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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She is evil and she is probably the most dangerous person on this planet if you want to call her a 'person'. In my opinion, this Chaos thing should have gone for Obama all along and kept these 'pecadillos' in the background until they were needed. All of these Chaos fans will be lamenting the name "President Hillary Rodham Clinton" come January next year.
And also, kinda revealing.
I know that and you know that but there are a bunch of idiots around here that just don’t get it.
Horse hockey! Roughly 50% of the citizenry dislikes Hill. Many say they will vote for her, but will NOT. I will not say McLame will beat her because he is alienating his party base, but I will state for sure, I wouldn’t believe any poll out there ‘wright’ now.
His statement makes no sense.
If the plan is to create chaos at the DNC convention, why does he even need a contingency plan once the nomination is closed?
I think Rush is just making this up as he goes along.
What evidence do you have that Obama could beat McCain in places like NH, OH, PA, and so on? Hell, McCain would be competitive in freaking California against Obama. This isn’t some pulled out of my ass opinion. The only thing that Obama would have against McCain would be our crappy economy with Carter-era inflation. You think old white people are going to vote for Barack Hussein Obama who listens to Jay-Z on his iPod and listens to Rev. Wright and hangs out with Weather Underground revolutionaries? Never. Only totally fruity hippies would. McCain would take like 70% of the old white people vote— but not against Hillary.
Amen!!!
ditto.
Rather harsh there cal, I simply stated that underestimating the clintons is a mistake. And if OC is a joke or not....it's seems to be quite effective in getting out the message about hussein obama...
I wasn’t a big fan of the Operation Chaos, and don’t believe it had any measurable effect.
However, I don’t think the Dems can nominate Hillary without causing a civil war in the party. Even if she wins the popular vote, the Obamaites are too rabid to let it go.
Unless Obama does something outrageous (ie say he won’t end the war in Iraq, won’t raise taxes on the rich, opposes abortion, believes the constitution is not a living document, says Bush did the right thing on some issue, etc) his followers will relentlessly attack the Democrat party.
When so-called Conservatives trash Rush the way you do, I automatically become suspicious of one's Conservative credentials.
Weiner (Savage) is nothing more than a depressed idiot who gets a few things right often enough to impress a few morons out there.
If Clinton wins, place the blame squarely were it belongs; on the Republican Party. They, after all, allowed John McCain, an angry little liberal, to be the standard bearer for their party.
If McCain is nominated I wish him ill. I will not vote for a liberal whether our liberal is or is not better than their liberal. It would be just rewards for the Republican party if McCain loses.
The Republican party has one choice in September to earn my vote. Throw the angry little man under the Straight Talk Express and nominate a conservative Republican. Most any would do.
I know everyone has a different take on it, but I have reached the point where I no longer worry about Hillary. I think she has been damaged enough that if she is elected President, she will have a much harder time getting things rammed through than Obama or McCain. Obama scares me the most because I really don’t believe that Messiah thing is going to wear off, no matter how much we hope. And McCain would “reach out to the other side” so much it would be a slam dunk.
Even thinking that a Clinton, who have a fine history of beating republicans around the country is less electable than a semi Marxist black empty suit is incorrect.
Now, McCain is not assured of victory over Obama, but he has a chance here.
Hillary will beat him like a toy drum. 30 - 34 state landslide.
No WAY Obama takes huge swaths of middle class voters, but even here in Florida there are voters just lined up and ready to vote Hillary.
Obama will get beaten here so badly they will be calling for investigations - again.
“BTW, as an Indiana voter I have single handedly convinced close to 70 family and friends to show up for Hillary. ;-)”
You go girl!!!
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Hillary's well-loved where I live. Just about everyone my son-in-law works with voted for her last week here in PA. Even his mother and father did. Never underestimate Hillary...
Were Rush's mind-numbed robots (aka conservatives) malfunctioning during the Republican primary?
Maybe Rush is also controlling McCain's brain; why else would John be so incredibly stupid as to attack his own party when all he had to do was sit back and watch the Dem implosion?
Rush sure is powerful.
Ummm.... Click on my name and go look at the reason behind the screen name ;-) I stand... I’m not a sitter.
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