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TheHype Clinton had backers?
USA Today/Gallup: Obama by 4 with Registered Voters
Daily Kos —
... just screw up the last poll? McCain's never above 45 anywhere else, which tells you something about his appeal. The national polls and the trackers are simply not showing a surge for McCain. Obama leads by 2 to 5 points in the last 7 non-trackers over the last week (and ties or leads the trackers.) But you can bet that, flawed concept or not, if McCain had gone from 4 down to 3 up in the Gallup poll, it'd be plastered all over the news. These numbers are from USA Today and Polling Report. Presidential choice LV Aug. 21-23 (July) ...
As the Racers Stumble into the Blocks: Polls on Obama vs. McCain
Hit & Run —
... 45.5 43.9 Obama +1.6 CNN 08/23 - 08/24 47 47 Tie USA Today/Gallup 08/21 - 08/23 48 45 Obama +3 ABC News/Wash ...
The Morning Report
Real Clear Politics - TIME.com —
... " (Shailagh Murray and Anne E. Kornblut, Washington Post ) - Sen. Barack Obama launched a four-day tour of battleground states Sunday to coincide with Monday's opening of the Democratic convention and its ambitious agenda of selling Obama to a national audience, presenting a forceful case against Republican rival John McCain and unifying a party still recovering from a bruising primary. " Poll: More than half of Clinton backers still not sold on Obama " (Susan Page, USA Today ) - Fewer than half of Hillary Rodham Clinton's supporters in the presidential primaries say they ...
80 percent says United States is on the wrong track.
Think Progress —
... A new USA Today/Gallup poll finds, “Eight in 10 say they are dissatisfied with the way things are going in the USA, and even more rate the economy as ‘only fair’ or poor. Seven in 10 say it’s getting worse.” ...
Time To Play The Game
Comments from Left Field —
... She has her work cut out for her, a recent SUSA poll shows that fewer than half of her supporters are firm in the Obama camp now. On the other hand, there are indications that Hillary will do what she needs to do. A few days ago reports came that ...
Video: “Catharsis”
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... , overstating a case built on more than just a grain of truth . We’ll find out tomorrow night what healing sounds like — there is, after all, ...
More Popcorn!
Right Wing Nation —
... needs to be addressed,” said Laura Boyd, a Clinton delegate in Oklahoma. Ms. Boyd said she held out hope Sen. Clinton might have been chosen.
During the long Democratic primary fight, Sen. Obama had said Sen. Clinton would be “on anyone’s short list” for vice president. But reports last week that Sen. Obama’s vice-presidential-search team hadn’t vetted the New York senator rankled many Clinton backers.
Then there’s this:
DENVER — Fewer than half of Hillary Rodham ...
Good News and Bad News...
The Corner on National Review Online —
... ] ...on the economy in the latest USA Today/Gallup poll : [Obama] is preferred by double digits over McCain on handling the economy, but a GOP drumbeat on taxes seems to be working: A majority of those surveyed predict Obama will raise their federal income taxes if elected. McCain is credited as a strong and decisive leader, but he has lost ground since earlier this year on handling the economy, the electorate's top issue . A majority say his policies as president would mostly benefit the wealthy. ...
Hillary Voters Spoiling the Obama Party
Tennessee Guerilla Women —
... Yet another poll, the USA Today/Gallup, puts the number of Hillary supporters who will vote for McCain, someone other than Obama, or no one at all, at 30 percent. ...
Hillary Supporters Still A Bit Angry
Flopping Aces —
... Not looking good for Obama:
Fewer than half of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s supporters in the presidential primaries say they definitely will vote for Barack Obama in November, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds, evidence of a formidable challenge facing Democrats as their national convention opens here today.
In the survey, taken Thursday through Saturday, 47% of Clinton supporters say they are solidly behind Obama, and 23% say they support him but may change their minds before the election.
Thirty percent say they will vote for Republican John ...
Around the Web: 2008
The Corner on National Review Online —
... Camp Pressed Hard For a Slot on the Ticket The Wall Street Journal [image] Experience Is Double-Edged Sword for The Ticket The Washington Post [image] Tasks for Biden This Fall: Travel and Attack McCain The New York Times [image] Praise of McCain Could Haunt Biden Politico [image] [image] State of the Race Tensions Boil Between Obama-Clinton Camps Politico [image] McCain-Romney? Dems Fear it Could Hurt in West San Francisco Chronicle [image] Poll: More Than Half of Clinton Backers Still Not Sold on Obama USA Today [image] Delegates for ...
USA Today Hits McCain in Hillary Article
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... Case in point is an article in the USAToday online edition headlined Poll: More than half of Clinton backers still not sold on Obama. However, once the story passes its main focus of listing the challenges faced by Obama in uniting a Democratic Party thoroughly fractured by the rough campaign season, the story also manages to include points that are designed to be negative for the Republican candidate, Arizona Senator John McCain. ...
Faint Praise
Weekly Standard Blog —
... While Clinton's party-unity talk may be enough for the convention goers, it's an open question about how far this message goes in assuaging the concerns of the less partisan voters who are not yet sold on Obama. The numbers out today are worrisome for Obama: 30 percent of Clinton primary voters claim they will support McCain; 23 percent say they support Obama, but may change their minds. ...
Monday's Mini-Report
Political Animal —
... " * It's tough to get eight in 10 Americans to agree on much, but that's how many people are dissatisfied with the direction of the country. * What does "Swiftboating 2.0" look like? Media Matters ...
Establishment Media Desperately Seeking Disunity
The Latest on Air America —
... credentials slung around her neck, sporting two buttons on her shoulder bag—one said “Hillary ‘08” and the other “Obama ’08.”
And that, as best my impressions tell me so far, is the extent of party disunity at the Democratic National Convention.
Perhaps you have a different impression, and if you happen to be somewhere else this week, maybe a place where your best news options are USA TODAY or a cable news channel, I don’t blame you.
Just take a gander at the number one story on the cover of today’s USA TODAY: ...
"More of the Same"
Daily Kos —
... 66% [of voters] say they're concerned he'll pursue President Bush's course. That includes 64% of independents and 35% of Republicans. [link] ...
Hillary's Dead-Enders Are Becoming a Laughingstock
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash —
The USA Today headline -- "More than half of Clinton backers still not sold on Obama" -- was more than a trifle misleading, and the story's lede wasn't much better: "Fewer than half of Hillary Rodham Clinton's supporters in the presidential primaries say they definitely will vote for Barack Obama in November." Upon reading that, yet going no farther, one is apt to promptly belch forth, O Sweet Mary Mother of God, this is the End Times, panic time, or at least passport-renewal time. Obama is going down. His would-be forces are so badly divided, failure is the only option. And ...
What's the Matter With Obama?
Weekly Standard Blog —
... compilation of every Democratic campaign idea ever conceived."
But the simplest explanation is often best. Despite what you may be hearing, America remains a closely divided country. The parties split Americans' loyalties down the middle, give or take a few percentage points. So it doesn't help when the Democrats nominate one of the most liberal tickets in memory. Obama's problem isn't his race, or his cosmopolitanism, or his campaign style. It's his politics.
(His youth and inexperience don't help, either.)
