| Jul 12 @ 1:04 AM |
Obama's "Glow" is rapidly fading in the polls.
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SensualGemini
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...For those that have posted and endorsed Obama's massive lead in the polls, don't forget to now embrace the latest and greatest! 
A month after emerging victorious from the bruising Democratic nominating contest, some of Barack Obama's glow may be fading. In the latest NEWSWEEK Poll, the Illinois senator leads Republican nominee John McCain by just 3 percentage points, 44 percent to 41 percent. The statistical dead heat is a marked change from last month's NEWSWEEK Poll, where Obama led McCain by 15 points, 51 percent to 36 percent. Obama's rapid drop comes at a strategically challenging moment for the Democratic candidate. Having vanquished Hillary Clinton in early June, Obama quickly went about repositioning himself for a general-election audience--an unpleasant task for any nominee emerging from the pander-heavy primary contests and particularly for a candidate who'd slogged through a vigorous primary challenge in most every contest from January until June. Obama's reversal on FISA legislation, his support of faith-based initiatives and his decision to opt out of the campaign public-financing system left him open to charges he was a flip-flopper. In the new poll, 53 percent of voters (and 50 percent of former Hillary Clinton supporters) believe that Obama has changed his position on key issues in order to gain political advantage. More seriously, some Obama supporters worry that the spectacle of their candidate eagerly embracing his old rival, Hillary Clinton, and traveling the country courting big donors at lavish fund-raisers, may have done lasting damage to his image as an arbiter of a new kind of politics. This is a major concern since Obama's outsider credentials, have, in the past, played a large part in his appeal to moderate, swing voters. In the new poll, McCain leads Obama among independents 41 percent to 34 percent, with 25 percent favoring neither candidate. In June's NEWSWEEK Poll, Obama bested McCain among independent voters, 48 percent to 36 percent. Obama's overall decline from the last NEWSWEEK Poll, published June 20, is hard to explain. Many critics questioned whether the Democrat's advantage over McCain was actually as great as the poll suggested, even though a survey taken during a similar time frame by the Los Angeles Times and Bloomberg showed a similarly large margin. Princeton Survey Research Associates, which conducted the poll for NEWSWEEK, says some of the discrepancy between the two most recent polls may be explained by sampling error. At the time of the last poll, pundits also noted that a large lead in the polls doesn't always guarantee a general-election victory. Many warned that Democrat Michael Dukakis led George H.W. Bush by as much as 16 points in some 1988 polls and then went on to lose that year's presidential contest. But perhaps most puzzling is how McCain could have gained traction in the past month. To date, direct engagement with Obama has not seemed to favor the GOP nominee. McCain has announced major initiatives on energy and the economy but failed to dominate the conversation on those issues. Last week's shake-up of the campaign's senior management did little to halt calls from Republicans for a major overhaul in McCain's message. Nor did it quell the lingering suspicion among Republicans that 2008 is simply destined to be a Democratic year. (Only 28 percent of voters in the new NEWSWEEK Poll approve of the job George W. Bush is doing as president.) McCain's biography still appears to be his greatest asset, with 55 percent of voters saying they have a favorable opinion of the Arizona senator, compared to 32 percent who have an unfavorable opinion. (Obama's favorable/unfavorable gap is virtually identical at 56 to 32.) Glow Fading?
PS: Personally, I think polls are often biased, with little use in predictability, but wanted to be bi-partisan with those that live and die by their often BS results.
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| Jul 12 @ 11:34 AM |
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alivenwell351
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I've said all along that the biggest story of the year so far is that unless the dems ran someone like Maxine Waters, or Kerry or Dukakis again, this election should have been a slam dunk for them. It not only isn't (even with a less than ideal repub candidate that's a terrible campaigner), it's still very competitive. That says more than anything else, and even though I still think Obama will likely win by 3-5 points, it should have been a landslide of Reagan '84 proportions. It won't be. It will be close.
I suspect we're seeing the beginning of the end for the left wing socialist fringies of the democrat party as it is today, just as we're seeing the diminished influence of the ultra right biblethumpers on the repubs now.
