Posted on 10/26/2008 4:50:58 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
When it comes to the nation's troubled economy, Missouri's likely voters put greater trust in Democrat Barack Obama than Republican John McCain.
That, in a nutshell, appears to be why Obama's standing in this battleground state has improved since last summer — and why, less than two weeks before the Nov. 4 election, Obama is locked in a too-close-to-call presidential contest with McCain, a new poll shows.
"The economy is driving the presidential race, no question about it,'' said Del Ali, head of Research 2000, which conducted the polls in Missouri and Illinois for the Post-Dispatch and KMOV-TV (Channel 4).
Among the 800 likely Missouri voters polled last week, 48 percent backed Obama, while 47 percent favored McCain. Three percent preferred one of three minor-party candidates, and 2 percent were undecided.
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“In my personal, very un-scientific survey, I drove approx. 45 miles on a rural highway in NW Missouri. I counted 18 Mc/Palin signs and only 3 for ‘that one’. I like those odds.”
Rural Missouri will go for McCain without any problem. What is messing with things is the inner city (St. Louis & Kansas City) minority voters that normally don’t vote. Will they vote? If they do it will be for Obama.
Also, the Missouri Dem party has been using strong arm intimidation tactics to suppress anti-Obama rhetoric. They will be dealt with by voters later on, but for the time being they have been pretty effective in scaring dissent against the Obamination of Desolation.
UMM the polls showing Obama winning by 13 oversampled Philly by A TON !!!!!!!!!!!!!
they were 29% of the Pa. vote in 2004 & the Moring Call tracking poll is giving them 41% of the states total Now
UMM the polls showing Obama winning by 13 oversampled Philly by A TON !!!!!!!!!!!!!
they were 29% of the Pa. vote in 2004 & the Morning Call tracking poll is giving them 41% of the states total Now
Here’s a poll from Missouri.
I think the rationale for some is that the guys WITH experience screwed it up so badly, how could Mr. NO-experience possibly do worse? Somehow, though, they don’t carry their esteem for an short resume over where Sarah Palin is cocerned.
MO people, like me, get out there and volunteer! Get out the vote, do something!
It probably will be close and we need all the votes we can get.
St. Louis is supposed to be one of the top six vote fraud inner cities in the country. The fraud factor there must be minimized for McCain to win MO.
GOP always leads early voting in kali
I cast my absentee ballot in MO for McCain / Palin (and our GREAT House Rep Todd Akin!) this past week. Go Republicans!
Funny about that
“Unfortunately, Republicans are seen as a failure. Democrat treachery, media bias, and Republican blunders all came together to create that perception.”
The Perfect Storm.
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