I have a lot of friends who are moderate Republicans and they as a rule, don’t like the Palin nomination. They were hoping for Romney . . .And now the base is upset by the pregnancy news.
weekend numbers before the hideous left came out on the attack. No worries, the media always do this.
The McCain camp needs to fight back and fight back hard against the Palin attacks.
Step one, remind the public that Obama is the one running for President and has no experience whatsoever — except his work with terrorist Bill Ayers. START RUNNING ADS AGAIN!
Step two, get Palin out there to speak and to put a face and voice to all of this ravaging media. SHE needs to turn the tables before these stories stick.
It was Labor Day. All the left wingers were home watching the tube ................
Sarah got more votes in Wasilla than Biden got in Iowa.
This is what happens when you play “democrat” because of a storm that hadn’t even hit anything yet. WHERE is McCain? I could understand this if it was AZ being threatened and I do understand how it might look to the media and the dums but I just think it was ridiculous to stop the convention. That was exactly what the other side wanted.
Obamas support is very soft, and the pollsters are oversampling the democrats.
Wait until Palin speaks at the convention. And wait for the debates. The Palin - Biden, will probably be the most watched vp debate ever.
The pregnancy of Palin's daughter is gonna hurt McCain ticket..... simply because a teen pregnancy goes against everything the Republican Party stands for.
And I love Sarah Palin, and identify with her family life because it mirrors things which happened to my family.
But now I read in the local newspaper today (Tuesday) that Sarah's husband Todd recently had a DUI.
Not sure if that's true, but it's just one more thing that will ruin her reputation as a model citizen....
And after all, these Presidential campaigns are as much about atmospherics as they are about actual accomplishments.
Why the hell was Todd Palin drinking and driving, (if that is true).
By time someone has five kids, is pushing 50, and is a responsible adult, they know enough to not get behind the wheel if they've had too many.
I don't mind saying I'm disgusted.
Not good. Not good at all.
Everybody needs to avoid getting in a funk!
This was a holiday weekend and there was a lot of “noise” in the media. By the middle of next week we are going to have a very clear picture of the situation.
For now just smile and talk up Sarah Palin to your friends and neighbors...thats “TALK”...not argue.
Kerry +15 at this time 4 years ago. 527s will be extremely effective, because 0bama hasnt been vetted yet.
I was expecting Obama to get a much bigger bounce out of his convention. If that were true, it wouldn’t be a surprise for McCain to be down some points right now anyway. So, don’t get too down. The worst part is the media will try to give it more traction than it really merits. We can’t get complacent now. I try to get to Politico regularly and pound on the McCain-haters using facts. It isn’t going to change their mind but I do notice after a couple give and take posts, the haters seem to disappear. They have to know the Bush way of not answering the slime will NOT continue. That said, I pick my battles. I refuse to get drawn into a debate over how the price of McCain’s shoes makes him an elitist. Actually, I laugh alot.
Dukakis, Gore and Kerry all had double-digit leads following their conventions. Obama can’t manage more than 5-6 points. And the GOP hasn’t even gotten started on their convention.
This is bad news for the rats not for the Republicans.
What would one expect? Number one, the convention hasn’t even started...but I’m surprised with all the negative 24/7 coverage of Palin that he only got a 3 point bounce out of it. I haven’t seen a feeding frenzy like went on yesterday since Thomas or Bork.
Here’s how I feel about the whole thing. I think McCain did the right thing in picking Palin. If he had picked Romney, we would have heard houses/rich white men/ etc from the press all day yesterday which also probably would have resulted in a drop in the polls. No matter who McCain chose, it was going to be negative. David Brooks said he should have chosen Bob Gates or Portman, that’s a laugh, what would the press have said about them.
So McCain did right...and remember everybody counted him out in the primaries too, but he perservered. I don’t agree with him on a lot of stuff, but I think he has grit and the determination to stay in there and fight. That’s the only thing that’ll win for him because Obama is the favorite whether we like it or not.
Just have to wonder who they poll. I also have to believe that they somehow cook the numbers to influence voters. These pollsters have been wrong before!
Davis and his crew had to anticipate all of this when SP was vetted.
The counterstrike is going to be hard and damaging. We will see a turnaround once the convention gets going IMO...
Bull... this poll is jaded.. but then they all are..
Let’s wait until all the polls shift from counting REGISTERED VOTERS to counting LIKELY VOTERS, which they haven’t yet done.
Then we’ll get a true picture.
Shouldn’t need to remind Freepers, but a lead in the polls for Obama can come from super-high majorities in the more populous states such as California and New York — but this doesn’t translate into an Electoral College majority by any means.
...”Crawford made one particularly interesting observation: he said that he reviewed the past 3 election cycles of Labor Day/post-convention polls, & in 2 out of the last 3, whoever was ahead on Labor Day lost in the general election in November....”
http://www.newshounds.us/2004/09/07/finally_real_polls.php
Interesting note, too.