Gallup Daily: McCain Moves Ahead, 48% to 45%

[Hope And Change]

http://www.gallup.com/poll/110050/Gallup-Daily-McCain-Moves-Ahead-48-45.aspx

[Warren Stupidity]

1. Crap.

I am now officially distraught. Are we that stupid as a people?

[Selatius]

5. Americans are just uninformed. That's why GWB was in the White House for 8 years.

I honestly don't see how a democracy can be maintained without an informed public.

[Union Thug]

13. That's the Achilles heel of democracy - an uninformed citizenry...

You know, the kind whose entire world views are formed by Madison Avenue. "Aint that America..."

[Fumesucker]

6. Yes..

This has been another edition of simple answers to simple questions.

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public. -PT Barnum

[misanthrope]

33. Your ending quote is misattributed...

...H.L. Mencken coined that phrase.

Barnum said, "A sucker is born every minute."

[Fumesucker]

34. You're right, I should have checked... n/t

[TheWatcher]

30. Americans for the most part are terminally stupid, but I don't think they are THIS stupid.

They are just setting up the steal again.

[TwilightZone]

2. People are idiots.

Palin is a fraud, and there was NOTHING in the Republican convention but vitriolic nonsense.

If people bought that crap, they're even dumber than I thought they were.

[Egnever]

7. well when all they hear from the media is how great she is

Do you expect any less?

Relax the republican hold on the narrative is now gone and the Dem's can get into the commentary again. Those numbers wont last a week.

[TwilightZone]

12. I agree with you that they'll drop, but not necessarily on that time frame.

I think Palin is peaking and McCain along with her, but I think it may take a few weeks for the blather to subside and the first debates, including the VP debate, should expose the voters to reality.

[Egnever]

23. Well from what i have seen so far of the talk shows.

The Dem's have been out there doing a yeoman's job of taking down McCain. as Long as Obama continues to hit hard all week I think we will have a 2-3 point lead by next Sunday never to look back again.

[Egnever]

3. I expect that to continue through tuesday

This will be the last time mcsame will see a lead in the polls. Obama is back in the mix after the media blackout of the puke convention and the numbers will swiftly return to his favor.

[Mind_your_head]

4. Why? n/t

[malaise]

8. Bull$hit n/t

[book_worm]

9. typical convention bump

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

10. Hmmmmmmm I wonder if they take the Ohio purge of the voter roll into account

when they come up with their numbers.

Just a pondering here...When the sElection is stolen again, do you think the pollsters were assured they wouldn't look like asses this time?

[DeadManInc]

11. Paid for reality. This is bullshit.

[Union Thug]

14. Wasn't Kerry down by something like 10pts at this time during the previous election?

A few points in a gallup poll isn't anything to be freaking out over... I'm waiting for the debates before I start to panic! :-)

[Curtland1015]

20. That's what I'm waiting on. Obama and Biden...

should SMOKE McCain and Palin in the debates. If we're going to claim a strong win, it will be from the debates.

[Fluffdaddy]

28. Correct, the debates will tell the tale

[rocktivity]

15. It probably won't last. And Obama is five points ahead overall

according to Pollster.com.



GET THEE BEYOND ME, POLLS! UNCLEAN! UNCLEAN!!!

:headbang:
rocknation

[Phred42]

16. Most of these polls are BS - stop

[KharmaTrain]

17. Oh My, Oh Dear...All Is Lost...

:sarcasm:

Sheesh. So we're losing the race for homecoming king and queen. People are "wowed" by non-stop hype of the new cute chick in town...and the country was just fed a week of bullshit. But there's the "concern" that it's all over...it's gonna be stolen or caged or Rove will pull votes from Mars...Sheesh.

Michael Dukakis came out of the '88 convention with a 17 point lead...sure did him lots of good. Maybe, just maybe, these beauty pagent numbers along with all the bullshit shilling the corporate media is doing will get some people pissed and ready to fight back...phone bank, canvass...take the angst to the streets and ram these numbers up Gallup's ass.

As usual, the poll undersamples independents, younger people and minorities...and Gramps always gets his best numbers on the weekend. I'm still looking at state-by-state...where the elections are really won...and the map for Gramps is still behind on this map:

http://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2008/Pres/Maps/Sep04.html


Obama 298 McCain 227 Ties 13

The battle is far from won, but I still like our odds, our candidates and the plans to win. Polls are always backward looking...keep the eye on the prize!!

[chicagoexpat]

18. Ignore the Gallup like the Pros do

http://www.pollster.com/blogs/gallup_daily_the_worst_thing_i.php

[AzDar]

19. Bullshit. Americans are stupid, but they aren't THAT stupid.

[bluestateguy]

21. False

nt

[sendero]

22. Gallup is a joke.....

.... that ALWAYS has the Repukes 5% ahead of where they are.

Anyone here that didn't already know this, well I don't know what to say.

[Muttocracy]

24. I'd like to know why the 8% of other/undecided/whatever isn't changing. nt

[spanone]

25. woe is me, the sky is falling....

[AndyTiedye]

26. Time to…

[Fluffdaddy]

27. What, now we no longer trust in poll numbers?

It's going to come down to the debates. This in going to be year 2000 close

[applegrove]

29. We need to see Obama emotional and passionate. This type of fight will make him so!

[Fluffdaddy]

32. People fight harder when they are behind. This could be a good thing

[TheWatcher]

31. And so it begins.

The Great Theft of '08.

WAKE UP America.

This is it.

You Live Or Die with this election.

This cannot be allowed to happen a third time.

[DemoRabbit]

35. DON'T PANIC!!!

This is the bump the repubs expect to get from their convention... we won't have any idea of somewhat clear numbers until like weeks from now...

Even then, I''ve been saying all along I think the polls may be way off (in favor of Obama) this year because a lot of new and younger votes are people who haven't typically been part of the process are participating this year... and I don't know that pollsters are even reaching them...

But I don't really know enough about the polling process itself...

[orleans]

36. what a load of crap! who the fuck are they polling? (each other??) n/t