BREAKING: Obama Takes the Lead in Connecticut!

[cali]

by Skulnick
Fri Feb 01, 2008 at 09:23:44 AM PST
A new poll from Survey USA just released today shows Barack Obama with a four-point lead over Senator Clinton in the Nutmeg State!

Obama 48%
Clinton 44%
Other 4%
Undecided 5%
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From someone on the ground in Connecticut, I can say this is not surprising. Last night in Hartford at an organizational meeting we crammed over 100 volunteers into a small storefront.

He has some serious momentum folks, we're ready to hand her a loss in her own backyard!

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/2/1/122344/6895/11/441377

[in_cog_ni_to]

1. LIEBERMAN country! Yeah! n/t

[Adelante]

4. LAMONT country! Yeah!

Who has endorsed Obama.

[in_cog_ni_to]

22. SO WHAT!!!! REPUKES put LIEBERMAN in the Senate! Who's Lamont?

He LOST. Remember?

[MadBadger]

26. not the DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY.

[cali]

27. Pathetic. CT is a solidly blue state and

it borders NY for many a mile. It's her backyard and he's doing very well there. The whole Lieberman canard you're screeching about is dumb. Chris Dodd is from CT too, remember?

[populistdriven]

35. Chris Dodd foo!

[rucky]

30. Dodd. n/t

[Cha]

41. That snark was

worthless..not even a good snark.

[sniffa]

49. Terrible

I give it one of my worst reviews ever.

:thumbsdown: :thumbsdown: :thumbsdown: :thumbsdown: :thumbsdown: :thumbsdown: :thumbsdown:

[Cha]

50. You give it 7 thumbs down...

I give it an 8!

[sniffa]

51. I would have given it 8

But the :thumbsdown:meter only goes to 7. :shrug:

[book_worm]

43. Who won the Dem primary in '06? who endorsed Obama? Ned Lamont.

[Adelante]

2. Thanks, Cali

I've been hoping to see it start tipping.

[flpoljunkie]

3. Obamanation rising!

[GalleryGod]

Time to "put the hammer down"

Screw the Super Bowl........GO FOR IT Obama Nation !!!!

D.L. to Robb, "You're backing Whom ?!? Come here! Let me swat that bald head!"

[NJSecularist]

5. As long as the race is this close

It simply doesn't matter. There are only 65 delegates at stake, each candidate will around 30-32 delegates each.

[Joe the Revelator]

10. You can say the same thing about California

[NJSecularist]

18. Are you joking?

California has 370 delegates at stake. Not even a comparision.

[LordJFT]

33. Obama beat Hillary by more delegates in Ill. than she beats him by in ny and ca combined

[Joe the Revelator]

36. What I'm saying is, in most states, they are going to split delegates almost down the middle

nt

[GalleryGod]

24. SEIU Endorsement! L.A. Mayor received Rezko $$$'s

DUCK, HILL & BILL !

[cali]

11. sure, but less than a month ago he was way back in the polls in CT

If he can win in her backyard, it's a big deal.

[krkaufman]

40. True re: proportional delegate allocation ...

... but the bigger issue will be each campaign's spin preparation and how the media spins the results. The media spin then affects donations and later voting.

Every candidate wants to win in every state possible, even if they get the same number of delegates, because of the resulting attention and momentum. How many news programs cover the delegate race, versus how many talk about winning and losing?

[GalleryGod]

6. Can you feel it?

THEY certainly do!


Hillary: WRONG on IWR...WRONG on Levin Amendment ! Now if Chelsea were a young man?

[Deep13]

7. Starting to look like Bill shot Hillary in the foot.

Not happy about it, but I can't deny that O. has run an excellent campaign.

[Sir Jeffrey]

17. I agree...

Bill may have had his "Macaca" moment in South Carolina.

Seriously, all he had to do was go around giving bland speeches reminding people about how great the 90's were and how great his wife is. Hillary was doing fine without him.

