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Posted on 05/16/2008 8:35:31 PM PDT by Red Steel
The Pacific Northwest is beginning to look like very friendly territory for Barack Obama. Last week, Rasmussen Reports polling showed that Obama had opened a double-digit lead over John McCain in Oregon. Now, Obama has done the same in Washington state (see video report).
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely voters in Washington finds Barack Obama leading John McCain 51% to 40%. For Obama, that’s an improvement since late-March when the presumptive Democratic nominee led his Republican counterpart by five percentage points.
Nationally, Obama and McCain are essentially even in the Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll.
In Washington, Obama attracts the vote from 83% of Democrats and leads McCain by seven points among unaffiliated voters. McCain attracts support from 87% of Republicans.
McCain leads Obama among voters earning $40,000 to $75,000 annually. Obama leads among those who earn less than $40,000 a year as well as those who earn more than $75,000 a year. McCain leads among regular churchgoers while Obama is strongest among those who rarely or never attend services.
Obama is viewed favorably by 57% of voters statewide, unchanged from the previous survey. McCain now earns positive reviews from 49%, down seven points from 56% in late March.
Rasmussen Markets shows that Democrats are currently given a 93.0 % chance of winning Washington’s Eleven Electoral College Votes. At the time this poll was released, Washington was rated as “Likely Democratic” in the Rasmussen Reports Balance of Power Calculator.
In the unlikely event that Hillary Clinton wins the Democratic nomination, she leads McCain by five, 47% to 42%. However, as Rasmussen Reports noted last week, the Democratic race is effectively over and Obama is the party’s presumptive nominee.
Thirty-six percent (36%) of Washington voters favor the concept of a federal gas tax holiday. Fifty-five percent (55%) are opposed.
At the same time, just 36% believe the federal government needs more revenue to fund important national programs. Forty-eight percent (48%) disagree. Nationally, voters are evenly divided on this topic.
Fifty-one percent (51%) of Washington voters are worried that the next President will raise taxes so much that it harms the economy. That’s the lowest level of concern registered in any state polled by Rasmussen Reports on this topic.
Thirty-seven percent (37%) are worried that the next President will cut taxes so much that it harms important government programs.
Washington voters, by a 56% to 26% margin, oppose an increase in the capital gains tax. Nationally, 65% oppose this particular tax increase. Fifty-nine percent (59%) of Washington voters own at least $5,000 worth of stocks, bonds, and mutual funds.
A separate national survey found that 60% of voters believe tax hikes are generally bad for the economy.
Thirty percent (30%) of Washington voters say that George W. Bush is doing a good or excellent job as President. Twice as many, 58%, say he is doing a poor job.
Democratic Governor Christine Gregoire has significantly improved her prospects for re-election over the past couple of months.
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there will be a zillion of these polls before november.
What a load
Captain Queeg is toast in November. Our next President is going to be a Muslim Marxist. Hussein Obama is spectacularly unqualified to be President, and it is a testament to the stupidity and incompetence of the Republican Party that he will likely be elected. The weak, spineless morons who abandoned conservatism for a slow, creeping socialism are going to be thrown out on their fat lazy asses. They will go home rich and retire on lobbyist money. The rest of us will suffer with high taxes and less freedom than we’ve ever had. Thats if Hussein Obama’s Muslim buddies dont nuke us first. Thanks so much, GOP. What a great legacy you leave behind.
Thirty-seven percent (37%) are worried that the next President will cut taxes so much that it harms important government programs.
These people like to pay taxes I guess.
McCain is ahead in the states of Missouri, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania according to the latest Rasmussen polls.
I think McCain will win the presidential election, while the Dems will control Congress. This will give us the kind of divided government where each party can serve as a check on the other and prevent the kind of abuses we have seen with one party government by either party.
“I think McCain will win the presidential election, while the Dems will control Congress. This will give us the kind of divided government”
In what POSSIBLE universe is THAT “divided” government?
As if a (R) could carry the state full of angry liberals. Jeez. It doesn’t matter. The fact that Barry doesn’t have a much larger lead is what’s astounding.
I still remember how Bush was supposed to win in a landslide in 2000 according to Rasmussen polls.
Well, Rasmussen redeemed himself in 2004. His polling was the most accurate out of the bunch to call the election for Bush.
His final poll was < 1% of the final outcome. In contrast to Rasmussen in 2004, Zogby with all his sauce was about 9% off and the Fox/Dynamic poll said Kerry would win by 5 to 6%.
True.
Funny how that keeps happening. :)
Should make it easy to decide where to campaign.
Only a handful of states decide now who will be President.
Why don't we turn the MSM's deification of Obama into an opportunity to permanently de-claw the IRS?
This post (<-click), while addressing taxes, helps to explain why government "leaders" like Obama are actually in contempt of the Constitution that they have sworn to defend, foolishly following in the footsteps of FDR's dirty federal spending politics. In fact, the article referenced below shows that Obama is the #1 federal spending proposer in the Senate for '08; Clinton is #2.
Obama, a big-shot federal spenderThe people need to reconnect with the Founder's division of federal and state government powers. The people then need to wise up to the major problem that the federal government is not operating within the restraints of the federal Constitution, particularly where constitutionally unauthorized federal spending is concerned.
The bottom line is that the people need to send big-shot, Constitution-ignoring federal spenders like Obama home as opposed to trying to send people like him to the Oval Office. The people need to get in the faces of the feds, demanding a stop to constitutionally unauthorized federal spending while appropriately lowering federal taxes - or get out of DC.
I disagree. McCain and a Democratic congress is the worst possible combination for the long-term future of the country.
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