Despite edge on economy, Obama doesn't pass McCain in new poll

Wow, the power of self-delusion is very high. McCain on the economy is demonstrating the same level of reliability and steadiness that we would expect from a headless chicken, but still people are supporting him for President.

Why would America REWARD complete Republican failure ?

We wont.

I just read a very informative story on Yahoo.com news. It's about an online tool that can be used to estimate taxes under McCain and Obama. For anyone interested in who's better for taxpayers......read this story.

Partisan bias much? Obama's average lead over all polls is a solid and statistically significant 5%, as any of the several poll-aggregation web sites will tell you. Your cherry-picking of this particular poll is revealing.

it's time the dem's quit thinking Obama as " The One" he is not a God. He will not heal the world. He is just a man . You want a God go to church.Obama lie's and does wrong things just like any other man. You guys worship him like he has come down from heaven. He is just a man.Untell you all come down to earth you will never be able to see that. I see people crying when he talks like he is some God and it really makes you look stupid. I hope your GOD doesn't shame you if he win's because you will never ever live it down if he is not who you think he is " The One" .He could be a man in sheep clothing that you worship so much you can't see it or won't see it. That happens when you worship someone so much..When something seem to good to be true then it will kick you in the butt.

I have come to realize that one person can't change the whole thing and I don't see Obama has that ability to change. We need more experienced person to fix these mess. Obama is not the right choice this time. I'm his supporter but for the country's sake, I have to vote for McCain who recenlty has shown a true leader character in the time of crisis.

Its beyond me how a democrat would even consider voting for a man that got elected, then ran for another office before he had any track record.
Now, don't give me the state crap as we all know that isnt enough to even remotely be considered Presidential material.

You have all been star truck and you believe anything he says.

Now tell me the truth, if a white politician had attended a "church" that preached hatred, his candidacy would have over. So, why do we allow this racism when its reversed?

Perhaps Obama will talk about his own words??

From Dreams of My Father: 'I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.'

From Dreams of My Father : 'I found a solace in
nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race.'

From Dreams of My Father: 'There was something
about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.'

From Dreams of My Father: 'It remained necessary
to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.'

From Dreams of My Father: 'I never emulate white
men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa ,( he lies here he has no African root he is Arab! ) that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself , the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, Du Bois and Mandela.'

This is the change Obama plans!

Barack Obama's lack of exprience is keeping him from closing the deal despite an otherwise favorable political environment for Democrats. Out of sheer passion for left-wing ideals and hatred of George Bush, the Democratic primary voters nominated a candadate who edged out Hillary Clinton among Democrats, but is a difficult sell to the general electorate. Obama is simply too liberal for many Reagan and Clinton Democrats. A more seasoned, more centrist Democrat would be well ahead of John McCain and would sail through Election Day.
The Republicans, in a year where they should be clearly losing, smartly nominated the "anti-republican" as their candidate, who attracts moderates and independants- voters who in elections past favored Gore, Kerry, and recently Hillary Clinton. John McCain is as much of a populist centrist as Bill Clinton was in 1992 for the Democrats. With Sarah Palin, though contraversial in the media, energizing McCain's conservative base, John McCain may win the White House with Palin's conservatives combined with McCain's moderates and independants.

David Axelrod tries to say we are in this mess because of republicans, and yet what was his inside advice to Fidelity Holdings in 2000 that went from 750 Million market cap to 5 Million in a space of a year.

He certainly had his had out sucking out money, and on the opposite side protecting against shareholder lawsuits.

So any credibility given to Axelrod should be suspect!

Ever had BLT or is it all LT Obama. Sarah has not done this and that ...so the media's witch hunters against this lady go on but who has seen your birth certificate? The dems do not want McCain to be there and he ruined a deal ... every time the dems open their mouths, it is in an ad for Obama, Bipartisanship?. I was not for the war in Iraq but too late, after, we had to stay in ti it stabilised.. Whose side were the media on? The war.! The media is so pig ignorant, they do not know right from wrong, truth from fiction, just witch hunting Palin because she never killed her babies. The dems have been running Congress. The US government is more than ascapegoat sitting in the White house! The media and dems allowed the boom bust to go on.

dragonfly777, JDR, reko, and sam.....you people are all crazy idiots! Go back under your slimy republican rocks......you are all very sick people. The republicans have ruined this country. The only thing they do well is lie and cheat. And that includes your candidate, McCain. Don't forget what he did to his first wife.......he's a philanderer, a no-good cheat, and an out and out liar. And, there are times when I don't think he is "playing with a full deck"!

