Obama Regains Comanding Lead in New York...Siena Poll

[maddezmom]

OBAMA REGAINS COMMANDING LEAD IN NEW YORK
By JOSEPH SPECTOR • Journal Albany Bureau • October 2, 2008

ALBANY — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has a 22-percentage-point lead in New York over Republican challenger John McCain, a Siena College poll today found.


The big lead comes after McCain shockingly cut Obama’s lead in New York to five percentage points in a Siena Poll just three weeks ago.

But more in line with New York’s heavily Democratic enrollment edge, Obama now has a 58 percent to 36 percent lead over McCain, according to 631 likely voters polled by Siena this week.

The poll also found that heading into the vice presidential debate tonight, Republican candidate Sarah Palin’s favorability dropped from 46 percent to 36 percent from last month’s poll. Democratic candidate Joe Biden’s favorability was at 54 percent compared to 46 percent last month.

And by a margin of 51 percent to 21 percent, voters in New York thought Obama won last Friday’s first debate. Seventy-nine percent of New York voters plan to watch the vice presidential debate tonight.

more:http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081002/NEWS/81002006

[TwilightGardener]

1. Insane that it ever got close. What were they thinking?

[Curtland1015]

2. Haw! Remember when that one poll came out saying Obama only had a 5% lead in NY?

...and lots of people on here started freaking out?

Good times. :P

[alcibiades_mystery]

3. Those fucking clowns at Siena don't know what the hell they're doing

Come on, now.

[terrya]

4. McCain! Shift your focus to New York State!

Hurry, there's still time to close that gap. Hee, hee. :-)

[bushisanidiot]

5. It was never a 5% lead. They totally manipulated the numbers to come up with that.

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[Curtland1015]

6. Oh certainly. But people were still freaking out.

[alcibiades_mystery]

8. Correction: Some morons, know-nothings, and concern trolls were freaking out

Or pretending to.

[seabeyond]

7. and i was worried about ny???? ya, right. n/t