CBS Poll: Obama Maintains 13 Point Lead
With two days left until the presidential election, Barack Obama continues to lead John McCain by 13 points among likely voters, 54 percent to 41 percent, a new CBS News poll finds. The margin in the new poll, released Sunday, is identical to that in a CBS News poll released Saturday.
As the number of undecided voters has dwindled, so has the number that says their minds can still change. More than nine in 10 of each candidate’s voters now say they have made up their minds about who to vote for and are not likely to change. Just seven percent of Obama voters and 8 percent of McCain voters say they still might change their minds.
With two days to go, only 8 percent of likely voters are uncommitted – either they have not yet chosen a candidate, or their minds could still change. Nearly all of these uncommitted voters say they plan to vote.
Today’s uncommitted voters are mostly white, and more than half are age 45 or older. Just over half are men, and most live in the Midwest and South. Half describe themselves as moderate, and many are not partisan - four in 10 are independents.
This poll was conducted among a random sample of 908 adults nationwide, including 804 registered voters, interviewed by telephone October 30-November 1, 2008. Phone numbers were dialed from RDD samples of both standard land-lines and cell phones. The error due to sampling for results based on the sample of registered voters could be plus or minus four percentage points. The error for subgroups is higher.
As the number of undecided voters has dwindled, so has the number that says their minds can still change. More than nine in 10 of each candidate’s voters now say they have made up their minds about who to vote for and are not likely to change. Just seven percent of Obama voters and 8 percent of McCain voters say they still might change their minds.
With two days to go, only 8 percent of likely voters are uncommitted – either they have not yet chosen a candidate, or their minds could still change. Nearly all of these uncommitted voters say they plan to vote.
Today’s uncommitted voters are mostly white, and more than half are age 45 or older. Just over half are men, and most live in the Midwest and South. Half describe themselves as moderate, and many are not partisan - four in 10 are independents.
This poll was conducted among a random sample of 908 adults nationwide, including 804 registered voters, interviewed by telephone October 30-November 1, 2008. Phone numbers were dialed from RDD samples of both standard land-lines and cell phones. The error due to sampling for results based on the sample of registered voters could be plus or minus four percentage points. The error for subgroups is higher.
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See all 168 CommentsObama/Biden!!!! Yeah!!!!!!
Get ready everybody for a new journey ahead!
your expectations......the draft is written and will soon be delivered.
DO NOT BE BAMBOOZLED
VOTE MC CAIN
As a result, he has relied on negative attack ads and speeches from the get-go. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and McCain is a desperate man whose blind ambitions have clouded any sense of judgement, fairplay, and code of ethics. (Palin, on the other hand, never had a code of ethics--only a holier-than-thou sense of morality.)
McCain and Palin have regressed from "gutter politics" to "sewer politics".
MaCain supporters can vote on 11/05/2008.
They''d better get their friends to vote to so they can overwhelm the number of votes Republicans will steal.
USATODAY polls is 54 for OBAMA 43 for MaCain more good news for OBAMA keep it up
Why not give us some explicit predictions of what you will tell us in 2012. So far, just hot air ...
Why not give us some explicit predictions of what you will tell us in 2012. So far, just hot air ...
- NOT THIS TIME - VOTE FOR CHANGE - 2008
Instead of spending your time cutting and pasting from the extremists anti-American right wing nuts'' talking points, may be you should use that time to read "Dreams of My Father" or "The Audacity of Hope" .. A mind is a terrible thing to waste .. Under Obama''s education plan you may get the help you need!!
Get real!!! Taking words out of context is meaningless. You can do the same thing with virtually any book. Why don''t you get an education and improve you''re reading comprehension skills. You should be embarrassed.
Barack Obama offers us hope that together we can repair our country.
It''s time for hope for a change.
From DREAMS FROM MY FATHER, P.111, where Barack Obama comes to terms with the fact that he has one grandmother that is white and another that is black: "Only a lack of imagination, a failure of nerve, had made me think that I had to choose between them. They all asked the same thing of me, these grandmothers of mine. My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn''t, couldn''t, end there."
If all you have is hope in obama change, you need a new strategy!
You''re a victim of media!
