Posted on 08/30/2008 5:12:39 PM PDT by LdSentinal
Republican John McCain's surprise announcement Friday of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate - some 16 hours after Democrat Barack Obama's historic speech accepting his party’s presidential nomination - has possibly stunted any Obama convention bump, the latest Zogby Interactive flash poll of the race shows.
The latest nationwide survey, begun Friday afternoon after the McCain announcement of Palin as running mate and completed mid-afternoon today, shows McCain/Palin at 47%, compared to 45% support for Obama/Biden.
In other words, the race is a dead heat.
The interactive online Zogby survey shows that both Obama and McCain have solidified the support among their own parties - Obama won 86% support of Democrats and McCain 89% of Republicans in a two-way head-to-head poll question not including the running mates. When Biden and Palin are added to the mix, Obama's Democratic support remains at 86%, while McCain's increases to 92%.
After the McCain "Veep" announcement on Friday, Palin was almost immediately hailed as a strong conservative, and those voters have rallied to the GOP ticket, the survey shows. Republicans gather in St. Paul, Minnesota this week to officially nominate McCain and Palin as their presidential ticket.
Overall, 52% said the selection of Palin as the GOP vice presidential nominee helps the Republican ticket, compared to 29% who said it hurt. Another 10% said it made no difference, while 10% were unsure. Among independent voters, 52% said it helps, while 26% said it would hurt. Among women, 48% said it would help, while 29% said it would hurt the GOP ticket. Among Republicans, the choice was a big hit - as 87% said it would help, and just 3% said it would hurt.
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Take that “Convention Bounce”!
yuk! yuk! yuk!
You read it here first. Or second if you saw the other thread.
Man, Zogby and Gallup couldnt be more different. Someone is going to end up looking bad.
Has Rassmussen come out today?
All of a sudden we like Zogby!
The Zogby poll was taken yesterday and today.
Is Zogby still working on the Zobgy Sauce recipe to apply to online polls? This isn’t like the other polls with Obama getting a 6 (or is it 6 million) percent bounce.
Sarah Palin rocks my world!
<”...stunted any Obama...”>
hopefully forever stunted.
is your wife still ironing your shorts?
Rasmussen, Obama +4.
Difference between Rasmussen and Gallup is that it’s a three-day tracking poll. Once the last two days of the DNC lovefest roll off, it should be a dead heat.
Zogby was all conducted on Friday.
Their convention is history and ours hasn't started.
50%+ will be demoralizing for them.
Whatever these “polls” say....subtract 8 to 10 points (from obummer) for the Bradley effect...the dems leadership knows this (as does the media) and it scares them to death.
She'd better be. I'm going to go check.
Gallup is registered voters which should nean McCain is doing better among those who will vote than Gallup says.
Zogby is an interactive Internet poll and I believe less accurate.
So both are flawed. Also I am struck by the shifting polls. If you go to Gallup’s site, within the last week or less the story has been McCain up, Obama up, conservative dems not following Obama, Obama reclaims conservative dems, and on and on.
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