Posted on 07/12/2008 2:18:45 PM PDT by maccaca
The race for the White House is tied. The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows Barack Obama and John McCain each attract 43% of the vote. When "leaners" are included, Obama holds a statistically insignificant 47% to 46% advantage. Today is the first time that McCain’s support has moved above 45% since Obama clinched the nomination on June 3. It’s also the first time the candidates have been tied since Obama clinched the Democratic nomination (see recent daily results). Tracking Polls are released at 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time each day (see recent demographic highlights).
For most of the past month-and-a-half, Obama has led McCain by approximately five percentage points. It remains to be seen whether this recent tightening of the race reflects real change or is merely statistical noise. Check out our weekly review—What They Told Us—to see what was on voters’ minds this past week.
McCain is now viewed favorably by 56% of voters, Obama by 54%. Obama receives unfavorable reviews from 44% of voters while McCain is viewed unfavorably by 41%. McCain earns favorable ratings from 32% of Democrats while Obama is viewed favorably by 22% of Republicans. Among unaffiliated voters, McCain is viewed favorably by 58%, Obama by 54%.
This is bad for Obamabi when one considers the almost total media saturation that he enjoys. In spite of all the spending on ads, the fawning of the media and his name being uttered almost every hour, this is the best that he can do. He is a one hit wonder who is wearing thin on the public.
Sounds about right. In a contest between the two worst nominees perhaps ever, it should be close. The winner will likely be the one who makes the fewest dumb statements, and Obama has been making more dumb statements lately, which would explain his losing his lead against McCain.
I figure polls are going to be tight and maybe even showing
Obama leading considering the liberal bias of the media and pollsters. But on election day undecideds will break more than 3/4 for McCain , similiar to what happened in swing states with Hillary & Barry. McCain will win.
I think McCain released his most recent fund-raising figures (about 20 million in one month, more or less), but Obama’s campaign has yet to do so. There was talk of the high tens of millions, now the word seems (for the same reporting period) to be around 30 million.
Obama peaking?
This will tighten the sphincter of the MSM and we will soon see plenty more articles about the meanness of the GOP and the benevolence of the DNC.
Time for obambi to hire the beast
But if Barry works hard in all 57 states , maybe he will
get a little better than the 43 or 44 he is polling, so the media can say his defeat wasn’t so bad and the republicans stole it.
Guess it's time for a full Sunday magazine article from Danielle Allen. Time to loose all of the Manchurian surrogates.
Che Guevara must be spinning in his grave.
Not quite spinning.
Santa Clause could give me a million bucks for Christmas next year. I'm not holding my breath.
If the Democrats dump Obama for any reason they will lose the majority of black votes for at least a generation. We are not talking about one election, we are talking about a permanent loss of a large portion of their base for many elections to come. The Democrats all know this. If Obama were somehow indicted, tried and convicted of mass murdering children before the convention he would still get the Democrat nomination.
Even Hillary knows this. Her strategy at this point is to make a few minimal campaign appearances for him in exchange for a prime time speaking role at the convention. She will then do whatever she can behind the scenes to torpedo him so that McCain will win and she can get the Democrat nomination in 2012 (running on the "I told you not to pick that loser" platform).
Big Ears wants his name back.
I would love to see Sarah Palin as McCain’s VP. She would be great!!
Keep in mind that the media, for all their fawning over Hussein do NOT have the trust of the public. Upwards of 65% believe the media is liberal and does not fairly represent the facts as they are.
People are simply becoming very unimpressed with what they have to say and as they usually do, the liberals greatly overplayed their hand with obama and he peaked way, way to soon.
Rasmussen today came out with his daily tracking poll showing McCain tied wit Obama for the first time in 5 weeks. This ties in nicely to the poll, yesterday from Newsweek that shows McCain gaining 12 points on Obama in about 2 weeks to close to within the MOE. Add to this Obama’s collapse in fundraising along with McCain’s surge and you have to believe there’s trouble in Obamaland.
Keep in mind that the media, for all their fawning over Hussein do NOT have the trust of the public. Upwards of 65% believe the media is liberal and does not fairly represent the facts as they are.
People are simply becoming very unimpressed with what they have to say and as they usually do, the liberals greatly overplayed their hand with obama and he peaked way, way to soon.
Rasmussen today came out with his daily tracking poll showing McCain tied wit Obama for the first time in 5 weeks. This ties in nicely to the poll, yesterday from Newsweek that shows McCain gaining 12 points on Obama in about 2 weeks to close to within the MOE. Add to this Obama’s collapse in fundraising along with McCain’s surge and you have to believe there’s trouble in Obamaland.
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