Actually, I think this will make DNC Convention all the more interesting.
Posted on 08/20/2008 4:48:47 AM PDT by safetysign
In a sharp turnaround, Republican John McCain has opened a 5-point lead on Democrat Barack Obama in the U.S. presidential race and is seen as a stronger manager of the economy, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday.
McCain leads Obama among likely U.S. voters by 46 percent to 41 percent, wiping out Obama's solid 7-point advantage in July and taking his first lead in the monthly Reuters/Zogby poll.
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hundred??
Lower numbers pre-convention, bigger bounce post-convention.
REAl CLEAR politics Electoral College has FL, MO, IN, CO, VA and OH all in the undecided column. All of these states have McCAin leading at various margins. Still too close to call, but at what point are they “leaning” to McCAin. At what point are they in his column?
In short, McCAin’s lead is greater than it’s being reported.
This poll definitely leaves a big ole mark.
I do wonder what their real internals say. This is crazy for the dim not to have a double digit lead right now
Obama is depending on the notion that it is not acceptable to vote against him. He needs to depend on people’s discomfort over matters of race to convince them that they must vote for his “historic” candidacy. His only hope was to maintain this condition through the election, because once people have accepted the idea of voting against Barack Obama and for John McCain, the choice becomes about the merits of the candidates. Obama cannot win that fight.
The toothpaste is out of the tube. People realize that it is OK to vote against Barack Obama. There is no going back, for him. Barack Obama cannot win this election.
I was listening to NPR the other day , and they were talking politics, and they stated that Michael Dukasis had a 16 point lead in the polls immediately after the Democratic Convention in 1988..and we all know how that turned out.
By the way 1988 was the year I became a Republican. :-) Go McCain
Is there an antidote?
Half of this country, and a good part of the known world smells like that!
I remember back in ‘04 there came a time when people realized what it would really be like to have Kerry as a president, and stopped toying with the notion. Bush shot to over 50% in the polls.
Its time to start thinking about the historical position at this stage. Usually the frontrunner gets out to a lead and then fades into the end. In the rare, recent cases of a blow out, the leader goes into Labor day up at least ten points.
I think the because this thing wrapped up early on the republican side, that Obama got all of the attention coming into June. That put him “top of mind” amongst those people paying the slightest bit of attention.
Now, the “regular” Joe folks are starting to wake up to the fact that there is an election. Most of them are saying, “huh?”
The Dems will lose the average folks when they start talking about taking profits away from a company—any company and redistributing the wealth. Most Americans are for fair play. Windfall profits are not fair play. The average american will see the government taking money away from a company, and figure they are next.
The other thing that I’ve heard a lot about lately is the “Tax Credits” for college and other things. If I were running a private college and I knew that most of my parents are going to get a $4,000 tax “Credit” (not deduction), the first thing I would do is raise my tuition $4,000. Most Americans realize that is exactly what will happen.
My guess, from 80 days or so out....this ain’t gonna be close.
This was before Saddleback as it was taken Thursday to Saturday.
He’ll pick Hillary anyway, he was cover. Think about it...
This bought her time off from the reams of info on her coming out, he’s a ghost.
You know Hillary; You know she had info on Obama... she barely brought out anything, and vice versa (with all the info out there, documented and in the press, on record).
The use of campaign folks in a incestuous way, a lot of the same donors (to corner all the funds), the press wouldn’t turn on them for this guy, only by permission.
The diss of Hillary by Obama, that would never stand... especially the Soviet show trial which was the Dem Rules committee (I can’t stand her, but that was disgusting, mind you with many communists ala Wexler in the mix), I can’t see that happening like that... seriously.
Soros, the media and a mighty big hand has been over this election on the right and left, the people have had nothing whatsoever to do with these elections.
I said from the beginning it would be those two, after Op Chaos and all the dem racism and claims of racism, I figured maybe Obama’s head got big and he wanted all the muslims, hence he sought to use and throwaway Hill, as is his habit for anyone that helped him.
Remember, he was part of the voter drive for Clinton in 92, and his wife started the Chicago Americorps with Clinton there way back.
Long, short. You have three choices. soft socialism, communism, facism. Some choices.
Oh btw, this guy was groomed, the other point was his scrubbing of the web China style (Google also a huge contributor), the wiping out of actual blogs, lawyers sending warnings to sites, youtube videos and accounts wiped out and the deleting, changing, re-dating, creating false documents and actual news columns (don’t worry, I capture everything, and you can always hit the blogs), it is unheard of that there’s no cache and you can’t find a lot of items via the wayback machine. That’s beyond Clinton. Chicago is a corrupt sewer re: politics, but this isn’t a conniving, puffed up Alinsky skill... this is a Russian skill (where do you think Clinton and China got the ideas). Our press is Pravda now...
I think the strain showing on Obama's face yesterday tells the story. They know they are in deep trouble.
Yeah right...This is just padding before the convention. The day after the convention it will be “Reuters/Zogby Poll: Obama feels eleventy-billion point bounce after convention!”
The American people are figuring out that Obama’s mouth has been writing checks his brain can’t cash, and there will be a lot of finger pointing and hissy fits when he loses.
Yes, he can.
Actually, I think this will make DNC Convention all the more interesting.
Barack Obama is past his Pull Date...
Maybe even several hundreds.
you got it. Pubbies should be making plans to campaign against Hillary KKKlinton. At least a contingency plan.
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