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| Jul 12 @ 11:40 AM |
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bamagary
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it really don't matter what polls say. America has had enough wars tax break to the rich, one scandal after another. so republicans wont win white house, or us senate.
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| Jul 12 @ 4:47 PM |
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Haban3ro
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Oh, no!  Quick! somebody polish his halo!! 
Obama the messiah
Another Obama the messiah link
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| Jul 12 @ 5:53 PM |
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onoudn
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| Jul 12 @ 5:58 PM |
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kattsmeow
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Haban,,,, 
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| Jul 12 @ 6:02 PM |
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bamagary
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is this compared to king bush.
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| Jul 12 @ 6:16 PM |
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kattsmeow
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I have been saving this for just this moment.
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| Jul 12 @ 6:18 PM |
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bamagary
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why don't you bush supports get out your rug. time for you to pray to bush. oh mighty king bush save me.
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| Jul 12 @ 6:25 PM |
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kattsmeow
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I only bow to the the Most High God. The one that made me.
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| Jul 12 @ 6:27 PM |
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bamagary
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that's bush right. remember this coward did not serve in vietnam. when the rest of the country did.
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| Jul 12 @ 6:35 PM |
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kattsmeow
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Matthew 22 (New King James Version)
The Scribes: Which Is the First Commandment of All?
34 But when the Pharisees heard that He had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together.
35 Then one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, and saying,
36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?”
37 Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’
38 This is the first and great commandment.
39 And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”
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| Jul 12 @ 6:37 PM |
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bamagary
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the Russian are coming one at a time. soon comrade you will like the Russian way. but katti refuse to comment on the bible. it say it so i believe it.
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| Jul 12 @ 6:46 PM |
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onoudn
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Mc Cain doesn't enjoy the overwelming support from evangelicals that Bush did. They saw him as one of their own which certainly makes the tag messhiah fit Bush more than Obama, who popularity among evangelicals was some thirty point below Mc Cain in the primaries.
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| Jul 12 @ 6:51 PM |
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kattsmeow
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So do you think O that it will come back to bite him? That is one thing that I wouldn't want on my side, the Evangelicals.
You know I am a Christian, and I don't agree with 98 percent of these people that stand up there and run their mouths.
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| Jul 12 @ 7:33 PM |
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Jankia
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is this compared to king bush. Since your not an American I'll attempt a little wiseup for you.We dont have Kings.
why don't you bush supports get out your rug. time for you to pray to bush. oh mighty king bush save me. We dont have any Gods either.
that's bush right. remember this coward did not serve in vietnam. when the rest of the country did. I didnt and you didnt either.
the Russian are coming one at a time. soon comrade you will like the Russian way. but katti refuse to comment on the bible. it say it so i believe it. Now if you could somehow believe where in this world you actually are bama.Or is that all part of the Russian way? Not knowing if your in Germany or the Ukraine or South Carolina or Alabama?
bamagary,your "Glow" is rapidly fading in the Matchdoctor forums.
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| Jul 12 @ 7:44 PM |
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Kenn159
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You know I am a Christian, and I don't agree with 98 percent of these people that stand up there and run their mouths.
Yeah me too.
I believe in God, but I have much more in common with most atheists than I do with the majority of Evangelicals.
Although the Evangelical voice is starting to split, a few of them are starting wake up and realize a good Christian doesn't have to be a war monger, against earth preservation and use aggressive tactics to convert non Christians as in the example of the Armed Service.
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| Jul 12 @ 7:54 PM |
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bamagary
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hey Janka's comment on me not being American. its so wrong. I'm more American then you. yes i was born in Ukraine. my job requires me to travel. like to Germany and Russia, so in the future, when you speak. you need to no first what your talking about, open mouth insert foot.
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| Jul 12 @ 7:57 PM |
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Kenn159
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Since your not an American I'll attempt a little wiseup for you.We dont have Kings.
Judging by Bush's secretive, oppressive and intimidating nature of his rule, you could have fooled me
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We dont have any Gods either.
But he speaks to God and acts by his authority, so same difference.
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| Jul 12 @ 7:59 PM |
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robodad
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That gary's wit is sooooo sharp, it just makes me want to
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