I am convinced that anything bad for them is good for Americans everywhere.
Posted on 08/24/2008 5:33:40 PM PDT by kristinn
It’s a dead heat in the race for the White House. The first national poll conducted entirely after Barack Obama publicly named Joe Biden as his running mate suggests that battle for the presidency between the Illinois senator and Republican rival John McCain is all tied up.
In a new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll out Sunday night, 47 percent of those questioned are backing Obama with an equal amount supporting the Arizona senator.
“This looks like a step backward for Obama, who had a 51 to 44 percent advantage last month,” says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.
“Even last week, just before his choice of Joe Biden as his running mate became known, most polls tended to show Obama with a single-digit advantage over McCain,” adds Holland.
So what’s the difference now?
It may be supporters of Hillary Clinton, who still would prefer the Senator from New York as the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee.
Sixty-six percent of Clinton supporters, registered Democrats who want Clinton as the nominee, are now backing Obama. That’s down from 75 percent in the end of June. Twenty-seven percent of them now say they’ll support McCain, up from 16 percent in late June.
“The number of Clinton Democrats who say they would vote for McCain has gone up 11 points since June, enough to account for most although not all of the support McCain has gained in that time,” says Holland.
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The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll was conducted on Saturday and Sunday, with 1,023 adult Americans questioned by telephone. The survey’s sampling error is plus or minus 3.5 percentage points for all voters. For registered Democrats, it is plus or minus 4.5 percentage points, and for Democrats who still support Clinton for the party's nomination, it is plus or minus 7.5 percentage points.
(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...
That an utter disaster for Obama. Likely voter poll always are more Republican freindly then anyone polls. Espcially bad since CNN has a history of over sampling Dems and weekend polling usually leans left.
BAD news but McCain can still screw it up. His VP pick matters.
As General George S. Patton Jr. might say, “CRAP DON’T BOUNCE!!!”
It does if you eat rubber cement.
anyone know how this compares to four years ago when kerri named breck boy???
I was going to try and research it on RCP....
Well, clearly Biden did not induce any excitement for the Obama-Biden ticket did he?
I am convinced that anything bad for them is good for Americans everywhere.
Biden did garner 0 delegates and 2,328 Iowa votes — 1% — 5th place in his presidential run.
With numbers like that, the Obama-Biden team should be formidable. [/s]
A dead cat bounces more than that...
Kerry selected Edwards on or around July 6th that year.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/bush_vs_kerry_hth.html
Just glancing at it, I’d say that Kerry got around a 5-7% bounce out of it. Bush looks to have been leading by a point or two on average the last week of June.
Obama made an audacious choice in Joe Biden and he just might pay a high price for doing so.
Yup, this dead cat didn’t bounce. It’s just plain dead.
He's got an excuse for everything........
except for the way he combs his hair.
That is just amazing, there is a whole herd of fed up females who are out to open a can of whupass on Obama for knocking Hllary out of “her” turn...
Lord have mercy on Obama, there is no group that can hold a grudge like Hillary Clinton supporters...
“Going into the Dem convention in a year when the GOP is in bad shape, Obama should have a com”fortable lead.”
OsamaObama should be 30 points ahead of McCain, considering how bad the environment is for the GOP.
Heck of a sampling error. Is CNN playing CYA here?
That’s because that Obama-cat was DOA!
Well it made me smile.
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