[Cha]

44. I've been offline for

the last week..what did bil say in South Carolina? Something worse than up until then? :(

[krkaufman]

45. I was an Edwards supporter ... but Bill's attacks on Obama ...

... especially Bill's distortion of Obama's position on the Iraq war resolution... pushed me towards anti-Bill. And only a few days earlier I had empathy for Hillary after the media went into their post-Iowa feeding frenzy. The Clinton camp's Florida delegates ploy has tipped me a bit further.

I'll support whoever is our nominee, but I'll feel dirty if it has to be a vote that puts Carville-style politics back in the White House.

[Barack_America]

8. Yee-ahh!

That poll is worthy of a Dean Scream!

[Political Heretic]

9. PLEASE KEEP SPEAKING BILL CLINTON!

PLEASE! :D

[GalleryGod]

15. He Trashed Teddy on Education in Arizona yesterday. Nice,Bill.

W and Teddy separated by 6 friggin' words.


Fast Forward: The President checks with AG Edwards on the Executive Orders awaiting his signature.

[HughMoran]

12. Not to be a stick in the mud...

But aren't these also her back yard and released today by the same polling firm?

New Jersey - 2-1-08


New York - 2-1-08

[cali]

14. sure, but he's making serious gains in unexpected places

including NJ and NY. This is very good news for him if it's true.

[GalleryGod]

29. Serious "as a heart attack" (Sorry Bill & Uncle Dick)

Dennis Connor helms the "Spirit of Obama" out of harbor in San Diego.

[grantcart]

16. yes but Rasmussen's poll had them tied on Tuesday

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/connecticut/election_2008_connecticut_democratic_presidential_primary

[GoldieAZ49]

38. TUESDAY???? That is HISTORY

this is changing fast and furious

we are living in dog years till super tuesday!!!!!

[GalleryGod]

21. True. However Old Friend...

But...on Josh Marshall's TPM..there are polls showing that he has closed from 33% on Labor Day to a mere 8 points. ALL by Congressional Distict,too. Pro-por-tion-al,folks.

It's a "Hot LZ" suddenly in New Jersey as Gov Corzine (Secy of Treasurey in HRC Admin) and the power elite take on Newark and Jersey City grandmothers and college kids from Camden.

[HughMoran]

28. I am not saying that the race isn't tightening up or that Obama doesn't have momentum

I simply went to the Survey USA site and noticed that there were two other polls released today in states that are in the same area and thought that it might be instructive to include all three. I wasn't making any statement regarding Obama's momentum, just that we should look at the whole picture before passing judgment. I expect that it's going to be very close on Tuesday and that it's even possible that Obama will get more delegates than Hilary. More power to him - I like both of these candidates!

[krkaufman]

46. "I like both of these candidates!"

Careful. That'll get you banned around here. :)

[in_cog_ni_to]

23. Bwahahahahaha! That's funny.

You old stick in the mud.:rofl:

[grantcart]

13. here is all feb 5 states

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x4330224

[grantcart]

31. MSNBC just announced that both hillary and Obama will be in

CT on Monday

[stranger_with_candy]

19. Great news

This former Edwards supporter is glad to vote for Obama on tues in CT.

[loveangelc]

20. omg I hope this is true and I feel it just may be :)

[GalleryGod]

25. From Venice Beach to the Jersey Shore........

Obama's secret service detail has been cropped out.

[C_U_L8R]

32. Come on New York!!!

Gobama !!

[KennedyGuy]

34. I'd be snide here..but the poster gets so little joy....

[GoldieAZ49]

37. Thanks Cali

what an amazing thing to watch and be a part of

Hold on to your ass America, you are in for a ride!!!


The Kennedy's are B(ar)ack!!!!!!

and showed Bill he didn't have the political capital he thought he did.

You don't want to piss off Teddy at the beginning of the actual voting




DAMN!

[dempartisan23]

39. great news

obama is the man who can win. lets not nominate clinton. she is a nice lady but a loser in my opinion.

[JerseygirlCT]

42. I'm not surprised, either.

Everyone I've talked to around here is an Obama supporter.

(edited to fix a near murder of syntax)

[ursi]

47. I hope this happens!

[loveangelc]

48. me too