CNN Poll: Race dead even.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/08/cnn-poll-race-dead-even/">Political Ticker

This is just bullshit propaganda.

is involved in a propaganda campaign? This will be a close race, we'll have to work hard to win IMHO.

and making it a self-fulfilling prophesy.

If you say it often enough, the sheeple might believe it.

n/m

After your convention is over you typically get a 6-15% jump in your favor which dissipates within two weeks. in 1984, Mondale led Reagan after the DNC. In 2004, Bush had a commanding lead over Kerry. What did these tell us about the final election result? Fuck-all.

What do any of these polls mean?

Do polls this far out usually reflect the result? No. Flipping a coin is as likely to yield correct results based on historical trending.

Do national polls actually mean anything? No...the only piece of data which matters is the EC vote. The national vote has never matched the EC vote, typically the popular vote reflects a closer race than the EC and in the past two elections the winner of the popular vote lost the EC.

McCain clearly has not been able to open any sort of substantial lead following his convention. Once his bounce subsides, he'll be behind again.

very encouraging

McCain was ahead by 10.

One hell of a post-convention bounce, wouldn't you say?

Caught Chuck Todd on Morning Joe and he politely called it bullshit.

Good! I didn't see that. I know that Gallup automatically favors McCain given the "likely voter" category .... perhaps that's why?

:puke:

The M$M is distorting the truth and making it seem more of a "horse race" than it is.

Check this article out:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/us-election/no-cliffhanger-more-like-an-obama-landslide/2008/07/27/1217097059908.html
The US media stand accused of distorted election coverage, writes Anne Davies in Washington.

Luckily for the Republican nominee John McCain Europeans can't vote in the November US presidential election - just 100 days away. If they could it would be a landslide for the Democratic candidate, Barack Obama.

Nevertheless Senator McCain has reason to be worried - very worried. Last week three leading political scientists declared the US media's presentation of the election as a toss-up as a "myth".

When we see these things, we need to fight harder.

We also need to make it very clear that Palin is abusive of power, dictatorial, racist and out of touch with the major issues of the continental US. She cannot possibly understand the issues of large cities or immigration. Her only understanding of racial tensions in the US probably comes from TV. I would doubt that the homeless in Alaska tend to survive, so she may not be familiar with that either. Similarly, it is not likely that she understands hurricanes or earthquakes... or smog and serious pollution issues.

I would add that they will probably ONLY send her to small towns.

If this is about "personalities", then we are just as capable of slamming the McCain/Palin team on their own turf as we are on "issues". We just have to decide to do it, and figure out how to do it effectively.

I'd say it's time for a Failin' Palin BOOK to hit the newstands. If I don't see one within the next 2 weeks, I will be HIGHLY disappointed.

:hi:

Foreclosures, job losses, fuel and food prices, health care costs, college costs, pollution, war, consumer confidence in the trash. There is NO way that half of America would believe that McCain could solve it.

I'm never impressed by Gallup polls, nor CNN (corp media), and who the hell is "Diageo/Hotline???

They're being told he'll do something different. We know that's BS but apparently some people are buying it?

According to this poll (PDF), nothing has changed and Obama got no convention bounce:

September 5-7, 2008
McCain 48%
Obama 48%

August 29-31, 2008
McCain 49%
Obama 48%

August 23-24, 2008
McCain 47%
Obama 47%

Could explain why?

No bounce for Obama (McCain gained a point after the Dem Convention). No bounce for McCain (McCain lost a point after the Repub Convention).

The polling is bizarre.

mantra. ;)