Poll: Obama extends national lead over McCain
By The Associated Press – 1 hour ago
THE RACE: The presidential race nationally
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THE NUMBERS
Barack Obama, 48 percent
John McCain, 40 percent
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OF INTEREST:
Obama's lead in the Pew Research Center poll is slightly larger than his 3 percentage point edge in May. While interest in the race is generally high, it has risen more among younger than older voters since the 2004 campaign. Four in 10 say Obama's national inexperience will hurt his candidacy, about twice the number who say he'll be hurt by being black. Half say McCain, 71, will be hurt by his age. Eight in 10 who supported McCain's Republican rivals for the nomination now support him, compared to seven in 10 Clinton backers now behind Obama. A third of registered voters say they are undecided or may change their minds — far more than said so at this stage in 2004. Independents are evenly split between the two. Obama is doing better with voters under age 50 than Democrat John Kerry was at this point in 2004. But he trails McCain among voters 65 and up — a group Kerry was leading then. Twelve percent say Obama is a Muslim when in fact he is Christian, about the same proportion who said so in March.
By The Associated Press – 1 hour ago
THE RACE: The presidential race nationally
___
THE NUMBERS
Barack Obama, 48 percent
John McCain, 40 percent
___
OF INTEREST:
Obama's lead in the Pew Research Center poll is slightly larger than his 3 percentage point edge in May. While interest in the race is generally high, it has risen more among younger than older voters since the 2004 campaign. Four in 10 say Obama's national inexperience will hurt his candidacy, about twice the number who say he'll be hurt by being black. Half say McCain, 71, will be hurt by his age. Eight in 10 who supported McCain's Republican rivals for the nomination now support him, compared to seven in 10 Clinton backers now behind Obama. A third of registered voters say they are undecided or may change their minds — far more than said so at this stage in 2004. Independents are evenly split between the two. Obama is doing better with voters under age 50 than Democrat John Kerry was at this point in 2004. But he trails McCain among voters 65 and up — a group Kerry was leading then. Twelve percent say Obama is a Muslim when in fact he is Christian, about the same proportion who said so in March.
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Has not really moved in awhile--was at 5.2 now 5.5...
That is because Mccain is just realizing now that he really inspires few folks in the republican base. He has realized that there is really nothing he can do to win over hilary's supporters (that clip of him showing off his stupidity in failing to answer a simple question being blasted all over the networks wont help him at all), he cant win over blacks, latinos, or even moderates who are moving to Obama by the poll..
Obama on the other hand has the comfort of pissing off a few of us, but there is no way in hell we would vote for some doofus taking economic advice from one of the architects of the enron loop holes,one of the architects of this subprime loan mess and the one and only Phil Graham telling us that the saggin economy is simply a figment of our imagination!
McCain flip-flopping post by the obama camp! That's like the pot calling the kettle black. John Kerry must be relieved that Obama came around as Obama has taken the dubious flip-flop championship away. Obama has become the Babe Ruth of flip-flops. He has more flip-flops to his credit than he has thrown fellow left-wing comrades under his bus and that's saying alot.
The next thing you know he'll be advocating trickle down ecomonics Reagan style.
Entitlement hoars on the left (Heatohio, aka jar-jar) will keep trashing the other side no matter who the candidate is because they want socialism to come to America -- damn the cost and screw everyone else!
The question is, will Republicans, traditional Democrats (Reagan Democrats) and independents let them get away with it and allow it to happen?
The question is, will Republicans, traditional Democrats (Reagan Democrats) and independents let them get away with it and allow it to happen?
Joe woke up and shook off his Thompson endorsement embarrassment. I know Joe is a political genius, but how does an old political genius recover after having endorsed the sleepy Thompson who seemed to have trouble keeping his eyes open through a presence at a republican primary podium. The answer is all republicans are old and sleepy losers and, what a shock that ole Joe bet the wrong sleepy horse in the primaries. All the internet posts and all the military chruch's men couldn't put 'sleepy's nasty republican presence back together again. Loser.
