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want2beonlake
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Presidential Tracking Polls
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9/21/2008 1:44:15 PM
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The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sunday shows no change from yesterday as Barack Obama attracts 48% of the vote while John McCain earns 47%. Obama has gained ground over the past week after trailing by three percentage points last Sunday. The race is now back where it was for most of August before the two conventions and the Vice Presidential picks (see trends).
Results are released every day at 9:30 a.m. Eastern and a FREE daily e-mail update is available.
The underlying closeness of the race is highlighted by the fact that the candidates have been within three points of each other for 50 of the last 55 days. The only exceptions were five days around the Democratic National Convention where Obama opened a four-to-six point lead. During those 55 days, they’ve been within two points of each other 41 times and the gap has been one point or less 28 times.
Still, while the race has consistently been close, there have been identifiable trends. For most of August, Obama held a very slight one or two point lead in the tracking poll. He expanded that lead to six points with a solid convention bounce but then McCain returned the favor with a convention bounce of his own. McCain’s advantage peaked at three points last weekend before the Wall Street roller coaster ride of the past week began a drift back in Obama’s direction.
With the race so close, the debates scheduled to begin this Friday night could be more significant than usual. That’s especially true since 21% of voters say they are either uncommitted or could change their mind before voting.
so much for the lead for McCain... and the debates will not help him at all... especially the VP debate.
At the insistence of the McCain campaign, the Oct. 2 debate between the Republican nominee for vice president, Gov. Sarah Palin, and her Democratic rival, Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., will have shorter question-and-answer segments than those for the presidential nominees, the advisers said. There will also be much less opportunity for free-wheeling, direct exchanges between the running mates. McCain advisers said they had been concerned that a loose format could leave Ms. Palin, a relatively inexperienced debater, at a disadvantage and largely on the defensive.
McCain advisers said they were only somewhat concerned about Ms. Palin’s debating skills compared with those of Mr. Biden, who has served six terms in the Senate, or about his chances of tripping her up. Instead, they say, they wanted Ms. Palin to have opportunities to present Mr. McCain’s positions, rather than spending time talking about her own experience or playing defense.
They had the time shortened from 2 minutes to 90 seconds. Such confidence they have in her... heartbeat away people, heartbeat away...
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rude evin
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Presidential Tracking Polls
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9/21/2008 6:06:30 PM
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I saw and read that piece you copied, and it is not surprising given that it seems we have had a 50/50 balanced electorate for the last 2 or 3 general election cycles.It all means that a very states will decide the outcome of this election again. But let me pose a "big picture" issue for you...........agreeing with the proposition that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.........and given that it is looking like Congress will be controlled by the D's............I'm working for a split government....................the R's need to win the Presidency so we don't have a one party government. I don't ever want to see the USA in that position again........ever, and I would have that opinion if the R's were in the dominant position. And, in addition, the notion of a heart beat away does not trump the issue of the appalling lack of real tough grown up world experience of the heart beat that would occupy the Oval Office should the D's win.
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water_watcher
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Presidential Tracking Polls
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9/21/2008 6:20:35 PM
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Well said. I just watched a piece on TV that pointed out how many presidential and VP candidates that had little to no foreign policy experience. Including Bill Clinton. As governor of AK (a very small state) they said his extent of foreign policy experience when he became president was his trips to Alabama. Seriously that is what they said.
This whole lack of experience as a "heartbeat" away is biased and sexist since there are plenty of males that have less experience than Palin when they became VP.
It all rings hollow and I was not even going to reply to the poster, since he never says anything he just cuts and pastes which shows he does not have a mind of his own. That is why he is a liberal democrat, he wants others to do all the thinking for him and make all the decisions.
The sad part of his post is that Palin has real executive experience running a state, she has better energy experience than any of them. Yet the liberals want to say she lacks experience and is a heart beat away. I would rather have her experience a heartbeat away and than a community organizer withe 143 days of senate experience running the country.
