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Oh hey looky there: John McCain now holds a 5-point national lead over liberal abortionist Barry Obama. Feel free to discuss in the comments: 1) why national polls don’t matter; 2) what a douche John Zogby is and how he lost all his credibility in calling the ‘04 election for Kerry, so Zogby reporting a McCain lead is actually good news; 3) how you will be draping black cloths over your gallery of framed Obama posters and sitting shiva for Hope.
Look at this sad chart. Terrible losses among women, college grads, youngsters… McCain now holds a 9-point lead over Obama on the economy… Jesus Christ, is anybody voting for this Democrat loser anymore?
Poll shows McCain in 5-point lead over Obama [Reuters]
Reuters/Zogby Poll: McCain Makes a Move, Takes 5-Point Lead Over Obama [Zogby]
When McCain declared war on nuclear-armed Russia last week, I realized he was the kind of leader we need right now.
-9 among Democrats in a month? lol Zogby.
Can I be serious for a second? Probably not. But still, I really like the idea of Obama down a few points. We need to juice the young folks a bit, and maybe then the media folks will turn on McCain. See, I told you I couldn’t be serious.
Not for nothin’ but I fit three of those demographics and my love for Hopey grows every time I see his transcendent chocolate ass.
Wow, the youngsters really do hate Hope in August.
4tehlulz:
what’s a “lolzogby”? Is that like “Oh hai, I haz poll 4 u, is inkorect but hoo carez” ?
I have a hard time believing that 57% of us living in the Abortion Belt (cities) are supporting McCain.
I do kind of feel bad for deleting those emails from Zogby. I could have boosted his numbers among Democrats, youths, those living in cities and Southerners.
This is proof that a college education does not make someone smart. 40%? That can’t be right, right?
Now’s the time to see if Democrats have what it takes to win. If Obama doesn’t start running a slew of nasty, down and dirty, and completely unfair campaign ads between now and November, he’s toast and he deserves to lose like all the Democrats that have come before him.
Here’s my take on what an Obama Ad should look like:
Negative Ad 1
Negative Ad 2
Negative Ad 3
I tried to take the Zogby poll, but when I clicked on the link in the email, it told me I’d already taken it. It looks like they locked out actual Obama supporters.
Hopefully, this will lead Obama to pick the one running mate who can solidify his support among Democrats and women.
This is a dilemma for the neocons. As any one of them will tell you, Zogby is an A-Rab and his brother runs the Arab American league or something (terrorist).
I can see lot’s of Righties that will want to use the data, but will totally choke on John Zogby’s poll… (I’m looking at you Sen. Craig)
Thank God I don’t have cable at the moment and won’t force myself to see the media RUN RUN RUN with this garbage that’s maybe 1/8 as relevant as it will be portrayed.
I guess the Hopester is going to have to think if a) he needs Hillary enough to pick her as his running mate, and, before pickig her, b) if he can trust her to be in on the campaign and not a covert op for walnuts (who is flirting with this 1-term thing to woo Hillary into fucking Obama over.)
Canmon (the Inadequate):
John Edwards? I hear he’s quite the ladies man(know I’m sayin’?)
Ugh. Have the libtards completely become a bunch of whiny Richard Simmons-like Chicken Littles? For some reason his message is not getting out (read MoDo today). It’s even thrown H.Dean into an M&M eating frenzy. Pleeze. He gets no bounce unless it comes down a bit.
Oh waiter, diaper change all around please. C’mon, buck up hopeys!
Canmon (the Inadequate): I think Michael Phelps is otherwise occupied.
zkemeny: mo4r liek “dumm4a55 m33d33a st1|| p4yz m3 4 b4d d4t4 lol” amirite?
Oh, the humanity! I can’t talk anymore.
Not_So_Much: Senator Larry Craig has never choked on a pole.
I suspect, a typical Zogby MAJOR FAIL. This is a false hope for Walnuts and his “supporters.”
If it were so bad then why hasn’t it shown up in the money flow? Based on real data like total donations and not Zogby’s “numbers” then it’s not looking so hot for Walnuts.
4tehlulz: did you set uP my teen age niece’s my space page? I swear that’s her handle or tag or screename or whatevs!
He’s also hurting among Klansmen, South Ossentions and blacksmiths.
Zogby+Fox News=synergy.
Come on people. Hopey’s gonna win in a landslide.
So… I’m supposed to believe that Hopey is actually supported by < 50% of young people, college grads, and the citified? I can’t wait for the new Zogby poll that says he’s running behind among African Americans, latte drinkers, new voters, and his immediate family.
Obama is a baller. He is saving it for the last two minutes when every game is decided. He was on the bench when the vast-right-wing-small forward went off in Georgia. Lefty will be back. Silky smooth as evah.
We’re still missing crucial info. We need to know what kind of pets the candidates favor. If I had to guess, I’d say that Obama is working with an elite team of University of Illinois scientists to clone an extinct Quagga from extracted fossilized DNA, and McCain owns a swarm of photogenic dachshunds all interchangeably named Fred.
Moleman: With all this sophisticated “data mining”, the real fear I have is finding out on television that I’m not supporting him anymore.
