How many people here were lamenting over the polls 5 days ago and are now ecstatic?

[Motown_Johnny]

Earlier this week the narrowing polls had any number of posters here worried about the way the campaign was being handled.

Since then McGaffe has forgotten how many houses he has and Joe Biden has filled out our ticket.




Any chance some of you will get off the emotional roller coaster and understand that polls fluctuate? Obama's vacation and Russian aggression gave The Gaffer some easy talking points.



The polls will go back up in the next ten days, that does not mean we have it locked up. They will go back down a bit after the repugs roll out their ticket and have their convention, that does not mean the campaign has any serious issues.


The first debate will influence the polls also.(hopefully in our favor)

Besides, polls that exclude 3rd party candidates needs to be ignored. Barr will suck up some of the weak support of people who tell pollsters McCain when given only two choices.

[cynatnite]

1. I'm feeling better about it...

Obama's campaign needed this. Biden adds the 'what's he going to say next' factor that will keep people's attention. A very good thing, IMO.

[dkf]

2. That was me...I was bemoaning the lack of attack dogs.

Obama just answered all my prayers.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

4. And you were right to do so

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

3. If the polls had been better Obama could have lost this election

If McCain hadn't pulled even we would be looking at VP Kaine or Sebelius. Both great people, but would have made the experience argument (which is quite real in voters minds) a serious problem.

Getting rocked out of complacency is the best thing that could have happened.

I have posted a lot of what folks would call hand-wringing that was backed with prescriptions for what to do.

Most of my prescriptions have come to pass in the last 7 days (not having anything to do with me, of course), so the Obama campaign was thinking like me, not like people who never criticize.

And that's a good thing. THEY recognized that the polls are a genuine problem, not the result of not polling cell-phones or whatever the DU rationalization of the day is.

And they acted based on their own "hand-wringing"

Thank Goodness!

[Motown_Johnny]

6. I think the decision was made in Hawaii, before all these polls came out. But I could be wrong

[dkf]

8. Yes. Obama seems to have a bit of luck that way.

Good thing he knows how to take these signs.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

9. Let's hope it is indeed "the product of preparation," or "residue of design"

Or however the saying goes.

[Motown_Johnny]

11. I kinda doubt he changed his VP choice because f a few polls

[denem]

5. Take a leaf from the Clinton book

soldier on, get up the next morning more determined than ever.

Hillary in the last few weeks of the peimaries. Remember.

[FrenchieCat]

7. I wasn't lamenting then, and I'm doing just great, as I knew I would, now......

I've been chillin' for a while now.

We are going to win this election!

Yes we can! Yes we will! :patriot:

[bigwillq]

10. Wasn't really ever concerned about polls

they don't (didn't) mean too much at this stage of the game. The only one that truly matters is in Nov. I think people will make the right choice.