Gallup poll: Snobbiest candidate left in the race is…
posted at 2:25 pm on April 23, 2008 by Allahpundit
…exactly whom you’d guess it would be. And by “you” I of course mean me.
It would have been nice to compare Obama’s numbers pre- and post-Bittergate. Still some good news, though, in the last of the three bar graphs, especially among Republicans: One of the arguments for preferring Hillary as our opponent is that Obama’s more likely to peel away Republicans unhappy with McCain. A fairly narrow gap between them here suggests that may be less of a factor than we fear.
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Go Hillary, crush Obama in every poll. LOL
funky chicken on April 23, 2008 at 2:28 PM
330 million people estimated in the united states and we have it narrowed down to these 3 for the POTUS….mind boggling
SoCalInfidel on April 23, 2008 at 2:28 PM
Just the opposite Allah. I know many Democrats that will vote for Hillary, or McCain, in that order. And never for BO.
The scary thing is all of us Republicans rooting for Hillary! I think we’ll need a powerwashing after this!
kirkill on April 23, 2008 at 2:29 PM
Don’t let this guy hear you say that!
srhoades on April 23, 2008 at 2:30 PM
the move to pain obama as an elitist snob is gaining traction. Check out these excellent posters:
Obama Snob
Obama Whole Foods
jp on April 23, 2008 at 2:31 PM
She has 35 years of
changesnobbery. Obama was only 13 when she first became a snob.JammieWearingFool on April 23, 2008 at 2:32 PM
For those of us Republicans who are having a difficult time with the idea of voting for McCain, never, ever think that Obama might ‘attract’ our (my) vote. The worst that can happen is that the RNC will continue to wrestle with less lower-level donors and that some of us (as in, I) may not vote at all, for anyone.
I’ve never withheld a vote in any Presidential election since I first began voting (with Nixon, who I voted for, on his second run), so the idea of not voting is anything but an easy one. Still thinking this over. My biggest problem is lending a vote for a Party that doesn’t seem to care about it.
S on April 23, 2008 at 2:37 PM
it’s like asking which dark cole will rot your teeth more: Coke, Pepsi, or Dr. Pepper.
RMC1618 on April 23, 2008 at 2:38 PM
And, I don’t think Obama “looks down on Americans,” but I DO think that Obama does not look up to America. Thus, he’s not looking too favorably on Americans.
S on April 23, 2008 at 2:40 PM
Yep, Hill was my obvious guess when I saw the headline.
INC on April 23, 2008 at 2:42 PM
I loved the arugula poster. Thanks for the laugh. As a arugula lover, I’ve been worried about silly socialist Obama trying to put a windfalls profit tax on arugula growers and my supply of argula drying up.
thuja on April 23, 2008 at 2:45 PM
I was going to post this exact thing a couple days ago. ( I think its 300 million tho)
But still, all those millions and millions of GOOD people and these THREE (3) are the BEST they could come up with?
Thanks to the Media for this ‘selection’.
shooter on April 23, 2008 at 2:49 PM
Please tell us you’re kidding. Right?
B and M Obama absolutely look down on EVERYONE not in their little clique.
shooter on April 23, 2008 at 2:52 PM
May the Stalin vs. Trotsky knife-fight continue.
Rich, Socialists are always “snobby,” if the term can be used interchangeably with “elite.” They always have their dachas, while the filthy workers who support them stand in queues for luxuries like bread, gas and milk.
Obama and Clinton are no different. They are the Socialist elite – oxymoron that it is.
OhEssYouCowboys on April 23, 2008 at 2:58 PM
Not so much, anymore, I don’t think. If the general had been in December, I would likely have been one of the peeled-off (I’ve been anti-McCain since long before this election run-up), but now that Obama’s opened his silly mouth and shown who he really is, not a chance.
Tanya on April 23, 2008 at 3:00 PM
Hill’s a snob?
I blame the media.
fogw on April 23, 2008 at 3:04 PM
Uh, yeah … who are these “Republicans” who might choose Obama over McCain?
I understand being mad at McCain. As stupid as I think it is, I can grasp staying home. To at least some extent, I can even vaguely comprehend a vote for Hillary; after all, if nothing else she’d probably be pretty tough on national defense, if only to prove that she’s not overly dovish.
I really can’t even begin to understand someone who once supported Fred! or Mitt or Rudy … voting for Obama. Not in a million gajillion years. He’s the absolute embodiment of liberalism, the antithesis of everything conservatives believe in.
Hillary at least has the benefit of having no values – rather than having the exact values we all abhor.
