LADIES' MAN MAC IS A PLAYER IN NY (NY in play???)

NY Post ^ | 9/15/08 | Fred Dicker

[The G Man]

BOOSTED by the selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate, Republican John McCain has experienced a surge of support among women in heavily Democratic New York state - where he has closed the gap with Barack Obama, new private polls show.

The internal Republican and Democratic polls, details of which were provided to The Post, have stunned members of both parties - and produced deep worries among Democrats.

One great concern for Democrats is that the data show a continuous movement toward the McCain-Palin ticket by women, a majority of whom traditionally favor Democrats. (SNIP)

[Straight Vermonter]

If NY is in play, that means it’s essentially over for Obama. He cannot win if he loses NY.

NY has 29 house seats (23 Dems). With some McCain coattails some of those could change hands.

[hunter112]

I moved to NY about a year and a half ago, and I had figured it to be as Dem as the state of WA that I left. I was wrong, as soon as you get about fifty miles away from NYC, most everybody’s normal! Went to the demolition derby upstate yesterday, and one of the cars had “NOBAMA” painted twice on the trunk lid!

[MortMan]

I don’t see any numbers.

[Obadiah]

I completely agree with you, there is no way McCain/Palin throw precious resources into those states. Bush made that mistake in 2000 with California. Having said that, if true, this shows Obama and the Democrats are in deep weeds right now.

[LLBeet]

What about all those wealthy Wall Street guys who had supported Zerobama out of guilt about their easy fortunes made during the Bush years? Will they continue supporting him, now that quite a few of them are without jobs?

Here's an excerpt from a WP article on April 17, 2007:

The employees of Goldman Sachs and UBS gave Obama more than $260,000 combined. His top fundraisers include David Heller, a managing director at Goldman, and Robert Wolf, chief executive of UBS Americas.

"I've never had a higher hit ratio in terms of asking people for money and them saying yes," said James Torrey, an Obama fundraiser and chief executive of New York-based Torrey Associates, a $1.3 billion fund of funds.

The figures reflect giving from the employees of Bear Stearns, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, J.P. Morgan Chase, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley, as well as Goldman and UBS. Goldman employees gave about 50 percent more to presidential hopefuls than the next-highest set of givers, at Citigroup.

[bioprof]

As a NYer, I’ll say this: We can hope, we can dream, but hear me now: the dead will be walking come November, as will the infirm, the psychotic, the illegal and the criminal. And they will ALL be voting for ‘Bama.

I live in Jersey.....sad but true I have to concur. I'll start to get excited about NJ when the polls show Mac up 10 points on Halloween....otherwise, it's a tease. Mac was smart in allocating resources....he has one office in NJ that serves both NJ & NY....( higher rent in NY ). The bet is, if he wins NJ he doesn't need NY ( or he'll win it anyway ) so why spend the money there.....smart.....

[NavyCanDo]

NY - In Play, WA - In Play, Minn - In Play, Penn, In-Play, Mich, In-Play. Many onec solid Blue states are now a nice shade of purple. Keep up the good work Barry.

[The G Man]

If anything, it will force an already cash strapped Obama to commit precious resources/funds to a state we should have no business competing in.

[sunmars]

If Obama is really having to defend NY and NJ, then you can bet your ass, so is California, Obama is dukakkised if he has to defend NY.

[johnny7]

[tsmith130]

This is OT but...if you have a last name of Dicker, why would you use your middle initial, U, in your byline?

[gridlock]

Remember how New York Governor Paterson was accusing the McCain of racism last week when they used the highly charged racist term “Community Organizer” to describe Barack Obama?

This statement had the stink of desperation. I think Paterson has been given polling data that shows his state of New York is slipping away from the Donks. He knows that if the Democrats are going to win this thing, they are going to have to make it a referendum on race, pure and simple.

I think they will do this, and they will still lose. But they will do huge damage to the country in the mean-time.

[DeusExMachina05]

I agree, the closeness might force Obama to spend money there, or sow anxiety and depress turnout elsewhere, but the Mccain camp should spend no money there.

[Lady Heron]

Gee, if NY is even thinking about being in play then it is over for the dems, and in a big way.

[The G Man]

Well, the only good thing about spending money there though is that it touches several media markets. An ad buy in NYC reaches most of NJ, CT, upstate NY, and Western Mass.

[Condor51]

This is HUGH and SERIES. Another poll last Friday, in IL, had Obama up ONLY BY 3.

This could possibly be the biggest landslide in US History for Palin, oops, McCain.

My beeber is 'stuned' ;-)

[DemforBush]

It would be OUTSTANDING if Mac and Palin took NY... but I don’t think it will happen. Bush closed to within 6 points at one point against Kerry there in 2004, yet still lost the state by a wide margin.

Still, it’s fun to see 0bama losing ground in blue states. :-)

[PeterPrinciple]

Remember how New York Governor Paterson was accusing the McCain of racism last week when they used the highly charged racist term “Community Organizer” to describe Barack Obama?

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The Klu Klux Klan were community organizers...............

[The South Texan]

If McCain/Palin can keep it within 5% in New Yawk, it’s over for the Messiah. No stinking way he wins Ohio, Penn, Virginia, etc. McCain should win Mich and Wisc under that scenerio.

[CarryingOn]

A not-insignificant amount of the credit for a McPalin surge can be attributed to the Obama lapdogs of the so-called “main stream media,” which ironically plays to non-main stream America. These Elite pseudo-intellectuals are to deluded by their opinion of themselves and their leftist ideas to see they are destroying themselves and offending real main stream America.