CNN Poll: Obama Up 7, McCain Criticisms Aren't Sticking

[Hissyspit]

Source: USA Today

CNN poll: Obama up 7, McCain criticisms aren't sticking

A new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll today shows Democrat Barack Obama leading Republican John McCain 51%-44% among registered voters. CNN says that's similar to Obama's 5-percentage-point lead last month and shows his high-profile trip overseas did not shake up the race.

CNN says McCain retains an an edge on every foreign policy issue asked about in the poll. The good news for Obama, it says, is that "few of the McCain campaign's criticisms of the trip have stuck — especially charges Obama was presumptuously acting as if he had already won the election, and claims he nixed a visit with injured troops because members of the media could not accompany him. Instead, more than two-thirds of voters surveyed said the trip was appropriate for a presidential candidate, and 72% think Obama cares about veterans and the troops currently in Iraq."

The poll, billed as the first to be taken since Obama got home Saturday, was conducted Sunday through Tuesday. It included interviews with 1,041 adults, of whom 914 were registered voters. The margin of error for both groups was plus or minus 3 percentage points.

Mark reported earlier today on the Gallup tracking poll, which showed Obama ahead by 4 points.

Read more: http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2008/07/cnn-poll-obama.html

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[bigmoon]

1. I don't trust polls but this is good news

n/t

[DCKit]

2. B.S. is still B.S.. Without a horse race, the MSM loses viewers and advertisers.

It's such a damn shame what's happened to our formerly free press.

[AndyTiedye]

6. Without a "Horse Race", The Repiglickins Can't Steal It. The MSM Wants to Help Them Steal It

[jobycom]

3. He's using the wrong criticisms, so far.

He's nit-picking and hurling insults with little method behind them. People want change, so they aren't concerned that Obama is light on experience.

Let's see what happens at the Republican convention. Then we'll have some idea of whether he's going to even come out of his corner for this fight.

[junior college]

4. This ad is going to really hurt Obama's chances

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtsM0jtNEOI

[FrenchieCat]

5. OMG! McCain is

Alive? someone should have told me. :shrug:

[Indenturedebtor]

10. Lol the assertion that McBush is alive as opposed to "animated by some fashion" is highly

HIGHLY questionable!

[kevinmc]

7. ads exceed 100,000 McCain and Obama have spent nearly $50 million

This is why they keep those polls close ......

http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/07/30/tvads.html?sid=101

If you're growing tired of seeing the two presidential candidates in 30-second snippets on your television, at this pace you'll be downright exhausted by Election Day, Nov. 4.

In just the first two months of the general election campaign, Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama already have aired more than 100,000 ads on broadcast TV, roughly 33,000 more than were aired during the same time period by the presidential candidates in 2004.

Between the end of the primary election season, June 3, and July 26, Obama has spent more than $27 million and McCain more than $21 million on TV ads. Throw in spots aired by the Republican National Committee and various interest groups and the total two-month spending so far on TV advertising exceeds $50 million.......

[Virginia Dare]

16. McShame won't have the money to keep up when it gets closer to November..

Obama is CRUSHING him in fundraising.

[frog92969]

8. Does anybody believe it's anywhere near that close?

Not slamming your post, it's important to watch the propaganda unfold.

[Jane Austin]

9. But but but . . . .

I thought he wasn't able to break 50%! Didn't Pat Buchanan just say that?

:sarcasm:

[radfringe]

11. where does mccain stand on the issues?

talking with a couple of co-workers yesterday, one of them asked where does mccain stand on the issues?

I replied "what day is it?"

as far as going with the "fear and smear" - that says alot about his campaign, he has no firm ground to stand on and his campaign is scared sh!tless

with regards to Obama being risky - you know what you will get with mccain - more of the same

our country was founded on risk, our innovations, our creativity, our progress is all based on risk. The founding fathers took a risk when they chose to challenge English rule. Americans took a risk when the ventured westward. Orville and Wilbur Wright took a risk when they flew at Kittyhawk. We took a risk when we shot a man into space, when we first orbited the earth, when we landed a man on the moon.

If we played it "safe" like mccain wants to do - we'd still be 13 english colonies, and probably huddled safely in underground bunkers like rabbits.

When someone starts up a their own business - is this not a risk? When you try something new, think outside the box - is this not a risk?

McCain is trying to brand himself as something known and equate it with safe and comfortable like a old pair of shoes. Well, the shoes may be comfortable but if there are holes in the soles it's time to take a risk and try on a new pair.

[sofa king]

12. In a related story, Gallup was full of shit.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/7/30/111024/383/27/559333

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/29/gallups-likely-voters-pol_n_115623.html

'Buried in the ninth paragraph of USA Today's own writeup, they reveal that "McCain's gains came because there was an even number of likely voters from each party. Last month, the Democrats had an 11-point edge."'

As those articles point out, evening out the likely voters is polling malpractice, something else to which we'll probably have to become accustomed.

I for one suspect that The Man wants us to distrust the polls, because if we distrust the polls then we'll have no problem distrusting the exit polls, which will not conform to the results (again) this November. This is the only way McCain is going to get close enough to steal it.

[aquart]

17. 72 million Dems, 55 million Reps, 42 million Inds.

Even it ain't.

[gratuitous]

13. What criticisms aren't sticking?

Let's see, McThuselah claims Obama is acting "presumptuous," whatever that means. Why not just use the word you really want to use, Senator? Tell people he's "uppity." I dare you. His other criticism is about the "nixed visit" with injured troops, which is just a flat-out lie. But I see that CNN repeats the charge verbatim with only the slightest hint that it may not be true.

Could it be that the electorate is at long last wising up, and defining the candidates for themselves rather than letting the negative campaigning do it?

[Virginia Dare]

15. Could be that fact that in the ad that criticized him for not having time..

to visit the troops, they showed him playing basketball WITH THE TROOPS...:crazy:

[Virginia Dare]

14. McShame staked his entire reputation on "integrity" and being a "maverick"..

now he conducts himself like just another sleazy politician. I don't know what he was thinking, unless the GOP is purposely throwing him to the wolves.