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Gallup Daily: Obama Holds 5-Point Lead
Gallup ^ | 9/27/08 | Gallup

Posted on 09/27/2008 10:04:30 AM PDT by tatown

PRINCETON, NJ -- Barack Obama leads John McCain, 49% to 44%, when registered voters are asked who they would vote for if the election were held today, according to the latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking update.

(Excerpt) Read more at gallup.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008polls; electionpresident; gallup; mccain; mccainpalin; obama; poll
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To: TapsBrowning

Then you would have had a McCain +6 day that just dropped off? I don’t know about that...but you could be right. How do you arrive at these numbers?


41 posted on 09/27/2008 10:25:15 AM PDT by tatown (How to piss off a liberal: Work hard and be happy!)
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To: TapsBrowning

How did you get the breakdown of the days. Do you have it Rasmussen aswell?


42 posted on 09/27/2008 10:25:16 AM PDT by wiseprince
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To: All

This is REGISTERED voters!!!

Get a grip - IT’S MEANINGLESS!!!!!

In fact, it’s designed to elicit the exact reaction I’m seeing here!


43 posted on 09/27/2008 10:25:25 AM PDT by Cedric
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To: Chet 99
They do reflect that McCain’s suspend the campaign gambit did not work. It may have backfired.

I was telling everybody this, but FR was going on and on about it being a "masterstroke."

Kinda reminds me of when Newt shut down the government and how Clinton was able gain from that. Simply said, the center of the electorate reacts badly to this type of thing.

44 posted on 09/27/2008 10:26:01 AM PDT by ARCADIA (Abuse of power comes as no surprise)
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To: Chet 99

I think a little patience is in order. We don’t know the full fallout from the bailout yet. These current polls mostly oversample Dems anyway. There’s no way McCain is ahead among indies by double digits but still behind overall, which both the Washington Post and LA Times polls reported a couple of days ago. If the bailout goes through with some conservative House input, as now appears likely, McCain may come out of this the hero whether the networks report it or not. It’s not time to panic, but to get to work.


45 posted on 09/27/2008 10:26:02 AM PDT by nailspitter
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To: tatown

Well according to the same lamestream then he still loses because racial prejudice from those Democrats he loses 6-10 percent.... can’t win if they tell the pollster one thing and vote the opposite..... Thats the Rats for ya... Then they will cling to the polls and claim vote fraud.... Pathetic.


46 posted on 09/27/2008 10:26:07 AM PDT by tomnbeverly (America is dying your choice is to stand and fight or cut and run.)
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To: snarkytart

Following up on #33 - McCain’s numbers also took a hit after he was blamed for blocking the bailout.

The issue is confusing because polls are all over the place. The results change on how you word it. Ask “Do you favor a bailout for Wall Street fat cats?” and get one result. As “Do you favor a financial recovery assistance plan to prevent another Great Depression”, and you get another result. This is how people play games with polls - the wording of questions. Notice that the media rarely reports the wording of the actual poll question.


47 posted on 09/27/2008 10:26:17 AM PDT by Chet 99
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To: TapsBrowning

I don’t think this could be right. If so, McCain would have had a pretty good lead before the +17 day for Obama. Just my thoughts.


48 posted on 09/27/2008 10:27:26 AM PDT by tatown (How to piss off a liberal: Work hard and be happy!)
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To: tatown
This Obambi lead won't change until Tuesday or so. McCain needs to hit Obama hard on his ties to Raines, Johnson, Dodd, Frank, and others. He also needs to side with the American people on this bailout, which means opposing the Bush-Pelosi-Reid scam. My guess is that clueless coward Obama will skip the vote on the bill in the Senate, so McCain needs to be on the right side.

Why, oh why, does McCain never understand that the ‘Rats he bends over backwards to work with will stab him in the back at a moments notice for political gain? He wasted the first two days after the meltdown trying to be “nonpartisan” and blaming “Wall Street greed” for the crisis, while the ‘Rats and the media were blaming the GOP 24/7. Then, at last night's debate, Obama blamed the meltdown on eight years of GOP policies and McCain did nothing to repudiate that charge. He went on to win the debate once foreign policy issues were discussed, but why did he miss that opportunity in front of millions to mention that Obama’s cronies were the biggest culprits in the debacle?

