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Gallup: McCain closes to with 2%
Gallup ^ | 10/15/2008 | William Tate

Posted on 10/16/2008 12:27:03 PM PDT by wm_tate

Today's results show Obama with a two-point advantage over McCain using this likely voter model, 49% to 47%, this is within the poll's margin of error

(Excerpt) Read more at gallup.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: 2008debates; 2008polls; electionpresident; mccain; obama; polls
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To: OrioleFan

Nice thumbnail analysis at #32.


61 posted on 10/16/2008 1:15:21 PM PDT by eureka! (Hey mushy middle: Who is Barrack 0bama? Wait until you learn the answer. It's not pretty.)
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To: Arizona Carolyn
Obama mocked Joe the Plumber at his rally today.

Joe is middle class - not good for Obamanomics.

62 posted on 10/16/2008 1:17:44 PM PDT by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is the 4th of July, democrats believe every day is April 15)
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To: eureka!

Joe is about to get Quayled just like Sarah Palin. Maybe Sarah and Todd should stop by his house with Bob Evans take-out one night, if they’re in the area, maybe invite him and his family up to Alaska for some outdoors sporting event.


63 posted on 10/16/2008 1:22:54 PM PDT by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is the 4th of July, democrats believe every day is April 15)
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To: Tarpon

Now I’ve taken to telling women I knew supported Hillary that I supported her too so I can’t possibly vote for Obama.

I tell them I’m voting for McCain instead because O was so sexist towards Hillary.

Of course, I keep my fingers crossed behind my back.


64 posted on 10/16/2008 1:26:29 PM PDT by Carley (she's all out of caribou.............but does have a bracelet!!!!)
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To: wm_tate

3 posts into this thread which should be joyful and I see the usual doom and gloom posters.


65 posted on 10/16/2008 1:27:04 PM PDT by altura
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To: wm_tate
I've been quietly watching this insane poller-coaster for two months. There is no way in he!! that the electorate is this volatile. O up by double digits on Saturday, back within the margin of error on Wednesday...no way!!

They must be tweaking these numbers like crazy, or their models are seriously hosed down and have no anchor in reality.

66 posted on 10/16/2008 1:27:17 PM PDT by jboot (Let Christ be true and every man a liar.)
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To: OrioleFan

I think this is going to backfire on Obama and the fact the dims are mocking him all over the place today proves just how out of touch they are and clueless how bad this is going to backfire on them.


67 posted on 10/16/2008 1:29:53 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: dragnet2

Some are made to seem like a child molester if they say they are voting for McCain.

The pollster asks if the country is going in the right direction first. Then you get the response they want.

If so, then you vote for O

I’ve been polled and annoy the caller no end when I tell them that I do think the country is going in the right direction.


68 posted on 10/16/2008 1:30:10 PM PDT by Carley (she's all out of caribou.............but does have a bracelet!!!!)
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To: Schnucki

No it is series.


69 posted on 10/16/2008 1:32:10 PM PDT by dforest (Is there any good idea out there that Obama doesn't lay claim to anymore?)
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To: OrioleFan

Let them mock Joe and Sarah, these 2 are representative of the vast majority of real voters in this country. The insults from BHO will just help McPalin!


70 posted on 10/16/2008 1:32:39 PM PDT by iopscusa (El Vaquero. (SC Lowcountry Cowboy))
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To: OrioleFan
"Joe is about to get Quayled just like Sarah Palin."

Nah, that would take some integrity on the part of the MSM presstitutes. They are protecting Obama by sequestering Biden--don't see much of him, do we? Maybe it is because of his recent eye job which makes him look like Mr. Spock.

Were Sarah to say half the stupid things that Biden does, she would be crucified in the press. Thankfully, she is much smarter than that and getting sharper every day. Her trial by fire has tempered and hardened her as a campaigner and may end up biting the mediots in their pasty butts. In any event, the trend is our friend and I think we are in for an interesting finish in this race...

71 posted on 10/16/2008 1:35:16 PM PDT by eureka! (Hey mushy middle: Who is Barrack 0bama? Wait until you learn the answer. It's not pretty.)
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To: jboot

As usual, Satan resides in the details. The larger, double-digit leads are invariably of total registered voters, not those who say they’re likely to vote.

It is incumbent upon the media to report whether the poll is of likely, or overall registered voters. They’re not doing it because they know we’re smart enough to know the key figure is the likely voter number.

-Wm Tate
http://www.atimelikethis.us/


72 posted on 10/16/2008 1:35:32 PM PDT by wm_tate
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To: wm_tate

Two things, people watched last night when he hit Obama with his alliances, Obama acted like an ass, and knew he was nailed. The smirks and head shaking was obvious.

He also was nailed by Joe the Plumber.

Keep exposing him McCain. People need to know.


73 posted on 10/16/2008 1:38:15 PM PDT by dforest (Is there any good idea out there that Obama doesn't lay claim to anymore?)
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To: eureka!
They are protecting Obama by sequestering Biden--don't see much of him, do we? Maybe it is because of his recent eye job which makes him look like Mr. Spock

Biden's 3 letter word-YouTube.

74 posted on 10/16/2008 1:41:14 PM PDT by Stentor (Obama is Bill Ayers' Renfield.)
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To: Arizona Carolyn

Save all of the video clips of out-of-touch-with-middle-class-America dims mocking Joe. They will be priceless during the last few weeks of the campaign.


75 posted on 10/16/2008 1:42:05 PM PDT by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is the 4th of July, democrats believe every day is April 15)
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To: Stentor

Saw that. LOL. There really is something about Joe. BO’s camp must really be regretting taking the “experience” bait, especially with Sarah being chosen.


76 posted on 10/16/2008 1:50:39 PM PDT by eureka! (Hey mushy middle: Who is Barrack 0bama? Wait until you learn the answer. It's not pretty.)
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To: edcoil

This election will hinge on turn out — the reps are scared to death of Obama in the WH. Hopefully the Dems will believe in the inevitability of an Obama presidency and these polls showing him up with large margins and stay home on election day!


77 posted on 10/16/2008 1:52:39 PM PDT by Froggie
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To: Stentor

I went to your link and was wrong about seeing it before (I thought it was only the quote). Cute song. I’m sending it to my lib BO supporting brother...


78 posted on 10/16/2008 2:01:09 PM PDT by eureka! (Hey mushy middle: Who is Barrack 0bama? Wait until you learn the answer. It's not pretty.)
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To: wm_tate
Studies show that polls can create a bandwagon effect as people want to associate with the winner...and also with the candidate who has momentum, which McCain now clearly has.......
79 posted on 10/16/2008 2:11:10 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: dragnet2
...volatile economy...

If the Dummycrats had any intelligence, they would see that the economy is nowhere near as bad as the MSM makes it out to be and the stock market is over-reacting on the down side. The unemployment rate is in the 6-7% area, which certainly isn't all that high by historical standards for recessions and depressions. One of the many Obama lies is that this is the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression - which he continuously repeats. Absurd, certainly not now. And Obama's tax and spend policies will only make things worse.

...many seeing the Republicans as causing the belly ache.

The Republicans have caused some problems, true, but the root of the current economic situation is the sub-prime mortgage mess, caused in large part by ex-Clintonistas looting Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and Dummycrat policies forcing banks and other lenders into making mortgage loans to unworthy borrowers. And, contrary to myth, many of the large financial institutions on Wall Street are or were run by Democrats.

The major problem to be overcome out there is massive voter ignorance, largely caused by decades of dumbed down education in the public school systems.

80 posted on 10/16/2008 2:28:40 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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