Gallup Daily: Clinton 46%, Obama 45% »
Posted by: libsRfunny 4 months, 2 weeks ago116 Comments Report this Story
Gallup Poll Daily tracking shows that Hillary Clinton now receives 46% of the support of Democrats nationally, compared to 45% for Barack Obama, marking the first time Obama has not led in Gallup's daily tracking since March 18-20.
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libsRfunny4 months, 2 weeks ago
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zaph224 months, 2 weeks ago
Oh come on now libs, they made up their minds, both groups. Then have no trouble making up their minds, they simply can't agree on one of the two. And I'll have to admit that although the Republicans have made up their minds, I'm not happy with the decision, but at least the candidate issue is settled on the right, while the left continues to cannibalize itself, watching these two try to destroy each other is interesting. Wonder when they'll figure out when one of them is finally picked their opponent will be from the other party.
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libsRfunny4 months, 2 weeks ago
Two things strike me as funny here: Democrats act like this is the first time in history a presidential nomination wasn't decided before heading into the national convention. It also illustrates how useless polls truly are.
I'm guessing now that Obama finally has been pinpointed on some issues, people are learning just how hollow all that "change" rhetoric was early on.
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NoWayMan4 months, 2 weeks ago
um, go to:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/pr...
you will see that Obama is clearly ahead.
the RCP avg. has him up nearly 8 points.
and...
a 1 point spread? that's a statistical tie. but in three other polls, Obama is ahead by 10 points or more.
so, go ahead. keep saying he can't win. keep saying he's unelectable. keep saying whatever you want. it only seems to help Obama.
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libsRfunny4 months, 2 weeks ago
lol, yeah, right. This is just the Gallup Poll, not the average of several polls over past couple months, which is how RealClearPolitics does it's thing.
I find it interesting how when a single poll has Bush's "approval" ratings low - yet still higher than Congressional ratings, liberals like yourself are all for it.
But, when someone posts poll averages from RealClearPolitics showing Bush's overall averages are better than a single poll, all of a sudden, it's a "right wing web site." I actually had some moron say that.
Here's a lil tip on how to read polls: MOVEMENT is the big thing. Are they going up or down? That's about the only use they provide.
And, in this case, Obama's polling is going down. Maybe next poll will show it going up.
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bluetexasvalley4 months, 2 weeks ago
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libsRfunny4 months, 2 weeks ago
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HOUSEMD4 months, 2 weeks ago
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Wolfie20074 months, 2 weeks ago
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nostalgia4 months, 2 weeks ago
I don't think Howard Dean is looking forward to the convention
Top Hillary Fundraisers Rip Into Howard Dean For Saying Super-Dels Should Announce Support "Starting Now"
Two of Hillary Clinton's most prominent fundraisers tore into Howard Dean in interviews with me today, sharply criticizing the DNC chair for saying yesterday that super-delegates should say which Dem candidate they support "starting now."
"Governor Dean should do what he has said he will do -- refrain from injecting himself into the primary process, as millions of Democrats have yet to cast their votes," Hillary national finance chair Hassan Nemazee, one of the most influential fundraisers in the Democratic Party, told me today.
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com...
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rdy2rck4 months, 2 weeks ago
I think they must have figured in that buckheadd guy here on prop Hannibal.:)
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nostalgia4 months, 2 weeks ago
The 20% lead was from one poll in PA only. That particular group has been far off the mark in every poll they have done in this election
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libsRfunny4 months, 2 weeks ago
No, this is a national poll, which Obama had lead for the past month or so. You obviously didn't read the story.
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not2needy4 months, 2 weeks ago
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libsRfunny4 months, 2 weeks ago
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MonkeyBiz4 months, 2 weeks ago
You keep harping on the silly "approval" ratings of congress. An opinion poll of congress as a whole is absolutely meaningless. An opinion poll of each INDIVIDUAL member of congress would have some relevance.
Maybe even an average of the opinion polls of each member would have some relevance, but opinion polls of congress as a unit is meaningless and only used as a political club by right wingers trying to make Bush's numbers look better by comparison.
BTW - Only a couple members of congress would poll lower than Bush and those would be the ones under indictment or caught in a public bathroom.
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lum-chate4 months, 2 weeks ago
The Democrat Party is screwing themselves. By picking the most far left guy they have had since McGovern apparently they haven't learned there lesson. Imagine a 28% tax on capital gains, idiotic!
The republicans picked the best candidate for the general election a middle of the roader like McCain. The Dems led by the Moveon, Huffington, DailyKos crowd will probably pick the guy most aligned with there views. What a monumental miscalculation. All the middle of the roaders belong to McCain. Not even Dem centrists can stomach Obama. I predict a victory of Nixonian proportions for McCain. An 18,000,000 vote landslide like Nixon's may not be possible but it might be close tp that.
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MonkeyBiz4 months, 2 weeks ago
85% of the American public is now opposed to the Iraq war that "middle of the road" McCain wholeheartedly supports.
"Imagine a 28% tax on capital gains, idiotic!"
That's what it was for quite a few years of American prosperity. You don't have to imagine a low paid hourly worker losing over 30% of their pay in taxes, that is currently what is happening right now.
The tax on speculator's profits is far below that, and 28% would still be less than an hourly worker now pays. Oh, and the trickle down theory as justification for the rich paying less (as a percentage) than the poor, is pure unadulterated crap.
