Posted on 09/03/2008 1:39:16 AM PDT by cdchik123
CHICAGO - As Barack Obama prepares to resume campaigning today, polls show that he has made inroads with former Hillary Rodham Clinton backers and hit the 50 percent support mark among registered voters for the first time.
It's a typical post-convention bounce that Obama will be looking to sustain as he travels to Ohio today and Pennsylvania tomorrow.
According to a Gallup daily tracking poll released yesterday, 81 percent of Clinton supporters say they will back Obama, up from 70 percent before the convention. Sixty-five percent of those voters are certain they will vote for the Illinois senator, up from 47 percent. And 12 percent of former Clinton voters said they planned to vote for John McCain, a 4 percent drop. Obama also saw gains in voter confidence on handling terrorism and Iraq, and being a strong and decisive leader.
The shift in support among Clinton voters comes after the junior senator from New York and her husband played key roles at the Democratic National Convention, rousing the faithful with prime-time speeches that left the Obama campaign with clips that could be used in commercials, aides said.
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Amen to that. Most of them WILL come home to the Dems, or at best stay home.
And there have been threads here asking us to withhold criticism of that corrupt, lying POS and her rapist husband, in the hopes that a handful of them may vote for McCain/Palin.
Uh, no thanks. They're welcome to vote however they like, with or without my blessing.
You're hopelessly optimistic. There are still two months to trash McCain/Palin. Most of those folks will wind up back on the plantation by early November.
Poll results trail actual events. His 6-8 point lead reflects a convention bounce.
I think it was probably the choosing of Palin to be the running mate. She is very prolife and Hillarys supporters are prodeath. Thats ok. Even if we lose, at least we stood up for life.
They are saying 81% of Clinton voters will go with Obama which means McCain may get 19% of Clinton voters, which was what they were reporting last week. Its all in how they present it. Headlines——19% of Clinton voters will vote for McCain. We respond oh goody goody! Headline——81% of Hillary voters voting for Obama. We respond oh no!
I tend to agree with you.
McCain will have to win this race as all of our candidates have, by holding his base and capturing enough independents to put him over the top. We can't count on disgruntled Hillary supporters. That's like leaning on a rubber crutch. Focus on appealing to those who are disposed to support you plus convincing enough undecideds to make a difference.
Republicans WILL get some Hillary votes, but also some wil stay home. That’s the ones who need to be reminded that what Obama did to Hillary he’s doing to Palin now.
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