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The ABC NEWS/Washington Post Poll to be released after 5:00 PM gives Obama a "slim advantage", "breaking out of a long-running deadlock" that conveniently coincides with a move from D+3 Friday to D+6 today. Alert Drudge.

This video is hilarious IMO! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4vaDvKKan4&fmt=18

Instead of fretting over polls or giving Obama any credibility or ratings by watching his stupid infomercial, sign up at the McCain-Palin campaign web site to make some phone bank calls. It is easy, and my wife and I are going to be doing it until this election is decided. We have kept it simply and basically say that we are so and so, a volunteer calling on behalf of the McCain-Palin campaign. We are wondering if John McCain and Sarah Palin can count on your vote next Tuesday on Election Day? The only follow up then that might be...

I really think that the McCain campaign should openly mock Obama's infomercial in the next couple days. But it needs to be done in a funny way that people can identify with too. Something like the following might work: "I guess Senator Obama gave a 30 minute infomercial last night. Unlike some of those fad items that Americans buy after watching a late night infomercial, unfortunately there won't be any 30 day return policy with this one. And on top of that the taxes are HUGE if you end buying what he is selling.

I found this video pretty funny and quite true also. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bClMnGPwmUc

Frankly I am really disgusted with the horrible analysis by the Fox News "round table" of pundits. 1. They set McCain up before he ever debates by assuming that he is down by some large amount, which isn't true in all of the polls. So therefore he needs a "knockout", which who the heck knows what that is. 2. If these idiots were actually truly following this race and providing good analysis they should have said that while McCain did not score a "knockout" he should have both pleased his base and possibly opened some new attack fronts with the...

Okay, everyone likes to talk about polls so much. Well, how about we look at some 2004 exit poll data and apply some common sense from what we are actually seeing on the ground too. There was 37% Democratic turnout (same as Republican makeup) on Election Day, which means there were about 44.77 million Democratic voters that day. Per the exit polls Kerry received 89% of Democrats (same as Gore did), which means that he received about 39.85 million Democratic votes. For sake of argument, let us assume a similar total voter turnout of 121 million, yet give the Democrats...

Okay, I know that there must be some people on here that could actually get some solid ideas to those that matter in the McCain campaign. After watching recent events and seeing John McCain's stump speech in Wisconsin this morning, I am convinced that this is the simple winning strategy for the McCain campaign. Obama is clearly seeing a major benefit from anxious people on the economy, and the McCain internals likely show this in a serious way too. The economy is by a huge margin the single most important issue to the voting public. Obama is just playing out...

Okay, I could definitely use any advice from fellow Freepers as I don't know that much about financial planning. I am 34 years old, and my only investments are in a Rollover Retirement IRA with T. Rowe Price that I created when switching jobs and rolling over my prior 401K. This is invested in a single 'Retirement 2040' fund targeted for pretty agressive long term investment. The rest is in my current company's 401K plan with T. Rowe Price where I created my own long term aggressive portfolio that has generally performed about what the rollover account has done. The...

We may lose this election, but I think we ought to demand some accountability of a "respected" polling outfit like Gallup. Allowing use of a registered voter poll to be trumped on CNN and Fox with a large Obama lead can deflate those on our side. Call and/or e-mail Gallup and tell them to start posting a likely voter version NOW, and let the chips fall where they may. This is totally irresponsible to be reporting only a registered voter poll this late when NO other tracking polls are doing so and when you are supposedly such a respected polling...

I am glad that the McCain campaign and the RNC are starting to fight back hard, and they earned another donation from me with Palin's remarks on Obama's associations. Of course we can all argue on how well anything has been run at any given point, but I will be satisfied that we have done our part if we expose the facts and let America decide where to head. Take some time to make some calls for the campaign, talk to friends and family, whatever it takes. I don't want to regret not having done whatever I could personally do...

As if Palin hasn't had to deal with enough, Major Garrett just completely smeared Palin a little while ago on Hannity & Colmes. He basically mocked Palin as needing to be more prepared because she couldn't even cite McCain's request for more regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac when Katie Couric asked her to cite examples. Well, Mr. Garrett who gets paid lots of money to cover the election campaign (he travels with the Obama camp), how about you actually have a clue what you are talking about before you open your mouth. Hold your self to the same...

The more that I learn about Obama it is clear that this is much more than a fight against a Democrat with many moral failings in Bill Clinton; this is the most serious attempt at a power grab by the true socialists/Marxists that this country has ever seen. The media will never adequately address these issues, and the McCain campaign can probably never truly touch certain things. So that leave it up to all of us to send e-mails, make phone calls, talk to people around the office and generally make everyone around you well aware of the fact that...

1. Okay, we all know that John McCain is not the rabid conservative that many of us would dream of (neither was Bush as it turned out). But darn if he isn't growing on me big time with his "straight talk" style, and I actually do believe that he would shake up things in Washington with Governor Palin on the team too. It would be great just to see Washington have to deal with the two of them. 2. Given the overall dynamics this election cycle and the energy of hate on the Democratic side, it would be naive to...

For Freeper poll watchers, this is an interesting article about party identification. This is really the reason that Rasmussen has not shown the same gap for McCain that Gallup has recently, as Rasmussen is weighting his poll according to a full 90 days prior survey of what he believes the makeup by party will be come election day. I guess that we will all find out on November 4th, but I personally don't think that this is a traditional situation where the increase in Republican party identification or leaning will decrease to levels that Rasmussen is currently weighting his polls...

I know that most on here are ticked off and supporting Governor Palin, but for those worried about the attacks and any polls of the moment consider the following: 1. This election was always going to be a dogfight given the political climate; does anyone believe for a minute that the polls would suddenly turn great with Romney or Pawlenty on the ticket with McCain? Having said that, Palin has fired up conservatives (me included) for this ticket at a level that was not possible with the other known choices at least. 2. If you assume that the base is...

Many of the Democrats have expressed glee over the fact that Hurricane Gustav is going to disrupt the Republican convention plans, once again showing their true colors when a major natural disaster is about to hit an area where people are still trying to recover from the prior hit. Comments have even included references to the fact that God must be on their side, well what if God is outflanking the Democrats? Consider the following: 1. Republicans have taken political hits for the reaction to Hurricane Katrina (much of it unjustified IMO), and this gives them a national stage to...

Just saw on Zogby's front page that his final national poll and battleground state polls and his prediction will be available at 5:30 tomorrow. That is sure big of him considering there will likely be some indication publicly (certainly through the grapevine) about the turnout in certain areas etc. What a freakin' joke! LOL :) Final National/Battleground States Poll and Prediction Available: Tuesday November 2nd at 5:30 PM

Zogby's comments with his poll on his site today (Bush 48% to Kerry 47%) indicate that Kerry led by 5 points in yesterday's single day polling. Here is what others had posted were the likely approximate single day numbers that led to the Bush 49% to Kerry 46% lead in yesterday's 3-day average: B 51 - K 47 yesterday B 46 - K 48 Sunday B 50 - K 43 Saturday ===================== B 49 - K 46 3-day average Zogby himself said that Bush polled at 50-43 on Saturday, and I believe that he indicated somewhere on radio or elsewhere...

Now I know why the DUmmies board has an audience. I just got done talking with a liberal "friend" at work, and he bet me lunch that Kerry will win this thing easily by breaking over 300 electoral votes. He was citing Rasmussen's poll of all things and the fact that an incumbenet under 50% will lose due to undecideds breaking for the challenger, blah, blah, blah. He simply ignored the fact that the RealClearPolitics average of polls still has Bush with a several point lead and the fact that his buddy Mr. Zogby doesn't even have Kerry ahead at...