That poll is full of it, every other poll in recent days has shown obama with an impressive 9 point lead over mccain. Why would you claim this poll trumps all of those other polls? ridiculous.

From a non-American point of view - those that love America wants Obama to win those who hates America wants McCain to win so he can continue the legacy of Bush in further ruining the great United States. In the end its all in the hands of the American voters if they want their country to go to the slippery slope.

I got a good belly laugh out of Mike's comments. "Partisan bias?" By the Globe? In favor of Republicans? What planet do you live on?

Can we get past the focus on polls, and get back to the focus on the issues facing our country? Polls are for entertainment purposes only. There isn't a single poll taken that doesn't have a "margin of error." Why is that? Because polls are packed with errors. We'll know who wins the election in November.

Libs, dems and progressives with their Mainstream Media enablers want us to believe Obama is The One and the only one we should vote for this election. Most polls are in favor of Obama because they are skewed in his favor, after all who wants to be called a racist by beating up on the black man? Better to be called a sexist and beat up on the white woman, Sarah Palin being her name. Just look at AP and other lib mouthpieces already saying Obama might lose the election because of racism among whites in the Democratic party. Chicago thug politics at its best except this time its is being exposed.

The biggest problem with our political system is that we generally elect the guy who is the best liar.

Change for the sake of change is an action of a fool!

Such ill anti-Obama comments on this message board. Let's keep pretending nobody's a racist though. Wake up people.

Let there be no doubt that Obama will severely injure the country financially, socially and militarily.

How weird that you picked the one poll that has it this close when every other poll of the last week has Obama's lead higher. Also...why are republicans so nasty and hateful in their comments? It doesn't make your arguments stronger, it just makes you look like nutcases.

go Mccain/Palin !!!!!!

What leadership McCaine shows? Mr McBush just another from the "Old School" he is dengerous and take our country to a new war

the fact that you morons are still supporting Obama and blaming Bush for the ills of the clinton admin for the sake of it, and calling opposers racist is enough for me to, for the first time in my life, be ashamed of my own country.

wake up before it's too late.

if you make me choose between voting for obama and being labled a racist, i guess you'll have to call me one, because nothing will stop me from electing MCCain my president.

These numbers are nothing more than wet fingers held up in a fickle wind. The only poll that matters will be held on November 3rd.

This is the ONLY national poll that has McCain up. The other all have Obama up by at least 3 with some as high as 9.

PulSamsara:

Because the economic crisis is not mainly a GOP problem, but a Dem one? Read about the CRA and how it's forced banks to make toxic loans. Clinton supported modifying it to it's current form. Carter introduced it.

Obama has no credible plan for the economy. He's a classic "tax and spend" Dem, not anything new. Well, the extreme socialism is new for this country.

There's nothing racist about voting for McCain, in fact it's the American thing to do.

Once the bailout is concluded, McCain can seize this issue. Voters want accountbility and the next administration should conduct investigations and prosecutions. Obama cannot be trusted to do this as he is immplicated in the mortgage mess and coverup in several ways,

Why in McCain leading? Because America would rather elect a crappy Republican than a stellar Marxist.

Robbie: "Vote for Obama or you're a racist!"

Get real. Conservatives don't like Obama because he's a radical leftist in sheep's clothing. Now if Thomas Sowell or Walter Williams ran for office, we'd all be on board, so your pathetic race-baiting doesn't fly.

I would vote for a black person, male or female, IF they were qualified and honest. I'd vote for Powell, regardless of party, I'd vote for Bill Cosby even though I suspect being "Hollywood" he's probably Democrat - I'd do so because he's honest, nice, experienced in the ways of the world and the country.
But I will not vote for Obama, and it's nothing to do with color. I work with and respect my black and Asian co-workers, they are as good as I, and in some ways, perhaps better people. I won't vote for Obama because of his beliefs. He's more Marxist or Socialist. Tax break for 95% of workers? WOW, great math! How can you give a tax break to those who pay NO taxes? The number of workers who pay taxes isn't even 95%. Check his numbers - the national debt would be crazy! my grandkids would be paying it for years. Read his books - VERY telling. Obama is the racist, not me. And who attempted to FIX tis fincial mess? Bush said in 2001 it was going to blow up. McCain said in around 2005 it was going to break and needed fixing and MORE CNOTROLS. Dems wouldn't go for it, so it never made it. Blame the congressional LAW that said banks needed to loan - even to those who might not be able to afford it - passed under Democratic eyes.

