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ABC News: Obama Holds 'A Double-Digit Lead in Most National Polls'
NewsBusters ^ | October 17, 2008 | Michael M. Bates

Posted on 10/17/2008 12:29:27 PM PDT by Zakeet

On Thursday's ABC World News, anchor Charles Gibson's lead-off story was on the presidential campaign:

"Two weeks, five days to go, home stretch. Barack Obama and John McCain began today laying out their closing strategies. And while Obama continues to hold a double-digit lead in most national polls, it is the results in individual states that are all important."

The emphasis on Obama's supposedly huge, possibly insurmountable lead is used by some in the mainstream media to suggest the inevitability of a Democratic win. But you have to wonder, at least in this instance, what polls ABC News is examining. Obama enjoys a lead in most opinion surveys, but it's not as large as Gibson claimed.

Thursday's Gallup Daily poll showed a 49% to 43% Obama lead over McCain.
Rasmussen had it at 50% to 46%.
At Zogby, it was 49% to 43%.
The IBD /TIPP tracking poll showed the race at 45% to 42%
The RealClearPolitics poll average, which incorporates findings of 13 national polls, showed a 49.5 to 42.7 Obama lead.

Prospects for the McCain-Palin are not quite as bleak as some in the mainstream media would like. But that doesn't mean they'll stop trying.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008polls; abcnews; chucklestheclown; election; electionpresident; fakebutaccurate; leftwingconspiracy; lyingliars; mediabias; msm; partisanmedia; polls; propagandawingofdnc; yellowjournalism; zogbyism
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More garbage from the MSM!

1 posted on 10/17/2008 12:29:28 PM PDT by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet

They apparently were counting on their audience having a double-digit IQ.


2 posted on 10/17/2008 12:31:00 PM PDT by JennysCool (There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and the polls.)
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To: Zakeet

This is great!
Let them think that.
Then none of 0bama’s supporters will bother showing up to vote.


3 posted on 10/17/2008 12:31:10 PM PDT by counterpunch (It's the SOCIALSM, Stupid!)
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To: Zakeet
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4 posted on 10/17/2008 12:31:37 PM PDT by johnny7 ("Duck I says... ")
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To: Zakeet

My 17YO wants to know what these people are smoking! LOL Even she knows better than to belive this garbage.


5 posted on 10/17/2008 12:31:43 PM PDT by ninergold3 (By Election Day I'll Be An Anorexic/Alcoholic. . .Stress Sucks!)
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To: Zakeet
Charlie Gibson isn't intelligent enough to know what over sampling is about. It just makes it all that much more sweeter when they lose come November 4th and we get to watch all those cry babies!
6 posted on 10/17/2008 12:31:59 PM PDT by avacado (Barack Obama, the Cloward-Piven candidate)
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It seems Gibson has been struck by the same brainfart as Biden...Neither can count...*LOL*


7 posted on 10/17/2008 12:32:12 PM PDT by Boonie
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To: counterpunch

I agree.. His audience is filled with Obama-drones.

Old people are going to vote no matter what, and polling shows them leaning McCain overwhelming.

The MSM, trying to push the fake news is unwittingly keeping the flake voters away from the polls with this news.


8 posted on 10/17/2008 12:33:17 PM PDT by Onerom99
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To: Zakeet

WE’RE FINISHED! McCain can’t overcome a double digit lead! Might as well stay home. /*sarc


9 posted on 10/17/2008 12:33:52 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( God doesn't wear a wristwatch.)
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To: Zakeet

ABC...Charil is using the old sales technique..Always Be Closing”...selling to the American people that the deal is done!


10 posted on 10/17/2008 12:34:09 PM PDT by HappyinAZ
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To: Zakeet

It do appear as though Charlie has some severe mental problems. He let that Obuma Tingle go to his brain. Either that or they didn’t teach math were he went to school.


11 posted on 10/17/2008 12:34:15 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I'm just going to spread YOUR wealth around - Barack HUSSEIN Obama.)
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To: Zakeet

Since when is 2 a “double-digit” number? Unless they’re counting in binary....


12 posted on 10/17/2008 12:34:15 PM PDT by shezza (WWRD?)
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Wonder what will happen when McCain wins? I keep hearing about these HUGE poll numbers and to me it just sounds bogus. Are they (whoever they are) trying to get people to believe that Obama is winning, just to get chaos stirred up on Nov. 5th ?


13 posted on 10/17/2008 12:34:43 PM PDT by VairyAngel (Live or Die, I will stick to my belief in Jesus Christ no matter what may happen.)
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To: counterpunch
This is great! Let them think that. Then none of 0bama’s supporters will bother showing up to vote.

as long as McCain supporters don't get discouraged enough to stay home... this is my fear... i know FReepers won't... but those who listen to and believe the MSM just might do that... that's what the MSM is aiming for...

14 posted on 10/17/2008 12:35:18 PM PDT by latina4dubya
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To: Zakeet

The desperation from the MSM is incredible! It will get worse these next few weeks.


15 posted on 10/17/2008 12:35:22 PM PDT by truthandlife ("Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God." (Ps 20:7))
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To: Zakeet

Thursday’s
Gallup Daily poll showed a 49% to 43% Obama lead over McCain. +6
Rasmussen had it at 50% to 46%. +4
At Zogby, it was 49% to 43%. +6
The IBD /TIPP tracking poll showed the race at 45% to 42% +3

you just have to think like a liberal see:

6 + 4 + 6 + 3 = 19 = double digit lead for Obama


16 posted on 10/17/2008 12:35:55 PM PDT by edzo4 (Vote McCain, Keep Your Change)
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To: Onerom99

He added them all together and got 12, thus double digits.

charlie is an ass, but we all knew that.


17 posted on 10/17/2008 12:36:32 PM PDT by Cyclone59 (It is amazing how people are comforted by percentages)
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To: Zakeet
Special Comment - Obey Your TV

TUNE IN TO OBEY!

18 posted on 10/17/2008 12:36:39 PM PDT by feedback doctor (The first female president will be a Conservative Republican)
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To: Zakeet
Are they counting ones and tenths as double digits? Will it still be double digits if they were tenths and hundredths? 49.56%-49.43%, see .13%. That's two digits.
19 posted on 10/17/2008 12:36:56 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Obama: Spread the Wealth = Marx: From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs)
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To: Boonie

Charlie Gibson - your 2nd grade math teacher called. She wants to kick your ass.


20 posted on 10/17/2008 12:37:02 PM PDT by NetSurfer (BO stinks.)
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