The messiah who can’t break away by Wesley Pruden
The Bear on Aug 12 2008 at 8:26 am | Filed under: Election 08’
” Barack Obama leads in the polls, but every pollster understands the butterflies in the bellies of sober Democrats. With everything going for him, why hasn’t Barack Obama put a little daylight between himself and John McCain? Querulous minds want to know.
Where, asks Kellyanne Conway of the Polling Company, is “the Barack bump?” Where, indeed.
Many of the reporters traveling with Mr. Obama on his Magical Mystery Tour of the Middle East (and certain European beachheads of Islam) and the giddy pundits have been treating him as if he were, in Mzz Conway’s description, “the fifth Beatle.”
Gallup found a tiny weekend bump ‘ perhaps a pimple or a zit ‘ over the weekend, and on Sunday put his advantage at 9 points. This is getting close to something significant, but Gallup cautions that “the key question remains as to whether this ‘bounce’ is short-term.
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Poll: Obama’s lead plunges in Mass.
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s lead in Massachusetts has plummeted 14 percentage points since June, a new Suffolk University-7 news poll shows.
Mr. Obama leads Republican John McCain 47 percent to 38, down from a 23 point spread in June, and is bleeding support from male voters, independents and older voters.
Suffolk University pollster David Paleologos said questions of experience and race appear to be at play, with older voters showing doubts about whether Mr. Obama, a former state lawmaker with four years under his belt in the U.S. Senate, has enough experience to take over as the nation’s chief executive officer and commander in chief of its military.
Among independents, Mr. Obama’s lead is down 15 percentage points to 1, and his 25 point lead with voters between the ages of 46 and 55 is down to two points.
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“four years under his belt in the U.S. Senate”
Uh, try 143 days, and NO legislation of any importance, not to mention the only thing in his name in the State of Illinois, after seven years of nothing, were those stolen by his political boss and given to him in order to “make” a king.