McCain catches Obama in new poll
The director of a new national poll out today says it offers more proof that negative politics works.
The Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg survey says that after several weeks of unrelenting attacks in TV ads and stump speech, John McCain has cut a 12-percentage-point gap with Barack Obama to 2. The Democrat leads 45 percent to 43 percent, but that's a statistical tie.
The poll also found that more voters believe that McCain has the experience to be president, while more than a third have concerns about Obama's patriotism.
Also, Obama's favorability rating has dropped from 59 percent in June to 48 percent, and his negative rating has risen from 27 percent to 35 percent during the same period. McCain's favorability numbers have barely shifted, according to the poll.
"All the negative attacks from the McCain campaign seem to have been paying off," Times poll Director Susan Pinkus said in the newspaper's online story.
The poll of 1,248 registered voters was conducted by telephone from Friday through Monday and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
It's polls, focus groups and marketers that are determining what comes out of Obama's mouth. That's the reason for all the flip flops on Wright, Iraq, off-shore drilling etc. etc. .......
Essentially McCain is right when he says Obama chooses custom made policies for different segments of the electorate to get in power. Obama’s initial thrust came from the "grassroots" far far left Cindy Sheehans who were rabidly anti-Bush & anti-war (any war). It was a very appealing message for "cool" anti-authoritarian college students looking to recreate their own "60s". That message plus his celebrity appeal bowled over left leaning Hollywood, the entire entertainment industry and many in the mainstream media and of course Oprah, who catapulted Obama to Rock Start Status. Of course, he changed his anti-war position and became pro-war in Afghanistan to show his commander-in-chiefness for the Jane & Joe America sitting in his focus groups.
More and more American's are not buying Obama’s disingenuous positions of the day. Life is way too dangerous in the 21st century. Our country is in the middle of 3 wars (Iraq-Afghanistan-terror) Iran is going nuclear and Europe is under the ballistic missiles of Putin’s neo-Soviets. Such a situation cannot be trusted to any junior 1st term senator let alone a standard operating politician who got his experience being a "community organizer" and cog in the Chicago Poliitical Machine.
Just goes to show how America's collective intelligence, is regressing.
They prefer to be persuaded by lies and propaganda, rather than voting on issues that concern them.
In a way, Senator McCain's Top Financial Advisor, Phil Gramm, was right.
He called The People whiners, and he's right.
They're down on Iraq, Bush, the Economy, Torture, the crumbling Infrastructure, Schools, Corporate Influence, etc, yet will vote to continue the policies that created this mess. Then they'll wonder, how we got into this mess.
America... welcome to the Third World, as nobody takes us seriously anymore.
Just imagine how different the country would be, had Bush not been appointed in 2000? Had Kerry won in'04? Had Obama won in '08?
The American people just don't learn.
It appears that the more knowledgable people are about Obama's convictions and political platform, the less they like him.
Maybe the polls are a result of the voters thinking it through, not the negative ads.
Or would that interpretation undermine the notion that people can be fed mush and cotton candy and say thank you, sir, may I have some more?
Why is the truth negative campaigning?? Most of Obama's negative image has been his own doing. McCain just called him on his Hollywood platform.
wrong choice, wrong choice, wrong choice, wrong choice, wrong choice, wrong choice, wrong choice, wrong choice... ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. So I have been blogging this for 4 months now. you suckers. clinton pulls 18 million moderates, and obama pulls 17 million liberals. That equals -
clinton 35 million votes
obama 27 million votes
because that 8 million are moderates and will not vote or vote mccain. the superdelegates are supposed to vote for the candidate that will win them the white house, but instead were strong armed by the anti-war left of nancy pelosi and harry reid who were put in charge. well, they just lost us the US supreme court. good job dems. you bunch of heart thinkers. i still remember claire mccaskill telling tim russert that she picked barack because of her college children.
here's a really sad commentary on the PC democrats. Black inexperienced man trumps white elder statesman. In fact the left threw hillary under the bus, called her husband a racist, and then pushed her down the toilet in march. pelosi pressured the superdelegates, and all because they are 60's anti-war (vietnam) guru's. this is the same group that cant use off-shore drilling to leverage alternative energies. listen nancy, give them off-shore and ask for solar and wind throughout the southwest and midwest - it's called negotiation.
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