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Poll Dance

March 27, 2008 8:39 AM

More numbers in....and they ain't good news for Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, or for the Democrats in general.

Good Morning America report HERE; Dot-com version HERE.

-jpt

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I agree with most of the comments that the media has been unfair to Sen. Clinton. Its only Obama that they are covering and even with this negative thing about Wright, they are saying it has not affected him but it has. Have friends who were Obama supporters before no longer favoring him because they cannot believe somebody who has been with the pastor for 20 years do not believe in the same things. Tell that to the Marines. CNN is the number one promoter of Obama, which is why I dont watch the channel anymore. Its obama's face in CNN everyminute. It should be boycotted for being so unfair.

Posted by: angie | Mar 28, 2008 1:47:18 AM

I, too, am troubled over the inequity of the media in favoring Obama. It's so bloody obvious. They've gone out of their way to protect Obama over the Wright issue, even giving faulty headlines like "Obama Not Hurt over Wright", etc.. BALONEY. Obama CANNOT win the general election. Conversely they are all over Clinton over the silly Bosnia thing. PUH-lease. In the beginning I was for Obama but now I'm 100% for Hillary. This whole Bosnia crap is the final straw. The media is trying to destroy her now and it will backfire with Clinton supporters big time.

Posted by: Andre | Mar 28, 2008 1:12:02 AM

The Commander Guy: re:Connecticut and the Quinnipiac poll, they did thier poll during the day, when most people are at work. They were on my caller ID for 11:30am. So if you are not a blue collar stiff that is when that sample was taken. Plus most once core democrates in Connecticut are in that 26% that are turning to McCain if Obama is the nom. I for one don't even want to even be in the same party as the man and already switched my registration.

Posted by: Lana | Mar 27, 2008 6:54:15 PM

Some other Polls jump out at you today too.

Rassmussen has McCain winning Oregon against HRC. Obama thumps him there though. Is Washington McCain country too against HRC?

Also Hillary is barely hanging on to California (PPI) and Connecticut (Quinnipiac) within the margin of error against McCain.

You gotta wonder what the people of Connecticut have against Hillary. But I guess they have their reasons.

Posted by: The Commander Guy | Mar 27, 2008 4:14:37 PM

The One number from the WSJ/NBC poll that stands out the most is the APPROVAL rating for HRC.

Her approval rating is down to 37%. It is just slightly higher than GWB.

Man that's bad. But I guess people know her and have made up their minds.

Posted by: The Commander Guy | Mar 27, 2008 3:58:08 PM

Yeah, spin damage control for BO's spiral downward. Obama's numbers have gone down and NBC/Wallstreet decide to poll on Hillary's approval numbers out of 700 people. The one thing I learned in statistics; You can work the numbers any way to make any argument. The sample selection is key. I understand a huge part of the sampling was African American participants who supported Obama but would vote for Clinton if she became the nominee. The thing that always cracks me up with the Polls is how it's interpreted as percent and verbalized with "32% OF AMERICANS". Seven hundred people does not constitute "all" Americans.

Posted by: Priscilla | Mar 27, 2008 3:49:47 PM


After reading pages 12 and 13 of the NBC/WSJ poll on the Obama pastor, the damage to the Barack Obama candidacy is far worse than the media is admitting.

On the question if Hillary Clinton is alienating African-American voters, I was surprise to find 63 % of African American voters indicated having a very positive(29%) or somewhat positive (34%) feeling toward Senator Clinton.

Also, Barack Obama negatives among all voters double since 2007.

Question No. 16 clearly indicates voters having doubts on Barack Obama candidacy.

Posted by: Angel | Mar 27, 2008 3:18:01 PM

Most polls do not take into accounts the large numbers of Latinos and Asians that will under NO CIRCUMSTANCES VOTE FOR OBAMA.That will make it very difficult for him to win California,New Jersey,Florida and Washinton state,where there is the largest concentration of Asian voters.Once Hillary is the Demo nominee,she will win all those states easily in November.

Posted by: Arthur Villarreal | Mar 27, 2008 3:15:18 PM

Typical White woman from Texas. I have a Masters Degree, as well as my husband. I am also African American, I wouldn't vote for Obama if he were the only one in the race. His camp spread that propaganda about the ill educated voting for Hillary. His ignorance, as well as his arrogance sickens me. They spread that crap and the America public buys it. I am one of the ones that will be endorsing McCain if Obama is nominated. Being I am a PROFESSIONAL there are a vast majority of us within my profession that will be endorsing McCain as well.

Posted by: mgck59 | Mar 27, 2008 2:37:10 PM

Poll numbers are small samples which change daily. Assuming election results from them is almost the equivalent of tea reading. Rest assured, the polling will be shifting a lot between now and April 16

Posted by: katrina | Mar 27, 2008 1:30:01 PM

I'm not surprised that more Hillary people would vote for McCain when Obama gets the nomination.

