Posted on 09/25/2008 4:58:32 AM PDT by sunmars
Like, we really believe this..........pollsters have really lost the plot.
That wouldn’t have impacted this poll.
And, to be honest, the “suspending” of the campaign by bot sides is just a campaign ploy. They’re trying to prove their leadership capabilities.
It is and will be close in NC, but McCain should still win.
Obama has been advertising uncontested here for a good long while, and the 527s are running their vicious "McCain's gonna die from cancer" commercials.
Hard to believe NC would have fallen so far, so fast. Four years ago even with Edwards on the ticket, Kerry could only take 44% there. But sadly it would appear the state is changing. Even in SC Bush got “only” 58% while Presidents Regan and Nixon won by much larger margins.
Having said that, polls can be way off. Electoral-vote.com in its “this day in 2004” screen shows some numbers that are way off. One poll had Bush up by *14* in Wisconsin. We all know how that turned out. So while I am being realistic, I don’t think we need to give up hope.
I am reminded of all the great optimism of Republican Congressional gains in 2006. Ha!
It's going to be painful to watch Obama's win on Election night.
Polls like this are good. They will motivate conservatives to get off their duffs and go to the polls.
Also, be on the lookout for "news articles" discussing whether our ballots are really "secret". These articles will be used to scare white union voters into voting dem.
First? Heck, I called the local newspaper editor and suggested the idea to her before she had even heard the news of what McCain was announcing. :-)
If that were the case, Obama would be competitive throughout the South.
Oh, I agree with you! Just reporting from the trenches! It was kind of funny because when the pollster asked which candidate I would likely be voting for I answered, “I will not be voting for Obama”. He kind of sputtered around after that and started into the abortion question and I said, “I’m pro-LIFE and I don’t vote for anyone who isn’t”. That pretty much ended the call and I made sure that I found out who was doing the polling. They specifically asked for me by name when I answered the phone and I am a registered Republican. I think they are specifically targeting women and I am in my 40s.
> These polls are a bunch of hooey.
We heard that in 2006, too.
It was wrong to say that then, it is probably wrong now.
Another poster said that it was whistling past the graveyard to think that the relentless media barrage on McCain and especially Palin has not had any effect.
It is beginning to have a devastating effect.
Coupled with the fact that the Republicans are being blamed for the collapse of the Financial Markets, it bodes very badly for Republicans this year.
MCain and Palin will not be able to get their message out.
Unfortunately, the mass media is owned and run by, and staffed with Democrats. They will not permit the truth to come to light.
The only people who will know how this collapse really happened is political and financial junkies.
The rest of the people will have no clue, and go along with the mass media’s blame of the Republicans.
Unless something really big comes to light, we are toast.
Obama may win the election. But it's very close right now.
One of the calculations of the McCain campaign has been to concentrate all their resources on the closest states, and they have been successful in staying close, tied, or ahead in the states he needs to win. So while McCain trails slightly nationally, he leads in NH and he's on the cusp of victory in Pennsylvania.
Obama has tried to widen the playing field and worked hard to get NC and Indiana in play.
Look, if Obama wins the popular vote by 5% NC and Indiana won't matter. But if the popular vote is very close, NC and Indiana will go to McCain despite all Obama's efforts.
Actually, Rasmussen isn't one of the more accurate polling houses, if past data are to be considered relevant. They're not as bad as Gallup or LA Times polls, but they still aren't great, and their precision is lacking, as well.
Carrboro, for those who don't live in NC, is Chapel Hill's punk liberal little sister.
Or Cumberland County
I have a feeling that it is going to be close everywhere.
The dems keep telling us that there’s no way to accurately do polling of young voters because they have cell phones.
Well, out of three of us living in this house, I’m the only one that exclusively uses the house phone. I’m also the only one that has answered a poll (during primaries). And I didn’t count on that poll as I was told they already had all the women they needed and would like to speak to a man.
Also my sons and DIL have all used nothing but cell phones for years - don’t even have a house phone installed
- all of us are registered Republicans.
I realize, being in Georgia, that none of us will be polled anyway, but I think with only one in seven of my immediate family using a house phone, it must be the same throughout the country and this has played havoc with the polls, and pollsters should adjust somehow.
“McCain had better get on TV and SOON and tell how this financial mess got started, how HE predicted it years ago anad tried to stop it, and how the DEMOCRAPS prevented action.”
I agree, and tomorrow’s debate would have been a great time to start. :-/
This is a one-night poll (Tuesday).
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