Obama's bump is gone, poll says

As a African-American and a lifelong Democrat, I entered this political season proud that Barack Obama had a real chance to become America's first Black President. But the Obama I loved early in the season has been kidnapped and replaced by an imposter who voted for FISA, who has reversed himself on a dozen significant positions and who has suddenly become the lead cheerleader against equal opportunities for women in politics. How sad. Obama decided that a woman who got 18 million votes was not more qualified to be Vice President than a man who got 9,000.

Now, it seems he is intent on repeating his offense against women as he gears up to smear Sarah Palin. I'm not a hockey mom. But I'm a mom. And I'm watching you, Senator, very closely. Do not assume that everything you do and say against women who happen to be white is okay with women who happen to be Black. You've almost managed to lose my vote.

A link to the poll sure would be nice...

Wow what a smear and lie campaign McCain is now running with the newest liar Palin added to his team of degenerates.

Here is the real story Palin the shill and liar --

Obama Community Organizer
Palin Soccer Mom

Obama Harvard Law Professor
Palin Soccer Mom

Obama Illinois State Legislator
Palin Sports Caster (wow what qualifications for VP)

Obama United States Senator 3 years (USA)
Palin Governor 2 years of a state in middle of nowhere (Alaska)

Obama Presidential candidate - 2 years
Palin Vice Presidential candidate - 1 week

or how about this one!

Joe Biden - Law Practice and City Councilman 3 years
Joe Biden - United States Senator 35 years (took office in 1973)

Sarah Palin - Alaska Governor - 2 years

I don't think Governor Palin has much to be bragging about!!

Nice try. Two polls covering the same time period, and with much larger samples, have Obama ahead by 7 and 5 points.

CBS News 09/01 - 09/03 734 RV 42 42 Tie
Gallup Tracking 09/01 - 09/03 2771 RV 49 42 Obama +7
Rasmussen Tracking 09/01 - 09/03 3000 LV 50 45 Obama +5

You are fake. For Sure.

Daria be clear on who you are we can spot a liar poster. You are not a mom and are just anohter Republican working the smear machine. I love to hear ll of you talk about how you once loved Obama but don't now. Obama will win this election by a wide margin because our country is tired of these neo-cons and what they have done to our country. We should we trust the same folks that caused the disaster to fix it. Palin will be found to have been having an affair with her husbands business partner displaying once again her traditional family values" No Way No How No Mc Cain!

Obama was never qualified. Hillary Clinton was the candidate that we could count on to WIN in November.
But No. That was not good enough. It was "fixed" for Obama. And it was crazy because he is so young he could have run at any time in the future. And it would have helped introduce him to America through REAL efforts and helping Americans and separated him from Wright and mainly, built a resume. His ego is bigger than his brain.
Simply, I voted for Hillary because she was the best candidate.
Now I am voting for McCain because he is. It is truly that simple.

After seeing a real agent of change ( Sarah Palin) Barack Obama is being seen as the socialist empty suit many of us saw all along. My hope would be one successful term by McCain and then turn it over to her to run and win on her own. I was lukewarm on McCain until he demonstrated the excellence of his judgement by his VP choice. Now I'm on board all the way!

Daria:
You hypocrite. Go vote for sarah palin then.
Let the republicans run the country to the ground.
Be happy in your slum and ghettos when the republicans run you out of the country for illegal mexicans.

Mexicans will run the country in 2050. Of course, the chinese will then crush america since it US will be run by nincompoops and white trash republicans and mexicans

If this country is stupid enough to fall for Rethuglican trickery again, we deserve what we'll get ... but it won't just be US regretting it.

Never mind these shenanigans. Elect Obama '08 and let's make a major course correction.

What? The entire premise behind your vote is gender based? Woman or not, think of the future, our kids, our parents, think of the global impacts to keeping another 4 years of a Bush ideology. Unfortunately this vote is not just about white/black or man/woman muslim/Terriorist. Think big picture, allow yourself to learn as many of the issues as possible.

When the electorate in a democracy is no longer "well informed", the democracy will fail. I am a life long Republican that is disgusted with the entire Republican party. But the Republicans did understand how to use emotion to turn off the rational thinking.