God help us. Can you imagine Obama as comander of the military when he will not salute our flag, wont say the pledge of alligence and wants to change the national anthem. He should be disqualified on that alone.
The man makes me puke.
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Laker
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Presidential Tracking Polls
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9/21/2008 7:49:17 PM
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Is this "heartbeat away people" stuff supposed to be scary? Obama supporters throw out Palin's lack of experience and totally ignore Obama's do nothing record. The man formed his presidential exploratory committee 143 days after becoming a liberal US Senator from IL. Amazing. I would gladly have Palin and her experience as a VP more so than Obama's as president...that is the real scary scenario. Just like his past racist preacher, he gives a good speech....he is scary.
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MartiniMan
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I would much rather
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9/21/2008 8:10:58 PM
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have inexperience a heartbeat away than being the heartbeat from Day 1. It is mind boggling that liberals use this argument. If inexperience is a disqualifier then that eliminates Obama. So now who are you gonna vote for, Nader? Mind boggling in its lack of logic and common sense, but then again that is one of the definiting characteristics of Liberalism. With a straight face a liberal can try to make an argument that is devoid of any semblance of reality. Just amazing....
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jalcz
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You need a new schtick
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9/22/2008 2:01:43 AM
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How many times are you going to post that "Obama won't say the Pledge of Allegiance" and "Obama wants to change the National Anthem" nonsense? Stick to the issues and you have a good argument; continue to push obvious falsehoods as fact, and you're just one more internet blatherer who no one can take seriously
If you're going to continue to tout a joke-- JOKE!!-- as fact ("Obama wants to change the Anthem" is from a satirical column; look up SATIRE if you don't know what that means) then you also must accept every Saturday Night Live skit as absolute, Rush Limbaugh-approved fact.
You've become laughable in the way you continually talk down to the Democrats who "won't accept the facts," yet your most consistent argument was stolen from a column that the author admits is satire.
It would be nice to see you reply to this post with some maturity and an admission of your error, but I anticipate another childish insult. At least you're predictable.
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water_watcher
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You can spin
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9/22/2008 7:14:27 AM
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all you want and make excuses for this dope ... but the video of him does not lie. Or maybe he was just scratching his b*lls and did not know where the flag was as he swayed back and forth.
The guy has not had an original idea. His idea of "change" is taking from those that have succeeded to give to others that have not. A robinhood president. He is known as the #1 most liberal senator and has never challenged his own party.
Yet McCain thinks for himself and in the best interest of his country even when it means challenging his own party.
You can keep drinking the Obama cool-ade and ignor his obvious plan is to turn this country to SOCIALISM.
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jalcz
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Spin it like a top!
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9/22/2008 12:36:25 PM
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Did my post mention the "hand over the heart" problem? NO IT DID NOT!!!! But what is the ONE thing you mention? THE THING I DID NOT MENTION!!! Do you really think that no one noticed that YOU completely IGNORED the points I was addressing?
So I ask you again-- and expect to be insulted again, since you seem incapable of facing the truth about this: why so you continue to treat a SATIRIC column as FACT??
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| Name: |
want2beonlake
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I would much rather
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9/22/2008 1:04:13 PM
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guess it was learned it from the far right...
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MartiniMan
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I would much rather
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9/22/2008 2:34:04 PM
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Of course it would be the same if the opposite were true but don't delude yourself that this was learned from the far right. Both parties share this unhealthy tendency, especially when the election-year dynamics favor them. The Dem's did exactly the same thing Republicans did this year with Clinton where they saw the opening if they could put forward a centrist looking candidate.
Unless I am missing something politics has always been about winning. It is hard to govern when you lost, just ask Hillary, Romney, et al.
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Wakely
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Spin it like a top!
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9/22/2008 5:54:01 PM
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I noticed that too. Maybe this is the thread where I can say how Russell Lands ordered that Kowaliga be burned down.After all if some posters are allowed to keep posting stuff that is obviously not true, the rest of us should be able to post anything we want, too, right?
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