Poll-itics: Not good enough, John Sidney McCain
By GottaLaff
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The latest Gallup tracking poll shows Sen. Barack Obama's advantage over Sen. John McCain "has been shrinking since the start of the Republican National Convention, and is now down to just two percentage points -- 47% to 45% -- too close to call."
The latest Rasmussen tracking poll shows Obama barely edging McCain, 46% to 45%.
Clearly, McCain is enjoying a bounce out of the GOP convention as he closes the gap with Obama. Today's numbers include polling done from Wednesday through Friday of last week; the Sunday and Monday numbers will include the full impact of McCain's acceptance speech. It should be interesting.
Nate Silver previews the next few days: "Last night and tonight should be among the best individual nights of polling that the Republicans see all year. If the best they can do is close the race to a tie, or an Obama +1 on those nights, they are not going to win the race based on inertia alone." This must be why they've re-started their "unpatriotic" campaign again. They resort to flag/flag pin issues when they have nothing else. And I think we've pretty much established that they have nothing else, because we know it's not about the issues.
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- September 6, 2008
On thursday night...
McCain failed to wear a flag pin during his acceptance speech. He must be a Taliban Muslim Al Qaeda terrorist commie pinko liberal named Hussein who attended a "madrassa" (ooh scary!) and wasn't born in this country etc etc etc...
Oh wait, no he's not, he was in a POW camp in Viet Nam where a prison guard drew a cross in the snow, forever cementing his deep Christian "agent of intolerance" faith.
The overall polls DO NOT MATTER. The only polls that matter are the state polls. Specifically we need to be watching:
NV (currently leaning BO)
MN (currently leaning BO)
IN (currently leaning The Patriotic Ticket) if we can flip this state, we win no matter what!
OH (currently leaning BO) BO winning this state would tip the scales heavily in BO favor
MO (currently leaning BO)
IA (currently leaning BO)
PA (currently leaning BO) we MUST hang on to this state at all costs!
FL (currently leaning The Patriotic Ticket) this state alone has the electoral votes BO needs to win - if we take FL, we win it all, period, lights out, close the door, send Palin in Comparison back to the ice pond.
VA (no recent polling info available)
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By DantebenutoSeptember 6, 2008 - 2:58pm