Posted on 09/21/2008 7:48:40 AM PDT by stevek1
A new St. Petersburg Times/Bay News 9/Miami Herald poll shows a neck-and-neck race, with Republican John McCain backed by 47 percent of registered Florida voters surveyed, Democrat Barack Obama by 45 percent.
(Excerpt) Read more at tampabay.com ...
McCain is AHEAD so of course that means it is UNDECIDED
If Obamarama was ahead it would be a LOCK for him....
Ah not one vote has been cast yet so its a tad early for this ballast
No agenda there.
The Miami Herald is an arm of the Democratic Party.
Florida will go McCain and it won’t be all that close.
The Democrats want it to be close.
They are looking to put an Al Gore scenerio in Florida.
NOT going to happen.
need we read on...I think not
Do you suppose the pollsters have a favorite?
800 registered voters, 2/3 of them right after Monday’s economic blowup. McCain is up several points in a state controlled by a Republican governor, and a state with a lot of ex-military.
Toward the end of the article there is some interesting info that definitely puts Florida in the McCain camp...no matter what the poll says.
It’s “too close to call”? Since when do they “call” races seven weeks prior to the election? Furthermore, I saw recent polls showing McCain up by as much a seven points in Fla. They must not have polled anyone in the panhandle.
What are the internals on this poll from a traditionally liberal newspaper?
Every election cycle the local Dem media has the race too close to call . Bush and Kerry were supposed to be neck and neck . Bush crushed him . Jeb and his opponents were too close to call . Jeb crushed him. Gore was way ahead. Bush won. All the state newspapers have become very far left with the St Pete Slimes being the worst.
No joke.
Why, of course not! The media is supposed to be unbiased and objective. They would never actually root for one candidate over the other, would they?
I don't think I really need a sarcasm tag...
Did the Slimes get bought up by the NY Slimes ?
I thought that local leftist family still controlled it.
But H Raines did go into hiding at there Left media Institutue.
I believe all major newspapers are oweds by liberal & so the media.
Our papers in CA are far,far left & many people has cancel their subscription.
Notice that these are registered voters. Which means that McCain is likely ahead by a larger margin of likely voters.
"But there are signs Obama still has shoring up to do: 17 percent of former Hillary Rodham Clinton supporters are backing McCain."
"McCain had an 11-point advantage among men, and a 17-point lead among all white voters. Obama had a 5-point lead among women, and the support of more than nine in 10 African-Americans. Hispanic voters, heavily targeted by both campaigns, favored McCain over Obama by 10 points."
In a year like this one, aren’t registered voters and likely voters going to be the same to a far greater extent than usual?
You are so right!!!
I was watching the local news last night here in Orlando (SeeBS outlet). They proudly crowed about how much Hussein was up in the new Gallup poll (4 points IIRC). Then they noted the Rasmussen Fla. poll in which McCain was up 5 points here. The description was that Florida was a “close” race, “neck and neck”, nearly tied with the statistical margin of error - of course, no MOE was noted for the Hussein Gallup poll lead!!!
It’s almost funny enough to make one cry!
2004 pre-election day — Kerry by 6
Exit polls 2004 Kerry by 4 ...
How many times do the drive by media expect to run this scam?
I don’t see why. The Democrats may have a higher turnout than last time, but it still falls short of the numbers of likely voters. There have been some polls that have done polling of likely voters, and the numbers change to favor McCain by a higher number.
He will lose here by over 5% points.
If this poll is correct it tells me that the Rasmussen and not the Gallup daily tracking is correct. Today’s Ras has it almost even 47 McCain, 48 Obama. Saturday’s Gallup has a 6-point spread in Obama’s favor (today’s numbers aren’t out yet). If Obama really had a 6-point spread he would be at least slightly ahead even in Florida.
Sorry: when will these idiots learn to read polls. “Registered” voters=+2 to Dems. This one is outside the MOE.
I’ll say. The polls haven’t even opened yet.
Read the Wizbang website analysis of the Gallup poll. Gallup just mysteriously decided to change it party affiliation to favor Dems from the previous weeks. The raw Gallup polling data actually favors McCain. Let see here , we have Manhattan Liberals at Gallup doing a correction to the raw date . I wonder why ????
aren’t these three of the most liberal rags in FLA?
Am I missing something ?
When I read the headline it sounded like FL voted yesterday and they are waiting for the final tally.....I am tired of polls
LameStream Dying Print Media wishful thinking.
Florida will go McCain big time.
North Florida: McCain.
South Florida Cubans: McCain.
A big chunk of even Liberal Jewish South Florida: McCain.
Obama country will be the blacks and uber liberal academics. That isn’t enough to turn Florida into an Obamanation...no matter how much the LameStream Media wishes it were so.
Keep in mind also that Florida starts “early voting” on October 21st...right after the 3rd presidential debate.
HMMM wasn’t there a poll a few months back that had Obama up 2 in Florida that they called “a lead” ?
The St. Pete Times and the Miami herald papers both are very liberal. If you take in to account the vast majority of their readers who responded are libs you have to understand this poll is about as accurate as one done by msnbc.
Florida will go down for McCain-Palin.
Duly noted.
BTW, did some reading yesterday on the undecideds. Supposedly both campaigns expect they will break for 70% for McCain.
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