Election 2008: Arkansas Presidential Election Arkansas: McCain 57% Obama 33%

Rasmussen ^ | May 15 ,2008 | Scott Rasmussen

[Clintonfatigued]

Based on this poll, there’s no need to choose Mike Huckabee as the running mate.

[BipolarBob]

As a staunch anti-Klintoon person (I had a dream the movie “The Devils Advocate” was about Bill) I thought it was IMPOSSIBLE for the DNC to find somebody less appealing than Shrillery, but did they prove me wrong.

[Gator113]

Amen...

[crazyshrink]

No offense but I couldn’t give a rat’s tootsie which of the 3 dwarf’s is leading in any poll. When the reported choice is between “phony”, “bitchy”, and “elderly” I just get “cranky”, “dopey”, and “grouchy” .

[Keith]

“McCain build this margin by winning 92% of the Republican vote, 38% support from Democrats, and leading Obama by twenty-four percentage points among unaffiliated voters.”

Just FYI, this is why McCain is campaigning as he is...you have a state Bush won heavily in 04 and is in the dumps now.

And Freepers wonder why McCain is distancing himself from Bush?

Now, I don’t like him dissing W any more than anyone else...but first he has to defeat Neville Hobama...or it’s all academic.

[popdonnelly]

Thirty-eight percent support from Democrats is huge.

[Intolerant in NJ]

So much for the ‘rats Southern Strategy.......

[Ingtar]

However, we gain nothing from a McCain win that is different from a Dim win.

[pulaskibush]

McCamnesty needs to do something conservative before I decided he’s worth voting for. He can’t be strong on The War on Terror and be weak on immigration.

[no dems]

Arkansas: McCain 57% Obama 33%

Is anyone surprised by this?

[Alter Kaker]

So much for the ‘rats Southern Strategy.......

The 'rats Southern Strategy is aimed at Virginia and North Carolina, not the mid South.

VA and NC have large numbers of African Americans and upscale, over-educated whites, Obama's core constituency. The numbers aren't quite there, but Obama can almost win both states by getting 90%+ out of the Af-Am community and solidly winning NOVA and the Research Triangle respectively. He'll need another gimmick if the "Southern Strategy" is to actually work.

Now the Obama camp has talked about putting other states in the South in play, by relying on record African-American turnout. Frankly, I think that's BS. Obama could hurt down-ticket Repubs, however, if he can mobilize record black turnout.

[TomGuy]

Forty-seven percent (47%) of Arkansas voters say that the economy is the top voting issue in Election 2008.

By November, add anothr $0.50 or so to gas prices and another 20-30% to food costs, mix in significantly higher summer and fall utility bills, and that 47% of the voters who say that the economy is the top voting issue will jump to 57% or higher. And that will not bode well for McCain and the GOP.

[harpo11]

LOL!!! I’m sharing the same sentiments. I just want to see “bitchy” lose.

[Archie Bunker on steroids]

The Rats will abandon the south...even with Edwards....they don’t need it. Ohio is all they need & Obama will look to Casey or Baye.

[fieldmarshaldj]

McCain wins AR by a near 2-to-1 margin, but yet we’ll only hold that 1 House seat and nothing else, all thanks to Huckster butchering the AR GOP.

[tcrlaf]

The CURRENT Electoral-vote.com election predictor is:

Electoral Votes: Obama 237 McCain 290

And that doen’t include updates from last week.

Don’t buy into the MSM drivel, this could be a Dem disaster of HISTORIC proportions. Even CALIFORNIA has recently shifted to “WEAK DEM” in an Obama MCCain matchup.

[Intolerant in NJ]

...Southern Strategy...there was talk a few days of the possible need for McCain to put Huckabee on the ticket as VP to blunt Obama's chances of taking away what should be easy southern wins for the 'pubs - based on how well Obama did against Hillary in the primaries in a number of states in the region - doesn't seem like much of a threat to me.........

[Norman Bates]

Rasmussen Markets shows that Republicans are currently given a 73.0 % chance of winning the Six Electoral College Votes from Arkansas this fall.

Only a 73% chance? What the hell? The DUmmies must be hitting this market hard.

[Antoninus]

However, we gain nothing from a McCain win that is different from a Dim win.

That's not true. McCain is far from perfect. But I refuse to make the perfect the enemy of the mediocre.