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ProSense Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 10:46 AM
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OMG, have you seen the polls since the weekend?
Edited on Wed Aug-20-08 10:46 AM by ProSense
Obama is still leading:

Rasmussen 8/16-18/08
McCain 45
Obama 47

Times/Bloomberg 8/15-18/08
McCain 43
Obama 45

Gallup 8/15-17/08
McCain 43
Obama 46

Quinnipiac 8/12-17/08
McCain 42
Obama 47

Zogby/Reuters 8/14-16/08
McCain 46
Obama 41

link

A couple of caveats: Most national polls show Obama up, though a smattering are now showing a dead heat. What's more, Zogby's record is spotty this cycle. And the economy numbers seem a lot like an outlier, which makes one question the overall findings.

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Not to mention that the Zogby poll was taken before the weekend. So the other polls, taken after Zogby's, show Obama leading.
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jakem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 10:47 AM
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1. OH NOES!!! How will I smear Obama and promote Hillary for VP now?!?!?
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ProSense Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 10:57 AM
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4. Appears this
information didn't impress a lot of people.

I'm off to rec up a few threads expressing alarm.

:sarcasm:
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SemiCharmedQuark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 10:48 AM
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2. I seem to recall Obama always having difficulties in polling over the weekend.
During the primaries, polls were lowest for him from Friday to Sunday.
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DefenseLawyer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 10:50 AM
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3. McCain has the shut-in vote well in hand.
It would be interesting to see the average age of those polled.
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ProSense Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 11:07 AM
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5. Any comments
from the those who are alarmed?
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 11:09 AM
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6. Just this one..
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americanstranger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 11:19 AM
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7. I'm not alarmed, but i do have a comment.
Obsessing over poll numbers in august is not good for your blood pressure. That is all.

- as
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ProSense Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 11:29 AM
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9. I guess I should
have included the sarcasm thing because of the "OMG" in the OP.
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americanstranger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 01:02 PM
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19. Naw, I got what you were saying 100%.
My crack about obsessing over polls was not aimed at you.

I always look for your posts, ProSense, because you never fail to live up to your screen name.

I was talking about the Doomsaying Drama Queens who are taking a Zogby poll (Zogby, for cryin' out loud!!) and using it as a pretext to roll out everything from Obama/Dukakis comparisons to attempts at creating Critical Mass for a Hillary coup d'etat.

You were crystal clear, even minus the 'sarcasm' smilie. I wasn't.

- as
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27inCali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 11:25 AM
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8. hey
if the polls bother you, realize that they aren't really counting the youth vote.

also, that you should probably be organizing right now with your friends to do some voter reg. to GTVO -

how about instead of Get the Vote Out -or- Get the Kids Out. GTKO.

If you live in a blue state, see if there is a red state near enough to drive a couple hrs and help out.

If we don't get the kids out, McCain has a shot. If we get them out en masse, these national polls mean shit.

because the kids aren't being counted in them.
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YvonneCa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 12:08 PM
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10. Welcome to DU...
...27inCali.

Your ideas about action to get Obama elected are good, but...just so you know...Prosense has probably done more of ALL those things than any of us. ;)
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K8-EEE Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 12:10 PM
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13. RIGHT ON!!! GET THE CELL PHONE ONLY CROWD OUT!
All right you kids....DON'T MAKE ME COME AFTER YOU, LOL....
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yodermon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 12:08 PM
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11. Due to election fraud he must be polling w/ double digit lead on election day n/t
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polichick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 12:51 PM
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18. True.
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K8-EEE Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 12:09 PM
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12. Thank you!!!!!!
Obama is in a much better place than McCain.....and we knew we would be fightint a WHOLE lotta stupid, right? I mean this is the country that "elected" BUSH!

TIME TO KEEP FIGHTING....DON'T GIVE UP!
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sandnsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 12:12 PM
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14. Media did the same thing to Kerry
For a bunch of supposedly more intelligent people than the low-info voter - they sure don't seem to learn from history.
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 12:28 PM
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15. I was just about to reply to your other thread
about "being disappointed in Obama" when a BIG IT'S LOCKED got thrown in my face..so I'll reply on this one:* ..btw, bill clinton better stop "rehashing the primaries".


I was going to say..I knew this thread was going to be a great take on what Obama is actually doing because you always come up with the good stuff, ProSense, and don't think you're not muy appreciated! :hug: :patriot: :bounce: :party: :kick:
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polichick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 12:34 PM
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16. What's disturbing is the gap between a generic Dem and Obama...
Obviously there's work to do.
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hoffyburger Donating Member (62 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-20-08 12:37 PM
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17. Zogby has been off this cycle n/t
n/t
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