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.
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H is the candidate. Let's deal with that reality... nothing... NOTHING will change that.
Even if (big "IF") the superdelegates realize they're on the Titanic steaming at full speed into the iceberg, the supers won't do anything, unless there is something really, really, really damaging like B&W FBI video of him building bombs with Bill Ayers. Or he's indicted before the election. Very unlikely. The African-American voters aren't going anywhere. It may be the "Stockholm syndrome" but they're 'rat voters for life.
This polling was started before Saddleback. It may show some result from the Saddleback forum, but may still be short of actual fallout from that event.
I just hope the Clinton insurgency will produce sufficient rancor among Democrats to be the primary influence on the election for them. A sudden substitution of the Clintons for Hussein would c change the dynamic of the election, not necessarily to Republican advantage. The GOP is geared up to oppose O’Bama and ringing in a different candidate might well nullify all the advantage so far. Voters could see it as erasing the reasons they had come to see the Democrats-BHO- as undesirable. “There! they fixed it!” and opposition to Bush might w come to the fore again rather than worryies about inexperience and screwballism. The time is too short now.
Please check your facts before making these claims. Ras has NOT shown McCain ahead in months... He’s still behind, by 2.
If this is the same poll I was e-mailed last week the subject matter, aside from the presidential election, was immigration and how you feel about illegals. This is the only reason I bothered to answer. I voted strongly for McCain which is, frankly, a stretch.
Hussein surely has a heart condition we don’t know about yet that will come up early in an O’Bama/Clinton administration because of all the stress of being president. Or a fortuitous appearance of Jakob Creutzfeldt on the doorstep. Or a sudden crisis in Arkansas.
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Yeah...face it, the craphole communities that contain Barry Soetero's base don't contan much of value.
Well, I know that is one of the most lopsided race issues in every election, but they wouldn't ever want to be associated with the GOP. Just axe the dnc chairman.
Yup, that's what I was going to say. This way they can put him back ahead one point after the convention and claim a "six point bounce!!!!!!!!!" They do this every time.
You are right strictly speaking. But McCain lead Obama at Rasmussen at 4th, 5th and 9th August. They are anyway so close, that the difference lies in the margin of error anyway. The latest Ras poll I read had Obama 47% McCain 46%.
Hope they succeed. Obama will merely lose an election. To steal the nomination from him now will utterly destroy the Dem Party for a couple of cycles, much like Teddy Roosevelt backstabbing Taft in 1912.
They can’t switch. The black walkout of the convention, not to mention the riots that will follow, would damage that party deeply for several election cycles. They would then be FORCED to put in a black the next time around too-—perhaps an even worse loser like Maxine Waters :)
I hope so, but Zogby’s sauce had Ken Blackwell only down five in OH about three weeks out and Ken lost by 25. So his sauce runs both ways.
I think it’s highly unlikely, even if the Dems do try to bail on Barry at the convention, that they’d nominate Hillary. I think she’d probably be the power broker for whoever they do nominate, however, and would probably be named Secy of State or get a Supreme Court seat as a reward if her guy wins. I think they’d pick a “safe” older white guy, frankly.
But none of that’s going to happen. For one thing, Barry Soetero is bringing 75,000 goons - er, excuse me, I meant “community representatives” - to Denver for his victory party to make sure the Dems don’t even think about it.
“I wish this had happened later as Hillary’s people will now try to take the nomination away from Obamanation.”
Won’t happen. Rome will burn if this were to take place. They are SCREWED!
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