Posted on 08/31/2008 8:40:24 AM PDT by Greek
While Zogby has McCain up by two today in a post-Palin bounce, there is one ominous line and statistic in the article:
"Still, storm clouds remain on the horizon for the Republicans, a four-way horserace contest between McCain, Obama, Libertarian Bob Barr and liberal independent Ralph Nader shows....."
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BARR:
TOTAL: 5% DEMS: 2% GOPers: 4% INDIES: 11%
With Palin on the ticket, Barr will be relegated to even more insignificance than he already was. And with Nader in there, any damage Barr does will be offset 10 fold by Nader IMHO.
I believe Barr has said in the past that he would UNDER NO CURCUMSTANCES pull out of the race, scary....
After the selection of Gov. Palin as the Republican candidate for vice-president, BoB Barr wouldn’t get anybody to pay attention to him if he wore a pork chop around his neck to a dog show.
Palin has said some kind comments about Ron Paul... maybe Ron Paul will endorse her. She probably couldn’t return it considering how the dems tried to scare the jews with her greeting Buchanan. I hope Palin shows more paleo, crunchy, or pomo conish attributes and doesn’t go full blown neocon. Let’s distance ourselves from that smear.
I hope you are right, but if this race comes down to one point, and he’s pulling from pubs....
Barr will attract less support than Nader. Both will be below 1%. In a really really close race they could influence, but not likely.
Are we supposed to be scared of a candidate who many forget is even running? Had to Google search to find the name of his running mate.
Anderson got only 5% at the end, after being at 21% early in the campaign. And Anderson was on all the state ballots. I know; I designed his legal work. Barr and Nader together will not draw a total of 5%. They will be no factor in this election.
This is a false issue.
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My brother just told me he’s going to vote for Barr. I’m getting a bit nervous.
What exactly is Barr’s beef?
Bob Barr is on a ego trip. trying to get him to think about anything but himself would be a waste of time.
Anyone who votes for Barr might as well vote for Obama.
This is stupid, no way Nader or Barr affect anything this year. There is always a 10% weirdo vote.
That is because there are still conservatives out there that do not know that Barr has morphed into a liberal.
I suspect McCain just killed the Barr vote by picking Palin. I live in Illinois, so there is no chance that McCain wins this state (in Illinois, people are selected, not elected). So I was going to vote for Barr in protest. Now I’ll vote for McCain.
But both are meaningless. The Dem machine will make sure, McCain loses Illinois, even if he doesn’t (if you catch my drift).
I don’t think Barr is much of a threat. The worst threat was that the Evangelicals would stay home, and I think Sarah Palin has just solved that problem.
I’ve always said I’d be happy to vote for McCain if he chose a decent conservative VP, and he has exceeded our expectations.
Frankly, I don’t even think Barr is a real conservative. He’s gone off the rails, just like Pat Buchanan. If McCain had chosen Joe Lieberman for his VP, I’d have likely written in Fred Thompson, or left the presidential line blank. But I can’t imagine ever voting for a conceited idiot like Barr.
I agree that Nader will pull a lot more votes from Obama than Barr will from McCain. Support for minority candidates always diminishes toward election time, with the one exception of what happened to “Read my lips” Bush senior. But even that taught people a useful lesson.
Read the fine print in the poll; it’s an online survey and acitivists opinions get exaggerated in ‘net polling. In regular, random phone polling, Barr and Nader each pull 1-2% of the vote, and they’re about even.
In other words, wait until the next regular set of poll numbers come out.
Barr will NOT get %5 of the vote.
Barr who?
If I lived in Washington DC, New York or California, I might think about voting for Barr. But in Florida, no way. Every vote here is too precious.
Barr was a member of the aclu, I don’t know if many voters know that.
Sarah Palin...the Barr-breaker?
49% Obama, 48% McCain, 3% Barr = the Marxists control the White House, the Senate, the House and the media.
Bob Who?
precisely...Barr is too irrelevant to care about, here in Georgia he’s a joke.
Barr will get less than .5% of the vote. Especially now with Palin on the ticket.
We here these stories every 4 years about 3rd party candidates, whether republican or democratic. But in the end, they never make a difference. Don’t worry. McCain/Palin are going to win by such a comfortable margin it won’t matter anyway.
I am so pumped up by this ticket now.
Barr jumped the shark when he associalted with the ACLU.
He needs to be TOLD to withdraw.
I lost any respect for him I had several years ago. The man is a traitor.
The someone with the nickname “Joey Bumps” needs to have a friendly chat with him.
Totally agree, even if it’s only 1%, it could change the race. Especially since he pulls indies...
Bob Barr........don’t make me laugh.
At least Nader has several years experience
......running for President.
Ok, bhahahahahaha!
Oh and the same goes for all those “I hate McCain so I’m not voting/writing in Palin or Alfred E. Neuman.”
Hahahaha!
Barr hates America, one reason he is on the payroll of the ACLU and would rather see Marxist Obama win than McCain
Ya know, I could actually SEE this with Biden, Obama, McCain
and Palin, heck throw Hillery in too.
Nah Hillery would bite the head off the lizard to start with.
I still can’t believe libertarians picked Barr instead of a libertarian. Dude was a big time proponent of the failed war on some drugs.
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