Breaking: Zogby and Rasmussen Polls

The Obama campaign will try every trick in the book to drive women voters away from Palin, but the truth will come out, and they will look like fools:

http://texashillblog.wordpress.com/2008/09/03/ok-so-lets-talk-religion-palin-and-god/

Zogby has McCain ahead? Woah! They’re the most in the tank for Obama. Stunning!

woot woot
GO MCCAIN/PALIN!

Larry:

Yeah I noticed this too… I think Obama really blew it by not picking Hillary (but that choice has its own pitfalls as well)…

While Palin is not necessarily overwhelming attracting the “women” vote (since few vote solely on identity politics) she is immensely popular now given the “snooze” factor of McCain…

I saw this trend emerging a few days ago myself….

http://www.rightcommentary.com/2008/09/05/polling-bounce-from-the-rnc-convention/

I think this entire race is going to come down to Colorado and Virginia… and Obama has a slight advantage in both states.

Those young women are not going to vote in November. They are too self-absorbed to take the time to vote.

What HISTORY – WoW!

They will need to start planting a LOT of trees immediately for all of the BOOKS soon to come out and no doubt thousands more later.

The first decade of a new millenia – the US rights a terrible WRONG by self correcting an unbalanced planet.

McCain/Palin
Democratic Majority in Congress and Senate

thank GOD there will be balance~!~!

reverse landslide

back to even keel (we can only hope)

go Navy!

And when the numbers go south, B0 becomes a gaffe machine
http://edgeoforever.wordpress.com/2008/09/07/obama-i-wanted-to-join-the-army-but-with-no-war-to-fight/

Zogby is the BIGGEST pro-Obama poll and the least balance is now reporting that McCain is a head……… that shows you that Obama is toasted. GONE. DONE. OVER. Finally. Thank Good, Americans are smart.

I’ve said for months that this election would be a referendum on Obama and McCain is merely the UNbama. Even with the energy Sarah has brought, that remains true. When the revelations about Obama and his past start coming in, it will be Obama vs. Obama. I really believe the McCain/Palin ticket will win by at least 10 points.

Hey, anybody seen Kelvin lately? I wanna discuss these latest poll numbers with him, since he likes to come on here and talk about polls so much.

I’m not surprised.

Everyone seems to forget how many primary contests Obama LOST against Hillary toward the end.

Axelrod’s strategy was to get those delegates from the caucus red states by manipulating the caucuses early on.

I have a client in Colordao who said her district caucus was clearly taken over by Obama operatives and she saw – with her own eyes – people voting more than once.

With this early (stolen) lead Obama appeared to have momentum but it was an illusion.

The Superdelegates knew this. So did the DNC. But they hedged their bets on the “fact” that after 8 years of Bush “any” democrat could win. So they stabbed the Clintons in the back and rolled the dice with Obama hoping all those AA voters would give them most of the base.

Here’s where they were IGNORANT.

They under-estimated the intelligence of the American people.

They under-estimated how we felt about the Clintons (including many republicans).

They under-estimated how their tactics of bashing Hillary and manipulating the press to hang her out to dry would create a backlash.

And McCain – smarter than all of them, selected a woman daring them to bash her… and they could not resist.

Now the pent up anger at the sexism against Hillary, compounded by the attacks on Sarah, are turning people away.

The fact that the number of UNDECIDED has risen from 11% to 15% means Obama is losing people while McCain is gaining.

The fact that 40-million people tuned in to listen to McCain proves that in the final stretch of this election, people are taking a deeper look at McCain because Obama is starting to make them nervous.

His flip-flopping. His poor performance in one-on-one interviews, his prickly nature when he’s asked a question he doesn’t want to answer…

Everyone I know is saying the same thing — he’s a great orator but WHO IS THIS GUY?

I said it weeks ago when Hillary suspended her campaign. Obama will fail to close the deal.

And it will have nothing to do with race. It will be his failing because — without a teleprompter — he does not have the gravitas to be president.

McCain has the gravitas. It’s as simple as that.

I think McCain probably had most of the women voters he was going to get before he picked Palin. His outreach effort from the get go on Hillary was the right thing to do. These numbers are incredibly encouraging. I think the reality is that while Palin is definitely helping McCain, McCain is also helping himself. He is growing as a candidate and his team and Palin are really supporting him in that direction. The Catholic bounce is going to help him in PA. I think if McCain really makes an effort, he could take CA.

