Latest poll shows McCain beats Obama in Michigan - but Obama wins if Clinton VP

[papau]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/wire/chi-ap-mi-presidentialpoll-,0,6726569.story


Poll shows McCain, Obama in tight race in Michigan
Associated Press
7:13 PM CDT, May 28, 2008

DETROIT - A new poll of likely Michigan voters shows Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama in a tight race.

The poll for The Detroit News and WXYZ-TV found 44 percent saying they'd back McCain in a hypothetical presidential election. Forty percent backed Obama.

EPIC-MRA telephoned 600 people May 19-22. The poll's margin of sampling error is 4 percentage points up or down.

An April 3-8 EPIC-MRA poll of 600 likely Michigan voters found 43 percent for Obama and 41 percent for McCain.

The new poll found Hillary Clinton helping Obama as his vice presidential candidate when matched against McCain with ex-rival Mitt Romney as vice presidential candidate. Fifty-one percent said they'd back Obama-Clinton to 44 percent for McCain-Romney.

[movonne]

1. Nooooooo, never, never, ever...

[David Dunham]

3. We must do what is necessary to win.

[PoliticalAmazon]

24. NO. Hillary stands for everything Obama is campaigning against...

He would lose with her on the ticket because many people, including me, won't vote for Hillary Clinton. I don't care if Jesus Christ is the presidential candidate.

[Danger Mouse]

2. Interesting.

[BlooInBloo]

4. Wow - it's within the margin of error even before Obama hass campaigned there!

Wonderful news - thanks!

[cliffordu]

5. Latest poll shows this OP nearly reality free.

[samdogmom]

6. Sigh! She's finished.

Please give it a rest!

Obama gets to pick the V.P.--it's not up to Hillary!

And...no one said McCain is picking Romney...so this poll is basically garbage!

(Yikes, edited because in the dark I had my exclamation point wrong! I'm really not a freeper, trust me!!!!!)

[DJ13]

7. So why dont they run polls with a ficticious McCain VP?

Suppose McCain picks someone unpopular, with 50% negatives, who has been a known liar?

How does Obama fare with Hillary as McCain's VP?

[Auntie Bush]

8. Nice to hear!

But it doesn't seem like DU likes that news...judging by all the comments and Recs.

[MadBadger]

9. SUSA shows something different. He is down four and with Hillary down 5.

[WeDidIt]

10. Freaky Deaky n/t

[still_one]

11. Either the polls are bullshit, or the people answering the questions are bullshit

For any person who says they support an Obama/Clinton ticket, to say if that doesn't happen they will vote for mccain, tells me someone is either lying, or doesn't care about

The Iraq War
The economy, especially the phil graham enron/loophole which mccain supports
High energy and food prices
Jobs being shipped overseas
The Supreme Court
The environment
The GI Bill
The head start program

Or they actually want someone who has voted with bush 95% of the time

It is so fun to watch idiots spew bullshit all over the place

[ProSense]

12. Obama doesn't need Hillary to win.

She lost. She needs to take a break and reflect, and then plan her future.

[PoliticalAmazon]

25. Exactly. They'd have to put a lot of lipstick on that pig to get it to hunt....

LOL. I loved mixed metaphors.

[flvegan]

13. zOMG!! 600 people polled!

Obama is teh doomed as are we if he chooses not Hillary!

[PoliticalAmazon]

29. Actually, 600 respondents is adequate sample for Michigan...

Assuming, of course, that the poll was conducted in a manner which will produce information the subject/target population they are questioning about.

Unfortunately, there is NO way for the public to ascertain how the poll was conducted. This hould be public information, but it is not.

[rhombus]

14. Obama is yet to actively campaign in Michigan

His numbers will shoot up. I'm not worried at all about this poll.

Wasn't JOhn Edwards leading in Iowa in most polls till late in the game? Polls are a snapshot in time.

[Forkboy]

15. I wish you had the guts to respond to any of the people who answered you elsewhere.

Apparently defending your own words is taking too much a stand for you. :puke:

[JTFrog]

16. But they can both beat Huckabee.

The convention isn't until September. Why do you insist McCain is the nominee?

[JTFrog]

17. *delete dupe*

[casus belli]

18. Is that the next frontier of ridiculous theoretical math? n/t

[papapi]

19. umm hmm. Flights of fancy. Hillary has proven unworthy of the VP nomination.

[Max_powers94]

20. Polls mean nothing at this point.....get back to me in Oct

[Bread and Circus]

21. Shove your polls up your ass. They mean nothing. Seriously, nobody gives a shit

except people that somehow want to make it seems as if May polls are the end all be all of what we need to be focusing on when they are a piss poor indicator of what will happen in the fall.

I'm so fucking sick of all you Clinton supporters cherry picking and posting poll after poll as if any of it means anything.

It doesn't.

Stop doing it.

Hillary lost.

Live with it.

[TahitiNut]

22. Obama will appear in Michigan on June 2 (in Oakland County) - we'll see how he polls then

He does VERY well when he appears at campaign events. There's no word yet on where he'll be and how many will see him, but it'll be interesting.

[Barack_America]

23. Sweet. Do you know where at? nt

[TahitiNut]

26. Nope. Not yet. SharonRB is on top of things and posting in the Michigan Forum.

She's gotten wind of it from MichiganLiberal.com. (Developing.)

:hi:

[CaptJasHook]

27. At least you have accepted she has lost the Presidential race. That's a good step.

[Occam Bandage]

28. Considering it's still early, that McCain has gotten a free pass, that we're in the middle of

an enormous Clinton-supporter tantrum, and that Obama hasn't really campaigned in MI yet...I'm thinking MI is blue.

[Crunchy Frog]

30. Latest poll has nothing to do with what would actually happen in the GE.

Hillary as running mate would be a disaster of epic proportions.