Suggest all of you google 'Bradley effect' and learn precisely why, despite the polls you are seeing which are all over the place, Obama will lose and lose fairly handily.

It is difficult for Democrats and liberals to admit to this truth but if Obama was a white man and had exactly the same level of experience he now has and the same back round he now has he never would have gotten past New Hampshire in the primary.

Facts are facts and the fact is Obama is 100% a media creation that plays well in liberal Blue States but when the day comes to pull the lever in the privacy of the booth, the results will be decidedly different then what you are witnessing at this time (Bradley Effect)

Are any of you aware that Obama has NEVER run against another candidate? He has run unopposed each time, all two of them.

There is over a month before the election and in that time all the relationships between Obama and Saul Ailinski, William Ayers (Anarchist). Frank Marshall Davis, Obama mentor and a Communist and of course Rev Jerimyah Wright, a "hate America" black activist will be fully examined, publically.

When all is said and done Obama will lose by 4-7 points and McCain will grab 350+ EC votes. This will happen because the man has zero background and experience and NO record of leading or running so much as a Lemonade stand. The world is a dangerous place and he is not the person for the job.

Why would anyone even consider voting for a man who has the virtually the same proposals that Jimmy Carter did in 1976? Obama will be a diaster just like Carter was. Dems quit drinking the kool-aid you are drunk on it. Northeast liberals do not elect Presidents, those of in in flyover country do and we do not like Obama. I fully expect the election map to look like 1980's with McCain sweeping the midwest.

At the end of the (election) day, 70% of Americans will select the next President of this great nation based upon the character of that person. Tax and spend, (another LBJ) sending tens of thousands to their deaths with a failed strategy, and attempting to redistribute the personal wealth from those who worked hard for it those those who did not is not character. Its insanity. This is why Obama will return to his seat beside Hillary. Bostonians should know Obama's tax plan is a nightmare. How many of you are still looking for a job?

Have you Obama supporters ever heard of the "Wilder effect" AKA the "Bradley effect"? Before you start getting too excited about measley 3-5 point poll spreads in Hussein Obamas favor, you might want to check into this!!!

Obama's RECORD"- Voted present 135 times in IL senate. Did vote for bill to withhold medical care to babies surviving abortion. Did not oppose the Iraq War in the Senate--he wasn't there. Did talk about "affordable housing", got grants to build with govt./private partnership. Got millions, doled out to cronies who built shoddy housing, didn't maintain it. Now 10-12 yrs. later housing is unfit for living. One such cronie is on his finance staff. He still touts "affordable housing", Boston Globe story last week.
Obama will cut middle classes tax 95%. 40% do not pay taxes. Tax from other 60% will be redistributed-Socialism/Marxism. Sounds good, but doesn't work for economy. Have a look at tax rate in Socialist countries.
Will "invest" in education, esp. early childhood. Check the present money invested in educ.and how it grew under Bush and pre Bush. It is astronomic and schools keep getting worse. We need to "invest"in teaching responsibility & hard work ethics to our young.
McCain isn't perfect. He will make a great CIC; he is fiscally conservative which helps the economy; he will not pander. He is right on about Iraq and Afghanistan(where those mountains have hidden waring tribes for thousands of years.) Given the terrain, I doubt they will ever be conquered, just contained. Obama's promise to bring them to heel is just laughable--but hey, it sounds great!--the man is a college debater in a Brooks Brothers suit--basically an empty suit.
JAP

Hopefully, most people who realize that this current economic problem is actually liberalism gone bad with giving houses to illegal aliens and people that had no ability to pay. The glut of houses on the market made it impossible for mortgage companies to recoup their losses and the situation snowballed out of control. This is the result of threatening mortgage companies with lawsuits if they didn't give these mortgages out to minorities and poor with discrimination charges.In other words, political correctness gone mad.