Obama, you have been out gimmicked; I hope either the electorate comes to its senses or you pull a rabbit out of your hat.

She is way out of her league . Attacking media show her lack of experience . You could see it on MC cain's face .

Dem08, to be correct:

Obama - Harvard Law Graduate
Obama - University of Chicago Law Professor. (Not Harvard)

Oh, and Palin is a Hockey Mom, not Soccer Mom.
And... Palin, highest approval rating of any state governor at 80%.

Your points are not totally off base, but at least get the facts straight!

Just wait until the spotlight dims on the RNC and then the real McCain/Palin "same ol same ol" will come shining through! Palin wants to put women's rights back 100 years! She'd just as soon destroy the environment as enjoy it for slaughtering America's symbolic animals. If McCain didn't need to pander to the extreme right, we'd never have heard of Sarah Palin. But, she's good at what she does - being snide and insulting. Take off the lipstick and just be the pit bull McCain hired you to be but while doing so, speak the truth instead of your half baked lies! Palin's experience is nothing. She is not qualified to be the Vice President of the USA but we really don't have to worry about it as the ticket will not perform! Enough is Enough!

Well this how it is I was for the Democrats party till the race card i feel that they put it out there so the Blacks lean on him knowing how Blacks react to the race card without thinking first and now that he put the Clinton out there thats way I'm leaning the other way.

Sarah Palin said not a word about the main issues the American
people are intensely concerned about : 1) The war in Iraq 2) The failed
economy 3) The untruthful words of the Bush 4) Universal health care
5) The high costs of education , 6) etc.,etc., Last week she was an unknown to
me. Now, she has antagonized me with her yelling and screaming against
the democrats

I support McCain and Palin because they are already equipped with knowledge and experience of serving the Americans and world much more than Obama.

Daria: obviously you-re conflicted because the thin facsimile, want to be, of Hillary Clinton dressed as The VP want to be Palin makes you think that she is a Hillary.
Hillary would chew her up and spit her on Mc. Cains shoes. Hillary is behind Obama, there was no fixing, it was the law and that is how it's won. Listen to Hillary and fight the good fight. Dont lose sight of freedom, a prosperous America, A love of America for always taking the higher road from the laud of the other countries of the world. Knowing that as a woman you can attain anything that you want to if your work toward it, that couples regardless of their sex will be able to join in a marriage and be protected like any other couple out there that want to take the time to invest in their marriage. That women will have the control of their bodies and not the government. Think about an America with full health care , like our legislators get, for all and a renewed and sustainable energy future. Nothing like this is on Sarah Palin's plate or Mr. Mc Cain's pate. Hold strong, believe in the democratic ticket and believe in Mr. Obama and Joe Biden to fight the just fight and bring us into the New America.

Where is the poll?

Ed Cruz...thanks for sharing with us all that you are a racist!

Its a very sad statement of America that we can't appreciate our differences and can't strive to try to be positive by helping our fellow Americans.

As another person said earlier, if America makes the mistake to put another Republican in the White House....then America gets what they deserve. That is higher energy costs, more unemployment, more enemies foreign and domestic.

I know have more to say but, I am still blown away by Ed's comment.

Interesting that the media fails to point out the blind loyalty to color with some of Obama's supporters. Polls show some 90% of blacks support Obama. Does this mean all blacks have the exact same views on the issues? I sincerely doubt it unless you're admitting that all blacks are mindless drones. Or does it mean they are purely voting along color lines? That dear voter is the epitome of racism at its ugliest.

Yet, if a woman says they are voting for Sarah Palin (or Hillary Clinton) because they can relate to her as a woman then the liberal press jumps all over that as being another "stupid voter".

Hypocrites!!!

Obama represents the collectivist position. Under Obama and the extreme left, those who work and invest will be punished (taxed to death) for their productivity; those who are less productive (the next generation of welfare recipients) will be rewarded.
Obama invites international jurisdiction, multiculturalism, unrestrained immigration ... but this is proven to have a lower survival rate ... that's too bad.
Obama will push for higher taxes, will punish the productive and reward sloth; this has a dampening effect on the economy and raises the cost of living ... but who cares? Let's go stomp the US flag!

