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McCain takes 5-point lead over Obama-Reuters poll
Reuters ^ | 08/20/2008 | John Whitesides

Posted on 08/20/2008 4:48:47 AM PDT by safetysign

In a sharp turnaround, Republican John McCain has opened a 5-point lead on Democrat Barack Obama in the U.S. presidential race and is seen as a stronger manager of the economy, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.

McCain leads Obama among likely U.S. voters by 46 percent to 41 percent, wiping out Obama's solid 7-point advantage in July and taking his first lead in the monthly Reuters/Zogby poll.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008polls; election; electionpresident; elections; inexperience; mccain; notready; obama; poll; polls; zogby
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree
there will be riots in the inner cities which could cause hundreds of dollars worth of damage.

Awesomeness.
221 posted on 08/20/2008 10:01:06 AM PDT by BJClinton
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To: safetysign
Click:


George Hussein Onyango Obama, Senator
Barack Obama's long lost brother was
tracked down living in a hut on the outskirts
of Nairobi

222 posted on 08/20/2008 10:07:55 AM PDT by XR7
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Why have Rasmussen numbers not moved along with the rest of the polls? He still ahows Mccain behind in his daily tracking. Strange ! ???


223 posted on 08/20/2008 10:36:20 AM PDT by libscum (don't sit out- vote Mccain)
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To: safetysign
It's important that all who favor McCain will not be as were the Republican voters who favored Tom Dewey in 1948; but did not go to the polls to vote.

You know what happened. The euphoria that swept through the the Republican electorate as it seems to be on these threads may, just may, be too soon.

The election will end at night on the second Tuesday in November—that's the time to relax.

Keep on plugging now and everyday.

224 posted on 08/20/2008 10:55:33 AM PDT by GOPologist (In God We Trust :-))
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To: safetysign

very interesting...


225 posted on 08/20/2008 11:34:34 AM PDT by rwfromkansas ("Carve your name on hearts, not marble." - C.H. Spurgeon)
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To: Owen

After Obama loses the left wing will no longer pick the candidate. The dems will come to their senses and choose a military man with a conservative background. That man will be Senator Jim Webb of Virginia.


226 posted on 08/20/2008 12:11:45 PM PDT by cousineasy
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To: safetysign

Heh-heh...
This is gonna be good!
227 posted on 08/20/2008 12:54:38 PM PDT by luvie (Hussein Obama=Change: HIGHER taxes, MORE entitlements, FEWER freedoms, LESS oil for America!!)
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To: hsalaw

You’re right about the stadium speech. A similar event by the Bushitler would have already invoked comparisons to Leni Riefenstahl’s work. Triumph of the Change!

Cripes, Obama has already addressed the ObamaJugend in front of one of the Father Lands victory statues. Not a whiff from the left about the inherent fascism of addressing the heirs of the actual Hitler!!


228 posted on 08/20/2008 1:20:31 PM PDT by steveyp
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To: safetysign
Confession: I spent a little while on DU and DailyKoS. Sheesh, I feel dirty. Still, somebody had to do it.

They ARE freaking out. Fractures are appearing over their BO selection...some saying Hillary had what it takes for a street fight and BO does not.

They are genuinely disheartened by the latest polling trends...but the MAJORITY are convinced the "One" will pull it out in the end.

They are afraid of the GOP...tactically...in an election. They consider the GOP MASTERS of communication, and thereby manipulation, of the "dumb/stupid" electorate.

These polls are driving them crazy.

229 posted on 08/20/2008 1:37:43 PM PDT by Mariner
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To: Mariner

230 posted on 08/20/2008 2:58:01 PM PDT by Republican Extremist
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To: safetysign

“I wish this had happened later as Hillary’s people will now try to take the nomination away from Obamanation. “

actually that would be ideal as all the obama people would go crazy


231 posted on 08/20/2008 3:03:50 PM PDT by ari-freedom (Obamuh uh uh uh uh uh uh ummmmmm)
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To: Owen

The only pollster that does anything close to that is Gallup in some of their polls. Virtually everyone else adjusts the numbers for several demographic variables including party affiliation.


232 posted on 08/20/2008 5:43:54 PM PDT by comebacknewt
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To: Republican Extremist; All
LOL, great cartoon. This situation also calls to mind the classic "Lemmings Lament" with John Belushi, Christopher Guest, and friends...... "we are lemmings, we are crazy"

Lemmings Lament

233 posted on 08/20/2008 6:05:43 PM PDT by Enchante (Obama-cons: Trying to fool America, one media dupe at a time!)
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To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast

He loses by putting Hitlery on the ticket - I have an aunt who told me that was just about the only way he would lose her vote.


234 posted on 08/20/2008 6:20:29 PM PDT by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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To: safetysign

“Michelle Obama is headed to Hollywood to court gay and lesbian support. Tom Ford is among the expected co-hosts of a Sept. 3 benefit at the home of CAA agent Bryan Lourd. The same night, she’ll head over to Samuel L. Jackson’s place for another fund-raiser, reports WilshireandWashington.com.”
NY Daily News


235 posted on 08/20/2008 7:52:34 PM PDT by Linden1209
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To: safetysign

Since two Hillary superdelegates have keeled over in the last week...methinks Obama’s gonna make sure that doesn’t happen...


236 posted on 08/20/2008 7:58:54 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: umgud

So you’re saying Obama is a bubble?


237 posted on 08/20/2008 8:00:09 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: nikos1121

I really do not see Obama even having a chance in FL or Indiana, and as it looks now McCain will win all those states.

Before it’s all said and done, I think McCain also wins PA, MI, NH, and a couple surprise states.


238 posted on 08/20/2008 8:02:34 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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BAMA
239 posted on 08/20/2008 9:13:31 PM PDT by kingattax (99 % of liberals give the rest a bad name)
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To: safetysign

The “exit polls” will say Obama won, because that’s what the media-controlled pollsters want. If even 40% of eligible voters vote for Obama, it will be a sad statement about public ignorance and lack of appreciation for capitalism and freedom.


240 posted on 08/21/2008 3:37:13 AM PDT by pleikumud
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