Posted on 04/28/2008 1:02:17 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hillary Rodham Clinton now leads John McCain by 9 points in a head-to-head presidential matchup, according to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll that bolsters her argument that she is more electable than Democratic rival Barack Obama.
The survey released Monday gives the New York senator and former first lady a fresh talking point as she works to raise much-needed campaign cash and persuade pivotal undecided superdelegates to side with her in the drawn-out Democratic primary fight.
Helped by independents, young people and seniors, Clinton gained ground this month in a hypothetical match with Sen. McCain, the GOP nominee-in-waiting. She now leads McCain, 50 percent to 41 percent, while Obama remains virtually tied with McCain, 46 percent to 44 percent.
Both Democrats were roughly even with McCain in the previous poll about three weeks ago.
Since then, Clinton won the Pennsylvania primary, raising questions anew about whether Obama can attract broad swaths of voters needed to triumph in such big states come the fall when the Democratic nominee will go up against McCain.
Added Steve Lombardo, a GOP pollster: "This just reinforces the sentiment that a lot of Republican strategists are having right now -- that Clinton might actually be the more formidable fall candidate for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is that Obama can't seem to get his footing back."
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That is the very worst thing that you can do. You are playing with fire. For the first time in the 17 years I’ve listened to Rush Limbaugh, he is putting his own personal feelings against McCain ahead of the good of the country. Obama has to win Indiana to knock her out once and for all. He is the weaker candidate. I can’t understand how people don’t see this. We can defeat him in November with a knockout punch. If Hillary manages to get the nomination, she will win, no two ways about it. Please don’t help make her my son’s commander in chief.
By that logic, the fact you're not on the radio makes you stupider than Rhandi Rhodes, Al Franken and Ron Kuby.
The fact of the matter is that a lot of us are loyal Freepers. But we're smart enough to see when a plan is not coming together.
Rush and his followers can't even keep the goal of OC straight. Have the people posting here in support of it think it's to nominate Hillary, whom they see as the 'weaker' candidate and the other half think it is to damage Obama before he gets the nomination.
And Rush is on record as saying he thought it might be better for the country if Hillary beat McCain in November. But now we're supposed to believe that this plan is about getting McCain elected?
Either Rush doesn't know what he's doing or he knows all too well that he's helping Hillary.
Agreed.
Limbaugh's ego prolly rarely lets him admit to himself that flyover folks still have enough common sense and patriotism left to recognize and repudiate the marxist evil of this election with 'half (their collective) brain tied behind their back'.
Good job on that tshirt niche tho, Rush
Most certainly NOT a ringing victory or indicative of Party appeal.
...and that the "conservatives" and "moderates" in upstate and the suburbs would never vote for her over Rick Lazio.
Exactly.
I have been saying that the only person who can defeat Hillary Clinton is Obama, and the only candidate who will attack Obama is Hillary.
Strange times, and this entire unparalleled opportunity is counterpointed by the liberal McCain, who may also be the only one who could possibly fail to take advantage of this entire mess that the democrat party has fallen into.
I fear for us right across the board.
“McCain not Rush will get either Obama or Hillary elected by beating up on conservatives, like the N.C. republicans.”
I guarantee you if Hillary or Obama loses, Rush will take the credit.
First, this comes from the AP, which has been liberally-biased for centuries (it seems).
Second, as others have pointed out, her negatives are bad enough. She steals this from Obama and her negatives will go to at least 75%.
Third, the Clintons have worn out their welcome. They've never been universally adored. Only feared.
It is hilarious to see all you Rush haters try to tell us how you much more intelligent than Rush and his 20,000,000 listeners you are.
What have you done to have 20,000,000 people listen to you. Will your superior intelligence change elections?
You have to have a certain kind of voice to be on the radio, which I don’t have. Also, talking constantly tires me out. Rush is a gifted broadcaster, but there are lots of idiots who have decent voices and are longwinded. Rush is intelligent. He’s either just mistaken about this or he actually wants the good ole days back when he had books on the bestseller list during the Clinton years.
I agree with you 100%, I live in Northwest Indiana but will vote like I always have, in the Republican primary on May 6, 2008.
OK NOW VOTE OBAMA
October 15, 2005. Maybe I am right.
...she would be far less damaging to our country than Mr. Marxism.
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What!? How quickly we forget! Do you really think it would be better to have the Clintons with all of their shady global contacts back in the position of selling more national secrets to the Chinese again? Hillary is no less a socialist; she’s just better at hiding it. She and Bill have been lying a lot longer that Obummer. Don’t be fooled.
Obummer’s tenure would be puncuated by many mistakes, but it is more likely that wiser heads could steer him in the right direction. The arrogance of the Clintons precludes such a thing.
This has nothing to do with Rush. It has everything to do with McCain attacking Republicans for daring to tell the truth about the Democrats. McLame seems much more comfortable attacking Republicans than Democrats.
Whatever Republican support he had coming back to him were turned away by his attack on the NC GOP.
Yep. Exactly right. But the dead-brained here who need dailyorders from their superior masters who do their thinking will rip you to shreds for saying that. You’ll just be ‘jealous of Rush’ or ‘can’t see his brilliance’. Same with smirking crooked-mouth Ingraham, Hannity, Coulter, etc; ALL the KAOS talking heads. Or you’ll be told to ‘crawl under the bed and hide until November’s over’, since we all know The Clintons can’t POSSIBLY win the WH again with all their baggage.
Thanks, whenever I see that I get the Loose Lose Blues.
McCain is a flop of a candidate, just as the Democrats and Independents planned he would be when they voted for him in the primaries.
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Amen to that! And to everything else you said.
“What evidence do you have that Obama could beat McCain in places like NH, OH, PA, and so on?”
I am in ultra-conservative central Texas, on the western edge of Fort Hood. My business is such that I interact with customers for about an hour at a time all day long. Even among black members of the military, Barack Obama is very, very popular. He is also popular among military wives.
Hillary is very unpopular. People in the military remember that Bill Clinton gutted the armed forces.
Do not underestimate Obama.
And, again, Hillary would not be nearly as detrimental to our country as the Marxist Obama.
Good point. I'm not going to disagree that McCain is, in many ways, a flawed candidate. However, Rush has no right whatsoever to sit here now and bitch about McCain being the nominee. Back when we had some very qualified conservatives in the running (ex: Fred Thompson), Rush was sitting on his hands and even flirting with supporting Guiliani.
Finally, when it was all but too late, he grudgingly threw some support behind Romney... who's also a moderate.
If Rush doesn't want to support McCain, that's his right. But he ought to man up and stop trying to get Hillary elected by subterfuge.
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