McCain can win this, but only by being partisan as hell, not by being bipartisan in his dealings with an opposition party led by ideologically-driven leftist fruitcakes.

49 posted on 09/27/2008 10:28:37 AM PDT by puroresu (Enjoy ASIAN CINEMA? See my Freeper page for recommendations (updated!).)
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To: ARCADIA

It was a masterstroke.

In the future they’ll write books about it.

It’s only begun to unfold.

Relax.


50 posted on 09/27/2008 10:28:42 AM PDT by Cedric
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To: housedeep

The problem is, nobody apparently noticed the bracelet except for Freepers. It has not been mentioned by virtually anybody.

You are insane if you think that will hurt Obama.


51 posted on 09/27/2008 10:28:53 AM PDT by rwfromkansas ("Carve your name on hearts, not marble." - C.H. Spurgeon)
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To: Boiling Pots

Not a chance, Mac carried last night and will turn the tide.


52 posted on 09/27/2008 10:29:47 AM PDT by moose2004 (Drill, Drill, Drill, Drill, Drill, Drill And Then Drill Some More)
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To: itsPatAmerican

They need to offer an alternative. It is not risky most Americans oppose this give away. It all depends on the talking points. If the GOP can get on the same page they can win the day like they did with drilling.


53 posted on 09/27/2008 10:29:56 AM PDT by Maelstorm (This country was not founded with the battle cry "Give me liberty or give me a government check!")
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To: tatown

through yahoo news, an “analyst” graded the messiah and mccain.

of course, as expected, the messiah “won” the debate according to this “analyst”, he gave the messiah an A-

McCain got at least one C and ended up with B-

No surprises in reading the article.

Lord these people are desperate.

No surprise also that the advertisement on this article (on side) was an icon that said, “obama won the debate”.

I’m sure that they had that lined up with Time before the debate.


54 posted on 09/27/2008 10:33:15 AM PDT by machogirl (i)
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To: housedeep

keep dreaming....everything is trending against McCain....

the fact the Republicans refuse to hit the rats back hard and demand barney frank and chris dodd step down and do not ram down the throats of the media that their attempts to regulate Fannie Mae fell on deaf ears, legislation sponsored by McCain none-the-less, is one of the primary culprits of this....

this is turning into a repeat of ‘06; there was plenty of issues to hit the rats back hard but the GOP just took it....they are turning into yellow bellied skunks as far as I am concerned...I am SICK AND TIRED of watching them fight like little girls...

McCain kicked bottom last night and should be reaping the benefits- whoever runs the PR for the Republican party should be tried for treason....


55 posted on 09/27/2008 10:37:01 AM PDT by God luvs America (When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
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To: TapsBrowning

I question that as well.


56 posted on 09/27/2008 10:37:44 AM PDT by moose2004 (Drill, Drill, Drill, Drill, Drill, Drill And Then Drill Some More)
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To: tatown
State by state that is where the game is


57 posted on 09/27/2008 10:38:06 AM PDT by Fred (The Democrat Party is the Nadir of Nihilism)
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To: ARCADIA

If he simply announced he was returning to DC to work on the bailout, without saying the debate was off or suspending the campaign, I think it would have gone over well.


58 posted on 09/27/2008 10:39:16 AM PDT by Chet 99
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To: Chet 99

According to Gallup, the results tilt in favor of the Republican when they poll LVs. If this was a poll of LVs, McCain and Obama would be tied.


59 posted on 09/27/2008 10:40:31 AM PDT by Don'tMessWithTexas
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To: tatown
Not if the polling for Monday & Tuesday was pretty close. In fact, if those days were pretty close, and if McCain was up two on Wednesday, the 46-46 tie between the two on the poll released Thursday morning would make sense. Obambi surely went up huge in the Thursday night polling for the tracking poll to go from a tie on Thursday to a three point Obambi lead on Friday (after several days of Obambi slowly receding).
60 posted on 09/27/2008 10:41:27 AM PDT by puroresu (Enjoy ASIAN CINEMA? See my Freeper page for recommendations (updated!).)
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