Interesting poll from Florida done after the McCain speech, by the reputable organization Survey USA:

In our latest poll out of Tampa for WFLA-TV, 52% of registered voters told us their opinion of John McCain went up after hearing his speech at the Republican National Convention last night. 18% say their opinion of McCain went down while 30% say their opinion of McCain stayed the same.

We asked voters who heard the speeches by both McCain and Obama to tell us who would do a better job with certain issues. Here is what they told us:

* Who has the better plan for Iraq? McCain
* For energy independence? McCain
* For Health care? McCain
* Who is stronger on the environment? McCain
* On education? McCain

And if Tampa voters were placing a bet today on who will be elected our next President? You guessed it…they put their money on McCain.

http://www.surveyusa.com/index.php/2008/09/05/tampa-over-half-say-their-opinion-of-mccain-went-up-after-speech/

Full results:

http://www.surveyusa.com/client/PollReportEmail.aspx?g=e3a24829-6f3f-4928-b30f-cb21804091f0

The polls are interesting today. I’m looking for more of a McCain bump. I want to see what they look like two weeks out. The media is still bashing Palin. LAT lists two women who have decided on Zero. WP pushing family -v- politics. Others pushing Zero’s chances in OH an IN. Oh yeah, and they keep trying to intimidate uterus voters. The media is doing it’s best to push down Obama and push Palin.

All I have to say, is I hope the Repubs have a pretty good tape. It’s too close and they are going to have to have something strong to overcome the media.

I live in VA

It will NOT be blue.. I am seeing mccain/palin stickers popping up like crazy everywhere..

I don’t know why they keep saying VA is purple..

the only chance the fraud had of getting VA was northern VA. southern VA and western VA are as red as they come..

Well, I live in northern VA, and its not a BO strong hold as people say, and most jobs here are military based, you either are in the military or you work for the DOD, or a DOD contractor…very very heavy military.. and they always tend to go republican

considering the fraud wants to cut the military spending…. that means job cuts in VA… so even if you like BO, people will not vote for him, b/c defense jobs will be lost, their jobs will be lost.

nope… VA is staying red as a tomato!

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AMEN!!!!!!!!

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Country first! I think there will be more of a bump once the Bill Ayers situation starts to grab hold. There are still too many people who don’t know Obama’s affiliation with the unrepentant terrorist.

Hi Susan, Larry, Uppity & Bud.
You know, there is really something WRONG with mainstream media not covering the stories you have on your front page today — Like all of the Ayers stuff — or the caucus fraud stuff RD has up over at the Confluence—

I’m pretty sure I’ve read Dr. Lynette Long here before but RD has something up that is a really important read for women — especially all the Hillary supporters — and RD has posts up today as well about Feminism—-
here is that letter of Longs –

http://riverdaughter.wordpress.com/2008/09/06/a-letter-from-lynette/

Your place is getting so BIG I can’t get in to leave a comment on the individual stories!
so this is a mass comment! To all!

Larry is correct on Palin — what concerns me is Hillary women and Palin women are two different animals in a way — Hillary set more urban, highly educated, feminists?

Palin is a good pick for all the small towners — who share her values. I trust McC. He is the DEM. I was going to vote for him in 2000–and I have been a DEM since Reagan! But I’m willing to go REPUB on McC alone. And, if everything is Dem in Washington maybe we need a REPUB at the top. He wants to REFORM! FAB MOVE! The way I see it — he is Teddy Roosevelt revisited!

hugs to you all!

Day 10 and still no interview/press conference with a serious journalist, conservative or liberal, for St. Sarah.

This woman is asking for my vote, yet won’t make herself available for public scrutiny? I’m supposed to just trust McCain’s judgement of her when it is clear he’s only met her once. What an F-in joke!

This is a foolish strategy by the McCain camp, IMHO. If she doesn’t get out there and do interviews and define herself, the media is going to define her.

