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McCain/Palin Beating Obama/Biden in Zogby Poll
Polls Say Palin Helping McCain
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Pollster John Zogby:
"Clearly, Palin is helping the McCain ticket. She has high favorability numbers, and has unified the Republican Party. The striking thing here in this poll is that McCain has pulled ahead among Catholics by double-digits. On the other hand, Palin is not helping with likely voting women who are not aligned with either political party. The undecided independent women voters decreased this week from 15% to 7%, but those women went to Obama. Palin is also helping among men, conservatives, notably with suburban and rural voters, and with frequent Wal-Mart shoppers, who tend to be "values" voters who like a good value for their money."
McCain's favorability rating increased from 50% favorable last week to 57% favorable now, a significant jump that indicates the GOP convention was a success. Among independent voters, 61% now have a favorable impression of him, compared to just 49% who said the same a week ago.
Nearly half - 49% - said they had a favorable opinion of Barack Obama, while 50% they had a negative impression of him. Among independent voters, 47% gave him favorable marks, compared to 46% who said the same thing last week.
Among the vice presidential candidates, 54% said they now hold a favorable view of Palin, while 42% hold an unfavorable view. While 49% have a favorable opinion of Joe Biden, 47% hold an unfavorable view of him.
Just one week ago, 23% told Zogby that they did not know enough about Palin to make a judgment about whether they held a favorable or unfavorable view of her - but this most recent survey shows just 4% were unfamiliar with her - another indication that likely voters paid attention to the GOP convention this week, which won the highest television viewership numbers ever earned by an American political convention.
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I have to admit, I am starting to think I might actually vote for McCain/Palin.
The idea of voting for the first woman VP, and setting up the first woman president is pretty tempting.
Especially since she is a conservative.
R_T, Which Zogby poll are you quoting? The most recent I have seen had them almost neck to neck with Obama a hair ahead. If you scroll down further, it breaks down all the issues. McCain is rated favorably on some, Obama on some It's just too early to tell.
What a posttive spin you put on the support of WalMart voters. I have said before, if I could watch Palin for a couple of years, I might in the future vote for her. But not at this time.
"Presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama holds a six point lead over his Republican counterpart John McCain, a new CBS News poll finds." (CBS NEWS - 7 Sept., 2008)
McCain's volatility remains an ill feature for the man who would truly be the most powerful person on earth with the world's deadliest military at his disposal.
His fellow Vietnam POW, Phillip Butler, writes, "I can verify that John has an infamous reputation for being a hothead. He has a quick and explosive temper that many have experienced first hand. Folks, quite honestly that is not the finger I want next to that red button."
Moreover, McCain's volatile temperament does not exist in isolation. He parades about Washington with a haughty sanctimony uniquely his own.
After his career was nearly cut short by his profitable friendship with failed S&L owner Charles Keating, McCain reinvented himself as the Senate's chief moral scourge, calling lobbyists "birds of prey." Yet he raised money from firms with business before the Commerce Committee, which he chaired; his presidential campaign was financed and run by lobbyists; and he is advised on policy toward the country of Georgia by a lobbyist, his chief foreign policy aide, whose firm was paid nearly $1 million by the country of Georgia.
McCain has 59 lobbyists raising money for his campaign according to the latest report from government watchdog group Public Citizen.
McCain's most vaunted reform legislation, the McCain-Feingold bill, limited criticism of incumbent politicians like himself shortly before an election.
Blowing his stack while being simultaneously so certain of his moral rightness and so clueless in his hypocrisy would not likely lead him to reasoned foreign policy decisions.
Equally bad, though McCain constantly talks about foreign policy, he doesn't appear to understand much about foreign countries. True, he knows enough of other nations to routinely advocate sanctions, bombing runs, and invasions, but he doesn't appear to actually comprehend anything beyond their place in the Manichean struggle he imagines the world to be. It isn't just his constant gaffes – talking about the nonexistent Pakistan-Iraq border and confusing Sunnis and Shia (heck, President George W. Bush apparently didn't even know there was a difference between the latter two groups until shortly before launching the Iraq invasion). However, according to former CIA hand Phil Giraldi, the scuttlebutt among those who have briefed McCain is that he has developed no deep reservoir of foreign knowledge, even after spending a quarter century on Capitol Hill. Reports Giraldi: "When speaking with a genuine area specialist or expert, McCain frequently is primarily interested in stating his own perceptions and is not generally regarded as an attentive listener. Analysts do not like briefing him because he also becomes angry and sometimes personally offensive whenever anyone contradicts a view that he has expressed."
Sen. Barack Obama might not have made the case for why he should be president. But Sen. John McCain has made a strong case for why he should not be president.
Zogby: 9/06/08
The Ticket Horserace McCain-Palin Obama-Biden
9-5/6 49.7% 45.9%
8-29/30 47.1% 44.6%
"The post-convention bounce is now moving in the Republican direction, but with an enormous spread in estimates. A Gallup/USA Today (9/5-7) has an enormous 10 point McCain lead over Obama, 54%-44%. In contrast, Gallup's tracker over the same days shows a 5 point McCain lead, 49%-44%. Now would be a good time to note that the tracker is a registered voter (RV) sample, while the Gallup/USAT is a likely voter (LV) sample. LV samples typically are more favorable for Republican candidates, so at least some of this difference is probably due to these different sampling frames. We'll no doubt be talking a lot about this issue in days ahead.
But other polls on the same days show a tied race. Diageo/Hotline has the race 44%-44% and CNN has it 48%-48%. And Zogby's Internet poll done 9/5-6 puts the race at 50%-46%.
All of these are much better for McCain than the 5-9 point Obama leads we saw in the immediate aftermath of the Democratic convention."
What the pollsters cannot predict is the "Palin Effect". Speaking to many Republicans who were going to vote for McCain because he was the lesser of both evils, I am finding many of them are excited and anxious to vote for Palin.
While the left is certainly in a frenzy and putting out all sorts of dirt and lies about her, the right is energized and getting more energized. The centrist females who were not really too convinced about McCain but angry with Obama over the treatment of Hillary, are now talking about taking on Palin in 2012.
Have you heard of PUMA?
http://www.puma08.com/
Quote: P.U.M.A
An Open Letter to Democrats, Republicans, and Independents by DONEDems.com
An Open Letter to Democrats, Republicans, and Independents
by DONEDems.com
September 3, 2008
To whom it may concern:
We, as supporters of Hillary Rodham Clinton, are alarmed by the vile denigration of Sarah Palin and her family by unsavory elements of the media glitterati and the fringe left. These sensationalist bigots attack Gov. Palin’s motherhood, insinuating that she cannot ...
YOU are now part of the problem.