Posted on 09/06/2008 5:42:15 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
As each day passes, the McCain campaign’s brilliant strategy becomes clearer. It’s reverse rope-a-dope. They allowed that clevwer Chicago pol, Barry Obama, to stake his entire campaign on reform. They sat in idle as he picked the bloviator in chief, Joe Biden, to be selected as “balance” to Obama’s “reform” ticket. They then blew him out of the water with Sara Palen, a genuine reformer and hard core conservative. This allowed the more moderate, but definitely reformist, John McCain to emerge. Where, exactly, does Obama go? To well-deserved oblivion.
It will be fun to watch the wheels fall of this guy, and the expectations of him from his followers are sky-high for the debates.
The question is this. Will he be fed the debate questions prior to the debates?
When the Repubs are leading in the polls historically, they win.
When the Dihms are in the lead and it's close, they lose BIG when the 'great silent majority' votes.
I’m not a Zogby fan...in fact I think he stinks...
that being said I do like Real Clear Politics and am interested to see if they factor this poll in with their others...
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/us/general_election_mccain_vs_obama-225.html
Zogby’s last poll, about a week and a half ago, had McCain up by five but RCP never factored it in....
Rasmussen said that you won’t see the real results of the convention until Monday or Tuesday.
Good point. Thus McCain=50 and Obama=46. There fixed it. Go McCain!!
It might explain why Obama felt the need to attack Palin today. Their internals must be showing that they’re losing ground fast.
These online polls are even less reliable than the others, arent they?
Wow....We're up 4 even after being dowsed with Zogby's special sauce!
In real terms we're probably up double digits!
As I recall wasn't that the same number that dogged Hillary during the primaries?
At the very least the polls are moving in McCain’s direction.
With both conventions now over, who are you voting for?
McCain-Palin
85%
Obama-Biden
10%
Won’t Vote
5%
votes: 3291
I don’t know who the hell this “Hotline/FD” tracking poll they use is...that always seems way out of whack in hussien’s favor...
Really a perfect pick by McCain, and it completely preyed on Obama’s fragile ego.
Love your tagline! Heard Newt again this morning on cspan -what a brilliant and great conservative - I’d so love to see him run for office again.
RCP only counts telephone polls. They won’t include this one.
The best part is, for those Congresscritters to get any McCain coattails they have to get on the reform bandwagon. That sets up two possible narratives for next year:
1. McCain wins, and the narrative is McCain, Palin and an outnumbered reformist GOP caucus against the Pelosi-Reid corruption monolith. If they live up to it the 2010 midterm is a GOP year.
2. Obama wins, and the narrative is the competing visions of change, the Carteresque change of the student council president community organizer and the change efforts of the McCain led reformist insurgency in Congress.
The Obama camp has the look of an army that was attacked from a direction they never anticipated.
I’m not sure where Zogby had him last week, but I recall that some polls were showing Obama up over McCain by several points (with some putting him at 50%) before Palin’s speech.
“Heck Rasmussen and Gallup said the other day accurate numbers would not be in until Monday or Wednesday.”
Yes, I heard them say this as well - should be monday, I think.
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