Rasmussen poll: Obama soars to a 10-point lead

Union Leader ^ | January 5, 2008

[DogandPonyShow]

A major national pollster says that Hillary Clinton has fallen well behind in New Hampshire after her third-place finish in Iowa.

Rasmussen Reports, in a telephone survey of 510 likely Democratic voters on Friday, found 37 percent backing Barack Obama, 27 percent for Clinton, 19 percent for John Edwards and 8 percent for Bill Richardson.

Rasmussen projects that 40 percent of the Democratic ballots will be cast by independents, not registered party members. The poll's admitted margin of error is 4.5 percent.

In Rasmussen's last New Hampshire polling, before Christmas, Clinton led Obama by 3 percent.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Hit the road Hillary!....and just keep going!

[Turborules]

I know what you say is possible...the money to win votes exists, but for how long if PIAPS keeps losing the primary states?

the Clintoons have jumped the shark! Just read all the Blog post around the web...everyone that was on the fence has jumped to Obama...hell when even Bill Richardson just off the Clintoon Band Wagon...who’s next? maybe Bill himself, declares he just can not stand being with the Loser “Wife” knowing that all he has tried to reclaim as some saving of face will be trounced over and over with her lose...

\so after NH through your hands up Billybob and declare your undying love and support for Obama early so that Roving Lecher, I mean ~Ambassador thing can still happen?????

[rhombus]

Hey I'm a boomer too. We were the first generation raised entirely on television and the growth of the MSM. We were marketed to death and sold quite a bill of goods - Rock and roll, revolution, peace and all you need is love. Then we did what every generation's parents do and indulged our kids with more than we had. Technology marched on and our pampered children were driven crazy with too much choice. So many of them just take primal survival for granted. For them, it's a hard rains a gonna fall. But we still shouldn't forget that some of our children's generation did step up after 9/11. They volunteered and are still volunteering to fight a war against worldwide terror organizations. Good for them. Maybe some of the generations that came after us boomers learned something of value from both our successes and our failures.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

I know it’s WAY to early to break out the champagne, but this is getting good!

[Plutarch]

Its really too bad, because Clinton is the Dem equivalent of "Easy Kill" Huckabee.

Hopefully, the Clinton Machine will have enough inertia and tricks to get her to the nomination.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Obama’s chance of winning the general election is miniscule.

[lapster]

Good analysis. The current generation does seem to have the seeds of overcoming our rancid influence. But, boy, the toll we have taken on our country.

[tennmountainman]

“threatening those people not to jump ship”

Would that threat include a “visit” to Fort Macy Park as pictured by Post # 36?

[SamAdams76]

With not much to choose from on the GOP side, conservatives all over the country are going to be taking a Dem ballot just for the pleasure of voting against Hillary.

That's the main reason I stay unenrolled (Independent) in Massachusetts. I love taking a Democrat ballot during the primaries and sticking it to my most despised liberal, only to vote GOP in the general election. I'm looking very much forward to helping to stick a fork in the Wicked Witch of the Ozarks here on Feb 5.

[LiveFree99]

She will not go without a fight. I just drove through downtown Nashua and the Wicked Witch's flying monkeys were out in force--must've been 20 hacks with Hillary! signs doing a standout at an intersection.

Oh, it'd be so sweet if Osama blows her away in New Hampshire...I'd be tuning in to see her "concession" speech for sure!

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

what if Hillary loses in NH and then decides to torpedo Obama so she can run in 2012?

In 2012 she'll look worse than "The Mummy".

[Riverman94610]

True,but if we ARE going to fall to socialism,I would prefer The Commissar to be Obama than The Witch.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

Obama’s chance of winning the general election is miniscule.

Indeed. And her chances are not much better. When the Dems wake up and wipe the pixie dust from their eyes, they will do what Dems do and ditch both these losers for the white boy with the drawl and the thick hair. May he lose also.

[Marathoner]

I just want Hillary! out of our faces ASAP.

Oh,believe me I agree 100%.Obama really scares me, though, because he does have a likeable personality. I fear too many people will buy into his Rodney King "Can't we all just get along" schtick and overlook what he really is, a hard core Socialist.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

With any luck, when the Dems throw Obama under, they will p.o. the black voters enough to shake a few loose.

[hinckley buzzard]

Tell you what it appears to be: The young voters have had enough of Boomers

At the least, it has been sixteen years since the Clinton PR offensive and the Hillary-worship began, seven years since they slunk out of the White House. That means a lot of young voters don't get the Clinton deal and couldn't care less about Billyboy and his skank.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

I’d say that’s about right. Feb 5th is the “do or die” day for BOTH parties.

[hinckley buzzard]

Just had this thought - what if Hillary loses in NH and then decides to torpedo Obama so she can run in 2012?

Well, it's now or never for her. I think even as we speak we may be witnessing the phenomenon of time passing someone by.

[rightsidenow]

I am with you, there is nothing fair and balanced about Fox News. They have given the Clinton’s more air time than anyone else. Mr. O’Reilly has been out there since day one telling everyone that Hillary will when the Democratic nomination. I have watched Fox News for 5 years now and they have changed, they are not they same fair and balanced network they used to be.

[LiveFree99]

My dream is for a long, drawn-out, extremely bitter contest between Osama and the Beast, with her going medieval on his behind with tons of negative ads. Shrillary gets the nod in the end, but at the cost of totally alienating black voters, who then stay home in November.