Marxism Lives! And just wait for the planned Obama/Rangel military draft ... hello, Iraq!
Barry "FLIP-FLOP" Soetoro '08!
Joe "D.C. POLITICS AS USUAL SINCE 1972" Biden '08!

I am a black woman living in California. I am from New York and at first I was happy to vote for Obama, but now since he denounced Hillary that worked for him so hard and gave VP to Biden, I knew then that he would betray women just like he is going to betray Black Americans if he becomes the President. If you notice he is only catering to celebrities and above middle class people. Just because he is black that doesn't mean that I have to trust him....

Th One thing that is crystal clear and cannot be refuted...the republicans are still up the thier armpits in smears against Dems using the same old tactics. Something Obama swore off right from the start! He said he'd stay away from that and he has... he's demonstrated class and tact...sticking to the issues. Republicans on the other hand? Dirty political mudslinging and sarcastic namecalling. Its like third grade but Washington style, and Sarah Palin says shes not from washington. She sure did learn the dirty tricks in a hurry for someone so wholesome and pure and down home as she portrays herself to be . Quick study from the speech writers on how to smear the other side at all costs. She's a true politician at heart. Party before Country eh? She'll fit right in in Washington. I believe in my heart that Obama will win. He has to...He's our last hope to save this country from the mess they've made of it. He's from a good, decent, working class family and that's something more important than job experience we need "empathy" for the common man. I support my children on 30K a yr, does John Mc Cain even comprehend what that means to the everyday American? I think not. Not with 8 houses. By the Grace of God Obama will win because he doesn't stoop to these low down, tacky attacks on the other side but rather addresses the nations issues instead of deviating from them by attacking his opponents. And how about all the thousands of Vets that are walking the streets homeless? Why doesn't someone honor thier war contribution? I'm fed up with only hearing one man's story when so many men's stories go unheard. I honor THOSE Veterans. The ones I pass everyday with cardboard signs. Not the ones who use thier experiences to gain votes.

Daria & PHop2008.....you are both fakes! You are Repubs lying about being Dems! Kind of sad that you have to say you are "black"! Another lie????

Matt Carroll
Nice try but I guess you REALLY love to read what you believe and not what the facts are:
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Nice try. Two polls covering the same time period, and with much larger samples, have Obama ahead by 7 and 5 points.

CBS News 09/01 - 09/03 734 RV 42 42 Tie
Gallup Tracking 09/01 - 09/03 2771 RV 49 42 Obama +7
Rasmussen Tracking 09/01 - 09/03 3000 LV 50 45 Obama +5
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Now why dont you try reading the gallup disclaimers that the poll does not include the time after Palin gave her speech!! As the Rasmussen poll is does not include that time line either.

To quote your words: "Nice try!"

I am old like John McCain; white, retired from 35 years of teaching and grandmother of 10 young adult grandchildren. I've got the big picture (a classy gentleman & party that represents real change) vs a party that one could not write a better soap opera about ..... but I notice the little things too. Why is it that the Republican Party which pronounced itself "nice" continuously could not even offer that pregant girl a seat but made her stand holding that baby while her mother received adoration? She looked about ready to pass out. The party is so proud that she is having the baby. Do they care about what her young body is going through and giving her time to rest. Why is it that the same party which criticizes and promises not to continue to finance the welfare takers
walked around the convention hall with "Support Unwed Mother" buttons?

its funny that in trumpeting obama's experience, the word "harvard" is one of the first word's off his tongue, his staff's tongue, and now his supporter's tongues. do the american people really identify the ability to lead and serve our country with harvard? it used to lefty elitist intellectualist who spread this nonsense but now mainstream america actually looks down on someone rising from the ranks of middle, working class people to become a respected leader. heaven forbid that person went to a state university and not harvard. its insulting and those of you who are overly impressed by that are fools.

i'm a right leaning independent. and while i have all kinds of issues with these candidates i have found interesting this week that so many are attacking Gov. Palin's foreign policy experience but not obama's. i mean, does giving a speech in front of thousands of germans qualify as experience? face it, he has no more than she does...which is why he picked biden. this also reminded me of a post i saw on the well-respect taylor marsh's liberal blog back when i would have voted for hillary:

It was January 17, 2001, and Illinois state senator Barack Obama was on WTTW11’s “Chicago Tonight."

