Election 2008: Washington Presidential Election Washington: Obama 51% McCain 40%

Rasmussen ^ | May 16, 2008 | Scott Rasmussen

[ken21]

there will be a zillion of these polls before november.

[yldstrk]

What a load

[Astronaut]

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.

[Norman Bates]

Not surprising. However, this can effectively be used against Obama even in Washington:

Washington voters, by a 56% to 26% margin, oppose an increase in the capital gains tax.

[w1andsodidwe]

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.

These people like to pay taxes I guess.

[Norman Bates]

Captain Queeg is toast in November.

A poll of Washington state can hardly tell anyone that. However, no Democrat has won without West Virginia in nearly one hundred years. Obama has no chance there.

[Red Steel]

It's the left coast no big loss here.

McCain is ahead in the states of Missouri, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania according to the latest Rasmussen polls.

[FFranco]

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.

[Grunthor]

“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?

[farlander]

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.

[sionnsar]

Say WA? Evergreen State ping

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[nwrep]

....according to the latest Rasmussen polls.

I still remember how Bush was supposed to win in a landslide in 2000 according to Rasmussen polls.

[Red Steel]

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%.

[nwrep]

True.

[Names Ash Housewares]

Sounds like a blue state is still blue. Stunning how familiar the map is looking.

[1035rep]

Funny how that keeps happening. :)

[Names Ash Housewares]

Should make it easy to decide where to campaign.
Only a handful of states decide now who will be President.

[Amendment10]

This is off-topic, but concerns Obama.

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 spender

The 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.

[Hazwaste]

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 disagree. McCain and a Democratic congress is the worst possible combination for the long-term future of the country.