Posted on 07/26/2008 8:26:13 AM PDT by bumblethebee
Gallup now has Obama ahead 47-41 and Rasmussen has Obama leading by a 46-40 percent margin. Media bias is certainly a factor but McCain is running a campaign as thrilling as watching paint dry.
I watch paint dry for a living. I work for Sherwin-Williams. I can tell you first hand that watching paint dry is more exciting them listening to McCain.
Dukakis was up 17 right about now and was trounced.
November is when it counts.
Bounce? LOL
The Media also has Dukakis leading McCain.
Some voters like what they see.
Obama will save the world.
Btw, where’s the BARF alert?
We need a coup at the convention.
I thought we were a conservative party, how could this bozo have gotten our nomination?
Take our party back!
Well there goes the assumption the American people saw through his crap. If he gets a bounce for not visiting wounded troops, America is finished.
I’m not that concerned about it. It may be a real bounce, but then again, it may not be. Remember, those figures are well within the daily ranges we’ve seen for both candidates for the last month or so. It may just be statistical noise.
Give it a week or two and then lets see what the numbers look like.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Heard all this in 1996 when Clinton faced Bob Dole. Clinton was ahead...and stayed ahead.
I doubt many people know about the fact that he skipped those visits...yet. The MSM isn’t going to give it much, if any airtime, so it’s going to be up to talk radio and word of mouth, and that’s going to take a little time.
Lets check again in two weeks and see if this bounce is anything meaningful.
All of these polls are meaningless until mid September. Having said that it is going to take a miracle for McCain to win and I don’t see a miracle on the horizon.
By the way I don’t say that because of McCain. If a true conservative was the nominee I would say the same thing. It’s going to be tough to win this November.
How tired did everybody get of the American Idol winners soon after they won?
I’m forecasting huge buyer’s remorse come 2009.
Meaningless, these polls.
True, but Obama isn’t way ahead.
McCains campaign should ramp up after the dem convention
Afterall, he doesnt want to face thunderthighs in the fall
Wait and see, I think it will get very interesting.
A VOTE FOR MCCAIN IS A VOTE AGAINST OBAMA!!
McCain needs to wake up and do something dramatic. I mean really over the top to force the media to stop fawning over Obama for awhile. I was wondering if he should really ask Hillary to run as his VP. This would really shake things up. Just ask her to think about it and say he will not accept any answer as firm for a month. When the month is up then ceremoniously ad sadly accept her non-acceptance and pick someone else. Don’t think for a minute that I want Hillary as VP, we can’t take a chance of having to liberals in the White House. I am just talking about playing with the media. When McCain does pick a VP I sure hope he picks someone who can string more than two words together without losing their train of thought or stuttering. I would make quick wittedness and ability to speak better than Obama an important trait.
Obama should be up by double digits with all the fawning MSM coverage, and then there are state polls showing that Obama is losing steam, but that will not stop the chicken littles from saying the sky is falling.
McCain had the right idea when he scheduled a visit to an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico.
He should schedule another oil rig visit, or perhaps head to ANWR in Alaska for some fact finding.
Something energy focused.
Bogus link
One cannot fairly compare 1996 to 2008. Clinton was the incumbent that year, during a fairly robust economy and low gas prices. There is no incumbent this year.
I wouldn’t matter if McCain were running a brilliant campaign. What the media is saying now is that while The Annointed Obama is making nice around the world, getting the furreners to love US again like they did before GW ruined the world, that nasty little McCain is trashing BHO like some yappy dog biting at His ankles. Content is irrelevant.
Yup, it’s the states that matter. Polls earlier in the week showed the Obamanation falling behind in Ohio. If that holds, he’s done.
The media must be wetting their pants with delight.
The other point is that almost all the polls right down to the very last day or two showed Clinton up by about 8% more than he actually won by.
Keep in mind that pollsters generally only poll folks on land lines. People with land lines are generally old-school, baby boomer types, not 18-35 in age. So if Obama is ahead this much with old folks, then that’s kind of scary.
Since I think Rasmussen is a 3 day average, it would be interesting to see if the numbers were up pre or post Berlin speech.
LOL...what is the average turnout for the vote from this group? How many do you think will vote in November?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Yes, but the old man then had Atwater. We don't have Atwater any more.
From the parasites and leeches
There, fixed it
Unfortunately this was the same faulty logic that led to cheers here in the summer of 2006 when the Democrats were "only" up a few points, when given the dire circumstances and Republican mistakes, they "should have" been up more. The trouble is, they held on to that slim lead all summer and fall and reclaimed Congress. We need a strategy to take back the lead, not smugness that it is a small lead for the opponent.
The bottom line is that this election has a long way to go. Those who can't follow the polls without getting worked up (for better or worse), probably need to find another hobby.
The media is going to hype Obama so much...that when the ballots are all cast and McCain wins...the libcom’s will cry foul! How could their candidate lose when the media is telling them he’s ahead...I mean the media is already acting like Obama is the winner.
And really, every presidential election from here on out will be in doubt. If a Republican wins, the left will be hurling lawsuits right and left to have the ballots recast in their favor...because they can. If a Demonrat wins, the left will be hurling lawsuits to supress any recounts...because they can.
Gee, I didn’t know McCain was even campaigning. I was even wondering when he would start.
The real polls are the internals that both campaigns pay good money to get by having their own pollsters. Obama’s
internals are saying he lost ground. Mccain’s show
a pattern of movement toward McCain. That is why Obama went
on the world tour and why they are sying things today at his
campaign that they believe Obama will take a dip next week.
If Gallop and Rasmussen was so good the canidates would use them instead of paying for internal pollsters.
yes...but Bush I had the strength of Reagan behind him- McCain has nothing like that...McCain has got to make a move and make it fast....all this shows is how vulnerable hussien obama is and what a pathetic candidate he is....it means squat if McCain does not get his ass in gear...
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Actually pollsters use random generated numbers and don't know if they are land line or celluar. Even land line numbers have caller id, except for the poorest people, so basically yoour point is moot, except in trying to induce panic.
I was in my company’s break room the other day. Obama was on the TV giving his Berlin speech. One guy said he gets goose bumps just hearing Obama speak. I said, “Just imagine how exciting it would be if he actually said something of substance!”
just curious but how do you know what obama internal polls show?
WRONG! McCain has the super strength of the scariest, furthest to the left, emptiest suit ever running, , i.e. Obama, powering him.
Historically, young people vote at very low rates.
If they get excited enough about Obama, that could change this year.
These wouldn’t be switch voters, they would be new voters entering the system. A relatively small number could make a huge difference.
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