Right now she is only a caricature who has proven she can read a speech written for her. She seems like a capable, smart woman…why does she refuse to answer questions? What is she afraid of? Doesn’t this bother anyone?

new Gallup poll has McCain up by 3!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.israpundit.com/2008/?p=2512#comment-24116

God Damn Hussien

Barack Obama — Magna Cum Saudi?
By INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Friday, September 05, 2008 4:20 PM PT

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=305508174916939

Election ‘08: Does Barack Obama owe his meteoric rise to an Israeli-hating adviser to a Saudi billionaire? Why did a race-baiting mentor to the Black Panthers favor this yet unknown community organizer?

In her stunning national political debut as the Republican candidate for vice president, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin described Obama as a man who had written two memoirs but no significant laws or reforms. So how did this unaccomplished community organizer rise to fame and fortune? He had some interesting help.

We know he’s a Harvard graduate and was editor of the Harvard Law Review. Less known is the story of how he got into the prestigious Ivy League university. As Newsmax’s Kenneth Timmerman reports, he was helped by a letter written by Percy Sutton, former Manhattan borough president and a credible candidate for mayor of New York in 1977.

In an interview earlier this year on New York’s all-news cable channel NY1, the 88-year-old Sutton made some interesting revelations about his relationship with the young Obama. He told NY1 reporter Dominic Carter on “Inside City Hall” that he was introduced to Obama by a friend raising money for him. The friend asked Sutton to write a letter in support of Obama’s application to Harvard law school.

“The friend’s name is Dr. Khalid al-Mansour, from Texas,” Sutton said. “He is the principal adviser to one of the world’s richest men. He told me about Obama.”

Sutton recalled that al-Mansour said, “There is a young man that has applied to Harvard. I know that you have a few friends up there because you used to go up there to speak. Would you please write a letter in support of him?” Sutton did.

According to Timmerman, “At the time Percy Sutton, a former lawyer for Malcolm X and a former business partner of al-Mansour, says he (al-Mansour) was raising money for Obama’s graduate school education (and) al-Mansour was representing top members of the Saudi Royal family seeking to do business and exert influence in the United States.”

One of those Saudi royals was Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, a nephew of Saudi King Abdullah. He was the Saudi prince who offered to donate $10 million to help New York rebuild after the terrorist attacks of 9/11. After the prince publicly suggested (as Obama’s pastor, Jeremiah Wright, did recently) that U.S. policies brought on the attacks, then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani told Prince Alwaleed where he could deposit his check.

Dr. Khalid Abdullah Tariq al-Mansour, born Donald Warden, is another interesting fellow from Obama’s past. He himself is a graduate of Harvard and has been a guest lecturer there. His writings and statements reveal him to be an ideological clone of the Rev. Wright, who married Barack and Michelle and baptized their children.

In his 1995 book, “The Lost Books of Africa Rediscovered,” al-Monsour alleged that America was plotting genocide against black Americans. The first “genocide against the black man began 300 years ago,” he said at a book-signing in Harlem, while a second “genocide” was on the way “to remove 15 million black people, considered disposable, of no relevance, value or benefit to the American society.”

Al-Mansour told an audience in South Africa that “the Palestinians are treated like savages,” something our worst ex-president, Jimmy Carter, as well as Wright might agree with. He has accused Israeli Jews of “stealing the land the same way the Christians stole the land from the Indians in America.”

When he was known as Donald Warden, according to the Social Activism Project at the University of California at Berkeley, al-Monsour was the mentor of Black Panther Party founder Huey Newton and his associate, Bobby Seale.

California Congresswoman Barbara Lee entered an official statement of appreciation of Warden and his Black Panther colleagues for their role in founding a radical group known as the African-American Association into the Congressional Record of April 23, 2007.

What did this radical extremist see in young Barack Obama that he would seek to sponsor and perhaps finance Obama’s education? Obama says he paid his way solely through student loans. How did they meet? Where did the money he raised come from? Now that we know who the father of Bristol Palin’s baby is, maybe the mainstream media will have time to find out.

Hey Kelvin the Absolute Zero you were gloating about the polls last week when Oblahblah was ahead. Where are you now? “The polls don’t matter!” now you say? LMAO.

