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New Gallup Poll: Convention lifts McCain over Obama (54%-44% among Likely Voters)
Gallup | 9/7/08 | Susan Page,

Posted on 09/07/2008 5:39:09 PM PDT by LdSentinal

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008polls; bounce; electionpresident; gallup; mccain; mccainpalin; palin; palindemonium; poll
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To: pangaea6
"Palin is the new Diana "

I was thinking the new Jackie.....

501 posted on 09/07/2008 11:09:24 PM PDT by matthew fuller (Palin/McCain 08- So let it be written, So let it be done!)
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To: Hattie

“So maybe Obama shouldn’t have spent so many millions on the Grecian column arena. Ridiculous for a political convention IMO. Especially when you have a long string of poor, starving people paraded the day before, telling everyone how Bush took everything from you.”

Exactly.


502 posted on 09/07/2008 11:09:58 PM PDT by ari-freedom (We never hide from history. We make history!)
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To: jerry557
Now Barr may sue and claim otherwise.

Barr is beyond an egotistical a-hole [IMO]...I'm so sure that McCain and Obama would be held to that deadline requirement even though they had not even been officially nominated by their parties...and McCain would have been on the ballot without a running mate as he had not chosen Sarah at that time.

503 posted on 09/07/2008 11:11:37 PM PDT by top 2 toe red (Thankfully... there are some Conservatives that are not consumed by hate. Some=99.87%)
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To: Nathan _in_Arkansas

think of the shame for our country if that traitor Obama even wins one state.


504 posted on 09/07/2008 11:11:47 PM PDT by ari-freedom (We never hide from history. We make history!)
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To: ari-freedom

How Democrats Steal Elections - Top 10 Methods of Liberal Vote Fraud

1. Over-Voting. In Democrat strongholds like St. Louis, Philadelphia and Detroit, some precincts had 100% of their registered voters voting, with 99% of the ballots going to Gore. Clearly, multiple voting resulted in extra tallies for Gore in the 2000 election. (New York Post, 12/09/00).

2. Dead Voters. This classic Democratic method of vote fraud goes all the way back to 1960 in Chicago and Dallas. The 2000 election was no exception. In Miami-Dade County, for example, some of the 144 ineligible votes (those which officials actually admitted to) were cast by dead people, including a Haitian-American who’s been deceased since 1977 (Miami-Herald, 12/24/00).

3. Mystery Voters. These “voters” cast votes anyway but are not even registered to vote. In heavily Democratic Broward County, for example, more than 400 ballots were cast by non-registered voters. (Miami-Herald 1/09/01)

4. Military ballots. Many of these votes were disqualified for the most mundane and trivial reasons. At least 1,527 valid military ballots were discarded in Florida by Democratic vote counters (Drudge Report, 11/19/00).

5. Criminals. Felons are a natural Democratic voter and they’re protected on voter rolls across the country. In Florida at least 445 ex-convicts - including rapists and murderers — voted illegally on November 7th. Nearly all of them were registered Democrats. (Miami-Herald 12/01/00)

6. Illegal aliens. These voters have long been a core liberal constituency, especially in California. In Orange County in 1996, Rep. Bob Dornan had his congressional seat stolen from him when thousands of illegal aliens voted for Loretta Sanchez (Christian Science Monitor, 9/2/97).

7. Vote-buying. Purchasing votes has long been a traditional scheme by Democrats, and not just with money. In the 2000 election in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Democratic workers initiate a “smokes-for-votes” campaign in which they paid dozens of homeless men with cigarettes if they cast ballots for Al Gore (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, 11/14/00).

8. Phantom Voters. These voters don’t really exist, but their ballots do. In the 1996 Lousiana Senate race, GOP candidate Woody Jenkins had the election stolen from him when he discovered that 7,454 actual votes were cast but had no paper trail to authenticate them (Behind the Headlines, F.R. Duplantier, 4/27/97).

9. Dimpled chads. Those infamous punch-cards were a ballot bonanza for Al Gore. Democratic poll workers in Palm Beach, Dade and Broward counties tampered and manipulated thousands of ineligible ballots and counted them for Gore, even though no clear vote could be discerned. (NewsMax.com 11/27, 12/22, 11/18, 11/19/00).

10. Absentee ballots. Normally it’s assumed that Republicans benefit from absentee ballots. But in the case of Miami’s 1997 mayoral election, hundreds of absentee ballots were made for sale or sent out to non-Miami residents. Fraud was so extensive in the race that the final results were overturned in court (FL Dept. of Law Enforcement Report, 1/5/98).”


505 posted on 09/07/2008 11:20:43 PM PDT by Liberty Wins
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To: xzins
1. Make it seem like Obama is down.


but if obama is down by 10, that demoralizes them and energizes us. We can see the difference in the numbers at the rallies

506 posted on 09/07/2008 11:21:46 PM PDT by ari-freedom (We never hide from history. We make history!)
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To: LdSentinal
Radical Muslims never prosper.
507 posted on 09/07/2008 11:28:34 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (Sarah Palin 08 12 16 20)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation
And McCain is more skilled at debating than Bush.

