Mr. McCain needs to find a way to turn the Wall Street mess to his advantage somehow.
Obama leads them all in Quinnipiac Washington Compost poll. Why am I not surprised?
McCain needs to buck it up, swallow a bit of well-earned pride, and get Palin out there more!! Immediately.
She’s his secret weapon. She was what drove his convention bounce, and when she was pulled back, McCain started drifting in the polls again.
We all know McCain’s strong, a leader and braver than just about anyone. This election though, is about other characteristics than just national defense. It would be nice if McCain could win on the strength of his charm and charisma.
Thing is, Palin’s the one, with those.
Keep on attacking conservatives, McDumbass, rather than calling out liberals for things like the Wall Street collapse. Haven’t you learned anything?
McCain still has a tough uphill battle. My prediction that McCain would win was predicated upon the economy recovering sooner than anticipated and a foreign policy issue coming to the forefront.
The financial sector collapse does not bode well for McCain.
How can someone with absolutely NO accomplishments & a socialist to boot, be so close to being president of the USA? I mean, WTF?
Spare me! More incoming Obama push polling from these two Obama front groups .The Compost that is openly campaigning for Obama and this liberal polling group that seem to have contracts with leftist media outfits El Reuters and AP and AFP . Just a rerun of 2000 and 2004,The Dem media peddling phony polls to stop the Repub surge.
State polls are notoriously bad, especially in states with a low black population with a black candidate on the ballot (Bradley, etc.). The samples for these polls are quite small, and polls tend to be designed by pollsters to create the sort of news buzz their media clients want.
To get an idea of what is actually going on, look at what candidates are doing on the ground. Obama just closed offices in ND and GA. He moved more staff to WI. If Obama’s internals showed him as close in NC as some recent polls, he would be close enough in GA that he wouldn’t be ceding it to McCain, because the demographic breakdowns are not different enough to have a huge difference in support. If his internals showed him as close there or in VA as some polls, he wouldn’t be campaigning in Green Bay.
If it were as close as these polls show, McCain would be in Colorado instead of in blue states like WI, MI, and Pennsylvania. He wouldn’t have sent his #2 to shore things up in FL. He would have gone himself.
And the biggest kicker of them all: If McCain were really as behind as the liberal pollsters try to make him look, he wouldn’t have just opened up 50 offices in CA. California is the most expensive state to campaign in, and McCain is only going to open offices there if CA is closer than we see, and you can bet his internal pollsters are trying to be more accurate than the media pollsters, whose job is to create news.
Remember as well, shortly before we swept Congress in ‘94, polls showed Democrats with a 10% lead. The base has not been as charged up as ‘94 until this year.
Another day, another set of polls. Folks, this is a tight race. We still have to secure a few states like VA and CO, which are traditionally red. We are sitting well in traditional battleground states like FL, OH and MO. We are even doing well in NH. So there is still alot of work to do, but no need to hyperventilate.
Well I haven’t seen the internals, but there is no way Fauxbama is up 5 in WI or 4 in MI, at least not among the folks who actually likely to show up and vote.
A little birdie tells me we’re going to lose in Colorado this time.
However a victory may be stitched together for Mr. McCain, the victory strategy had better come up with something withOUT Colorado involved....
Just my thoughts. And I hope I’m proven wrong...
- John
Those numbers are amazing. Considering the margin of error, they are, for all intents and purposes, tied! In the last few election cycles, the Dems were ahead in the polls around this time.