Rasmussen Poll -McCain 46% -Obama 43% /McCain 47% -Clinton 44%

[DemocratSinceBirth]

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows that John McCain has gained ground against Democratic frontrunner Barack Obama. In a general election match-up, McCain now leads Obama 46% to 43%. He also leads Hillary Clinton 47% to 44%

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


Since it is just one poll and it is Rasmussen who arguably has a Republican bias I would take it with a large grain of salt...

But if Senator Obama, after receiving the greatest press a national candidate has received since John Fitzgerald Kennedy walked the Earth only has forty three percent of the vote in a two man race I would be concerned especially when his opponent is mired in a sex/ethics scandal...It will never get better than this for Senator Obama and worse for Senator McCain...

Many Democrats reference the 1960 campaign for inspiration when the rock star cool and Hollywood handsome John Kennedy beat the unhip and not handsome Richard Nixon... What they fail to reference is that Kennedy beat Nixon 49.7% to 49.5% or by about 100,000 votes out of 70,000,000 votes cast...

Complacency is not your friend and neither is disrespecting Democrats who back other candidates of whom you will need every last vote in the Fall...

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DSB

[Herman Munster]

1. McCain is going up precisely because of the sex/ethics scandal

The conservative base was reluctant to support him but the liberal NY Times hitjob has rallied them to McCain's cause. it's sick and twisted but McCain is now one of them.

It's a fucked up world.

[demnan]

2. I fear for us

This Obama thing has energized a lot of people but the Republican attack machine can still chew him up and spit him out. They are experts. Lapel pin, Muslim father, the next remark out of Michelle's mouth - it could land us all into deep doo-doo.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

5. Yes

Let me preface my remarks by saying that Hillary or Obama should beat McCain but it will not be easy and it will not be a blow out...It isn't coincidence that the last Democrat to win a true majority of the vote was LBJ and that was forty years ago! I don't count Jimmy Carter's 50%-48% win as a true majority...

There is a red/blue divide and it's not going away...We see the world very differently...

[Oleladylib]

11. Those are truest words I have read here in weeks!

Please BO and HRC..unite and win!

[angie_love]

3. ...

"Complacency is not your friend and neither is disrespecting Democrats who back other candidates of whom you will need every last vote in the Fall..."

True...


Edit: what do you think about Obama/Clinton on the same ticket? Do you think it would be unbeatable? I know we have alot of work to do, its going to be a tough battle, But I really don't think the public knows about the "bad" lobbyist side of McCain yet. They only see the good McCain fighting against lobbyists. I do think McCain is not exactly vetted even though hes been in the public eye a long time. Personally b/c I don't think many took him that seriously.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

8. In The Final Analysis I Think Clinton And Obama Can Beat McCain

McCain just looks old; not chronologically old but physically old...And the longer the campaign drags on the older he will look...In a debate with Obama or Clinton he will not come off as the mature candidate but will come off as the "old" candidate...

I have given this a lot of thought...If Mitt Romney had John McCain's resume he would be the GOPU's Jack Kennedy...

[Herman Munster]

4. Also remember how corrupt the Daley and LBJ machine was in IL and Texas

There was much fraud in that election and historians debate whether Kennedy actually won it.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

10. I'd Hate To Think Jack Kennedy Stole It

We don't know huch much of the story is urban myth...

Also, there's an argument that there was as much shenanigans down state Illinois where the Republicans were in control as there was in Democratic controlled Chicago and Nixon needed both TX and IL to win the Electoral College...

[barbtries]

6. motherfuckers are putting the fix in already

i don't believe these numbers are even close. who are they talking to?

[angie_love]

7. Isn't it strange? Every state except for 4 had democrats coming out to vote over

rethugs in a 2:1 ratio, sometimes 3:1. So I don't get it. Probably alot of those voters were first timers.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

9. You Are Correct

Lots more Dems are voting in the primaries than GOOPERS...

On its face it would suggest Democrats are more energized...

[Franks Wild Years]

12. McCain will be tarred...

...with the Bush brush. He will be made to look old, crumbly and horrendously out of touch - It will be shown that he isn't the John McCain people remember from 2000. Remember, very little has been seen of McCain thus far in comparison to Obama & Clinton. The more each are in direct comparison, the worse he will look.

It would take the most inept campaign in political history to lose to a Bush Republican like McCain this year. It would take a shy, timid campaign too scared to criticise him, too scared to question his temper, too scared to wheel out pictures of McCain embracing Bush, too scared to show 'Bomb Iran' videos, too scared to put his 'I HATE GOOKS!' quote out there, too scared to make an issue of his ultra extreme-right grasp of foreign policy. If these sort of things aren't made an issue of, McCain deserves to win by default. If they ARE made a proper issue of, he cannot win. It's necessary to be politically vicious towards this old man.

[BeyondGeography]

13. McCain is running unopposed and Obama's opponent is waving flyers in the air and shouting

"Shame on you!"

The sooner she's out of the way, the better. She's disrespecting the nominee and we will need every last vote in the fall.