Sept. 4, 2008
CBS Poll: McCain, Obama Tied
McCain Closes Eight-Point Gap From Poll Taken Last Weekend
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This is in contrast to a poll conducted last weekend, where the Obama-Biden ticket led McCain-Palin by eight points, 48 percent to 40 percent.
McCain has also closed the enthusiasm gap some with Obama, but it still exists. Fifty-five percent of Obama's supporters are enthusiastic about their choice, and now so are 35% of McCain's. Last weekend, just 25 percent of McCain's supporters were enthusiastic about him, compared to 67 of Obama's supporters.
This week's polling continues to show voters waiting to decide about Sarah Palin (see yesterday's poll on Palin). But in interviewing done yesterday, 83 percent of registered voters said that spouse and family of a candidate will not affect their votes.Ways To Win
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Other factors within the race and overall opinions of the candidates, however, have remained similar from this weekend.
Thirty-eight percent say they have a favorable view of Obama, compared 34 percent unfavorable and 27 percent undecided. For McCain, it's 37 percent favorable, 36 percent unfavorable and 27 percent undecided.
McCain maintains his large advantage on the likelihood of being an effective commander-in-chief - 46 percent of voters say it is "very likely" McCain would be an effective commander-in-chief, compared to 24 percent who say that about Obama.
But McCain still has one big deficit to make up -- just 44 percent of voters say he understands their needs and problems, compared with 60 percent who say that about Obama.
In the poll, Obama continues to have a lead with women voters, 43 percent to 38 percent, while McCain has the edge with men, 46 percent to 41 percent. As has been standard in this campaign, voters under age 45 are backing Obama, while older voters are supporting McCain.
McCain wins the support of married voters and Obama has the backing of voters who are not married. It should be noted, though, that most married voters are older while those who are not married tend to be younger.
Independents in this poll are divided. In the poll conducted over the weekend, Obama had a six-point advantage with this group, but now the lead is three points, 39 percent to 36 percent.
The poll also shows that the majority of Clinton supporters continue to support Obama - 67 percent in this poll, up from 58 percent last weekend.
McCain has seen a similar uptick from white evangelicals since the weekend - 66 percent now, up from 57 percent.
Read The Complete PollThis poll was conducted among a random sample of 835 adults nationwide, including 734 registered voters, interviewed by telephone September 1-3, 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 entire sample could be plus or minus three percentage points; for registered voters the sampling error could be plus or minus four percentage points. The error for subgroups is higher.
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See all 1999 CommentsJohn McCain: That''s right, leave her alone! Children should be off-limits! And Chelsea Clinton is ugly and the love child of Janet Reno and Hillary Clinton. You hear me Hillary supporters...I said VOTE FOR US.
Sarah Palin: That''s right, Hillary Supporters. Vote for us now that the whiner is out of the race!
Now, do voters REALLY want to reward Republicans for DOING this to America? What kind of signal does that SEND??? To me, it sends a signal that ''THE BEATINGS SHOULD CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES!!!''
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By: SilentPatriot
Biden gave a barnburner of a speech yesterday in Langhorne, Pennsylvania, where he responded to some of the attacks lobbed at the Republican Convention. It just might have been more effective than his actual convention speech.
%u201CIt%u2019s not merely a lost job, it%u2019s a lost sense of identity. I don%u2019t think my Republican friends %u2014 and this is not your father%u2019s Republican party, by the way. So folks, when I listen to the parts of the Republican convention I can hear%u2026it%u2019s not what I heard, it%u2019s what I didn%u2019t hear. The silence of the Republican party was deafening. It was deafening on jobs, on health care, on the environment, on all the things that matter to the people in the neighborhood%u2019s I grew up in. Deafening! Their America is not the America I live in. They see something different than I see.
%u201CRick Davis, John%u2019s campaign manager, said %u2018this election is not about issues.%u2019 Everything I saw at the convention demonstrated that.
%u201CWhat do you talk about about when you have nothing to say? What do you talk about when you can%u2019t explain the last eight years of failure?%u201D
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Are you trying to be profound? BR549 here is trying to be...what would you call what you are trying to be? Insightful, no, informative, no, juvenile, that''s it!
McCain has to be a genous for picking her...or it was the lucdkiest day in political history
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Sarah Palin the %u2018Earmark Queen%u2019 of AK Left Wasilla $20 Million in Debt
By: Bill W.
After finishing as a runner up for Miss Alaska 1984, Sarah Palin went on to be crowned the state%u2019s Queen of Earmarks and its Empress of Fiscal Irresponsibility.
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In 2000, Sarah Palin, as mayor of the Alaskan town of Wasilla, hired a Washington lobbyist to secure federal earmarks for her community.
This is not totally atypical in her state. Alaska%u2019s government receives more money per capita in federal earmark money than any other state, despite being the only state in the union with no income tax and no sales tax. They fund their government primarily with petroleum money, and recently distributed oil profits to its citizens in the form of rebate checks.
But even in her heavily earmarked state, Sarah Palin was the earmark queen.
From 2000 to 2003, she secured over $27 million in earmarks, averaging $6.7 million in federal money every year for her town of about 6,700 people. %u2026(read on)
As mayor, Sarah Palin managed to secure a thousand dollars a year per person in her city in earmarks, yet%u2026
When Palin left office in 2002, Wasilla had %u201Cracked up nearly $20 million in long-term debt,%u201D or roughly $3,000 of debt per resident. %u2026(more)
Asked in 1996, her first year in office, about her ability to %u201Ceffectively run%u201D the city, Palin claimed:
%u201CIt%u2019s not rocket science,%u201D Palin said, %u201CIt%u2019s $6 million and 53 employees.%u201D
Only %u201C$6 million and 53 employees%u201D and yet she managed to bury it $20 mil. in the red in just two-terms. How very Bush-like. And she wants us to trust her to be a heartbeat away from the national budget?
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Posted by A56581
Your opinion of me is about as meaningful as your post and about as useless as a dogs f@rt.
McCain has to be a genous for picking her...or it was the lucdkiest day in political history
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Who is Grover Norquist?
In 1999 Grover Norquist was instrumental in securing early support for then Texas Governor George W. Bush, continuing a decades-long association with Karl Rove. ("The Wall Street Journal''s John Fund dubbed him "the Grand Central Station" of conservatism and told The Nation: "It''s not disputable" that Norquist was the key to the Bush campaign''s surprising level of support from movement conservatives in 2000"). After Bush''s election to the White House in 2000, Norquist was the prime architect behind the many Bush tax-cuts.
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The "Wednesday Meeting" of Norquist''s Leave Us Alone Coalition has become an important hub of conservative political organizing. George W. Bush began sending a representative to the Wednesday Meeting even before he formally announced his candidacy for president in 1999. "Now a White House aide attends each week," reported USA Today in June 2001. "Vice President Cheney sends his own representative. So do GOP congressional leaders, right-leaning think tanks, conservative advocacy groups and some like-minded K Street lobbyists. The meeting has been valuable to the White House because it is the political equivalent of one-stop shopping. By making a single pitch, the administration can generate pressure on members of Congress, calls to radio talk shows, and political buzz from dozens of grassroots organizations.
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