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Bottom Falls Out of McCain Campaign
Hoffmania! —
... Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is entering the third and final presidential debate Wednesday with a wide lead over Republican rival John McCain nationally, a new CBS News/New York Times poll shows. ...
CBC News Poll: Obama Opens 14-Point Lead On McCain
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... CBS News (CBS) Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is entering the third and final presidential debate Wednesday with a wide lead over Republican rival John McCain nationally, a new CBS News/New York Times poll shows. The Obama-Biden ticket now leads the McCain-Palin ticket 53 percent to 39 percent among likely voters, a 14-point margin. One week ago, prior to the Town Hall debate that uncommitted voters saw as a win for Obama, that margin was just three points. Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/14/opinion/polls... ...
Another Poll Showing Obama with a Big Lead
Taylor Marsh —
... This poll shows Obama with an even bigger lead.
The Obama-Biden ticket now leads the McCain-Palin ticket 53 ...
CBS New/NY Times: Obama 53% - Mccain 39%
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
The latest national poll shows McCain has done himself serious damage: Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is entering the third and final presidential debate Wednesday with a wide lead over Republican rival John McCain nationally, a new CBS News/New York Times poll shows. The Obama-Biden ticket now leads the McCain-Palin ticket 53 percent to 39 percent among likely voters, a 14-point margin. One week ago, prior to the Town Hall debate that uncommitted voters saw as a win for Obama, that margin was just three points. Among independents who are ...
CBS/NYT Poll: Obama at 53%
The Atlantic Politics Channel —
The jawdropping numbers from the CBS News / New York Times poll are, yes, the top-line...Obama leads among likely voters 53% to 39%. But more than that: which candidate will raise your taxes? Respondents, by 51% to 46%, say it's McCain. (Why? One reason might be Obama's advertising, which claims that McCain's health care plan would raise taxes for "millions" of Americans.) And preparation and readiness to be president don't seem to be terribly important: 64% percent of the country thinks McCain is ready, but, generalizing here, a heck of a lot of those folks ...
CBS/NYT: Obama 53, McCain 39
Hot Air » Top Picks —
CBS/NYT: Obama 53, McCain 39 posted at 7:48 pm on October 14, 2008 by Allahpundit Send to a Friend | printer-friendly The unweighted sample : 38.2 D, 30.3 R. Weighted: 37.4 D, 29.2 R. The overall margin is a hefty outlier, five points more than Gallup and fully nine points more than Rasmussen , but that’s about the only good news here. Last week it was 48/45. [image] [image] Judging by those numbers, I’m guessing the Ayers attacks aren’t helping much. The columns here are Total Voters, Republicans, Democrats, and Independents, respectively: ...
CBS News/New York Times Poll: Obama Takes 14 Point Lead Over McCain
The Moderate Voice —
... A new CBS News/New York Times poll has Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama taking his biggest lead yet over Republican Sen. John McCain — and part of the reason is that the dam has apparently burst and independent voters are now flowing to Obama: ...
NYTimes/CBS Poll: Obama Up by 14 points
TalkLeft —
The CBS/New York Times poll released this afternoon has Sen. Barack Obama leading John McCain by a whopping 14 points. Obama has increased his lead even more among independents. The top two reasons: McCain's negative attacks on Obama and --you guessed it -- Sarah Palin. The Obama-Biden ticket now leads the McCain-Palin ticket 53 percent to 39 percent among likely voters, a 14-point margin. One week ago, prior to the Town Hall debate that uncommitted voters saw as a win for Obama, that margin was just three points. ...
How Far Ahead Is Obama Really?
Open Left - Front Page —
National polling is all over the map right now, with one poll showing Obama up 14%, another only 3%, and with other polls showing virtually every other number in between. So, how far ahead is Obama, really?
Twelve polling organizations have come out with likely voter polls in the last forty-eight hours. In an attempt to answer the titular question of this post, I took the most recent poll from all twelve, and averaged them together:
Likely Voter National Polls, 10/11-10/13 ...
The Doomsday Poll: Obama Gains 14 Point Lead
Stop The ACLU —
Woah are we! It is doomsday once again. Another poll by the “trustworthy” sources of CBS and the ever “patriotic” New York Times hasve spoken, and we may as well just give up. Yes the numbers are ...
Doing the Numbers - And Being Done By Them
Daily Pundit —
... Poll: Obama Opens 14-Point Lead On McCain, CBS News/New York Times Survey Shows Major Swing Among Independents, Suggests McCain’s Strategy May Be Hurting Him - CBS News ...