The election is really about common sense vs emotional illusion. Do we really want an inexperienced man with highly questionable associations and far left leanings? Or a man with experience, a solid background and priciple? The calm and objective person will pick McCain. The highly charged and emotional will choose the Abama illusion because the intense emotion supports the beleif in the illusion. Some call that hypnosis. The Abama fan will get very upset and emotional at hearing this,- a smoke screen to the illusion.

Robbie,
So one must be a racist if they vote for a candidate other than Senator Obama. Please, stop the shallow mud slinging! An intellegent voter will look a the man (or women's) policies, experience and record to determine how they will vote. Race has nothing to do with it, if that is the approach. You sound like one of those "down right mean Americans", that Michelle Obama once spoke about.

The poll is almost certainly wrong. The much more reliable ABC/Washington Post poll gives Obama a 52% to 43% lead over McCain.

In this day and age of the internet and all of the information it provides, Americans should be looking into backrounds, voting records, and positions of each candidate, and decide for themselves, who is best suited to be President. We have become mentally lazy and many Americans allow the biased media and the words of uninformed TV and Hollywood elites form our opinions of the candidates. Voting is too important to let someone else make up our minds for us. Do your research and decide for yourselves!!!!

"Why reward Republican failure?" Anyone remember that the DEMOCRATS have been in charge of Congress the last two years? And what a great job they've done. Yeah, right. Even with this bailout plan they're trying to throw in money for other things. Ridiculous.

McCain/Paliln '08

Does anyone remember that a few strategic precints of Born-Again Christian Black Americans in Cleveland, Ohio turned the 04 election for Gerge Bush. Thank God for those brave Patriots. And all the great pundits said Kerry won every debate.

If God wants Sarah Palin as V.P. and an end to SELF-DEALING in America look out Libs. and dirty GOPs. you may soon be politically and legally field dressed.

Why would Americans trust the economy to Democrats when the Democrats are against businesses making profits? And why would voters pick Democrats to fix the economy when nit is they who put us in this mess by forcing our banks to lend to people on unemployment, and illegal aliens? Democrats have nearly crushed our country with their ideas.

For the current housing mess, and this bailout, I would advise all Democrats to research the facts. All of the welfare loans at the behest of the Clinton admin, coupled with the refusal of oversight and reform of Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac by a dem congress, and topped off with a sprinkle of key contributions to Obama and Dodd by the same Fannie Mae Freddie Mac, and this is what we have. Please don't make yourselves look like the symbol of your party. Research facts before opening your mouth. Get over the 2000 election with your Bush bashing. he aint perfect, neither are you.

If someone does not like Obama the democrates or whomever call you a racist. I dont like him period. I do not want to wake up after the vote to find a socialist is running America that used to be the land of the free. Socialism does'nt work. The people who want a socalist government should move to a miserable depressed country that practices that. there is a Obama type character in many of those countries. Anti -Obama or anyone like him which is all democrats

This economy was set in motion by the demoncats. Bush tried at least twelve times since 2002 to fix fannie and freddie just like social security but the dems did not want to talk about it. You are NOT getting all of the news people! Wake up before we get a socialist in the white house and end up taken over like France.

Hey I'm not a racist...I just think OBama Moma needs to get some experience right now he's qulified to pick cotton?

McCain/Palin 2008!!!

Obama wants to raise the corporate tax rate from 35% to 45%. Where it stands now, at 35% is already the 2nd highest in the world. That's why business is leaving the United States--to escape the tax burden and go to countries where taxes aren't so high. And so if Obama is elected the corporate tax rate goes to 45% then even MORE businesses will go to countries where the tax rate is lower and with them will go jobs. McCain actually wants to lower the corporate tax rate from 35% to 25% which would give businesses more of their own money to use during these challenging times. That means they will stay here and will be able to add jobs and compete in the global marketplace by being able to lower their prices because their expenses won't be so high from taxes.

I hope those of you who are reading these comments are paying attention to what is being said about Obama's fiscal policies. We've seen it all before with the Carter administration. Double digit inflation, obscene taxes, businesses taxed out of business. What benefit are you getting from your tax dollars now? Probably nothing tangible! Well, somebody is! According to a Tax Foundation 2007 study (just google Tax Foundation), between 1.03 and 1.53 Trillion (T!) dollars was redistributed downward from the 2 highest quintiles of tax payers in this country to the 3 lowest quintiles - in 2004! Obama's term, neighborlyness?#*! Help widows/ orphans, everyone else works and pays! Change? Sure-Term Limits/Fair Tax !