Obama praised newly-elected President Bush's new nominee for Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld.

Obama said. "I mean for the most part, I for example do not agree with a missile defense system, but I dont think that soon-to-be-Secretary Rumsfeld is in any way out of the mainstream of American political life. And I would argue that the same would be true for the vast majority of the Bush nominees, and I give him credit for that."

is this some of the foreign policy "judgment" the hardcore lefties support? i guess mccain isn't the only one who can side with bush.

just because the 'smears' aren't off obama's lips doesn't mean they're not from his camp. futhermore, the dems did they're fair share of slinging it at the convention. (not to mention the media does plenty of obama's smears for him.)

no matter who you might support, this is the way of politics. obama and the dems aren't playing the game any nicer than anyone else. and if you think otherwise, your simply naive.

I THINK DAWN NEEDS TO GO BACK AND LOOK AT HER FACTS AGAIN....OR SHE MIGHT BE CALLED A LIAR.......OBAMA HAS BEEN A SENATOR IN NAME ONLY FOR 3 YEARS.....ONLY A WORKING FED. SENATOR FOR 2 YEARS MONTHS....HE HAS BEEN WORKING ON HIS CAMPAIGN FOR 18 MONTHS. OH WOW....A COLLEGE GRAD WHO IS A HOCKEY MOM IS NOT AS GOOD AS A HARVARD GRAD......COME ON DAWN GO BACK AND LOOK UP YOUR FACTS AGAIN AND STOP BEING A LIAR

A survey by Rasmussen Report earlier this summer, Sixty-eight percent (68%) of voters now believe most reporters try to help the candidate they want to win, and 49% believe reporters are trying to help Obama this year. Only 14% think they are trying to help McCain. In another survey, 55% said media bias is a bigger problem for the electoral process than large campaign donations. In the new survey, although 85% say they are following news stories about Palin at least somewhat closely, just five percent (5%) think reporters are trying to help her with their coverage, while over half of U.S. voters (51%) think reporters are trying to hurt Sarah Palin with their news coverage. If the News Media had been unbias and reported on facts, John Edwards would have never been a primary candidate and Obama’s checkered past would not have been overlook by the press. We would have Hillary Clinton as the democrat ticket and Obama as VP. Boycott MSNBC/NBC & CNN news for a week, hurt them in the good old boy wallet by dropping their ratings, then we will see real reporting instead of bias BS.

President Obama loses election. Why? Arrogance, terrible VP choice, and too many friends on the left hand side including Michael Moore.

Anyone, man or woman, who voted for Hillary Clinton in the primary and now claims they will vote for McCain because they don't like Obama is either daft or can't bring themselves to vote for a black man for president.
McCain and Palin stand against everything Hillary and Bill Clinton have stood for during their entire political careers.
Even Hillary said the votes were not about her, but about the Supreme Court nominations, the direction of the economy and foreign relations.
Get real and wake up. If you supported Hillary Clinton in the primaries, your only choice in the general is Obama.

Joe and James,

Neither one of you have done any reading. You need to research and read and
you will find that Obama is not qualified and is also a person unable to bridge the
truth. You two are impotent smearing idiots that do not understand macro and
micro economics and what Obama truly wants to do for our country along with
Michelle, Oprah, Rev. Wright, Father Phlegar, Farrakhan, Ayers, Dhorn, Rezko (Thank God he will be behind bars-but not for long), Jesse Jackson Jr., The Daley Chicago Political machine of corruption, George Soros, and many many more.

Palin roo far to the right pro-life, anti-gay, likes guns, believes creationism should be taught in school, only teach abstinance in school, God is responsible for the war? Assembly of God Church. way out of my league in this department. Aperson like this can be dangerous.