All things should be seen exactly as they are without sentiment.

MB4 on July 24, 2008 at 2:24 PM

My point, exactly.

One has to also be objective, and not follow same traits, when making such accusations.

Entelechy on July 24, 2008 at 1:52 PM

All things should be seen exactly as they are without sentiment.

Only in Wisconsin, which had been a slender Democratic state in 2004, has Obama maintained his lead.

That’s because the pollsters are counting all the illegal voters the Milwaukee Democratic Party will bus in this year.

One has got to be very selective to see good news for McCain in the polls.

MB4 on July 24, 2008 at 12:20 PM

One has to also be objective, and not follow same traits, when making such accusations.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
Abraham Lincoln

More Obama, please, media.

McCain has spent the last couple of weeks hammering Obama on his refusal to drill for more oil in response to the supply crisis that has sent fuel prices skyrocketing. That issue plays against Democrats in general, and the more McCain focuses on this, the better Republicans can do in the fall. Offshore drilling gets large majorities in support in all four states, between 59% and 63%, and by large margins voters believe energy policy to be more critical than Iraq. Obama’s intransigence on it could do a lot of damage this fall down the entire Democratic ticket.

BINGO! McCain was in PA yesterday talking about gas and food prices, by far issues #1 and #1A for Republicans and Dems alike, here. Is it possible mcCain is slowly getting a clue? If he adds ANWR drilling and support for a stronger dollar to his support for OS drilling and nuc. power, and talks about these things EVERY SINGLE DAY, no matter what is happening in Iraq, he will beat Obambi.

RCP Electoral Count – Obama 238, McCain 163, Tossups 137
No Toss Up States – Obama 322, McCain 216

Only in Colorado, however, does McCain hold a greater percentage of the vote share than Obama.

According to RCP Obama is up by 1.7% in Colorado.

There are 3 recent head-to-head polls as reported by RCP: NBC/WSJ, Rasmussen Tracking and Gallup tracking and they have Obama beating McCain by 6, 3 and 4 percent respectivly.

The NBC/WSJ poll also had a few of other very interesting questions, they kind that are often very telling, like -

How excited are you? (excited/satisfied/less of two evils)
Obama 44/33/22
McCain 14/42/43

Which candidate is more easy-going and likable?
Obama 59, McCain 15.

Which candidate is compassionate to understand average Americans?
Obama 46, McCain 22.

One has got to be very selective to see good news for McCain in the polls.

Thanks in advance.

When Americans see European socialists fawning over Obama, I don’t imagine it helps him very much here. People must be asking themselves, “Why do they love him so much? What they know about him that I don’t know?”

RBMN on July 24, 2008 at 11:30 AM

This is wishful thinking. What most people will be asking is “which candidate can give me more?”

I think the Obama campaign has made a huge mistake in campaigning in Europe. I’d say he made a mistake but he’s such a puppet.

Dick Morris is wrong about a lot of things, but he’s right on one issue–McCain and the Republicans need to run lots of Obama vs Obama ads–what Obama said to one group vs what Obama said to another group, which contradict each other. Then ask the voters: “Do you know what this man would do as President? Neither do we!” Playing back parts of the Katie Couric interview would be extremely effective!

McCain needs to hammer Obama on the drilling issue–especially the fact that when President Bush lifted the executive ban, oil prices went down $20/barrel–just the EXPECTATION of new supply lowers the price! He needs to bring home the fact that high oil prices mean not only higher prices for gasoline and home heating oil, but higher prices for EVERYTHING brought to market in trucks, and more oil produced in America means more blue-collar American jobs.

But to be effective, oil drilling and nuclear power plants needs to be THE wedge issue not only in the Presidential race, but for Republicans in the House. If Pelosi is blocking drilling, the only way to get rid of Pelosi is a Republican majority in the House. This has to be the new Contract with America…maybe it should be called Energy From America. With 60%+ of Americans in all polls favoring drilling, this could be the issue to take back the House!

Of course, I’m usually wrong though…

Yep. Hillary is set for a roaring return in 2012.

ChrisM

You don’t think Her Majesty isn’t working feverishly behind the scenes to take this from Barack Uuuuuhbama at the convention?