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Obama takes 10-point lead on McCain
Reuters ^ | October 21, 2008 | John Whitesides

Posted on 10/21/2008 11:08:08 PM PDT by americanophile

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama has expanded his national lead over Republican John McCain in the presidential race to 10 points, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.

Obama leads McCain 52 percent to 42 percent among likely U.S. voters in the latest three-day tracking poll, up from an 8-point advantage for Obama on Tuesday. The telephone poll has a margin of error of 2.9 percentage points.

It was the third consecutive day Obama gained ground on McCain as the two begin the final sprint to the November 4 election.

"Obama just keeps growing, he has expanded his lead among almost every major voting group," said pollster John Zogby. "McCain seems to be out of steam for the moment."

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


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008polls; bravosierra; bs; lies; malarky; mccain; obama; poll; postedagain; propaganda
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...believe of it what you will.
1 posted on 10/21/2008 11:08:08 PM PDT by americanophile
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"He (Obama) now has the support of 21 percent of self-described conservatives"

My As*!

2 posted on 10/21/2008 11:09:25 PM PDT by americanophile
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It is designed to discourage republicans and keep us from voting.


3 posted on 10/21/2008 11:09:33 PM PDT by television is just wrong (The Democrats have lost cabin pressure and the oxygen masks have dropped.)
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Zogby/Reuters/C-SPAN.

Moe/Larry/Curley.

4 posted on 10/21/2008 11:09:59 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("I'm just going to spread YOUR wealth around." - Barack HUSSEIN Obama a.k.a. Barry Soetoro)
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Doesn’t matter, but winning the electoral college does.


5 posted on 10/21/2008 11:10:06 PM PDT by TheThinker (It is the natural tendency of government to gravitate towards tyranny.)
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To: americanophile

I believe that this poll has been posted TWICE already.
Search Zogby.


6 posted on 10/21/2008 11:10:23 PM PDT by snarkytart
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...well, it just came out 55 minutes ago on Reuters, so if so soooorrrryyy! geese.


7 posted on 10/21/2008 11:11:13 PM PDT by americanophile
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The telephone poll has a margin of error of 2.9 percentage points.

I did telemarketing for about 3 days some years ago. I think they misplaced the decimal point on that margin of error.
8 posted on 10/21/2008 11:11:59 PM PDT by allmost
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A total fabrication.

At the same time Zogby’s swing state polls show a tight race! Can they possibly have it both ways at the same time?


9 posted on 10/21/2008 11:13:23 PM PDT by devere
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Imagine if you will...a world where pollsters lie to the public...a world where members of the media create the news they report by commissioning polls...a world of drive-by character assassinations...a world where war is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength...you have just entered...the Spin Zone...*cue the creepy music and Shatner’s looks of anguish*


10 posted on 10/21/2008 11:13:36 PM PDT by stefanbatory (Do you want a President or a King?)
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I wouldn’t be so sure. McCain’s mortgage plan is pretty interventionist.

I think the McCain campaign has flailed ever since the financial crisis. Until then though McCain was doing fine. We’ll see if this is just statistical noise over the next few weeks.


11 posted on 10/21/2008 11:14:05 PM PDT by DiogenesLaertius
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YES...its the electoral college period....

I worry about Ohio and Virginia and Colorado and Florida and Missouri...but other than that, I don't worry.....:)

12 posted on 10/21/2008 11:15:08 PM PDT by cherry
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“Obama just keeps growing, he has expanded his lead among almost every major voting group,” said pollster John Zogby, chief Arab pollster and personal friend of Obama. “Yes, Allah also told me Obama will win when my goat published a memoir... amazing!”
13 posted on 10/21/2008 11:16:21 PM PDT by Blind Eye Jones
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To: Blind Eye Jones

hehe!


14 posted on 10/21/2008 11:17:11 PM PDT by americanophile
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To: americanophile

Bravo Sierra!


15 posted on 10/21/2008 11:19:20 PM PDT by rdl6989 (What isn't above Obama's pay grade?)
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To: cherry

I’m not worried about Florida. I’m hopeful about Ohio. Virginia and Missouri are big question marks.


16 posted on 10/21/2008 11:24:13 PM PDT by TheThinker (It is the natural tendency of government to gravitate towards tyranny.)
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To: americanophile

This $hit is starting to smell like Psy Ops to me.


17 posted on 10/21/2008 11:25:22 PM PDT by Always Independent
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18 posted on 10/21/2008 11:26:35 PM PDT by RasterMaster (DUmocrats - the party of slavery, sedition, subversion, socialism & surrender)
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To: DiogenesLaertius

Mac hasn’t failed. Our economy and government failed. Mac is taking the heat for it.


19 posted on 10/21/2008 11:27:02 PM PDT by fantom
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21% of conservatives voting Obama? That’s got to be either a joke or people lying saying they are conservative.


20 posted on 10/21/2008 11:29:17 PM PDT by jerry557
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