"Not even Dem centrists can stomach Obama."
That's as silly as your "Nixonian" victory.
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bluetexasvalley4 months, 2 weeks ago
n2n, that's what ani says constantly, but read her comments now!
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SonOfTheMask4 months, 2 weeks ago
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HannibalBarca4 months, 2 weeks ago
My sympathy (I know it is in the dict. between sh it ans syphilis)to the voters of N America, so a song that describes what politics brings.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Fo4SblJ_SnU
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SonOfTheMask4 months, 2 weeks ago
HA! Good stuff. Here's my contribution...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=iTjy_LW8DGM&feature=...
Maybe should serenade Barry about his "fancy friends"? Like Rezko, Ayres, the Wrong Reverend Wright, Oprah, the Boss...
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nostalgia4 months, 2 weeks ago
Apparently Rush Limbaugh is still pushing Operation Chaos but in a new direction. A friend of mine was listening when he started the new pitch. I found the transcript on his website
"This is all the evidence that you need to hear that Operation Chaos is working. They have to end this. Now, yesterday, I made my own pitch to the superdelegates of the Democrat party, as we initiated the doomsday phase of Operation Chaos, and it is clear after this debate in Philadelphia on Wednesday night that neither of these two can get elected. Obama is falling apart before our very eyes. The messiah characteristics of Barack Obama have been obliterated, and he has been revealed to be nothing more than your average politician who hasn't yet acquired the experience sufficient to let him get away with all the lies that he tells.
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nostalgia4 months, 2 weeks ago
Mrs. Clinton is known by enough people that half the country hates her. They cannot win. So my pitch to the superdelegates, "You've got to get rid of these two. Somehow you have got to come up with a third candidate if you hope to win."
How many superdelegates haven't even been named yet? Answer 64, 65. Howard Dean wants the superdelegates to vote now. Almost 10% of them haven't been named. Chairman Dean, you and the other white guys had better realize that Hillary Clinton is not -- by the way, he wants them to vote now to get Obama nominated. That's his whole point, just end this. There's no way he can be saying this now for the superdelegates to vote for Hillary.
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_041...
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lum-chate4 months, 2 weeks ago
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aniokly4 months, 2 weeks ago
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aniokly4 months, 2 weeks ago
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lum-chate4 months, 2 weeks ago
Don't forget Obama's Kenyan connection. Don't think they haven't added to his unusual accumulation of contributions.
Outspending Clinton 3 to 1 in Pennsylvania and still losing, I wonder what to donators are thinking about him uselessly spending their hard earned money. I wouldn't be surprised if they were getting "BITTER"
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stephen-johnson4 months, 2 weeks ago
"Outspending Clinton 3 to 1 in Pennsylvania and still losing"
Sort of like Ohio -
http://www.news.wisc.edu/14909
Hillary needs a double-digit win in PA to stay alive, just like she did in Ohio.
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Emmanuel704 months, 2 weeks ago
Hmmn...reactionary fodder. Trying their luck on trending to stave off the inevitable, still a good card to play.
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Mdiar4 months, 2 weeks ago
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automan9094 months, 2 weeks ago
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Endoscopy4 months, 2 weeks ago
Tuesday will tell what the real trend is. Some of the pols have a bad reputation and some good. One problem I heard is that they don't poll those with only cell phones and no land lines.
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stephen-johnson4 months, 2 weeks ago
I'm wondering if anyone on this board has ever been polled at all, much less just for this presidential cycle. With all the polling organizations, they must have gotten to at least one of us.
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SonOfTheMask4 months, 2 weeks ago
I've never been polled on how I planned to vote, but I have responded to 3 or maybe 4 other research polls over the past 10 years. One was for TV-watching habits and two were about topics that were important to me FOR an election, but not about any candidates specifically. It seems like there was another one, maybe about radio, but that's a bit foggy, maybe not.
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stephen-johnson4 months, 2 weeks ago
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Klarissa4 months, 2 weeks ago
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stephen-johnson4 months, 2 weeks ago
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lum-chate4 months, 2 weeks ago
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crespi4 months, 2 weeks ago
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Tcaros4 months, 2 weeks ago
Somehow, albeit elusive, the poster of this thinks it shows that McCain somehow benefits. That's really funny.
I think once the democrat ticket is decided we will see double digit leads over McCain.
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Tcaros4 months, 2 weeks ago
I'm not sure where the poster got his story, but 12 hours ago shows Obama narrowing the lead in PA while maintaining a DOUBLE DIGIT lead nationally:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087...
Clinton is holding on to a narrow lead in Pennsylvania, according to the Bloomberg/Times poll and an April 17-18 Newsmax/Zogby tracking survey. Clinton received 47 percent support compared with 42 percent for Obama, the Zogby poll showed.
Newsweek Poll
Nationally, Obama held a 19 percentage point lead over Clinton in the latest Newsweek poll taken April 16-17, with support from 54 percent of registered Democrats to 35 percent for Clinton.
..translated: the die hard conservatives (15% of population) are scared of Obama, so they're making up false rhetoric. This is called Rove strategy.
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Global_Warmer4 months, 2 weeks ago
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aniokly4 months, 2 weeks ago
It is only internal polls that count, because they ask the difficult questions. You can tell they are not good for Obama by the plea from the Deanster to wrap this Primary season up quickly. If neither of their fronrunners are getting anywhere near 50% after all we know about them, it does not bode well for the Democrats.
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