NEWSWEEK: Hillary voters back Obama 88-7 (In other news, Obama CRUSHES Fellow Prisoner 52-41)

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

The global financial meltdown has caused a dramatic shift in the 2008 presidential race, according to the latest NEWSWEEK poll. With four weeks left in the presidential campaign, Barack Obama now leads John McCain by double digits, 52 percent to 41 percent among likely voters—a marked shift from the last Newsweek poll, conducted one month ago, when the two candidates were tied at 46 percent.

Underlying Obama's surge in support: An historic boiling over of dissatisfaction with the status quo. An astounding 86 percent of voters now say they are dissatisfied with the way things are going in the United States, while a mere 10 percent say they are satisfied. That's the highest wrong track/right track ratio ever recorded in the NEWSWEEK poll.

For context on just how toxic these numbers could be for the Republic party, consider that in October, 2006, weeks before the Democrats swept control of both houses of Congress, only 61 percent of voters expressed dissatisfaction. Twenty-five percent of voters say they approve of the job President Bush is doing in the White House, a record low for any president in the NEWSWEEK poll and close to the historic low-approval rating of 22 percent the Gallup poll recorded for President Truman, in 1952. Voters are crying out for change and, for now, believe that the Democratic presidential candidate has a greater likelihood of delivering it. Asked which ticket they thought was most likely to bring about change if elected, voters said Obama-Biden over McCain-Palin 52 percent to 37 percent. A month ago, Obama-Biden led by only five points, 47 percent to 42 percent.

Obama appears to have broadened his coalition of support and made inroads with groups that have not reliably embraced him over the course of the long presidential campaign. He now leads McCain among both men (54 percent to 40 percent) and women (50 percent to 41 percent). He now wins every age group of voters—including those over 65 years of age, who back him over McCain 49 to 43 percent. Supporters of Hillary Clinton, as many as a fifth of whom had at one point told pollsters they'd support McCain over Obama, now back the Democratic nominee 88 percent to 7 percent


http://www.newsweek.com/id/163339

[NightWatcher]

1. puma-schmuma

[rocktivity]

6. Palin killed the puma with her mooseshit gun!

:evilgrin:
rocknation

[Alexander]

21. From a helicopter.

[budkin]

2. But Ayers!!!!!

[Schulzz]

3. That's why McCain now blames Hillary for Ayers.

He has given up on her supporters.

[Ron Paul- voting BO]

4. Where is the MSM on this.

I guess I feel like a Republican (God please forgive me). The MSM is full of crap. They keep up the same stories day after day (Ayers- Puma- on and on) then when they are proven wrong they never go back and correct or do a follow up story. After this election I am going to write each network and discuss why they cannot cover a story fair (and no not like faux news).

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

9. They really do seem unable to see data that do not fit the narrative

[rocktivity]

5. And you thought Sara Palin served no useful purpose.

I know no one likes an "I told you so," but damn, did I tell you so:

(The)...primary motive (of the Palin appointment)...was to seduce the last of the disgruntled Hillary supporters. But in choosing someone who has no foreign policy background, has not campaigned for him, is anti-choice, and is the subject of an ethics investigation, (McCrazed) effectively suggests that anyone with a vagina should be acceptable to women voters. Ironically, he and Palin may end up helping the Obama camp accomplish its mission of getting the last of the Hillary supporters to forgive, forget, and unify.

CUE THE VONAGE THEME!

:woohoo:
rocknation

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

7. or the pwnage theme

[Sodan]

8. DD ..love it!

[JuniperLea]

10. So, their PUMA bullshit...

Is bullshit:)

:rofl:

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

11. like everything else I've ever seen pushed on Fox

[JuniperLea]

15. I can't believe so many fell for it...

If it's uttered by Fox, Bush, McCain, Palin... chances are it's a big fat fib.

Too bad so many were chased away.

[mikiturner]

12. OMG~! 7 percent of Clinton voters to McCain!

[liberalpragmatist]

16. Dems in disarray!

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

13. ---

[torbird]

14. Biggest "DUH!" headline this week.

That PUMA shit was made up. By those, left and right, who hate women and minorities.

I'm glad we've finally put this dumb-assedness to bed. Shame it took so long.

[Drunken Irishman]

17. YES!!!!!! Almost three weeks to go, folks!

[Hope And Change]

18. K & R!

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

19. K

[ronnykmarshall]

20. There goes that "Obama having trouble with Clinton supporters" bullshit.

On a side note, I got an e-mail today from "Democrats for McCain" .... I responded "FUCK OFF".