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Current Events => Archives => Politics => Election 2008 => Topic started by: Chris_ on August 30, 2008, 06:30:39 PM
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=aApryf.cK.lI&refer=home
Obama Has Post-Convention Lead; Palin Largely Unknown (Update2)
By Bob Drummond and Nicholas Johnston
Aug. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Barack Obama jumped to his biggest lead since late July in public opinion polls, after his televised speech to more than 75,000 people in a Denver football stadium and his Democratic National Convention reconciliation with rival Hillary Clinton.
How long Obama holds the lead is open to question, as voters react to John McCain's surprise selection yesterday of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin for his running mate and Republicans begin their nominating convention Sept. 1 in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Obama leads McCain 49-41 percent in the most recent Gallup Poll daily tracking survey, which measured voter sentiment during a three-day period ending Aug. 28. The presidential contenders had been tied at 45 percent in the last Gallup tracking results before the Democrats started their Colorado convention.
The 8 percentage-point lead almost matches Obama's biggest margin of the campaign, a 9-point bulge in tracking polls conducted July 24-26, Gallup said.
A 5 point "bounce" is no bounce at all. If hussein isn't running away with it by now, he is in a dog fight and is, in fact, behind.
There are some polls there about Palin, but she is such a new item that we need some time to see what sticks and what doesn't.
I would love to think that Americans are too smart to vote for an empty suit and a stuffed shirt, but I have been pretty disappointed so far...
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4-5 points is not a bounce to write home about.
But t be fair, lets see how the GOP does. This may not be a year like all others but for all the talk about how terrific the kid is, he really can't get traction and he still can't close the deal without help.
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O should be leading by double digits after the convention. That he is not is very telling. The Democrats spent all that money and all he got was 5 lousy points. something is very wrong with candidate Obama.
i'm still suspicious of the 80 or so thousand who came to hear the Messiah speak. They probably filled the stadium with homeless people and those who came to hear the free entertainment for the night. Was Springsteen playing?