My sister and I, both democrats, love Sarah. However, we are both middle age and know Roe V Wade is just an issue that both parties use to hold onto their base. After being legal for almost 40 years the Republicans would commit political suicide if they attempted to criminalize it. That being said, with the availability of the morning after pill, abortion should really only be necessary for a few circumstances and not for birth control anyway. Maybe more women will come on board as they get to know Sarah and some of these rumors play out. Although, I’ve often said women are their own worst enemies because they are often catty and have a hard time believing some women can be intelligent and strong without being a bitch.

Barack Obama — Magna Cum Saudi?

“Auchi that hurts!”
Backtrack Oblahblah

Mac/Palin ticket up 3 in the new gallup.
Whenever RCP adds the zogby poll, McCain will be ahead in polling averages for the 1st time!!!

I think the rnc really lanched their ticket into the statusphere over the week.

Poeple can dog McCain for his eloquence but the fact is, is he gave a speech that had me in tears.
Also, he DID give specifics on the economy.
He spoke of revamping the unemployment system which was made in the 50’s. He spoke of education in a great way and he exposed the truth of Obama’s tax plan.

Obama is all race,identity, and class warfare.
We have the 2nd hihgest corporate tax in the world.
THAT is why jobs are going oversea’s. It is cheaper to do business.
Answer me this, how do you expect to raise taxes on everything and everyone except those making under 150,000 a year when you are hiking the taxes on the companys paying them?
I might add that a family with income over 200,000 with a few kids is far from “rich”
And mcCain has a plan to raise the EIC for families to 7000 dollars. That is the biggest tax cuyt on working families in our history. He also plans to give familys a 5000 tax credit for Health insurance.
He gave specifics and they are specifics that are true and real. Unlike Obama’s FAKE tax cut for “95%” of working families.
The fact is, most poeple under 150,000 dollars, do not even pay income taxes. SO we will be footing the bill for this tax break to poeple who do not even pay.
Also, keep in mind that bill clinton made the same kind of promise and once he got in office said there was no way to do it with our budget.
OBAMA IS GOING TO BANKRUPT OUR COUNTRY. Ask any economist that is not working or supporting Obama.

I still insist these polls must be manipulated or that the pollsters are not reaching the common people in numbers enough to make the results reliable. How in the world is Barack Obama going to do better than McGovern or Dukakis among far-lefties, idealogical youth, and black people? He’ll get out his fellow ethnics in larger numbers, but they still comprise only 12% of the population, and, unless a race is close, they can’t carry any state for BO. Every since the announcement of Palin, I’ve noticed a huge downturn in the spirits of the Obamaniacs with whom I work. One of them previously told me that if BO loses, it will be the Hillary supporters who cause it. Guess they decided that those folks have just been welcomed into the GOP! I wonder if they thought McCain was just going to “let history be made” and make a feeble show of trying to win. Well, bots, history WILL be made, won’t it?

There was a month or two during the primary season that Obama would not meet with the press. All we were getting was his surrogates. Its BS when the media says it is only wanting to vet Palin. It sure as hell has not done a very good job with Obama and Edwards. The Rev. Wright thing was known and reported on by FOX. No other news outlet would touch it for almost a year. The same with Rezko. How about Ayers? It really has never been reported by any of the major news stations.The McCain campaign has played this like real professionals.It has been 10 days since McCain annouced Sarah Palin as his VP nominee and that annouce through today, the news has been all about her and very little about Obama and his VP pick. Biden who ????

You know, on the side I’m an aspiring screenwriter and I’ve done a lot of study of the “heroic journey” of our most loved characters.

There are thousands of heroic journey stories in history and in fiction dating back to the begining of recorded time.

Examples of a heroic journey template is the search for the Holy Grail — a cocky knight searches for the grail because it will bring him personal glory. But he faces many trials along the way, his ego torn down, his mettle is tested. He emerges changed and humbled with a true hero’s heart.

You see this same story repeated over and over. It strikes a chord in all humans.

The fact that even independents and democrats were touched by McCain’s story reveals that McCain’s “heroic journey” resonated on a universal level.

The simple, plain way he spoke. The way he revealed he was broken and changed from a cocky me-first pilot to a true patriot.

In terms of the psychology of storytelling, it showed the arc of McCain’s character as a man.

McCain has LIVED the traditional heroic journey. Obama has not.

