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John McCain:
“This corruption was encouraged by Democrats in Congress, and abetted by Senator Obama.
Senator Obama has accused me of opposing regulation to avert this crisis. I guess he believes if a lie is big enough and repeated often enough it will be believed. But the truth is I was the one who called at the time for tighter restrictions on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that could have helped prevent this crisis from happening in the first place.
Senator Obama was silent on the regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and his Democratic allies in Congress opposed every effort to rein them in. As recently as September of last year he said that subprime loans had been, quote, a good idea. Well, Senator Obama, that good idea has now plunged this country into the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
To hear him talk now, you’d think he’d always opposed the dangerous practices at these institutions. But there is absolutely nothing in his record to suggest he did. He was surely familiar with the people who were creating this problem. The executives of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have advised him, and he has taken their money for his campaign. He has received more money from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac than any other senator in history, with the exception of the chairman of the committee overseeing them.”
(In Billy Madison voice) Somebody’s closer!
Guess Sarah made a difference!!!
Woo hoo, now CBS is our favorite pollster. Oh well.
But but but.. the election is over. After all, Scott Rasmussen said so.
...since CBS only asked Democrats, I’d think we were doing pretty good....
hmm
The “enthusiasm” weighing is interesting to me. Obama supporters will vote for him very passionately while many McCain voters will cast a lukewarm vote.
But each vote counts exactly the same.
That’s just the nature of our political system, but I remember in college I learned that there are alternative voting methods that can actually weigh intensity of feeling and adjust accordingly. I’m not sure if any nations around the world currently use such a system or not.
but Rasmussen says the race is over???
wsh we had some internals on this one...party weighting
Once again McCain leads among Independents. And yet some polls have him down by 8 while winning independents by 10. Unfreaking believable.
This is much more like it. There is no way that Barry is ahead by 6-10 points. And, with both McCain and Sarah on the warpath, the gap is gonna close even further over the next week.
An encouraging poll?
Where are the usual suspects (tatown, et al)?
Hmmmm?
Here are the weighted internals for the RV portion of the poll (O47, M43):
GOP: 28.3
Dem: 37.9
Ind: 33.7
In other words, the usual weighted distribution for a See-BS poll (DEM advantage of nearly 10 points) — yet RV margin is only 4 points (it was 9 points last week with a similar oversampling of Democrats). Without even doing the math, if you readjust these numbers to reflect likely Party ID on election day, McCain is now even or ahead in this poll.
Link: http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/Oct08a-ALL.pdf
Rev Wright 24/7, from here on in, wins it for McCuda in a landslide.
Here is the breakdown of participants, straight from the poll’s PDF:
Total Respondents (Unweighted) 957
RV (Unweighted) 875, (Weighted) 821
REP RV (U) 248, (W) 233
DEM RV (U) 320, (W) 311
IND RV (U) 307, (W) 277
Effective likely voters 616
Some interesting internals. In their 10/1/08 they showed Obama leading McCain 43% - 38% among independents. The new poll shows the opposite 44% to 39% McCain. This alone tells me that based on their results, McCain is likely ahead.
Additionally, this poll shows that McCain is getting 26% of Clinton voters. Again, this would indicate that Obama might have a bigger uphill climb that some of the other polls might be indicating.
Either way, this poll is good news on a day where most of the news has been bad.
Kudos to Frank Lunz who said the race would tighten after the VP debate, based on favorable feedback on Palin, and it has. Doubts about Palin have dissipated and we are back on the more favorable ground of comparaing Obama and McCain man to man - who is best to lead? McCain can win that argument. Whether it is enough to win the race is TBD, and McCain is still the underdog, but the signs are encouraging. Bush had polls with his down 4 points in the fall, and still won in 2004.
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