New poll shows Hillary, Obama tied
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- devo64
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A NBC/Wall Street Journal poll released on Wednesday looks at how the three main candidates are fairing against each other. In head-to-head match ups, Obama and Clinton were even at 45 percent. In general election match ups, Obama led McCain by 44 percent to 42 percent and McCain led Clinton by 46 percent to 44 percent.
When asked which candidate could unite the country if elected, 60 percent said Obama, 58 percent said McCain and 46 percent said Clinton.
When asked which candidate could unite the country if elected, 60 percent said Obama, 58 percent said McCain and 46 percent said Clinton.
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2% yelled, "More Ovaltine, Please!", and were clubbed to death.
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Hillary will be doing a great disservice to this country if she backs out of the race. There are many democrats (me included) who will cross Party line and vote for McCain if Obama is the Presidential candidate. There are many Democrats in the Silent Majority who feel the same way but are afraid to voice their opinion for fear of being branded as a racist.
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I think it's absolutely absurd that anyone would be branded a racist for not agreeing or supporting Obama. The power of Democracy is being able to vote for the person of your choice with out fear of reprisal.
Though that is something the media sure hasn't acknowledged. They seemingly lampooned Geraldine Ferraro after her remark that if Obama was a white man he wouldn't be where he is today. While I don't agree with her at all, I don't find it overly racist.
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I take these polls with a grain of salt. It's still so far out from the election in November. Anything can happen up until then. Also, they only poll people with land lines, effectively leaving out those who only use a cell phone as their main line - which is any one under 30. That is a big chunk of people to leave out! I suspect Obama's numbers will be much higher, and to a smaller extent, Hillary's, if young people were included in these "national" polls.
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- phoenix_fire999
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Quite true Phoenix, considering that the new generation of voters only have cell phones. I can't think of a single friend, all of us under 30, that has a land line telephone.
But it's some what difficult for pollers to get cell phone numbers. Where as the phone book is still available to them there is no centralized database with the nations cell phone numbers that they have access to. All that is guarded by the phone companies.
Although that hasn't stopped me from receiving spam text messages...
I'm not sure how well it would work but I would think a national poll by email would get better results. -
http://mediamatters.org/items/200507120008
I have been a Democrat all my life but this is the first time I have agreed with a Republican, The 911 attack that Osama bin Laden waged on Amercia is nothing compared to destruction that Obama will cause to America if he is elected President. I hope Senator Clinto stays in the fight and save America from destruction. Obama made one excting speech and we want to make him President, He has done absoloutely nothing and will destroy our country if he is voted President. Democrats have really lost their sense of direction. A vote for Obama will be a vote for Osama. -
Obama needs to quit the Presidential race for his own good and for the good of the country for the following reasons:
- The Hilary Campaign managers have so much dirt on Obama, including links with the Mafia and solicitation of prositutes. They are just waiting for the right timing - just before the Convention - the dish them out.
- The Republicans have even more dirt on Obama - they are just hoping that Obama wins the Primary to that they can dish them out just before the election. Obama cannot win the General Election. There are just too much dirt on him
- The jews will arrange for Obama to be assasinated before the Convention. They do not trust a person with Muslim heritage to protect their interest.Obama should get out before he becomes another Martin Luther King.
- The Muslims are waiting to wait for Obama to become elected so that they can blackmail him to do what they want him the do - he has so much links to the Black Muslims and Mafia that he will have no choice but the do what they want him to do. Obama will be their Trojan Horse into Western Democracy. It is their best chance to destroy us. -
That's a lot of backwards, hateful rhetoric, Joe, that I personally don't believe and wouldn't think any sane, self thinking citizen of America would believe it either. Some people make the argument for Hilary to drop out of the race, expectancy after last Tuesdays vote. Check out this article by Erica Barnett, but in case you don't/ won't I'll quote a bit of it.
"It's time for Hillary to concede. I'm the biggest Hillary supporter at this paper. I don't agree that she's guilty of "dividing the party," or that this protracted Democratic nomination battle turned the country against the Democrats. My desire for her to concede is both political and personal. First, there's now no scenario in which Hillary can overtake Barack Obama and win the nomination. And second, I don't want to see her embarrass herself and diminish her legacy as a First Lady and a senator.
And—not that I'm opposed to fighting dirty—hasn't it gotten ugly enough for Clinton already? The pandering gas-tax "holiday," the painfully insincere disdain for "elites" and "economists"—Clinton is embarrassing herself. I'm tired of defending what her campaign has become. Clinton has always enjoyed strong support among red-state, pickup-truck-driving, working-class voters. The fact that she felt the need to pander to them with gimmicks like the gas-tax holiday speaks volumes. Her "victory" speech in Indiana was the final straw. She's desperate, and it shows.
I have concerns about Obama, of course. I worry that he's untested, that the red states he's won in party primaries will go for McCain in the general, and that he isn't up for a knock-down-drag-out battle with one of the toughest assholes in the Republican Party. But if anything, this drawn-out battle with Hillary Clinton has prepared Obama for the trials to come. So Hillary has done her job." -
Devo64, I appreciate your calm, rational argument for Obama. What gets me is that so many people are jumping on the bandwagon to call Hilary to quit. I believe Hilary is the real partriot in this case, trying to protect the democratic process. Obama is like the winning team in the ninth inning, encouraging the crowd (the news media) to demand that the game be called because the other team does not have a chance .. and the score is 9-8! This will put a lot of Hilary supporters off and will lead them to vote for McCain, as I certainly will.I am normally a very calm rational perosn who is not even political. The whole Obama process has disgusted me so much that I have turned into a writer of hateful rhetorics. This has what Obama has done to good American citizens like me... I am sure many good American citizens feel the same way.
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