Polls: Voters Doubt Palin’s Qualifications While Obama Expands Lead

FoxNews.com ^ | 8/30/2008 | Susan Page

[vwatto]

ST. PAUL, Minn. – Most voters are unfamiliar with John McCain’s new running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, and many question her qualifications to be president, according to a USA TODAY/Gallup poll.

Meanwhile, another Gallup poll shows Barack Obama maintaining an 8 percentage point lead over John McCain following the end of the Democratic convention Thursday.

[madison10]

Must be drinking MSM Kook-aid.

[BunnySlippers]

Who to believe ...

[machogirl]

amazing, she has more experience that the head of their ticket

i hope that the mccain group keeps up the good work they were doing prior to the nomination by firing back and some funny ads

[jennyjenny]

I think Zogby has McCain up by 2 after announcing Palin as running mate.

[Jim Noble]

Dukakis was up by 17. Carter in 1980 was up by 20.

It's over.

[Parley Baer]

Funny Fox is just reporting the one poll. Rasmussen had Barry up by 4. The latest Zogby poll has McCain/Palin up by 2.

[sd-joe]

That’s funny. Most conventions produce about a 15% jump. To just be holding his own is relatively a major loss.

[AmericaUnited]

This is a garbage poll of unregistered voters.

[Dawn531]

Headline is a little deceiving...he had the same lead a couple days in a row. His post convention bounce got stuck at 8 points. Yes he expanded it from pre-convention, but then most conventions do that no matter who the candidate.

[Vision Thing]

Yup. Zogby’s poll was taken exclusively after McCain announced Palin as his running mate. All the other polls that Fox News is reporting are three-day rolling polls which include data from Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. So they don’t fully reflect Sarah Palin’s impact on the race.

[ought-six]

If this is true — that Obambi has an 8-point lead — why are the Dims in panic mode over the Palin pick? Why are they pulling out all stops to silence the Annenberg probe? Why are the Dims on a collective suicide watch?

[Question Liberal Authority]

Obama's really going to knock it out of the park when he gives his speech at Invesco Field.

As soon as Obama gives that speech, it's all anyone will talk about all weekend. McCain is toast.

[alicewonders]

Funny Fox is just reporting the one poll.

I can't stomach Fox anymore. I tried to watch the weekend show this morning & the idiots they have on there were mispronouncing almost every name they said. About 5 minutes is all I can take before I have to change channels.

[Owen]

There is no new information in this release. We’ve already analyzed it all day long. Tomorrow says far more.

[skeeter]

You're right.

Anything can happen between now & November, of course, but barring some unforeseen catastrophe for the McCain ticket Obama is gonna get blown out.

[doc1019]

Until Palin joined the McCain ticket, I wasn’t going to vote in this election. Now … I will be voting and it won’t be for Michelle and what’s his name. ;-)

[CounterCounterCulture]

That the media is pushing/asking this question is more evidence how manipulative the media is.

Even though Palin has more executive experience than Obama, Hillary, and Biden combined, did the media ask this question about their qualifications? Hardly.

[editor-surveyor]

What ‘voters?’ - the Drive-bys are too busy to vote ;o)

[snarkytart]

I can't stomach Fox anymore. I tried to watch the weekend show this morning & the idiots they have on there were mispronouncing almost every name they said. About 5 minutes is all I can take before I have to change channels.

I agree. It's a wonder republicans win any races with all the media world pushing left wing-ism to one degree or another. Left wing ideology is in our books, movies, magazines, newspapers, TV shows, cable news, schools, and broadcast news...it never ends.