And with McCain telling his story to 40-million Americans it is more powerful with a universal appeal than the DNC imagined.

Obama’s personal story is compelling but it’s more of a tribute to America. It’s a story about how anyone can make it in the USA and have a chance to be president. Even a bi-racial kid from Hawaii. Obama’s story does not depend on his personal trials and achievements.

Any AA candidate can stand on the “only in America” story.

But McCain’s story is a tribute to his own character as an American, as a man.

The DNC in their own hubris and arrogance really under-estimated the universal appeal of McCain.

And with the MSM essentially ignoring him until the RNC Convention it served McCain more than their hyper-coverage of Obama served Obama.

We have become bored with Obama. Bored with his loftly speeches.

And here comes a 72 year old man with this compelling story of his own heroic journey during 5 years of torture – 5 years!

The DNC were blindsided and I dount they’ll recover in less than 60 days.

Ouch: Gallup has McCain up by 3

Gallup Tracking 09/04 – 09/06 2765 RV 45 48 McCain +3

Rasmussen Tracking 09/04 – 09/06 3000 LV 48 48 Tie

I wouldn’t put too much stock on the polls this week if all they reflected were the conventions but I put some stock in that it reflects in some measure the public’s reaction of Palin’s pick and its rejection in part of the MSM take on her.

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I’m thinking the infatuation with Sarah Palin will wear off as soon as mainstream American voters figure out what Sarah Palin actually stands for: She’s a far-right Christian conservative, with far-right social views. That’s why she has so energized the conservative republican base. She’s a fundamentalist, pro-gun, pro-life, pro-profit, pro-Iraq kind of girl, whose self-characterization as a reformer runs contrary to her own lobbyist-assisted pursuit of earmarked federal dollars, both as a local and state-level politician. While she plays up taking on big oil, she simultaneously pitches opening up ANWR for oil industry exploitation and promotes the patently false argument that doing so will free us of foreign energy dependence. She touts her responsibility for a new pipeline project that was actually undertaken by her predecessor–a project that won’t even be undertaken until 2018, and will have no bearing whatsoever on our immediate energy problems. As with McCain, references to the alternative energy program we so desparately need to begin now are simply thrown in as politically expedient afterthoughts. About the only thing Palin actually has in common with Hillary Clinton is gender.

McCain–the one-time Maverick–shares most of those same views, and advocates most of those same policies. The current energy crisis is being used as an excuse to give big oil what they’ve been after for years: ANWR and offshore drilling. The fact that it wouldn’t effect our domestic supplies or prices for nearly a decade is totally ignored. Again, a crash alternative energy program that could free us from our dependence on foreign energy within a decade while simultaneously addressing climate change at no additional cost is reduced to a few vague comments. This certainly serves the interests of the oil industry–both domestic and Middle Eastern–but it hardly serves the future of the United States.

People surely aren’t so slow that they’ll miss one obvious truth: McCain policy is a continuation of Bush policy. This is true in the realms of economics, tax policy, international affairs, defence, the domestic social agenda, health care–you name it, it’s all the same. McCain’s voting record–90% in line with Bush policy–clearly demonstrates it. So does his campaign platform.

Which party has been in control of the White House for nearly 8 years? Which party has had a controlling majority of congress until only recently? So, who’s to blame for the war, the economy, the doubled national debt, the 41% decline in the value of the dollar, the sub-prime mortgage crisis, the weaking of our regulatory agencies, the rapidly rising unemployment rate? Which party got rid of laws mandating more fuel-efficient automobiles by way of court action? Which has pushed homeland security, while leaving our national borders wide open?

These are the people you’ll vote for in November?

If you were attentive, you may have noticed the emphasis Sarah Palin put upon the power of the presidential veto in a recent speech. If that wasn’t a tip of her hand revealing the cards they intend to play, I don’t know what would be. I figure the republicans have an obstructionist strategy in mind to keep a democratic congressional majority in check for 4 years. If they manage that, considering the present dissatisfaction with congress, we’ll probably see the republicans back in high gear by 2012. Our chance for change will have passed, and along with it the greatness of our nation. That will all be swept away in a tidal wave of unsustainable debt and foreign energy dependence. Our assets will be sold at auction to foreign investors.