Monday, September 1, 2008

SHOCK POLL

After the Obama/Biden '08 ticket was only up 49-48 over McCain/Palin '08 ticket in a CNN poll yesterday, it is very shocking to see this:

Obama/Biden '08 - 48
McCain/Palin '08 - 40


The headline for me in this poll is that people think Obama feels their pain and McCain does not.

DO NOT STOP pushing housing gate. John McCain is out of touch because he is too rich and doesn't have any frame of reference for what the average voter is facing.

It almost seems to me that Palin made women reject McCain, as Obama is winning them 50-36, while being tied with McCain at 44 to 44 with men.

Did McCain's flyboy womanizing just come back to haunt him? I mean, the Palin pick was possibly the most patronizing thing he could have done to women, because she isn't qualified. Condi is. Hillary is. But not Sarah "Harriet Myers" Palin. McCain basically said straight to every women in America, "you are too dumb to realize I am trying to play you." And given that I operate under one principle as I think most men who deal with a 21st century professional woman do....never make my wife mad....this is not going to have disasterous effects for McCain.

John McCain just blew the election with the worst VP pick in history.

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7 Comments:

Blogger DoctorJ said...

The only ones excited about Palin are the crazy religious right, but those people vote so we do have to work hard to execute the vaunted Obama ground game.

But yes, I'm pretty convinced that McCain/Palin will lose the independent vote.

6:08 PM  
Anonymous Rachel said...

McCain was better off letting this election be a referendum on Obama: do you accept him or not, and if not, choose the old white guy. The media helped things along by being much tougher on Obama and letting McCain get by with gaffes and inconsistencies.

Oooh, look at the maverick!

But by picking Palin, he pulled the attention away from Obama (and we all know, McCain's the real "celebrity") and onto himself - McCain's judgment, McCain's age, McCain's desperation.

The election is no longer a referendum on Obama - it's a choice between two men. McCain, by freaking out and throwing this Hail Mary veep, has clarified the two options.

6:50 PM  
Blogger DoctorJ said...

Very good point, Rachel.

6:54 PM  
Anonymous megan said...

yes, very good point rachel. They just took MANY of their arguments and completely deflated them with this blatantly desperate VP pick. Wasserman-Shulz said it best when she said "if McCain is having to energize the evangelical vote with this pick, he's in worse shape than any of us thought". HA!

Funny how so many of these polls showing moderate bounces are being overlooked by the media. And, I wouldn't even classify this as a convention bounce....I think it reflects MAJOR movement of women AND INDEPENDENTS in to Obama's corner.

McCain DEFINITELY just lost the independent vote, which probably puts NH back in the blue column. And could have effects in MO, CO, and VA.

7:27 PM  
Blogger politicalinaction said...

great point, rachel.

8:07 PM  
Blogger Jeff Rivers said...

rachel - great point. Its great to have the camera OFF Obama, and onto McCain, if even momentarily.

8:35 PM  
Blogger rikyrah said...

Rachel,

on the money.

8:37 PM  

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