I'm still cringing from that first one. "It's hard work..."

McCain takes a lot of questions from the crowds, so he should be ready if it is a good format. Obama is elite if he's prepared though. If he isn't prepared, he's terrible. No inbetweens.

508 posted on 09/07/2008 11:37:01 PM PDT by Darren McCarty (Palin in 08)
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To: RockinRight

Sorry, Rockin, but Obama has Washington and Oregon sewed-up-in-the-bag. The large population centers will vote for him . These two states will have the blues.


509 posted on 09/07/2008 11:39:31 PM PDT by SatinDoll (Desperately desiring a conservative government.)
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To: Phantom Lord

The DUI was in the 2000 election. Pres. Bush indeed wasn’t at his best in his first debate with Kerry.


510 posted on 09/07/2008 11:42:40 PM PDT by hsalaw
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To: 1035rep; All

Polls, Flags, Radicals, and Sexism....HOT DAMN!
9 hours, 15 minutes until the best week of Limbaugh....EVER.


511 posted on 09/07/2008 11:46:06 PM PDT by JerseyDvl (What do Obama and Osama have in common?-They both have friends who bombed the Pentagon! - Bill Ayers)
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To: LdSentinal
Now that's what I call a BUMP!
512 posted on 09/07/2008 11:49:58 PM PDT by GVnana ("The American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery.")
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To: JerseyDvl

This is going to be a great week!


513 posted on 09/07/2008 11:59:32 PM PDT by 1035rep (McCain/Palin 08)
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To: LdSentinal
Thank you for the post. I'm having a hard time wrapping my mind around this...

"In the new poll, taken Friday through Sunday, McCain leads Obama by 54%-44% among those seen as most likely to vote. The survey of 1,022 adults, including 959 registered voters, has a margin of error of +/— 3 points for both samples."

That doesn't make sense to me.
How many likely voters were sampled?

I'll go with Rush on this one.
The polsters will find the result they want.

Too, I'll wait until two or three days before the election to pay attention to the polls.

514 posted on 09/08/2008 12:02:04 AM PDT by dixiechick2000 (Sarah'cuda Rocks)
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To: MillardFillmore
Well time does fly. I suppose I like to remember the polls that we are ahead in. :-) I may have mixed in a couple of registered voter polls. Nonetheless, I knew there was at least 1 Gallup poll of 'likely voters' that had McCain in the lead by 4% that they took a month and 1/2 ago.


Gallup/USA Today Poll: McCain +4

This one should set the tongues wagging:

Republican presidential candidate John McCain moved from being behind by 6 points among "likely" voters a month ago to a 4-point lead over Democrat Barack Obama among that group in the latest USA TODAY/Gallup Poll. McCain still trails slightly among the broader universe of "registered" voters. By both measures, the race is tight.

The Friday-Sunday poll, mostly conducted as Obama was returning from his much-publicized overseas trip and released just this hour, shows McCain now ahead 49%-45% among voters that Gallup believes are most likely to go to the polls in November. In late June, he was behind among likely voters, 50%-44%.

http://time-blog.com/real_clear_politics/2008/07/gallupusa_today_poll_mccain_4.html


515 posted on 09/08/2008 12:13:36 AM PDT by Red Steel
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To: SatinDoll
we live in the 2nd largest city in Washington...its hardly blue....but those scum in King county with their last minute ballot submission and counting.....they screw us everytime...we've got a Rat Senator and a Rat Gov. because of that method....

Sarah and John may have a chance here....one would think that all the Boeing workers would want a strong military so they could keep building planes.....there is also a large number of military....

I can't explain Oregone....just can't....

516 posted on 09/08/2008 2:28:48 AM PDT by cherry (SP for VP !!!)
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To: All

I agree with all of you who emphasized the need to fight as if this poll was dead even. I don’t know about every state, but here in FL the Rep Party does not do a very good job of using people are willing to work.

So take the “moose” by the horns and call some of leaders of your county Rep HQ and or state HQ and find out what needs doing. Poll watching, rally coordinators, voter registration drives are just some of opportunities that are not mentioned nearly enough.

With that said, A little celebration won’t kill anyone. I just cannot wait to see the looks on my lib friend’s faces this morning. And if by any chance they look like they missed the news, I will be sure to share it with them.


517 posted on 09/08/2008 2:58:15 AM PDT by lovesdogs (Obama isn't half the man Sara Palin is -Rush Limbaugh)
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To: LdSentinal

Here comes the Clinton COUP!!


518 posted on 09/08/2008 3:33:38 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: SeeSharp

Kid Rock has been an outspoken SUPORTER OF BUSH. :)


519 posted on 09/08/2008 3:53:25 AM PDT by Lady GOP
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To: LdSentinal

RCP has changed thier average to reflect this poll. It puts McCain on top by one.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/us/general_election_mccain_vs_obama-225.html


520 posted on 09/08/2008 4:05:00 AM PDT by DeusExMachina05 (I will not go into Dhimmitude quietly.)
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