Why anyone would support Obama is beyond me!! I heard a caller on a radio show last week ranting about 'religious zealots' and how he is sick of hearing about their beliefs. I have a reply to these liberals- you live in a land with freedom OF religion, not FROM religion. These people have no concept of accountability! You get pregnant and don't want it? no problem! get an abortion! (but don't talk about hunting wolves or 'killing polar bears w/ gloabal warming- THEY have rights!) You write the tax laws and don't want to pay taxes (or pay FOR parking)! No problem. Your good friend Nancy will stick up for you (unless your a Republican), don't think you can get votes legally? No problem! Get your liberal organizations out there to 'make up' voter registrations. Get LOTS of money for your campaign from known terrorists and felons? No problem! Deny knowing them. Everyone will believe you because your SO charismatic! Even sexy, Barb Walters said! Look out Michelle! the wrinkled prune wants him!
Might I mention that I think you should have to be a 'working' American to vote? Why SHOULD those who LIVE OFF the taxpayers without paying taxes themselves have a say in what the rest of us pay for?
What has happened to our country? Have we sold out every value we had? For WHAT?! Some backwards racist white-hater?! Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher appeared at an Obama benefit, and Kutcher asked why 'we are paying for a war when THEY have the money' WAKE UP, ASHTON!!! You make more money in 1 day of filming than the President gets paid in a year! ARE LIBERALS REALLY THIS STUPID?!?!

You must be running stale numbers, or your polling methods seem suspect. McCain up by 2pts.? (which you've beening running for awhile now)., noboby has run a number like that for some time. Even Fox shows Obama +6. Get with the program.

You must be running stale numbers, or your polling methods seem suspect. McCain up by 2pts.? (which you've beening running for awhile now)., noboby has run a number like that for some time. Even Fox shows Obama +6. Get with the program.

Battleground has historically been the most accurate poll out there, mostly due to the fact they only poll LIKELY voters (ie those that actually go out and vote) rather than just selecting a random field, half of which have probably never even seen a polling booth. As for those libs out there that rant saying Bush and the Republicans are at fault for the financial crisis we are in, do your homework...although you might not like what you see. In a 2004 senate hearing, Republicans were warning about Fannie May and Freddie Mac, and said something needed to be done. The Democrats balked at the idea and said May and Mac were "sound" and didn't need any regulation. So go ahead libs, look it up. Get some facts to back up your arguments and accusations for a change!

If the economy is soooo bad--remember that Barry and the Clintons got rich in the BUSH YEARS! How much $$ has B. Hussein raised for his campaign? How could he do that in such a bad ecomony?

GUNS DON'T KILL PEOPLE. ABORTION CLINICS SUPPORTED BY THE DEMOCRAT HUSSEN OBAMA KILL PEOPLE.

MSRB: What rock did you climb out from? The democraps have been in "power" longer and have done NOTHING but raise our taxes, grown government, and have put us in this "economic" disaster. It started with Jimmy Carter, making shure that all were "given" the opportunity to buy a home. Well that was even if they could not afford the darn thing in the first place. I am tired of paying for people who wont get off their lazy butts and want everything given to them. That is not good for the human race. People need to be productive. You are so seething in anger, but it is for the wrong people. I see you have bought into the media pounding day in and day out. I suggest you educate yourself and be a loving human being. Obama Lies, Lies, Lies. He tells you what you want to hear. That is truely sad that people will not listen to the truth. I feel sorry for you all. This country deserves more than than that.

And paul, you have been listening to the media again haven't you? People please educate yourselfs. You are letting the Media run this election, and run your lives. Don't be lazy, check the stories, from the source. Truth is Obama is not ready to lead this country. Would you let someone be the president of your company if he had no experience, no sense of the bussiness world, or how to run things. I would hope not. You would make sure their credentials were there. And if all you have is hatred on your side, well shame on you. It is not about race, (he is not black) he is Arabian. Not that it matters, but if you are going on about this, that is who he is. Wake up. Get your ego out of this and seek the truth!.

Everyone i have talked to, asked who are you voting for, say they are voting for Mccain. I dont know who the media is polling but it isnt main street America. I'm voting Mccain/Palin!!!