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Barack Obama widens lead over John McCain in polls following world tour
Daily News ^ | July 28, 2008 | MICHAEL SAUL

Posted on 07/28/2008 10:29:01 AM PDT by yoe

Barack Obama's world tour scored big points back home.

The presumptive Democratic nominee jumped to a significant 9-point lead over GOP rival John McCain - his largest lead since the Gallup Poll began tracking the general election horse race in March.

Obama tops McCain, 49% to 40%, among registered voters nationwide, Gallup's daily tracking poll conducted from Thursday to Saturday revealed.

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: blueturban; bunk; electionpresident; elections; mccain; neverscrewthebase; obama; obamasbigadventure; polls
The Brooks Brother's suit has much in store for you. ("Poverty bill could cost taxpayers billions") and that is just the beginning....this man who can't talk without a tele-prompter will raise you taxes to pay for his many give away welfare programs. B. Hussein Obama is a Marxist and an elitist. How bout that new swagger, with hand in the pocket looking so cool and casual. Snake Oil is written all over the man.

Character counts as does experience, neither of which the Obama's have, they don't even know let alone understand their country. McCain is wrapped in The Red, White, & Blue with years of experience. Obama is an empty tool for the anti-American socialist left.

1 posted on 07/28/2008 10:29:01 AM PDT by yoe
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To: yoe

I’m not buying it.


2 posted on 07/28/2008 10:30:37 AM PDT by popdonnelly (Boycott Washington D.C. until they allow gun ownership)
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To: yoe

Obama now dropping again:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2052597/posts


3 posted on 07/28/2008 10:31:15 AM PDT by flyfree
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To: popdonnelly

I believe it. He got great visuals and that’s what people react to at first. But they will come down. Have already begun to, I believe.


4 posted on 07/28/2008 10:32:43 AM PDT by twigs
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To: yoe
It's too early for the poll to mean much.

McCain's character is his weak point. Adultery and other scandals. Here I see an Obama advantage with women voters who will not be thrilled to have Cindy as first lady.

5 posted on 07/28/2008 10:33:25 AM PDT by Jane Austen (Boycott the Bahamas!)
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To: All; yoe

Polls: McCain Competitive In MN, MI, CO
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2052580/posts


6 posted on 07/28/2008 10:33:53 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (McCain could never convince me to vote for him. Only the Marxist Obama can!)
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To: yoe
Rasmussen today shows a 3pt lead today. This gallup poll is from yesterday and even today's gallup poll shows a smaller lead.

The MSM is trying to make and increase whatever lead Obama shows in the polls...but any bounce he is showing is that of a dead cat falling out of a tree.

CHOOSING THE NEXT PRESIDENT



NOBAMA MOVEMENT SPREADS ACROSS THE NATION

7 posted on 07/28/2008 10:33:57 AM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: popdonnelly

Rasmussen’s latest poll, posted earlier, shows that Obama has gone from a 1 point lead just prior to the trip, up to a 6 point lead a day or so after his big hot air speech, and now has fallen back to a 45-42 lead.

So no, I’m not ready to buy this ‘bounce’ after the world unity appeasement tour, either. Its going to take about a week to know for sure in either case.


8 posted on 07/28/2008 10:34:15 AM PDT by VOR78
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To: twigs

Concur. The campaign is a war of attrition, and Mr. Obama doesn’t exactly have a depth of supplies.

Unfortunately, McCain also seems to be campaigning without a battle plan. Maybe Kerry can loan him one of his secret plans.


9 posted on 07/28/2008 10:34:20 AM PDT by Unlikely Hero ("Time is a wonderful teacher; unfortunately, it kills all its pupils." --Berlioz)
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To: popdonnelly

me neither...one poll does not a trend make


10 posted on 07/28/2008 10:35:08 AM PDT by americanophile
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To: Jeff Head

“Gallup Daily: Obama 48%, McCain 40%”

Which post do we believe?


12 posted on 07/28/2008 10:39:19 AM PDT by W04Man (OUR TROOPS DESERVE A QUALIFIED CIC....... http:Vets4McCain.com.... sign the Roll Call!)
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To: yoe
"McCain is wrapped in The Red, White, & Blue"

Do you even remember how he tried to shove Amnesty down the country's throat? I'm no Obama fan but please calm down with the flag waving sucking up for McCain. Hell McCain didn't even want to secure our borders until he locked up the nomination. If it were not for conservatives storming the capitol with phone calls McCain and Bush would've succeeded in their effort to sell out our country. So please lets not act like this guy is Captain America.

13 posted on 07/28/2008 10:40:29 AM PDT by blaquebyrd
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To: yoe
Obama’s tour was a media event and an opportunity for the MSM to swoon over Obama. It was all style and no substance. It was all fluff and no stuff. When Obama couldn't bring his media stooges to the military hospital he cancelled the event, it was just for the cameras. I don't see how anyone who observed the trip could not see Obama is a fraud.
14 posted on 07/28/2008 10:45:05 AM PDT by detective
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To: blaquebyrd
So please lets not act like this guy is Captain America.

So our choice is between a faux 'Captain America' who wants Mexicans to pick our lettuce and a real 'Comrade Soviet America' who wants to implement a latter day version of Lenin's and Stalin's socialist nightmare.

