Battleground Poll: Obama 49%, McCain 44%

Real Clear Politics ^ | 10/2/2008 | Battleground Poll

[tatown]

Obama 49%, McCain 44% (+3 points from yesterday).

[Don'tMessWithTexas]

Folks, this race is still fluid. The best thing is to get this bailout thing off the front burner ASAP. Then McCain can get traction on Obama. To suggest that McCain does't want to win, though, is absolutely crazy. He has been running for POTUS for two years now. A guy just doesn't give up. He is just in an impossible situation.

BTW, it is important to realize that the VAST majority of folks aren't sitting around their computers every minute wringing their hands over every single frickin poll that comes out. They are living their lives, getting ready for football games, planning harvest, painting their house. Folks are busy, they do not follow daily tracking polls.

I predict that this election will be decided in the last week of the campaign as people think long and hard about the future.

[Froggie]

McCain would rather lose an election than fight for true Conservative principles.....congratulations, he may have done just that!!

[mainerforglobalwarming]

Agreed. The question is how do we win this for him in spite of himself? Do we need Rush and Hannity to start 527’s and run ads exposing who obama really is?

[headstamp 2]

The problem is that McCain is stuck on “Senator” when he should be being presidential and taking it to Barry.

He has been in the “mutual admiration society” of Washington and the Senate in particular for too damned long.

He had better nut up and start hammering away and realize the media is totally in the tank for Barry.

[Cedric]

Stop with the “he doesn’t want to win” nonsense.

[Retired Greyhound]

Lot’s of time left.

Obama is still a socialist.

[pburgh01]

Well remember the faces and names of your Obama supporting neighbors and at the next block party when he\she is bitching about taxes, being laid off, not having the money for Jr's college your stock answer and clarion call....

Sux to be you, how you like Obama now...

I like that for a bumper sticker. Like in 1980 there were no Carter voters , everyone was hiding like Peter...."Carter, nah I didn't vote for that guy." But I do like Obama peaking now, I think McCain does have a rabbit up his sleeve.

[andy58-in-nh]

We need a fighter, and McCain wants to be a referee.

[ncalburt]

Alert - Battleground CHANGED IT FORMULA ON MONDAY TO HELP OUT OBAMA !
NO REASON GIVEN FOR THE MAJOR CHANGE FOR THE CHANGE .
THEY FELT LIKE IT JUST LIKE GALLUP AND RAS !
SO DON;T BOTHER FOLLOWING THERE TREND LINE ANYMORE

http://www.pollster.com/blogs/battleground_drops_party_weigh.php

[ncalburt]

Alert - Battleground CHANGED IT FORMULA ON MONDAY TO HELP OUT OBAMA !
NO REASON GIVEN FOR THE MAJOR CHANGE FOR THE CHANGE .
THEY FELT LIKE IT JUST LIKE GALLUP AND RAS !
SO DON;T BOTHER FOLLOWING THERE TREND LINE ANYMORE

http://www.pollster.com/blogs/battleground_drops_party_weigh.php

[rightinthemiddle]

The Republican establishment thought the Media would be nice to McCain. That’s why they wanted him nominated.

The Media gave us John McCain so the Media could give the country Barack Obama.

Let’s hope he figures it out. He needs to start fighting and naming names.

[Maelstorm]

Things will get better. Kerry was ahead at this point going into the election. McCain needs to close the deal over these last few weeks. McCain is going up with ads hitting the Democrats and Obama on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. We are going to war. Don’t get sick. Fight, write a letter to the paper, talk to friends who are political. Put a sign in your yard and a sticker on your bumper. Canvas on the weekend. There is so much more we can do beyond just watching the polls.

[ncalburt]

Alert - Battleground CHANGED IT FORMULA ON MONDAY TO HELP OUT OBAMA !
NO REASON GIVEN FOR THE MAJOR CHANGE FOR THE CHANGE .
THEY FELT LIKE IT JUST LIKE GALLUP AND RAS !
SO DON;T BOTHER FOLLOWING THERE TREND LINE ANYMORE

http://www.pollster.com/blogs/battleground_drops_party_weigh.php

[Don'tMessWithTexas]

Reagan would never write the defeatist flop that you just posted. Unlike you, he ALWAYS believed that the best days of this country were ahead of her. Even in the dark days of the 70s, he trusted the wisdom of the American people. You do not.

So, please do not invoke Pres. Reagan in your defeatist rantings.

[jilliane]

The unemployment, economy and bailout are mounting and persuading the ignorant that it’ll be worse under Obama is difficult vs. MSM chronic torture that the savior is here.

[MarkeyD]

I plan to make a mint on “Don’t blame me, I voted for Palin” bumper stickers.

[beaversmom]

Good letter—good points.

[allmendream]

Bush was down by a comparable amount this time four years ago.

Now is not the time for grown men to spook the children and horses.

I still predict a McCain victory. And if the polls are within ten points the week before election day I predict an electoral landslide for McCain.

Despite the wailing and gnashing of teeth and third party protest voters there are STILL only two possibilities next January.

John McCain is sworn in as President.

Barrack Obama is sworn in as President.

I think the former is more likely and infinitely preferable, and so I will work towards that result.

[Chet 99]

Bump.

Do you know what polls were showing this time in 1996? Dole losing by 24 points. He lost by 8. Ford was down by as much as 30 points to Carter in 76 - lost by 2. Bush was trailing Gore by 5 to 6 points.

So being down 5 or 6 points is not the end of the campaign by any means.

[Dawn531]

To be honest, I'm not all that sure he really wants to win

I have had that same feeling but haven't voiced it. He loses, he goes back to being a Senator and when he feels like it, retires from the rat race. He wins and he faces many years of criticism (he's finally figured out that the press won't be pulling for him.)

Ever since the economic meltdown, I feel like he lost his fire.

I wasn't happy about a McCain candidacy anyway because I know I'd be infuriated if he made it to the White House and started playing footsie once again with the Dems.

But I will vote for him, nonetheless, because he's a better choice than Obama. I'm just not sure that should he win, I'll be anything less than frustrated with his term as President, I don't think it will "help" the conservative cause in any way.