I was listening to National Obama Radio (NPR) on the way home and the most pro-Obama/ Democrat Liberal show called TO THE POINT. Basically if you listen to them the election is over. This is the flip side of reporting in 2004 when Bush was ahead in most polls butt he media was reporting like he was always behind!! Even newspapers in their leads say things such as "with McCain losing his lead in the polls". Of course this is nonsense and does not reflect the realty this week that Obama is losing his lead in the polls this week.
Here are todays major polls for today.
Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby Poll: Obama 49% McCain 44%
IBD/TIPP Tracking Poll: Day Four Obama 45% McCain 42%
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows Barack Obama attracting 50% of the vote while John McCain earns 46%
Battleground. Friday 10-17: Obama 49% McCain 45%. This is a 2-point bump for McCain since yesterday and a 9-point bump since Tuesday.
AP/YAHOO Poll of 873 Democrats, 650 Republicans shows OBAMA 44% MCCAIN 42%.
So keep working. The media will have to catch up to reality soon
the Wall Street mess may (have?) change(d) things but I still think McCain is likely to win. the last democrat elected from outside the South was Kennedy, and he was far from liberal by today's standard. since then the only democrats who could get elected were from the South, and were at least somewhat superficially presented as somewhat superficially conservative, and they were white. Obama is not from the South. he is not even superficially conservative. and he is not white. when Black LA mayor Tom Bradley ran for California governor he led opinion polls by as much as 18 points but he lost the election.
ReplyDeleteHaving said all that, I try to ignore the presidential election as much as possible because the odds that either major party candidate will do what I think he should do (or even just do what he says he will do) is about equal to the odds that I can influence the outcome of the election, which is approximately zero. However, like a moth, I am drawn to the flame. I can't say that it doesn't affect me but it's kind of like the weather: it is what it is and it's gonna be what it's gonna be, and it's about as predictable. The most effective thing we can do about either is pray and carry an umbrella.