Posted on 09/02/2008 6:40:33 AM PDT by ubaldus
Obama is up by 6 in today's Rasmussen tracker, by 5 without leaners (48 - 43). It is obviuos that McCain had a very bad polling day yesterday, something like 42-53 daily sample or even worse.
Some of it may be statistical noise, but it appears that all the noise around Palin selection is starting to hurt.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
1986 or 1988 when he was 22 years old is not exactly reecent is it?
Get your sh*t together and post facts or don't post at all. We're getting enough agitprop from the MSM. Your contributions to their efforts are MOST unwelcome.
Her husband had the DUI when he was 22. Would you mind understanding the full facts before you spout off. You sound like a lemming.
The pregnancy and DUI was known by the McCain team before he chose her.
Oh my goodness, did you know there was a fishing violation in their past? Oh no, gasp, this can't be.
Ummmm....you read that Todd Palin “RECENTLY” had a DUI. News Flash.....it was 22 YEARS AGO!!!!!! Can we do a fine tooth comb analysis on what Obama was doing 22 years ago????? Get your facts straight before you start to hurl crap like this around.
Problem is we need more than the base to win. Have to watch the state polls. I have felt from the beginning it would take a miracle from our Maker to win. Do we deserve that miracle? I say some of us do. LOL. Keep praying.
That's undeniably true, but we can still learn a lot from polls taken before then.
Bristol Palin's pregnancy is like getting a punch in the gut.
It takes the wind out of the GOP sails, just when it was getting in gear.
Plus, the Gustav storm took the minds off of the Republican convention.... just when the GOP needed good publicity.
Up until Sunday, the McCain team had been masterful at releasing info in a timely way.
McCain and Palin KNEW they would eventually have to make this pregnancy thing public ... they should have somehow figured a way to inform the public right up front, instead of having it look like it was a big deep dark secret that was outed by the left wing kooks.
How RECENT was it? I saw something yesterday that said 1987. Not is not exactly recent.
Recently?
You must be a troll.
A person who is not running for office, was not even married, was 20 years old, got a citation 22 years ago?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Has it been confirmed that McCain knew about the pregnancy when he picked Palin?
The more I look at the polls recently, the less I worry. Even this poll - Obama’s highest lead among LVs - is only 6 with leaners.
And the past week - DNC Convention, speech, hurricane, 24/7 non-stop personal attacks on Palin - has been all Obama paydirt. Still, barely ahead.
Now we have - for the first time since Saddleback - a chance to focus some positives on McCain nationally. Palin has the advantage of not just low expectations - but beneath-the-earth low expectations, and can shock the world by giving a great performance.
Mind you, all of the “dirt” will be old news very fast - it always is. The media jumped the gun on this - attacked too personal and too early - and will pay the price for being too eager.
The tide turns at the end of this week. The worst has past, and the sunny days are ahead of us. It only gets better from here, and the Obama folks know it.
I’m going to say this once, as a former Romney supporter, this was a good pick.. I don’t there would be much excitement with Romney. To be honest I’m quite disgusted with some of the Romney supporters who does not like this pick.
Certainly “We” know it, the American People however, do not know that, the idea that McCain knew she was pregnant has not been covered very extensively.
Bull... this poll is jaded.. but then they all are..
Let’s wait until all the polls shift from counting REGISTERED VOTERS to counting LIKELY VOTERS, which they haven’t yet done.
Then we’ll get a true picture.
Shouldn’t need to remind Freepers, but a lead in the polls for Obama can come from super-high majorities in the more populous states such as California and New York — but this doesn’t translate into an Electoral College majority by any means.
...”Crawford made one particularly interesting observation: he said that he reviewed the past 3 election cycles of Labor Day/post-convention polls, & in 2 out of the last 3, whoever was ahead on Labor Day lost in the general election in November....”
http://www.newshounds.us/2004/09/07/finally_real_polls.php
Interesting note, too.
Not sure they anticiipated the depth of what was coming, nor the 24/7 Bristol, the child.
So far the McCain campaign response to this indicates to me they are in too much shock to think, let alone speak or act. Hope I am wrong.
Hillary got 18 million votes, assume 50% of those were from women... that’s 9 Million women. If you assume 10% will vote McCain/Palin so they can vote for a woman and/or spite Fauxbama, that’s nearly 1 Million votes.. that’s a very significant amount of votes in an election that will likely have about 110-120 Million voters total.
The idea that democrats went home post convention is not suprising. The question is how strong they are for the guy, and Fauxbama’s support even among dems is not deep. These numbers can change, but even if they don’t victory is not going to come from the 80% of dems who are going to vote dem regardless of the nominee, or the 80% of repubs who are going to vote R no matter who the nominee is. its the 40% of the rest of the voters who will decide the election.
Um, his DUI was in 1986.
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