Professor Blather on April 23, 2008 at 3:04 PM
Is this some type of inside joke over at Gallup, a new application of Fuzzy Logic, really good weed? Lets see, McCain just isn’t conservative enough for me, hummm……I’ll vote for the Marxist…yep, that’ll show em!
dmann on April 23, 2008 at 3:07 PM
This is Gallup who has shown its self to be highly suspect in its motives. What this shows I think is that they’re in the tank for Obama but then thats been evident for a while now.
Nyog_of_the_Bog on April 23, 2008 at 3:21 PM
Once again AP, you are way off. I always know your posts, without looking. I think it is the opposite. No republicans would vote for Obama, it has come to the outrageousness that as much as we have hated the thought of the Clintons in the White House–and still do, the Obamas are way worse and darn scary!!
Conservatives R Us on April 23, 2008 at 3:34 PM
Obama as the black supremacist who truly believes all blacks are superior and all whites are inferior takes the cake, leaving Hillary with her unbaked cookies.
Rush took an interesting call from a purported mature black male conservative who said that he could NEVER vote for McCain, and that Rush’s campaign for chaos would ironically induce Superdelegates to vote for Obama, the rationale being that the DNC fears the larger black backlash MORE should they go with Hillary than they fear the wrath of the white women scorned should they go with Obama.
They are all opportunists with disdain for the very folks they need. Our only hope is in roping McCain into conservative commitment, and that opportunity dissipates as time expires.
So who cares which of these guys the Gallop determines is the snottiest when the concern should cause McCain to determine his conservativism about CITIZENSHIP on paper and on soundwaves. McCain’s latest slipping rant still grates against our secure borders and responsibilities to meet the rule of law.
maverick muse on April 23, 2008 at 3:39 PM
funky chicken on April 23, 2008 at 3:51 PM
All three look down on regular American’s, just each in his/her own way.
MB4 on April 23, 2008 at 4:01 PM
Must be Freudian.
Entelechy on April 23, 2008 at 4:10 PM
jeez I even put my apology in the wrong thread. sorry….
funky chicken on April 23, 2008 at 4:20 PM
McCain’s worst temptation is not anger [which he admits to himself*, nor snobbery] but moral arrogance. Opponents are not merely wrong; they are venal, self-interested and corrupt.
- Michael Gerson
* I have a temper, to state the obvious, which I have tried to control with varying degrees of success because it does not always serve my interest or the publics.
- John “I’ve got a Temper” McCain
MB4 on April 23, 2008 at 4:24 PM
I recall during the Hillary Care fisaco when she was asked about small businesses that couldn’t afford the mandates her commie healthcare program came with, and she said, “Under capitalized businesses are not our concern.”
“Let them eat cake.”
Akzed on April 23, 2008 at 4:37 PM
Remember, this is the country where I’ve read – more than once – that Keith Olbermann is the “only real journalist left in America”.
eeyore on April 23, 2008 at 4:41 PM
That may well be true. Of course, I have always had an opinion of journalism and its practitioners that is somewhere below the level of whale excrement in the Marianas Trench. In that sense, Olby may well be the best of them.
drunyan8315 on April 23, 2008 at 4:51 PM
Olbermann has his words scrambled. It should be “the only real left journalist in America”
Steve Z on April 23, 2008 at 5:19 PM
So, let me see if I understand this. Americans, even after hearing Obama (in his own words) look down on middle-class Americans don’t believe him and think he doesn’t look down on those same people he himself looked down on in San Francisco?
Sure, ‘he said we’d ij-its clings to our guns and us religion when downtrodden, but he dunt look down on us.’ (I seriously don’t get it.)
TheBlueSite on April 23, 2008 at 5:57 PM
My wife’s a dem who won’t vote for Obama under any circumstance.
BadgerHawk on April 23, 2008 at 7:24 PM
My vote is all the above are a bunch of SNOBS!
azcop on April 23, 2008 at 7:55 PM
That is the most forced fake smile i have ever seen. It almost looks like it is causing her immense pain to contort her face into a sign of happiness that comes naturally to most people.
I guess its hard to smile after dodging sniper fire after narrowly landing safely in Bosnia with your young daughter, and Sinbad, in tow, and risking your very LIFE to stand and listen to a poem for 15 minutes from a little local child.
You know if a car had backfired she would have grabbed that little girl as a human shield faster than she grabbed the White House silverware on the “Co-President’s” way out of office in 2001. I will never forget seeing that U-Haul in front of the White House being loaded with looted items that had been given to the office of the President and the people of this country. Take a girl out of the country…
Neo on April 24, 2008 at 2:34 AM