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.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...
that is too funny.
I hope this will end the ludicrous, time-wasting fantasy that any Republican could ever gain Hillary's votes. What a non-story, aside from a few websites which probably signify a few hundred disgruntled Dems who were only playing coy to the bitter end.
Bill bringing the air kiss.
Consider the source. Newsday is a leftist rag.
And that poll will start nose-diving, starting today, as the last of the bounce leaves in favor of Palin’s addition to the ticket.
yeah but so are people who voted for hillary
The fact that 100 percent won’t vote for him shows that 20 percent of her 50% will stay on the sidelines or vote for someone such as McCain.
However, McCain’s idiotic play for liberals or “moderates” through his whole campaign was stupid.
more like popcorn trail that ends in the middle of nowhere
Call me crazy, but I’m going to take a serious guess that McCain also makes inroads with Clinton voters!
Bradley was ahead in the polls but people lied and Pete Wison won.
Gov. Wilder up by 20 points in Va. won by 1 point.
Do the math. 19% of 18 million votes is 3.4 million votes. That's enough to matter by any standard, whether they all stay home or half go for McCain and half stay home. Obama intentionally snubbed Hillary, and her most loyal fans are not going to forgive quickly. I'd call that the second biggest story of the election, behind Sarah Palin. I am more than happy to have as many as possible of those 3.4 million non-Obama votes go to McCain/Palin.
You're realy clueless here. We need to get only 5% of them to have a serious impact on the election. All or nothing thinking always leads to DISFUNCTIONAL thinking.
81 percent of Clinton supporters who could be found at home, sitting by their telephones, over Labor Day weekend.
My thought also -- we don't need that much -- except that I think Palin will get about 10% of the Clinton voters. With the margin being at most a few percent nationally over the past couple election cycles, that could make all the difference.
Remember -- since the end of the Civil War, all of three (3) Democrats have won the White House with a a simple majority of the popular vote -- FDR, LBJ and Carter. Unlikely Obama will be #4, and it's unlikely that Barr or Nader will win more than 1/2 percent -- but anything is possible.
“Wipe your cheek, Hillary. Yuk”
cdchick123-good one, LOL. Don’t let the PUMAs see this, they’ll freak. Gotta love the PUMAs!
Gallup under-samples Republicans.
Not a single link to the poll in the story I could find, nor the dates, methodology, number of people sampled, or composition of the sample.
Simply propaganda.
Cheers!
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