From DREAMS FROM MY FATHER, page 111, where Barack Obama comes to terms with the fact that he has one grandmother that is white and another that is black: "Only a lack of imagination, a failure of nerve, had made me think that I had to choose between them. They all asked the same thing of me, these grandmothers of mine. My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn''t, couldn''t, end there."
My friends, it is time for hope, for a change.
http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Leaked_Ad_for_McCain_Palin_Abstinence_Only_for_America
Sarah Palin has consistently advocated abstinence-only education in schools, despite the fact that this philosophy has resulted with both Palin and her daughter conceiving out of wedlock. Clearly, abstinence-only has not worked for the Palin family, yet Sarah Palin wants to prescribe this in place of comprehensive sexual education for other young Americans.
This advertisement came from the same 527 group that put forth this anti-Obama spot last week%u2026
http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Leaked_Pro_McCain_527_Negative_Ad_Small_Town_Fear_Itself/
By Michelle Malkin %u2022 November 1, 2008 11:25 PM
I predicted the totally predictable last night. And so it has come to pass: The left-wing fairweather friends of privacy are all over the leak of Aunti Zeituni%u2019s immigration info %u2014 while Joe The Plumber remains persona non grata. Democrat Rep. John Conyers has already called for a federal investigation. The WaPo is already up with an A-section story on the anonymous leak. And the liberal blogs are up in arms.
The MSM abhor anonymous leaks %u2014 unless they%u2019re helping to undermine Bush administration anti-terrorism programs or conservative causes and candidates.
Go to:
http://rovitoreview.blogspot.com/
I do know that the country is severely divided and polarized.
I also think that the London Times has it correct that OB''s team has now started meetings to try and explain why all they have promised may not come to pass quickly, if at all. Euphoria to despair..their words, not mine(London Times).
Rove is not even in the same league as Axlerod, who has pulled the largest hoax in history on the American poor. Folks, all those tax cuts, welfare checks, and govt equivalent healthcare ain''t happening and they know it.
GM is going to go belly up. GE is struggling. And on and on. GM has to add about 27% (or did) to the price of their autos just to cover Union benefits. So, True American, what make car are you driving. Got the best deal? And Obama wants to increase their taxes and/or fine them for not providing even more benefits.
So, there will be dancing in the streets on Nov 5 because Bush and Palin are history. Now, OB, all eyes turn to you and your promises. My bet, you start backing up. You have swooned your way to victory by promises and nothing more than emotions re Bush. Bush upset me also. However, emotions will not rule my logic for the next 4 years. My vote can''t be bought. For those of you who say you will be satisfied just to throw all the conservatives in the street, we will see.
Bush team rushes environment policy changes
Whether it''s getting wolves off the Endangered Species List, allowing power plants to operate near national parks, loosening regulations for factory farm waste or making it easier for mountaintop coal-mining operations, these proposed changes have found little favor with environmental groups.
Even some free-market organizations have joined conservation groups to urge a moratorium on last-minute rules proposed by the Interior Department and the Environmental Protection Agency, among others.
John Kostyack of the National Wildlife Federation, which joined Lehrer''s group to call for a ban on these last-minute rules, said citizens are cut out of the process, allowing changes in U.S. law that the public opposes, such as rolling back protections under the Endangered Species Act.
Industry is likely to benefit if Bush''s rules on the environment become effective, Madia said.
"Whether it''s the electricity industry or the mining industry or the agriculture industry, this is going to remove government restrictions on their activity and in turn they''re going to be allowed to pollute more and that ends up harming the public," Madia said in a telephone interview.
What is unusual is the speedy trip some of these environmental measures are taking through the process.
What I find amusing, however, is the way so many Republicans not only want to believe the polls wrong, but see them as some kind of left-wing conspiracy.
Let''s get this clear: it is the job of pollsters to gather as scientifically accurate numbers as possible. They know they aren''t always right, but its their job to be accurate.
More important - the average of all the polls right now shows Obama to be up by over 6% - more than Bush was over Kerry or Gore at this time. He is also up in all of the swing states. Or do you think all pollsters are part of the vast left wing conspiracy?
Get a life.
Obama ''08
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