Posted on 09/13/2008 2:18:41 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
In Nevada, John McCain continues to hold a very slight advantage over Barack Obama.
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey shows McCain attracting 49% of the vote while Obama earns 46%. That three-point advantage is unchanged from a month ago. The two candidates have been within three points of each other for four straight monthly polls, but McCain has held a slight advantage in five of the last six. Crosstabs with more detailed results and demographic breakdowns are available for Premium Members.
Nevada is one of three southwestern states targeted by the Obama campaign. Like New Mexico and Colorado it went narrowly for President Bush four years ago and all three are very competitive this time around.
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The competitive Rocky Mountain states and the Pacific Northwest are where I expect Palin to do the most good. And it appears to be working.
States keep flipping to the dark side. The Democrats are in panic. Attack, attack, attack is the battle cry.
I think if this trend remains, Obama will go all Rev Wright at some point.
You know it’s going to come out.
Reid, despite all his shortcomings, is a social issue conservative and pro-life Mormon Democrat. Bet he’ll be casting a vote for the same man and woman Hillary and Bill will be voting for in secret.
Is “Mr Excitement” Reid up for re-election this year?
Three points is good. I’d rather be up 3 than down 3.
The other recent Nevada poll, InAdv/PollPosition, has McC +1.
Obama is getting heavy support from Las Vegas (particularly from North Las Vegas), while McCain’s strongest areas (even more so with Sarah Palin) are the so-called Cow Counties (rural areas). Obama should also carry Lake Tahoe (there are communities collectively known as that). McCain will more likely than not carry the Clark County suburb of Henderson.
The key will be the cities in the north-central part of the state: Reno, Sparks, & Carson City. Reno is the largest of those cities, and it usually votes Republican, but has trended to the Democrats. The adjascent city of Sparks is more blue-collar and votes Democratic, but also is influenced by Reno. The state capitol of Carson City leans Democratic, but has a significant Republican voter base and often crosses party lines in national elections.
County by county results. Dark blue counties were won by Barack Obama, light blue counties were won by Hillary Clinton.
Obama won all the North country counties. On election day, McCain will bury Obama's measly support under an avalanche of ballots in the North. Obama will do lots better in the Southern parts where his support was softest running against the Hillary PUMAs. Obama came here and couldn't pronounce our state's name and got jeered.
McCain will win Nevada. He's already won it, I think. I don't believe that at this time, Nevada is a 'battleground state'.
Voters in Nevada need to dump Harry Reid ASAP. Reid, the treasonous moron, needs to be sent packing in disgrace. Nevada can make it up to the rest of the country by electing McCain.
I just saw on local NM TV, a new phone poll, McCain 47%. Obama 45%...didn’t catch the number of voters polled.
That’s interesting. Did they also poll the Senate race?
It was just a quick sound bite on krqe channel 13...I’ve been on their website, but they have nothing up yet that I can find. They just mentioned the POTUS percentages.
Boxing his Way to the Nomination
Senator and Mrs. McCain attended Saturday night’s Oscar De La Hoya and Floyd Mayweather boxing match in Las Vegas over the weekend. I’m sure for him it was a nice change of pace from a hectic campaign schedule over the last few weeks; but don’t worry, we didn’t give him too much time away from the trail – the campaign made sure to surround the match with a town hall meeting in Reno, political meetings, media interviews, and a fundraiser in Las Vegas before he headed out to Iowa on Sunday.
Senator McCain has long been an avid boxing fan and spent some time in the ring himself as a Midshipman at the Naval Academy. Newsweek has an interesting article this week about McCain’s boxing background, his love of the sport, and how boxing might be a good metaphor for his life in general. He never gives up; and, this campaign is no different. When asked by Newsweek if there are similarities between boxing and politics, his response was - “There are probably more strict rules in boxing than in politics.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18508165/site/newsweek/print/1/displaymode/1098/
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