Posted on 08/04/2008 7:08:12 PM PDT by T Ruth
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's lead in Massachusetts has plummeted 14 percentage points since June, a new Suffolk University-7 news poll shows.
Mr. Obama leads Republican John McCain 47 percent to 38, down from a 23 point spread in June, and is bleeding support from male voters, independents and older voters.
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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.
Barack Obama!!! Flip-flops you can believe in!!!!
Another state Obama is slipping in is your state. (Again, I’m not suggesting he’ll lose it.)
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.)
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.
Are you serious?
The Dem leadership will never replace Obama.
They are afraid to.
Awaiting this: Obama's lead plunges en masse.
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.
I agree. Obama getting replaced will never come to pass unless something absolutely outrageous happens.
“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.
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.
Does Hawaii still count after they dropped the bomb on Pearl Harbor?
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.
Even the residents of Taxachusetts can see through the audacity of being audacious.
And you ain’t seen nothing yet.
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.
That’s what I’m thinking...it’s too much too soon. He is, after all, still the “presumed nominee”
You know as well as I do that I did not mention Mitt Romney. :-)
However now that you brought him up...
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