Posted on 03/26/2008 8:48:38 PM PDT by Deo volente
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's positive rating has dropped to a new low of 37 percent in an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll released on Wednesday.
According to the poll, the New York senator's positive rating slid 8 percentage points in two weeks and she had a negative rating of 48 percent in a week where she admitted making a mistake in claiming she had come under sniper fire during a 1996 trip to Bosnia.
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Would you bother telling us why tracking polls are "BS" as you say?
I hope this can help her. HILLARY IN MILITARY HISTORY - http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1992274/posts
Just ask O’Reilly.
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you lost me at O’Rielly.
OH well, my keyboard is getting old .
If she just went away, that would make her somewhat likeable.
So is Obama on top, or Hillary. If Obama’s on top, then Hillary must be under Obama, unless Hillay is on top, in which case, Obama is under Hillary.
At least the Drudge Report does bash Hillary. I like that. Every day is like Christmas when I open the Drudge report.
Don’t tell me you are a “Hillary-lover”
Tracking polls aren’t BS, it’s just a methodology.
They show trends more than daily fluctuations, more stable over time.
But if you want a snapshot of today, then other polls are you’re ticket. Personally, I like tracking polls particular in such a volatile race as this.
I would have to say that based on the amount of time remaining until the conventions, your 99% is +1/-95% margin of error. The pastor disaster will keep on giving. The Superdelegates are liable to do anything. McCain could self destruct politically or even die of old age. The US could sustain a significant terrorist attack, which IMHO, would blow Hussein's chances all to hell, or he could even experience a Ron Brown moment.
I think the "Magic Negro" image will be a bit tarnished/trashed by the time of the general election.
I disagree. The superdelegates’ favoritism for Hillary was true months ago. Not anymore. They are split down the middle now. And as far as Hillary catching Obama by winning primaries, it’s just impossible. NC will offset PA and the rest of states are not too delegate-rich, at a time when Obama holds a 120 delegate lead or so.
She will never catch up in delegate count- but she has a lead of about 900 in FBI reports!
What they don’t mention here, but is mentioned in the original release but not in Russert’s typical stupifyingly biased analysis, is that they purposefully oversampled black voters to get a more “realistic” view of the impact Obama’s speech had on voters. Yes, because only by asking a disproportionately large sample of completely uninvested voters, like blacks in this election cycle, can we truly find out the overall country’s opinion.
Yes, black voters, who are unbiased (or we are supposed to believe, apparently, since this is “realistic” oversampling) are 50/50 split for Obama and Clinton and are the final arbitors of whether Obama’s speech defending a racist black pastor was good. I had personally thought that Obama had 90% of the black vote wrapped up, and oversampling that group would create an illusory advantage for him and disadvantage for Clinton - but what do I know?
What are we, idiots? They admit they oversampled blacks, purposefully even, but not by what margin. We know this: black voters are angry at Hillary and defend Obama no matter what. So, taking that into account, what are the REAL numbers? Well, not good for Obama certainly.
Obama slipping 2 points, WITH a black oversample, is actually horrendous. How much of an oversample (aka poll rigging) did they need to take to get the result they wanted? “Oh, Obama’s not doing well? Let’s only ask black voters their opinion from here on out! Then he’s *sure* to get somewhat decent approval ratings!”
So, with his approval rating padded, I would guess Clintons approval numbers are about 5% higher than reported here, and Obama’s about 5% lower. And I’ll stick to that figure until they decide to release their methodology and actual percentages (aka never). I should dearly love to see the results EXCLUDING the black vote, since the current results are heavily tipped in that direction.
The cover the media is providing Obama - openly and unapologetically, is astounding. Amazingly, they pulled the SNL skit saying so off youtube within 5 days of it being posted. Who woulda thunk it?
Yup.....politics is war by other means......
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