Well fuckin’ DUH. The media (led by Zsa Zsa Huffington and the late Tim Pussert) got the dumb bastard nominated so let the fuckikng media elect the dumb bastard, then. Jesus, what a mess.
Or maybe, just maybe, Democratic voters aren’t all that keen on the “more centrist than thou” bullshit.
Moleman: Not to mention the America Arugula Farmers Lobby.
God fucking dammit. Now I can’t read The Corner and enjoy their Ridge/Lieberman-induced misery without scrolling past a bunch of gloating as well.
If the Dems can’t win this year, they ought to disband.
Good god what I wouldn’t give to have a subsistence level job & a tiny apartment in the Netherlands right now.
Just like home but it wouldn’t be insanely hot, there would be hash and hairy pitted dutch girls.
superfecta: Keep telling yourself that and click your heels together.
Johnny Zhivago: You’re not. Google Analytics told me so.
Just too add to the fuckery, Ben Smith at Politico is actually quoting a RealClearPolitics poll, which of course shows McCain winning the EC votes - if you throw all the toss-up states to McCain.
Just wait til he announces the Hopey/Bayh ticket.
Looks like Zogby got tired of hearing that his polls invariably overestimate Obama’s support by an order of magnitude and preemptively flipped this one towards McCain.
Shit. Mother fucker. Fuck August. Amen.
ManchuCandidate: “If it were so bad then why hasn’t it shown up in the money flow?”
While I agree that this poll is shit, I was a sad sack college student knocking on doors and asking for money for John Kerry in ‘04. We learned the hard way that money=win is a flawed flawed assumption to make.
I suggest that you folks would enjoy following the election meta-analysis being continuously conducted by the Princeton group at http://election.princeton.edu/
This site makes a good argument for its statistical method of combining data from all the state level polls for predicting electoral college results. Currently, forecasting Obama 290, McCain 248. Very worth watching, and circulating word of.
The Incomparable Tiny Valdez: Please let your words ring true. If McCain wins, my fear that D.C. is really just a big bullseye will be multiplied by 100. In April, when we go to war with Russia, I will move to Montana *OR* Wyoming.
Alright! I can’t wait! Four more years (since mcCain will crumble like one of those mummies in the Mummy at the end of his term ) of failure!
The bright side is that our ties with Czechoslovakia will become stronger, and our nukular stockpile will be reduced.
tiny mexican
I’m not sure what they’re gloating about. I remember the GOP was saying that if McCain was nominated, then it would be the end of the republican party since he was just a “librul.” Now that he’s completely transformed himself into McBush, I guess he pandered his way into their rotten little hearts.
-regards
a husky mexican
Ha. Funny you should use liberal abortionist to describe Barry…I was just talking to my sister and she’s got friends around 19 or 20yo who are not voting for him because he “kills babies.” Isn’t McCain’s plan to kill everyone with nukes, including babies?
So Obama spends 2 months selling out his base of yuppie suburban college kids …. and his base supports him less! That is Mark Penn level political consulting right there!
He’s been on the bench for a few weeks (Remember all those polls where people said they were sick of hearing about him?)but watch him come back in the home stretch.
It’s sad, but McCain will probably be the next president, taking office at age 72.
Run for your lives.
It should be Al Gore who we’re electing as president.
Guppy06Manchowder: :
— That was one of several recent policy shifts for Obama, as he positions himself for the general election battle. But Zogby said the changes could be taking a toll on Obama’s support, particularly among Democrats and self-described liberals.
“That hairline difference between nuance and what appears to be flip-flopping is hurting him with liberal voters,” Zogby said. —
You think?
Crow T. Robot: Want a roommate? I’ll bring the bicycle and the cheese knives.
I told you this was going to happen! It was the picture of the Hopester with his shirt off on the beach! It’s like Windsurfgate all over again! Oh, let us hang our heads and bleat for mercy from our new overlord McGramps.
Relax, the poll can’t be true. There’s no way that Mr. “I’m not an expert in economics” can be ahead in the polls on economic issues. The only way people could be thinking that is if they were idiots and as we all know, the American people are not idiots.
Uhhhhhhh….
But you guys, Reuters/Zogby is always right. If it weren’t for them, we wouldn’t have this lasting peace and prosperity under President Kerry. Oh, Wait…..
Zogby’s big mistake with the 2004 elections was that he polled the voters,
instead of polling the people that counted the votes.
I think Stalin had it right when he said something like this:
Those who cast the vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.
Jerry w
http://www.boskolives.wordpress.com
Big Liver: hey, i just checked, because it’s too depressing to think Prez McCain; good stuff and I appreciate the emotional lift!
You sons of bitches forgot it’s opposite day, Obama is five points up and Zogby is a trusted name.
Obama is really going to regret having this election decided by national polls in August. He’s only got days left to win the Presidency.
http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/
Yahoo went for the bait:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080820/ts_nm/usa_poll_politics_dc
Interestingly, the correspondent is named “Whiteside.”
Maybe there’s a small group of Southern, Catholic female Democrats under the age of 35 with college educations who live in cities (and love pets?) who are losing faith in Hopey.