Posted on 09/17/2008 10:21:33 AM PDT by drzz
PRINCETON, NJ -- The Sept. 14-16 Gallup Poll Daily tracking update shows Barack Obama regaining a slight, although not statistically significant, edge over John McCain, 47% to 45%, among registered voters, marking the first time since the week of the Republican National Convention that McCain has not held at least a one percentage point margin over Obama.
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Seriously folks. Chill. The road is long.
Between the Palin bashing and the Banking crisis, this was bound to happen. Should be a negative bounce which will hopefully fade.
Not a big deal. Let’s see how the debates go.
Yeah, this sucks. However, I truly believe that IF the election were held today that McCain would win a close one. Remember that this is still a registered voter poll, the same one that had Kerry up by 2 on Bush in the final pre-election poll before 2004 (their likely voter poll had Bush by 2, which was the final result).
Having said that, we have lost momentum to be sure. And unfortunately there is still time for Obama to gain enough of an edge that he actually wins on election day, unlike today where I feel he still loses for various reasons.
There is a definite perception out there that when Dems have the Whitehouse, life is good and when they don’t, life hits the crapper. If Bush cannot do anything decisive before November, Repubs are in trouble.
Good thing we’re not at all prone to overreacting... ;-)
We’ll have to ride this out for a couple of days. The sheeple blame the meltdown on the Republicans, unaware of the role of Raines, Dodd, Schumer, Frank, Johnson, and other Obama cronies. McCain needs to run some ads on this, especially targeting Raines. The press isn’t going to help him on this, he’ll have to demonstrate that the collapse of Fannie & Freddie are Obamaesque events, not GOP events.
McCain just needs to get out in front on this, and keep reminding people that Obama, Biden, and the Dems are joined at the hip with Freddie, Fannie and Lehman.
There’s a distinct possibility that bad economic news will elect Obama.
This is an accute reaction to an accute event. It is also kneejerk.
This is B/S
“If Bush cannot do anything decisive before November, Repubs are in trouble.”
Bush’s wretched record on domestic issues is what is driving the Rats to these close polls. I hope he just shuts his mouth, keeps out of sight and doesn’t do anything until after the election.
Dems are already talking about being the party of FDR and wanting to keep AIG and Banks, to provide for the poor.
“If Bush cannot do anything decisive before November, Repubs are in trouble.”
Bush’s wretched record on domestic issues is what is driving the Rats to these close polls. I hope he just shuts his mouth, keeps out of sight and doesn’t do anything until after the election.
This might help a little bit:
Ahhh, so instead of it being a fading bounce or the natural ebbing and flowing of a campaign, it's Bush's fault!!
That is SO 2004!
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