2 new polls: Obama-McCain tied, but McCain-Palin surge among women

LA Times ^ | 9/8/08 | staff

[pissant]

Suddenly, it's Poll City around here today.

As The Ticket reported earlier, the new Gallup/USA Today poll found a significant post-convention bounce for the John McCain-Sarah Palin ticket, a turnaround of 8 points to give the M-S ticket a 4-point lead over Barack Obama-Joe Biden.

A new political button for the Republican presidential ticket of Senator John McCain of Arizona and Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska

But now this afternoon come two more national polls essentially confirming the same trends with some significant subterranean changes:

-- the ABC News/Washington Post national poll of registered voters, which shows Obama's 6-point August lead has evaporated to produce a 47-46 Obama-McCain statistical tie,

-- and a CNN/Opinion Research poll, which shows the race still tied at 48% apiece but McCain making significant gains in how voters view his handling of the economy, Iraq and healthcare.

The most surprising results -- and surely the most disturbing for the freshman Illinois senator's camp -- are the immense gains McCain has made among white women following the Republican National Convention and the well-received prime-time speech by Palin.

[maine-iac7]

Remember that the polls for the Reagan/Bush election showed, the night before the election, that they were going to lose 2 to 1.

The 2 to 1 loss part was right - but it was the dems who got trounced.

Ever since then, I've taken the polls with a large grain of Kosher salt.

[Prole]

Same here.

I feel the need to grab a shovel every time a new poll is dumped on America.

[fortheDeclaration]

There’s an age-old word for candidates who rely on young people to vote: losers.

Or John Kerry.

[Darkwolf377]

In the lovefest for Palin that's been going on, I've seen little written about what I think is the other major reason for the bump. Of course, who's going to tell people about it, Andrea Mitchell and Olbermind?

The most successful part of the convention was that Obama's lack of experience is now on people's minds. I think before people who were mesmerized by his "charisma" (invisible to me) just ASSUMED someone running for the presidency had the credentials.

When they actually LOOKED, I think many undecideds were shocked by what they found.

[cherry]

its sad though to think that any American, in particular white Americans, would vote for that racist Marxist buffoon.. .