Posted on 07/11/2008 6:13:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Glow Fading?: The latest NEWSWEEK Poll shows Barack Obama leading John McCain by only 3 points. What a difference a few weeks can make. (Jonathan Darma, 7/11/08, Newsweek)
A month after emerging victorious from the bruising Democratic nominating contest, some of Barack Obama's glow may be fading. In the latest NEWSWEEK Poll, the Illinois senator leads Republican nominee John McCain by just 3 percentage points, 44 percent to 41 percent. The statistical dead heat is a marked change from last month's NEWSWEEK Poll, where Obama led McCain by 15 points, 51 percent to 36 percent.
Obama's rapid drop comes at a strategically challenging moment for the Democratic candidate. Having vanquished Hillary Clinton in early June, Obama quickly went about repositioning himself for a general-election audience--an unpleasant task for any nominee emerging from the pander-heavy primary contests and particularly for a candidate who'd slogged through a vigorous primary challenge in most every contest from January until June. Obama's reversal on FISA legislation, his support of faith-based initiatives and his decision to opt out of the campaign public-financing system left him open to charges he was a flip-flopper. In the new poll, 53 percent of voters (and 50 percent of former Hillary Clinton supporters) believe that Obama has changed his position on key issues in order to gain political advantage.
...is Bob Dole, who's turn came up in the only losable cycle of the last forty years. And, even then, had Perot followed through on the discussion about withdrawing and endorsing Mr. Dole, he'd have won.
Mark Steyn today noted that Rush Limbaugh’s producer and official Obama criticizer Bo Snerdley said recently that while Clinton was regarded as the first black president, Obama is more accurately the first black Bill Clinton. Hahah!
Hate speech!
By mid-September everyone but the BHO cultists will be sick of hearing this sarcastic, egotistical performer. They’ll be turning off their TV sets when he starts bellowing about “change.”
If McCain can just shut up and let him self-destruct, he might have a chance.
Made all the more beautiful because I had to think about it...
Polls are so manipulated. There is no way Obama was ever 15 points up. Pollsters put out polls which are biased by the way they think, then when other polls contradict them, they adjust their next round of polls. I just have to laugh at the ridiculous margins of errors they claim. None of these polls are better than plus or minus 10 percent.
I just simply cannot stand liverlips. Every time he’s on TV I switch the channe.
FNC was playing some clips of Obama speaking where he talked about how clean nuclear power is and a few more topics including criticisms of McCain. The only lines that got the crowd cheering were the McCain lines. So people aren’t cheering his every word any longer. And it’s probably his ill-advised move to the center. By the time the convention rolls around his “red meat” lines will seem like flip-flops in light of his recent moves.
“Could it be that all the media hype is just that?”
Of course it is. It doesn’t mean that McCain is going to be embraced by the media in any way, shape or form, however.
We’re always on our own in election years. ;)
If Newsweek has him up by 3, he’s probably really down by 30.
“If McCain can just shut up and let him self-destruct, he might have a chance.”
LOL - Unfortunately, I don’t think he can. Tonight he was bashing the Republicans for the energy crisis. Fox led off with his statements.
Just when I think I’ve got myself convinced to vote for the guy, he opens his mouth :(
It might be a good campaign slogan for McCain, although it shouuld be done by his surrogates not himself. The problem with McCain is he seems to carry the attacks either toward conservatives or toward Obama by himself.
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