Poll: Obama's lead plunges in Mass.

The Washington Times ^ | August 4, 2008 | Ralph Z. Hallow

[big'ol_freeper]

I just posted on another thread that I am a Red Sox fan living in Maryland and I subscribe to Major League Baseball Extra Innings and watch the Red Sox games on the New England Sports Network every night there is a game. I noticed starting couple of weeks ago that nObama (and McCain) have been buying a whole lot of advertising time.

This seemed very strange to me and I kept asking Lil'Freeper why the heck nObama would being running adds in Massachusetts, which certainly had to be a sure thing for the more socialist candidate.

From a strategy point of view this is BIG.

Making nObama spend money in a solidly socialist state is not a good sign for the anointed one.

We can only hope this spreads to more socialist states....like Maryland for instance.

[ReleaseTheHounds]

Barack Obama!!! Flip-flops you can believe in!!!!

[Norman Bates]

Another state Obama is slipping in is your state. (Again, I’m not suggesting he’ll lose it.)

[NutCrackerBoy]

Suffolk University pollster David Paleologos said questions of experience and race appear to be at play... -Ralph Z. Hallow

Obama's is a racialist campaign. So there is an element of shouldn't you vote for him because of race. When the pollster cited questions of race, I think it means Massachusetts folks are turned off by race in the campaign. (They voted in a racialist governor with no experience and it isn't working out well.)

[MrB]

Another thing to worry about,

if Bambi starts polling badly enough that it is clear that he has no chance, the DNC will replace him with Hillary at the convention,

or after the convention, they’ll get some sympathetic judge to rule that since Barry has no chance of winning, that “disinfranchises” democrat voters, so they have to be able to replace him at the last minute.

[airborne]

Are you serious?

The Dem leadership will never replace Obama.

They are afraid to.

[Norman Bates]

I am a Red Sox fan living in Maryland

Ok, buddy, stop right there. You are definitely starting off on the wrong foot. :-P

We can only hope this spreads to more socialist states....like Maryland for instance.

While Maryland is solid liberal (though not as moonbat as MA) there are just too many blacks in Maryland for Obama to lose here. It's a strange election, but Obama will lose MA before he loses Maryland (usually that's not true). Maryland would be one of the VERY last states Obama would lose if it came to a landslide. (In fact he would likely lose Illinois first.) Maybe only Hawaii and RI would outlast Maryland.

[higgmeister]

Poll: Obama's lead plunges in Mass.

Awaiting this: Obama's lead plunges en masse.

[SamAdams76]

Well this is not your typical election. There are a significant amount of people who, when asked for whom they will vote, will say that they are voting for Obama lest they be thought of as a racist.

This is why Obama polls well but often underperforms when the real votes are counted. And this was the Democratic primaries. During the general election, the differential will be even greater.

[Norman Bates]

I agree. Obama getting replaced will never come to pass unless something absolutely outrageous happens.

[Norman Bates]

“During the general election, the differential will be even greater.”

BINGO. Because Republicans (and some independents) aren’t polled in democrat primaries, but are being polled now.

[Republican Wildcat]

Difficult to believe even if it is what we want to hear. It’s not enough for McCain to get this state, however, If Obama is down in the 40s even in Massachusetts with an overall downward trend, that is bad news for him as far as a probable national trend.

Obama is dropping - if McCain also starts rising we will be in business.

[InvisibleChurch]

But he could lose the other 56 states

Does Hawaii still count after they dropped the bomb on Pearl Harbor?

[big'ol_freeper]

You have great insight (except for the Romney thing and the Red Sox thing) padwan learner.

Massachusetts is full of “intellectual “guilt-ridden” liberals”...Harvard liberals whereas Murderland is more of the “plantation liberal” class that the intellectuals take care of (and look down on).

In Murderland they will vote for the Demoncrat whoever it is, especially is he offers the “audacity of hope”.

In Massachusetts, nObama looks a bit too much like the “protected class” for their tastes, and their “heir apparent” Hildabeast was rudely dispensed with.

Either way...opportunity, she is a-knocking.

[Pharmboy]

Even the residents of Taxachusetts can see through the audacity of being audacious.

[ashtanga]

Obama Millhouse is speaking Marxist mumbo-jumbo, and trying very hard to disguise it as Summer of Love double talk. The swinish masses will buy it, but Americans, while stupid, are beginning to catch a whiff of a deceased rodent.

[Kleebo151]

And you ain’t seen nothing yet.

[jbarntt]

Wow, if Obama loses MA, can CA be far behind?

Unlikely Obama will lose either MA or CA, but the poll numbers dropping for him in MA is nice, it means he might need to spend some money there, meaning less to spend in some other states, like VA and CO. It's amazing that in a year the Dems shouldn't lose, they decided they could have it all, their most far left candidate, while the Republicans got smart and picked the candidate with the best chance of winning in an unfriendly environment. I disagree with McCain on a number of issues, but I'll take him over a socialist any day of the week.

[Mygirlsmom]

That’s what I’m thinking...it’s too much too soon. He is, after all, still the “presumed nominee”

[Norman Bates]

You know as well as I do that I did not mention Mitt Romney. :-)

However now that you brought him up...