The Dread "Outlier" Syndrome
Obsidian Wings —
... by publius
The new CBS/NYT poll has Obama +14 among likely voters. The McCain camp calls the new poll improbable. At Hot Air, Allahpundit notes that it’s a “hefty outlier” and provides the pro-Dem party ID breakdown to provide some comfort (though admittedly while conceding it’s bad news).
Ah, I remember these games. Whenever a bad Bush/Kerry poll would come out in 2004, we’d learn from someone that the party ID was off, or that “likely” voters didn’t really matter this year. Or whatever. Opium for the massly deluded, that stuff. ...
Wheeeeeeeeee!
Greatscat! —
(CBS) Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is entering the third and final presidential debate Wednesday with a wide lead over Republican rival John McCain nationally, a new CBS News/New York Times poll shows. The Obama-Biden ticket now leads the McCain-Palin ticket 53 percent to 39 percent among likely voters, a 14-point margin. One week ago, prior to the Town Hall debate that uncommitted voters saw as a win for Obama , that margin was just three points . Among independents who are likely voters - a group that has swung back and forth ...
14 points
The Reaction —
... That's Obama's lead over McCain in the latest CBS/NYT poll: 53 to 39. And the internals look good, too. He's ahead of McCain by 18 points among independents. ...
Early Morning Swim: Special Final Debate Edition
Firedoglake —
Obama up 14 in CBS poll.
Top two reasons? McSame's attacks on Obama and Palin as veep.
And here comes more slime.
Even McSame's brother thinks Rick Davis and Steve Schmidt are idiots.
McSame's last stand: final debate tonight.
Is there a secret memo governing tonight's debate?
Wingnut victimhood: Palin tells Rush the media wants her to "sit down and shut up."
Quick! Someone tell her the Russians have invaded Alaska.
What happened to ...
CBS Poll: Obama Leads by 14%
PoliGazette —
... The latest CBS /
New York Times
poll
shows that Barack Obama has enlarged his lead on John McCain significantly in the last week. Where Obama was leading by about 4% one week ago, according to the same pollsters, he has now opened a 14% gap. ...
10/15 Daily Kos R2K Tracking Poll: Obama 52, McCain 41
Daily Kos —
... for some time, and this comes as no surprise. Palin isn't popular, she isn't qualified and she isn't helping McCain. For example, there's this paragraph from the CBS story: ...
Ads Backfiring, McCain Goes Negative On Self
ScrappleFace —
... “People — especially undecided voters — feel compassion for victims,” said one unnamed McCain campaign strategist, “Our attacks on Obama, rather than stirring concerns about the people who have shaped his thinking, have generated sympathy for him. To make those polls turn around, Americans need to feel as sorry for McCain as they now do for that poor skinny bookworm from Illinois who has trouble making decent friends.” ...
Free-Falling
Balloon Juice —
In polling terms, this is what a train wreck looks like:
That was deep in the .pdf of the recent CBS poll. If the voters have their say, Sarah Palin will have a lot of time to eyeball Russia from her house.
McCain’s Final Stand
Outside The Beltway | OTB —
... , McCain is getting crushed. A race that had been essentially tied for months — and which McCain was briefly leading after Sarah Palin’s convention speech rallied the base and inspired undecided voters — has turned into an Obama blowout because of the global financial crisis. Obama is up an average of 8 points in the polls and leading by at least three in every single poll being tracked . He’s actually up 14 points in the latest CBS News poll , which isn’t included in the average. Worse yet, the state-by-state polls show the race even further out of reach. He’s losing in ...
What Can We Expect From McCain Tonight?
DownWithTyranny! —
... who have ruined his brother's chances to win the presidency and who won't let anyone-- meaning himself-- speak to the press. So with McCain's poll numbers continuing to sink dramatically-- in great part because Americans are finally ...
Attacks, last night's meatloaf backfire on McCain
WTF Is It Now?!? —
... Twenty-one percent of voters say their opinion of the [meanspirited Cranky McFusepants] has changed for the worse in the last few weeks. The top two reasons cited for the change of heart are McCain's attacks on Obama and his choice of Sarah Palin as running mate. ...
Barack the Government Slayer
The American Spectator —
... that McCain ran as too enthusiastic a tax-cutter explain Obama's decision to position himself as the real tax and spending cutter in the race? There is conflicting data as to how successful this rebranding has been: one poll shows a majority of voters believe McCain is more likely to raise taxes; ...
