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Newest Gallup Poll shows McCain insignificantly ahead
The Volokh Conspiracy ^ | July 28, 2008 | Jim Lindgren

Posted on 07/28/2008 6:09:07 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I honestly doubt the polls have changed. I believe the pollsters, good little Dims that so many of them are, have second thoughts about Obama and are trying to do their part to have him lose in Denver.


21 posted on 07/28/2008 6:30:00 PM PDT by Ingtar (Haley Barbour 2012, Because he has experience in Disaster Recovery. - ejonesie22)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Fred Nerks
If Obama were 4 points up , he would be "significantly" ahead.

McCain is 4 points up, and he is "insignificantly" ahead.

Imean this isn't worth shooting anyone over, but it sure gives a slant to the sled.

We all should just give up the election and annoint King Obama now?

I laughed at this ridiculous excuse for an article which tries to pass as political journalism.

22 posted on 07/28/2008 6:30:33 PM PDT by Candor7 (Fascism? All it takes is for good men to say nothing, (Ridicule Obama))
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To: goldstategop

The reason it is called an ‘insignificant’ lead is because the 4 point lead is within the +/- 4 percentage point margin of error.

But I believe McCain will win, and win big. Obama has too much going against him: his race, his friends, his ideology, and his egotistical personality.


23 posted on 07/28/2008 6:30:35 PM PDT by FFranco
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I wish where everything was today meant it was going to be the winner in the end since the Cubs have the best record in the National League. And are beating the media’s new God in baseball CC Sabathia as I type this.

It’s amazing how many jumps and falls we’ve seen in polling for both which means these polls are baloney sausage in high heels when it happens without a major scandal or after a convention.


25 posted on 07/28/2008 6:38:45 PM PDT by rexgrossmansonlyfan (Too bad for the Bears Tony Dungy isn't a liberal. He would have quit when falling behind in 41 SB)
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To: EggsAckley

Its INSIGNIFICANT I tell you, INSIGNIFICANT. Are you listening to what I say? INSIGNIFICANT. INSIGNIFICANT. You are not listening to me. You must listen to me. LISTEN to me!


26 posted on 07/28/2008 6:40:44 PM PDT by centurion316
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Beck’s got one of his headlines for tomorrow. I can’t wait to see the one “Obama gets kissed by beauties on both cheeks, while McCain has a hunk of his cheek torn off for a biopsy.”


27 posted on 07/28/2008 6:46:13 PM PDT by gusopol3
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To: goldstategop

McCain is beginning to seem the more likely one to win. He is beginning to be more likable as he states his case against Obama. Obama on the other hand appears to be full of himself and a little too impressed with himself the way an educated idiot would be. McCain is doing a good job of making it clear he is not a clone of George W. Bush. It is always insulting to be accused of being a clone, no matter who it is one is being compared to. It is good that McCain appears to be using some of his leadership skills during this election.


28 posted on 07/28/2008 6:46:52 PM PDT by rodeo-mamma
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

yes...

a shift of 13pts in on poll over a three day period is “insignificant”...only when it is a Republican on the better end of the 13pt shift that is....


29 posted on 07/28/2008 6:47:06 PM PDT by God luvs America (When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
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To: Jeff Head

I noted that one of the network’s airheads pointed out how regal Obama looked in contrast to Sarkozy. Seems that the Dalai Obama is taller. She pointed out that McCain will suffer by comparison in the debates. Yeah, right! The late Audie Murphy was just a bit over five feet and he could have whipped this imposter’s ass.


30 posted on 07/28/2008 6:48:29 PM PDT by donaldo
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To: Candor7

...is insignificantly ahead anything like a little bit pregnant?


31 posted on 07/28/2008 6:49:34 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Obama is an empty suit. And a communist. And a loser.
32 posted on 07/28/2008 6:51:31 PM PDT by JasonC
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To: library user
'John McCain will be the next President of the United States.'

Then many people here better get to the polls. If enough conservatives decide to sit this one out, they will be directly responsible for the socialist muslim B. Hussein Obama getting elected, instead of John "not conservative enought but a heck of a lot better than the other guy" McCain.

JP

33 posted on 07/28/2008 6:58:49 PM PDT by EscapedDutch (I spent $5,000 to become a LEGAL resident of the US. If illegals get amnesty, I demand a refund!)
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To: Fred Nerks
...is insignificantly ahead anything like a little bit pregnant?>>>>>>>>>>>>

Well maybe, but It may mean that the Obama journalist supporters are saying that the pregnancy will not last long, because the polls are now going to be so rigged that McCain will always be significantly behind!

They hope to confine McCain in his bed, convincing him that his water will break quite prematurely otherwise.

I have to laugh at these liberal socialists. They mean to win at any cost, even at the destruction of our Republic and a fair electoral campaign.

I hope they keep it up so strongly that the public will simply laugh at their arcane machinations of poll demographics and interpretation.

Obama will lose. Its been cast in stone ever since he got up in front of the Brandenburg gate. He did not rise to the occasion.The whole international trip portrayed him as an insignificant, stammering , little man with megalomanic pretensions to grandure.

Now they seek to rebuilt his broken messianic image. Well , Humpty Dumpty and all that. Its time to lay it on really thick.

This is what this thread article is all about, they are trying to warn people off in the realm of journalism.The journalists smell blood. The feeding frenzy is about to begin.

34 posted on 07/28/2008 7:03:38 PM PDT by Candor7 (Fascism? All it takes is for good men to say nothing, (Ridicule Obama))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Reminds me of 2004, when the left-wing English newspaper "The Guardian" ran a campaign to have their readers write to voters in Ohio on behalf of Senator John Kerry.

We need to have the Germans, the French, and the rest of the Europeans do the same thing to voters in OH, NV, MN, PA, and WI this year!

35 posted on 07/28/2008 7:04:02 PM PDT by paudio (Like it or not, 'conservatism' is a word with many meanings. Yours may be different from mine.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The MSM and the rest of the Dims are praising Obama so much that they put a very high expectation for him. With news about Obama almost 24hrs per day, slowly, the election becomes a referendum on Obama.


36 posted on 07/28/2008 7:07:43 PM PDT by paudio (Like it or not, 'conservatism' is a word with many meanings. Yours may be different from mine.)
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To: Candor7
The feeding frenzy is about to begin.

promise?

37 posted on 07/28/2008 7:07:53 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Wow...these polls really are all over the place.

What this means - little/no Europe Bump for Barry.


38 posted on 07/28/2008 7:10:44 PM PDT by RockinRight (I just paid $63 for gas. An icefield in Alaska is NOT the Grand Canyon. F--- the caribou.)
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To: Fred Nerks
Promise! You bet, The messiah makes one big mistake, and kapow, its pile on time by the conservative media. Picture a thousand publications sounding like Rush Limbaugh.

This is going to be interesting.

39 posted on 07/28/2008 7:14:47 PM PDT by Candor7 (Fascism? All it takes is for good men to say nothing, (Ridicule Obama))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
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Pass this on. Please let me know if the links go bad. If you need different sizes just let me know and I will do my best to get you what you need. Thank you.

40 posted on 07/28/2008 7:20:30 PM PDT by Boucheau
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