As bad as McCain might be, the choice is pretty clear.

15 posted on 07/28/2008 10:48:22 AM PDT by bassmaner (Hey commies: I am a white male, and I am guilty of NOTHING! Sell your 'white guilt' elsewhere.)
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To: yoe

This does not tally with Rasmussen polls released today. He is not up by 9. I don’t believe any of these polls to start with. They are set up to make this a**hat look good, but I am not buying it and neither are most conservatives and quite a few democrat voters, namely Hillary supporters. Some are jumping ship and voting republican this year. I think the empty suit is in for a big november surprise, if he doesn’t get sunk in the convention, which is still possible.


16 posted on 07/28/2008 10:52:12 AM PDT by calex59
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To: popdonnelly

I’m not buying it.

Me neither.

You cannot believe a word the LIBERAL press says or their polls. They are insatiable LIARS.


17 posted on 07/28/2008 10:52:28 AM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: Jane Austen
"women voters who will not be thrilled to have Cindy as first lady."

Because.....?????

18 posted on 07/28/2008 10:55:46 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Obama will bring us......CommieLot)
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To: yoe

maybe i´m wrong but i guess beeing so popular in europe will
backfire at him in the US election. because if i assume i would be an american voter i would really think twice to vote for him because so many europeans would vote him. Who are we to tell americans for whom they should vote for? the same goes the other way around people here don´t like it very much if forreign countries tell them who they like to see as our next president.


19 posted on 07/28/2008 10:57:06 AM PDT by austrian
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To: yoe

The 9 points is just from the return to the country of all of the “journalists” who support him.


20 posted on 07/28/2008 11:00:09 AM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: bassmaner
"So our choice is between a faux 'Captain America' who wants Mexicans to pick our lettuce"

If it were only lettuce, see that's the bait part of the bait and switch scam McCain and Bush tried to sell America. Dr Juan Hernandez, McCain's Hispanic Outreach Director, stated: “We must not only have a free flow of goods and services, but also start working for a free flow of people.” I only point this out to say when McCain revives Amnesty (and he will) conservatives shouldn't feign shock or ignorance.

21 posted on 07/28/2008 11:05:41 AM PDT by blaquebyrd
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To: Jane Austen
Here I see an Obama advantage with women voters who will not be thrilled to have Cindy as first lady. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

And we should be thrilled to have Michelle as 1st lady?

I think that the polls are rigged by the media, and twisted in their sampling to maximize the number who support Obama, using selective demographics.

Other polls are showing McCain in the lead.

Americans are not as stupid as the Democrats think. We have that going for us.

They see Obama, his preening and manipulation, his unexplained media support, and they get the feeling someone is trying to sell them a "good used car."

Obama is a clunker. Buyer Beware.

And as days go on here, more and more Americans will know Obama for who and what he really is, a stone cold totalitarian , black power nationalist, fascist politician. Hillary is betting that the Dems will want Obama out by convention time. She could be right.

Obamamesiah. Save us! ( sarc. off)

22 posted on 07/28/2008 11:06:12 AM PDT by Candor7 (Fascism? All it takes is for good men to say nothing, (Ridicule Obama))
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To: Jane Austen
...Here I see an Obama advantage with women voters who will not be thrilled to have Cindy as first lady....

Ooooh Cindy worked with handicapped children. Yeah, that's a real dealbreaker.

I'd much prefer Ms. Ballbreaker Obama.

23 posted on 07/28/2008 11:07:12 AM PDT by mplsconservative
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To: VOR78
Just wait until AFTER the conventions. I don't know.... Let's see... Watching a video of Barack the “Community Organizer” rising to serve only one year in the senate before heading off for his worldwide campaign tour.... OR... America viewing the the video of McCain in a prison camp and hearing his compelling story maybe for the first time and then comparing his 20+ years of experience in the senate.

Game, Set, Match; McCain

24 posted on 07/28/2008 11:09:16 AM PDT by Anti-Hillary (Yo Obama! IF FOR 20 YEARS YOU STAY IN THE PEW, IT'S BECAUSE YOU SHARE THE VIEW!!!!!)
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To: goodnesswins

. . . she is the creepy other woman who embezzled from her own charity.


25 posted on 07/28/2008 11:54:52 AM PDT by Jane Austen (Boycott the Bahamas!)
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To: yoe

Funny.... this poll claims Obama widening his lead over McCain, while today’s USA Today poll shows the opposite - that McCain has taken the lead...

I guess you put out enough polls, one of them will eventually be right...


26 posted on 07/28/2008 12:14:40 PM PDT by TheBattman (Vote your conscience, or don't complain about RINOs!)
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To: yoe

USA TODAY/Gallop poll: McCain pulls ahead 7-28-2008

Oh this is rich! With Obama leading I have never seen a ‘Warning’ disclaimer!

If McCain pulls out by much more the Old Media is going to have a meltdown!

On Politics - Breaking News, Election 2008 & Presidential Candidates: “Gains for McCain in latest USA TODAY/Gallup Poll http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/


27 posted on 07/28/2008 1:22:07 PM PDT by Wrightclick
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