COUNTDOWN TO OBAMA NOMINATION!

[LoZoccolo]

6!

[WillyT]

1. SIX !!!

:kick:

[NightWatcher]

2. you rawk!!!

[tekisui]

3. Less than a week. This will fly by.

This campaign has gone on for over a year and a half.

WooHOO!!!

[aaaaaa5a]

4. I can't wait....

I almost wish MSNBC's Countdown had a running ticker clicking down the hours and minutes before Obama is the nominee.


Let's make sure this thread stays up top so we can countdown the days right up until Tuesday or Wednesday!

[dancingme]

5. The Times They Are A Changin' NOW!

Whoooooo!

[oldtime dfl_er]

6. Wow, It IS getting close

I thought it would never happen.

[tridim]

7. Yay!

But actually it's more like -60 days. He's been the nominee for a long time now.

[rateyes]

8. ...

[rateyes]

9. ...

[rateyes]

10. ...

[rateyes]

11. One more time...

SIX!

[apocalypsehow]

12. K & R.

:kick:

[wileedog]

13. ...

[Kittycat]

14. 6

[Snarkoleptic]

15. Bomdiggity

[JimGinPA]

16. 6?

[Labors of Hercules]

17. TWO HOURS TO 5!!!!

at least, here on the East Coast... :woohoo:

[mudesi]

18. -94

(Those who know how to do math will get it)

[Danger Mouse]

19. Awesome idea. Will you do one each day?

:D

[LoZoccolo]

21. If I don't run out of threads and I remember, lol.

Feel free to start one without me though because I work all day and can't get on until evening.

[Kokonoe]

20. I'm gonna stay awake

[Califooyah Operative]

24. haha

woooo!

[briv1016]

22. Polls close at 8:00pm in Montana

http://www.timeanddate.com/counters/customcounter.html?month=6&day=3&year=2008&hour=20&min=0&sec=0&p0=448

[Douglas Carpenter]

23. Amen! I feel funny about agree with you on something for once,,,but politics is like that sometimes

Average Polls in Nomination Race:

Obama 50.8/Clinton 40.8 = Obama +10

The nomination polls are the averages of Rasmussen Tracking, Gallup Tracking, Newsweek, Reuters/Zogby, Quinnipiac and Washington Post/ABC.

link:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/us/democratic_presidential_nomination-191.html

In that Sen. Obama has both John McCain and Hillary Clinton attacking him it is only common sense that this would have some negative effect on his ratings.

Average of National Polls:

Obama 46.7/McCain 44.1 = Obama + 2.6

Clinton 45.9/McCain 44.7 = Clinton + 1.2

The general election polls averages the latest polls from Gallup Tracking, Rasmussen Tracking, Quinnipiac,ABC News/Wash Post, Democracy Corp, LA Times/Bloomberg, IDBB/TIPP, Battleground

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/us/general_election_mccain_vs_obama-225.html

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/us/general_election_mccain_vs_clinton-224.html
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"The Rasmussen Reports Balance of Power Calculator shows Democrats leading in states with 200 Electoral Votes while the GOP has the advantage in states with 189. When “leaners” are included, the Democrats enjoy a 260-240 Electoral College lead (see summary of recent state-by-state results). Rasmussen Markets data gives Democrats a 63.4% chance of winning the White House in November (results are updated on a 24/7 basis by market participants)."

"Rasmussen Reports believes the race is over and that Barack Obama will be the nominee of the Democratic Party. We will stop tracking the Democratic race in the near future to focus exclusively on the Obama-McCain match-up."

link:

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

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And here are the predictions from the financial markets:

Intrade Prediction Markets: http://www.intrade.com / (The Rasmussen Market figures are pretty much in the same ball park: http://markets.rasmussenreports.com/aav2/trading/tradingHTML.jsp?selConID=261450# )



Intrade Prediction Market gives a 61.5% to 63.4% chance that the Democrats will win the White House in November

Intrade Prediction Market gives a 57.5% to 57.6%chance that Barak Obama will be elected President in November

Intrade Prediction Market gives a 5.8% to 5.9% chance that Hillary Clinton will be elected President in November

Intrade Prediction Market gives a 37.6% to 37.7% chance that John McCain will be elected President in November

Intrade Prediction Market gives a 37.0% to 38.7% chance the Republicans will win the White House in November


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"Rasmussen Reports believes the race is over and that Barack Obama will be the nominee of the Democratic Party. We will stop tracking the Democratic race in the near future to focus exclusively on the Obama-McCain match-up":

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential

[davidpdx]

25. SIX!