fall. George W. Bush won the state by twelve points in 2004 and by thirteen points four years earlier. Immediately prior to release of this poll, North Carolina was rated as “Likely Republican” in the Rasmussen Reports Balance of Power Calculator.
McCain is viewed favorably by 53% of the state’s voters while Obama is viewed favorably by 51%. Opinions about Obama are much stronger—37% have a Very Favorable opinion of the Democratic nominee while 30% have a Very Unfavorable opinion. For McCain, the comparable numbers are 18% Very Favorable and 23% Very Unfavorable.
For both candidates, their favorability ratings are down from a month ago—McCain has dropped six points and Obama three. Both are viewed favorably by 46% of unaffiliated voters.
Forty-nine percent (49%) of Tar Heel voters favor a federal gas tax holiday while 41% are opposed.
Just 31% believe the federal government needs more revenue to fund important government programs. Most—54%--disagree and believe the federal government already has enough revenue.
By a three-to-one margin (60% to 20%), North Carolina voters oppose an increase in the capital gains tax. Sixty-one percent (61%) believe such a tax hike would hurt the economy.
Fifty-four percent (54%) of North Carolina voters own at least $5,000 worth of stocks, bonds, and mutual funds. Sixty-three percent (63%) of McCain voters are Investors along with 45% of Obama voters.
Rasmussen Reports recently issued a statement indicating its belief that the Democratic race is over and Obama will be the nominee. In the very unlikely event that the Obama campaign collapses and gives the nomination to Hillary Clinton, McCain leads Clinton in North Carolina 43% to 40%.
The state’s Senate race is also quite competitive as Elizabeth Dole is facing a strong challenge from Kay Hagan.
George W. Bush won 56% of the vote in North Carolina during Election 2004. Today, less than four years later, just 33% say the President is doing a good or an excellent job. Fifty-two percent (52%) say he is doing a poor job. A month ago, just 47% said Bush was doing a poor job.
The state’s Democratic Governor, Mike Easley, gets better reviews—38% good or excellent and 24% poor. Easley endorsed Clinton in the Democratic Presidential Primary.
There aren’t enough eggheads and African-Americans for Obama to win in November.
Yep, looks like a 10 point lead for McCain to me.
Just wait till McNut lashes out at Tar Heel Republicans for running racist ads and calling them crackers.....just wait.
In general, the nominee has the right to define his own campaign. If people at a state party want to campaign under the auspices of the nominee in a manner the nominee does not want, they can raise their own money for a 527. But no one inside the party should be backstabbing the nominee when the general election battle is underway.
But far more important here, realizing that Iraq and oil is the most important issue of the US for the next 40 years, these Rasmussen numbers showing a McCain lead are excellent. Only McCain will finish the victory we must have there.
It looks like this race is McCain’s to lose and McCain may just do that.
He is doing his best to make sure no conservatives vote for him all right.
It’s true. Iraq is the single reason I will vote for McCain. Too many have died, disfigured and seriously wounded to walk away. We have a moral; obligation to pick the one who will finish the Iraq situation.
I will vote for McNut...regretfully I have no other options.
" Especialoly if the haters keep up their merciless drumbeat of bashing him and sounding like nothing more then a petulant child who didn't get everything he wanted for his birthday so is intent on ruining the party for everyone else.
My hope is he will become Bush X 10 in the WOT and steadily increase the pressure in the rogue States which are feeding the terrorists by way of financial support.
LOL!
Are "eggheads" the elitist left that support Obama? One would have thought Begalla was looking in a mirror when he came up with that comment.
“” Especialoly if the haters keep up their merciless drumbeat of bashing him and sounding like nothing more then a petulant child who didn’t get everything he wanted for his birthday so is intent on ruining the party for everyone else.”
I don’t hate him, but he doesn’t seem to want my vote, the way
he cozies up to La Raza and the global warming moonbats.
If we elect McCain we can try again in 4-8 years but if the terror apologists win we may not be around in 4-8 years.
It's all about survival.
From Wikipedia,
In the slang of the United States, egghead was an anti-intellectual epithet, directed at people considered too out-of-touch with ordinary people and too lacking in realism, common sense, virility, etc. on account of their intellectual interests. The term egghead reached its peak currency during the 1950s, when vice-presidential candidate Richard Nixon used it against Democratic Presidential nominee Adlai Stevenson. It was used by Clinton advisor Paul Begala in the 2008 presidential campaign to describe Senator Barack Obama’s supporters when he said, “Obama can’t win with just the eggheads and African-Americans.”[1] The term is rarely used, having been replaced in U.S. politics by other anti-intellectual epithets and socially by terms such as nerd and geek.
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