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| 2008-05-13 | |
| Americans are gloomier about the direction of the country than they have been at any point in 15 years, and Democrats hold their biggest advantage since early 1993 as the party better able to deal with the nation's main problems, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. Poll questions provided by Harry and Nancy. those two have been pretty quiet, lately...
Those findings indicate that McCain continues to elude some of the anger aimed at his party and at President Bush, whose approval ratings dipped to an all-time low in Post-ABC polling. Maintaining a separate identity will be a key to McCain's chances of winning the White House in November. Overall, Democrats hold a 21-percentage-point advantage over Republicans as the party better equipped to handle the nation's problems. Control of Congress isn't enough! We want it all! More than six in 10 Democrats now say Obama is the one with the better shot at winning in November. Although Clinton retains her wide advantage as the more experienced candidate, for the first time Obama has the edge on being considered the stronger leader. But there is no groundswell of public pressure for Clinton to quit the race, despite trailing in pledged delegates, the popular vote and now superdelegates. Nearly two-thirds of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents said she should stay in the race. One reason is that few Democrats seem concerned that the protracted nomination battle will hurt the party's chances in November. Only 27 percent said they thought it had done the party long-term damage. Most said the drawn-out contest has had no impact on the party's prospects (56 percent) or that it has been helpful (15 percent). And most Democrats said they are confident that the party would rally around Obama should he become the nominee, although fewer than half said they are very confident. African Americans are somewhat more confident than whites, and nearly a quarter of Clinton supporters expressed doubt that the party would find unity once the nomination is settled. In a hypothetical general-election head-to-head, Obama leads McCain by a slim 51-to-44-percent margin, with the public split 49 percent for Clinton to 46 percent for McCain. Against McCain, Obama does better than Clinton among voters who are African American, college-educated and younger. Clinton draws more support than Obama does against McCain among white voters who are older or female and those whose family incomes are less than $50,000 a year. So the typical miliary person supports Clinton? The economy remains the biggest issue on Americans' minds, although its importance dipped for the first time since last fall. In the new survey, 36 percent cited the economy and jobs as their top voting issue; 21 percent So we won the war, for everybody but the lefty tools. And Obama. But I repeat myself. | |
| Posted by:Bobby |
| #17 Well I've heard Obama called "Dumbo". |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2008-05-13 21:04 |
| #16 Children! Let's play nice, now....Hilly's appearance doen't matter any more the Big O's skin color or John-Boy's age. Now, the fact that that O is cute (like JFK) and from Chicago worries me when I think how Chicago helped put JFK over the top in 1960. remember the Chicago Machine is run by King Richard the Second (son and heir to King Richard the First, of 1968 Demo convention fame). But some of the nasty snark is also pretty funny... |
| Posted by: Bobby 2008-05-13 18:36 |
| #15 she does get a shitload of crappy snarks that simply would not get sent a man's way I dunno - 'Chimpy' ain't exactly term of endearment. |
| Posted by: Chookie McTavish 2008-05-13 17:03 |
| #14 And that matters for being President how, exactly? Why does her appearance matter and Obama's doesn't? Just askin' ..... I don't like the woman but she does get a shitload of crappy snarks that simply would not get sent a man's way. |
| Posted by: lotp 2008-05-13 16:33 |
| #13 No way lotp, Chillary is just plain two bag kevlar reinforced FUGLY. the whole friggin forest fell on her. |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2008-05-13 16:27 |
| #12 now that is a real key characteristic for the job: CUTE! Gee, I would have thought so, given how many snide comments have been made about Hillary's appearace ..... |
| Posted by: lotp 2008-05-13 15:56 |
| #11 now that is a real key characteristic for the job: CUTE!) USN, don't knock it. That's one of the things that got JFK elected. Oh, and the Chicago Democratic machine. |
| Posted by: Rambler in California 2008-05-13 15:47 |
| #10 "Obewan isn't a leader; .... He will alienate white Americans. Give him time." So he can alienate MORE; he has already lost just about all the white votes in my neck of the woods......( there are still a few, mostly women that think he's cute, that will vote for him. now that is a real key characteristic for the job: CUTE!) |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2008-05-13 14:57 |
| #9 You know things are bad when you are even considering Ron Paul as a last ditch effort to get out from under the three toads we have to choose from now. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-05-13 13:45 |
| #8 Despite more than eight in 10 now saying the country is headed in the wrong direction, coupled with growing disaffection with the Republican Party, Sen. John McCain, the GOP's presumptive presidential nominee, remains competitive in a hypothetical general-election matchup with Sen. Barack Obama, the favorite for the Democratic nomination, and he runs almost even with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. Those findings indicate that McCain continues to elude some of the anger aimed at his party and at President Bush... They jumped to the wrong conclusion here, IMHO. McCain matches up well against Obama and Hildebeast because the donks have failed to offer a viable alternative. They're not an opposition party, they're a motley collection of moonbats, misfits, and crooked morons. Yes, we're pissed off at Republicans but we're pissed off at donks too. Now that's gloomy. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2008-05-13 13:30 |
| #7 It's just one redneck Kansas banker's opinion, but I think we hit bottom (such as it was) last month. |
| Posted by: whitecollar redneck 2008-05-13 13:08 |
| #6 Obewan isn't a leader; he is a follower of the reparations rhetoric that African American leaders have been spewing since the sixties. He will alienate white Americans. Give him time. |
| Posted by: McZoid 2008-05-13 12:51 |
| #5 Look, let's be honest here. The Country is heading in the wrong direction. The Earth's rotation sends us around from West to East and it's time for a change. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2008-05-13 11:26 |
| #4 "the dominant leftists media has only been pounding away at how bad the economy is for several years now" Only since 2001. The economy will miraculously improve as soon as a Democrat is elected. |
| Posted by: Frozen Al 2008-05-13 11:25 |
| #3 Gloomy? Just because the manufacturing, steel, mining, and electronics industries have been sold out to our most rabid competitors? Just because REAL wages are lower than they were in the 70's? Just because the Oil Sheiks have us by the nutsack? Just because we spend trillions of $$ to kill arab assholes that our grandfathers could have killed for 1/10 the price? Just because our dollar is worth half what it was 2 years ago? Just because both parties running for office of president have hairbrain schemes to make things worse not better? Why would we be gloomy? |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-05-13 09:40 |
| #2 The economy is indeed very gloomy for journalists. Few Americans take anything they write at face value anymore. But let's face it, skyrocketing gas and food prices are affecting the average Joe and Jane. They are reminded of it every time they stop at the grocery store or gas station. |
| Posted by: ed 2008-05-13 09:24 |
| #1 Wee duh - the dominant leftists media has only been pounding away at how bad the economy is for several years now, ho bad the war is going for several years now, and trying to create a recession out of lower growth. Of course people are going to be negative if al lthey get is spin and bad news, and never the whole truth, being that inflation has been historically low, economic growth and employment historically high, unemployment controlled well below where it was in the Clinton "Boom" years, home ownership (even factoring in the current problems) at an all time high, especially amongst minorities, and even in the middle of a press-declared recession, unemployment went DOWN and remains far under recessionary levels and growth continues to be positive, not negative, and we are still creating jobs. DO YOUR DAMNED JOB PRESS! Tell ***ALL*** the nes, the whole of the truth, and stop trying to spin things your way politically. You are supposedly the 4th part of our Demcarcy, and you are FAILING us. If you cause our republican democracy to collapse via your malfeasance and craven political behavior of misinforming the people, I and others like me guarantee your kind will be the first to dance on the end of a bayonet. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2008-05-13 09:15 |