They have been given a steady diet of negative propaganda that seems to work well on the less educated or older white folks steeped in racism. Some of them may stick with their convictions, but I seriously doubt they would actually vote for McCain. They would probably stay home before that.

One thing for sure is a large number of the Obama supporters that say they would vote for McCain WILL if Hillary strong arms or buys the nomination. There are a large percentage of those voters who despise Hillary's tactics and all the Clinton baggage they would bring back to the White House.

As a former Republican voter, I was surprised (when working volunteer events for Obama in Texas) at how many people, black and white, that were Republicans supporting Obama. We are a strong core base for him regardless of what the pundits say. We chose him in the beginning and we are staying with him.

Obama has a large core group of idependent thinkers of today regardless of race and not the blind followers of yesterday.

Posted by: Typical White Woman from Texas | Mar 27, 2008 12:55:48 PM

To save the Democrats, it is time for Obama to drop out.

Posted by: Danny | Mar 27, 2008 12:54:38 PM

Saw Gov. Rendell on PBS with Charlie Rose yesterday night, he said "Keith Oberman should be on Obama's payroll".

Very true.

And with so much, so constant and so massive media negative campaign against Clinton, it would be a surprise if people and polls are not affected.

Remember media during Iraq war?

Posted by: Victor | Mar 27, 2008 11:03:07 AM

I don't think Obama will ever carry the states of Florida and Michigan in the general election if he blocks them voting in the primary. Looks like he's shooting himself in the foot. I watched Greta last night and she had a young man on that told of Hillarys' and Obamas' "misspokes" and she couldn't hold the light to Obama. It was really no comparison to what he has mistruthed about and Hillarys' Bosnia episode. The general that had such a hard on for her is strictly military and I didn't put too much thought into his irate remarks. Just another blowhard wanting to get in on the fame of this election. Probably thinks he has spoiled her chances of getting the nomination. Not so as far as I'm concerned. If I need someone in my corner I sure would like for it to be her. She is one tough woman. The jerk that thinks the question asked of Chelsea is exactly that, a JERK! That's an nunya dead issue.

Posted by: C Good | Mar 27, 2008 10:57:40 AM

Jackson,
you said "Well, 31% of Clinton supporters will not vote for Obama ... this is not a negative for Clinton ... it is a BIG negative for NObama."

I have a feeling that there will be more and more republicans that will choose to vote for Oboma that may very well offset that 31%. However I do have a geat deal of respect for both Hillary and Bill as well as McCain.

Oboma '08


Posted by: ddpwoman | Mar 27, 2008 10:50:20 AM

Niga

If Gov. Clinton and the people running against him in 92 (kerrey and paul tsongas...) had "let the campaign play out" in the primaries there is a highly probable chance with all the scandals going on he would have never been President because the long fight would have hurt him that bad...

but his opponents then both put the party and country first.

Posted by: dl | Mar 27, 2008 10:44:17 AM

Well, 31% of Clinton supporters will not vote for Obama ... this is not a negative for Clinton ... it is a BIG negative for NObama.

Clinton gets bad press if she is tough .. and bad press if she is not ... so what is new?
She will be our next President ... and will probably be one of our best so far!!

Posted by: Jackson | Mar 27, 2008 10:43:13 AM

FL_Vet,
I checked out that link you posted. Is this a non-biased website?

Posted by: ddpwoman | Mar 27, 2008 10:41:19 AM

Time the American people wised up......Thanks.
As far as the question asked about Billy boys love affair.I think the kid had a right to ask this question...If you play in the arena with the dogs you will get bit,like Billy said, if you can't take the heat you should not be here.Words from her own Fathers mouth.Again two sets of rules one for the Clinton's and one for us Bu-- she is fair game

Posted by: h | Mar 27, 2008 10:26:16 AM

What amazes me is that no one is allowing “democracy” to play out. The democrats would rather dictate who should win, and when someone should bow out of a “democratic” race. Obama has even aggressively blocked voices from being heard. (FL and Michigan should vote McCain across the board)

The entire Democratic nomination process is undemocratic to begin with. I guess, why not tarnish it further?

The caucuses are anti-democratic. The elderly, single parents, families, in general, the handicapped, etc, could never “waste” their time hanging around “bargaining” for who should be the nominee versus the “right” person. Bribery and bullying to get others to agree with you on politics is so anti-democratic.

The superdelegates are anti-democratic. Why on earth would we allow elitist’s to decide for us? They know better than we do? How patronizing.

An additional comment: Hillary could actually win the nominee if the media covered her as they covered Obama for the past year. Hiding information, projecting their own views without true reporting at all. What say we push for Hillary for the next few months via the media outlets and see how the race would flip overnight?

What a shame.

Congratulations President McCain.

Posted by: Niga | Mar 27, 2008 10:16:59 AM

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