OR Poll: Obama 52 (+4), McCain 38 (-4)

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone poll in Oregon shows Barack Obama leading John McCain 52% to 38%. That’s a significant improvement for Obama compared to a month ago when he led the presumptive Republican nominee by six percentage points. In three consecutive Oregon polls, McCain has never received more than 40% support when matched against Obama. In the current poll, McCain attracts just 68% support from Republican voters in the state.

Obama leads McCain among voters under 50. With older voters in Oregon, the two candidates are essentially even. Nationally, McCain and Obama remain fairly evenly matched among all voters in the Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll.

The poll also found that the race would be somewhat closer if Hillary Clinton wins the Democratic nomination. In that match-up, Clinton attracts 46% of the vote while McCain earns 40%. The Oregon Senate race also has the potential to be troubling for the GOP.

Individual polls can sometimes overstate volatility in a race, especially when the results carry a four-and-a-half percentage point margin of sampling error. One way of addressing this is to look at a rolling-average of three consecutive polls. Using this approach, Obama leads McCain 49% to 39% in Oregon. With a three-poll average, McCain leads Clinton by just a single point, 44% to 43%.

Obama remains the most popular of the three candidates and is viewed favorably by 61% of Oregon voters. McCain earns favorable reviews from 52% while Clinton is viewed positively by 47%. Those perceptions are relatively unchanged over the past month.

http://rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/oregon/election_2008_oregon_presidential_election

by less than one percent in 2000 and around four percent in 2004 if I remember right.

And has voted DEM in every election since. (They did vote for Reagan twice)

The West Coast states (CA, OR, WA, HI) are solid DEM and can be counted on in the GE

if McCain makes an appearance in the Northwest at all. He'd be wasting his time. For that matter, I don't know why Hillary is bothering, but then, I don't understand why she does anything she does.

It's called political satire. Nobody actually wants to chop Hillary's arms off.

It's from the classic scene in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" in which King Arthur encounters the black knight. Despite having his limbs hewn off by Arthur, the black knight insists on continuing the fight, taunting Arthur with cries of "coward" when Arthur refuses to continue the fight.

If you've never seen the movie, you wouldn't get the cartoon's reference. It's not advocating violence toward Clinton, it's pointing out the absurdity of the fight continuing.

Here's the scene from the movie on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eMkth8FWno

Go Oregon! Gobama!!! :bounce: :kick: