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 partys 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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and guess where both Obama and McCain were today...and whose people were more jazzed...whose campaign was packin’ em in and who had people leaving mid-monologue...
The debates should lock it up...then we can focus on a Pubbie congress so we can kick Nancy the Anti-American out of Boehner’s office...
They have STOPPED harping on experience. It just rolls over to the top of their ticket.
I do hope Sarah’s family wants to relocate to DC.
I’ll keep quiet, I promise.
The text said “online interactive”. Not legit?
Forget about the Bradley Effect myth.
But remember, Zogby had Ken Blackwell down 5% in OH . . . and a few days later he lost by 25%.
Bears repeating. And this is exactly what every Repub talking head and surrogate and spokesperson needs to say immediately when asked about Governor Palin's experience:
When you put the Obama Resume up against the Palin Resume, Sarah Palin is more qualified to be President of the U.S.
That will put an end to that line of questioning reeeeeeal quick.
I think you’re right.
The talking heads will go wild tomorrow on MSNBC and the others but, MSNBC will accuse Zogby of rigging the poll numbers lol
I guess you missed the 2000 and 2004 elections? Don't take ANYTHING for granted. Please.
McCain/Palin are enjoying some strong, positive momentum right now. That won't always be the case.
lmao
and he had Obama by 10 in CA IIRC...
I just checked with my wife, and she said that's not true.
Yep...and I'm willing to bet that your scene is happening all across this country, in local bars and gathering places. And that will never show up in the polls.
I would not want to be in DC in August, or July for that matter. The humidity is stifling.
Everybody’s talking about the 40 Million people who watched Obama’s speech. I watched. You did too. We all watched Obama give the same old speech Kerry and Gore gave four and eight years ago. Same Sh*t...Different Color.
What we are gonna see here in the next few days is that everybody watched Obama’s speech just to make sure there really wasn’t something special they were missing and despite the fawning by the press and Oprah...there wasn’t.
By comparison, Palin spoke for 15 minutes and by the end, we were all thinking, “Wow, she sounds like us...made in America.”
Nope, at least with recent elections that's wishful thinking.
Agreed. Not only that, but Muslims are the foulest of hypocrites: If dirt-poor Joe Muslim strays by a millimeter, they'll behead him and his entire family and then really punish them, in that order.
But if President Obama-Hussein-Closet-Muslim strayed at any time in his murky past, well wouldn't ya know...conveniently there's an obscure passage or two in that toilet paper roll known as the Koran that says that such sins are "forgivable."
No wonder Muslims are attracted to the Dhimmocratic Party.
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