Posted on 10/17/2008 12:29:27 PM PDT by Zakeet
On Thursday's ABC World News, anchor Charles Gibson's lead-off story was on the presidential campaign:
"Two weeks, five days to go, home stretch. Barack Obama and John McCain began today laying out their closing strategies. And while Obama continues to hold a double-digit lead in most national polls, it is the results in individual states that are all important."
The emphasis on Obama's supposedly huge, possibly insurmountable lead is used by some in the mainstream media to suggest the inevitability of a Democratic win. But you have to wonder, at least in this instance, what polls ABC News is examining. Obama enjoys a lead in most opinion surveys, but it's not as large as Gibson claimed.
Thursday's Gallup Daily poll showed a 49% to 43% Obama lead over McCain.
Rasmussen had it at 50% to 46%.
At Zogby, it was 49% to 43%.
The IBD /TIPP tracking poll showed the race at 45% to 42%
The RealClearPolitics poll average, which incorporates findings of 13 national polls, showed a 49.5 to 42.7 Obama lead.
Prospects for the McCain-Palin are not quite as bleak as some in the mainstream media would like. But that doesn't mean they'll stop trying.
Really?
From Drudge today:
GALLUP POLL LIKELY VOTERS STAY 49 OBAMA, 47 MCCAIN FOR SECOND DAY...
AP/YAHOO Poll of 873 Democrats; 650 Republicans shows OBAMA 44%, MCCAIN 42%...
http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/elections/ap_election_wave8_topline_101308.pdf
And you have to like a poll that interviews 1/3rd more Democrats than Republicans and still only gets a 2% bump.
THey meant if it has a zero before it.
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exactly see # 16
As Sarah Palin said, “In what way Charlie?”
I think we should let the Libs think just that.
We’re staying home.
Don’t worry, Barry’s got it wrapped up.
If it’s too big a hassle, don’t worry, plenty of others will cast their ballots for Obama.
No Gallup has it a two point difference. Zogby 4 and Ras 6.
The REAL problem is that Obama is out-spending McCain 4-1 and is 130 EVs ahead. If McCain-Feingold ends in McCain’s defeat, is that poetic justice when we will be plunged into a Marxist, racist Obama nightmare?
2, 4, or 6 points equals double digits. And they say Bush is dumb.
He neglected to mention he is using the binary system.
It’s a double digit lead if you count the two points between them.
I partly disagree with your post. You claim that Obama drones watch Gibsons broadcast. Then you claim old people are going to vote McCain overwhelmingly.
The reality is old people are the ones watching the nightly news on the MSM. No one else watches that crap anymore. The question then becomes , do they become discouraged if they believe Gibson and don’t come out and vote?
"Obama is up by double digits! Truly!"
Of course they’re saying Obama’s ahead—ACORN has been registering thousands of “real” voters like Mickey Mouse to skew the polls and news of Demonrats out-registering us.
Cant wait for them to try that on election day and get frog-marched out by the cops while all us real Americans watch and laugh.
No, they're simply trying to win. They want to discourage us from voting, and they want the stupid undecideds to follow the crowd (it's "cool" to be part of the in crowd you know).
They’ll remember from 2004. Also, Hannity, Ingraham, Rush, ... won’t let them forget.
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57% Rats and 43% Republicans, that seems fair.
2=double digit,
3=triple digit, etc., etc.
Let them keep doing this. Obama suppoorters will stay home smoking weed and not going to even vote becuase of the perceived landslide.
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