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Title: FOX News Poll: McCain Leads Obama 45% to 42%
Post by: bijou on September 10, 2008, 01:20:18 PM
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substantial shift in the vote preference among independents has given John McCain a slim lead over Barack Obama after the Republican convention. Independents now break for McCain by 15 percentage points (46 percent to 31 percent) in a FOX News poll released Wednesday.

Last month, Obama had a one-point edge among independents (August 19-20, 2008).

Overall, McCain leads Obama by 45 percent to 42.

• Raw Data: Click here to view the full results of the poll. (pdf)

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,420361,00.html

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Title: Re: FOX News Poll: McCain Leads Obama 45% to 42%
Post by: Wretched Excess on September 10, 2008, 01:27:51 PM

now the dems are insisting that we look at the state polls, and the electoral map.  I wonder if al gore would agree with that. :-)
Title: Re: FOX News Poll: McCain Leads Obama 45% to 42%
Post by: miskie on September 10, 2008, 04:05:05 PM

now the dems are insisting that we look at the state polls, and the electoral map.  I wonder if al gore would agree with that. :-)

I have -- even the Liberal-run electoral-vote.com shows Obama losing blood state by state -- roll a few days, and watch the fun as states that Obama though he would take go red, and easy wins like Washington drop to barely Obama.

For whatever reason (probably to keep Dems from killing themselves off) E-V.com blunts the effect by calling FL as dead even, which IMO It isn't. (MCCain is up 3 in FL according to the RCP average)
Title: Re: FOX News Poll: McCain Leads Obama 45% to 42%
Post by: Chris_ on September 10, 2008, 04:29:41 PM

now the dems are insisting that we look at the state polls, and the electoral map.  I wonder if al gore would agree with that. :-)

I have -- even the Liberal-run electoral-vote.com shows Obama losing blood state by state -- roll a few days, and watch the fun as states that Obama though he would take go red, and easy wins like Washington drop to barely Obama.

For whatever reason (probably to keep Dems from killing themselves off) E-V.com blunts the effect by calling FL as dead even, which IMO It isn't. (MCCain is up 3 in FL according to the RCP average)

Get this -- CALIFORNIA is in play.

The messi-uh is in deep, deep kimchee.
Title: Re: FOX News Poll: McCain Leads Obama 45% to 42%
Post by: miskie on September 10, 2008, 05:06:15 PM

Get this -- CALIFORNIA is in play.

The messi-uh is in deep, deep kimchee.


Hey, If it keeps him spending money in states where he shouldnt have to, we win.
Title: Re: FOX News Poll: McCain Leads Obama 45% to 42%
Post by: Hawkgirl on September 10, 2008, 05:10:35 PM
Correct me if I'm wrong..but during the primaries, didn't Obama win the states that vote Republican in the general?  Wasn't Hillary really the only candidate on the Democratic side that really had a chance to take the battleground states?

Title: Re: FOX News Poll: McCain Leads Obama 45% to 42%
Post by: miskie on September 10, 2008, 06:30:06 PM
Correct me if I'm wrong..but during the primaries, didn't Obama win the states that vote Republican in the general?  Wasn't Hillary really the only candidate on the Democratic side that really had a chance to take the battleground states?

You are correct, yes.
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Title: Re: FOX News Poll: McCain Leads Obama 45% to 42%
Post by: Wretched Excess on September 10, 2008, 08:28:24 PM
Correct me if I'm wrong..but during the primaries, didn't Obama win the states that vote Republican in the general?  Wasn't Hillary really the only candidate on the Democratic side that really had a chance to take the battleground states?



and they were caucus states, too, which is more a sign of the effectiveness of your organization in the state than your popular support among the democrat voters in the state.