Posted on 09/21/2008 10:37:03 AM PDT by WilliamReading
PRINCETON, NJ -- Barack Obama continues to lead John McCain in national voter preferences for the presidential election, now by a four percentage point margin, 49% to 45%
(Excerpt) Read more at gallup.com ...
McCain seems to be rebounding...
Actually with LV,poll bias and the bradley effect odumbo needs to be up by 10 to win
The incident in Pakistan has probably had some effect. Everybody knows Obama can’t be trusted with terrorists.
For the most part, this has been a dead heat between these two candidates for awhile now. If Ubama is the end-all, be-all messiah come to save America from ourselves, then why haven’t the numbers been more like Ubama 95%, McCain 3%, undecideds 2%??
I find myself remembering the polls showing Kerry ahead of Dubya in 2004, and I harken back to how they were WRONG.
America is too smart for Ubama to keep pulling the wool over the eyes of the citizens. I can’t wait for whatever October surprises are coming our way soon!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Nice breakdown on how Gallop manipulates their polls.
How Liberal Trolls Are Working To Get McCain Elected President
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2086637/posts
“So, put it all together, and in the past week Obama has stayed steady or lost support in every party identification group, yet Gallup says his overall support went up four points. And McCain stayed steady or went up in every party identification group, yet we are supposed to accept the claim that his overall support went down by four points”
McCain was slow in responding properly to the meltdown. He spent Monday & Tuesday blaming generic “Wall Street greed” for the meltdown, while Obama immediately blamed GOP policies. It wasn’t until Obama scored some undeserved points that McCain started connecting the dots between Obama and guys like Raines & Johnson.
On Sept 17th, the Dems were all giddy about the bad news, thinking the White House is now a lock. Then last night, a spade of news stories accusing some Clinton voters of not voting for Obama due to racism. Now why would the MSM start pulling the race card, if bad economic news guaranteed Obama a win. Perhaps, the Obama’s Lehman Leap is going to fade.
It was 6 yesterday. So it represents a 2 point drop for Obambi in one day!
Why do people think that Obama could fix this financial problem? How can people possibly be so stupid?
Rush said awhile back to not trust the polls, even when they show McCain ahead. They are being manipulated to make it look like an Obama surge.
Exactly, after the headlines of last week the public woke up and the world was still here, they still had their house, they still had their job. And so the financial market bounce recedes. And it is receding in a weekend poll.
I don’t care what it says, I don’t believe people will vote for a liar, who has no history, no accomplishments, and who’s credentials could have been produced at a printer.
D’oh. are=our
Teach me to type one-handed while nursing my baby! :-)
sorry...whose, not who’s...doh
Given the margin of error JM and Barry are tied. There needs to be at least a six point spread to have any meaning.
Kerry had the lead in only 7 polls from September 2nd onward.
Bush and Kerry were tied in 12 others.
Bush had the lead in 66 others.
See for yourself.
This doesn't mean we need to get discouraged. McCain is running better than Bush did in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida. Ohio and Florida look very good in fact. McCain does have problems in Virginia, Colorado, Iowa, and New Mexico all which Bush won.
McCain needs Virginia AND Colorado OR Pennsylvania OR Michigan.
We need to campaign like never before. A lot of people have drank the "lord barry" kool-aide.
Like I posted on another forum
1) Enthusiasm level after Palin Pick - Check
2) Base back in the fold and fired up - Check
3) Evangelicals fired up - Check
4) Independents and Moderates liking our ticket - Check
5) A candidate that has a bigger % of his own base voting the other party (PUMAs,Union voters who dont like the color of his skin) - Check
So how can the polls be at the same level as before the convention. Something doesnt pass the smell test and as DJ at wizbang postulated in the link above, logic dictates that McCain is up couple of points or more.
Obama’s going to lead in the polls until late on Nov 4th when he loses the election.
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