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Barcepundit (English edition) — ... UH OH: : In a sharp turnaround, Republican John McCain has opened a 5-point lead on Democrat Barack Obama in the U.S. presidential race and is seen as a stronger manager of the economy, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday. > > McCain leads Obama among likely U.S. voters by 46 percent to 41 percent, wiping out Obama's solid 7-point advantage in July and taking his first lead in the monthly ReutersZogby poll. > > Of course, being Reuters it simply can't help attributing the ...

McCain takes 5-point lead over Obama-Reuters poll
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — ... in July and taking his first lead in the monthly Reuters/Zogby poll. The reversal follows a month of attacks by McCain, who has questioned Obama's experience, criticized his opposition to most new offshore oil drilling and mocked his overseas trip. The poll was taken Thursday through Saturday as Obama wrapped up a weeklong vacation in Hawaii that ceded the political spotlight to McCain, who seized on Russia's invasion of Georgia to emphasize his foreign policy views." Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUKN194867... I expect a 10 point boost for Obama ...

Dems Deserting Obama - McCain Opens 5 Point Lead
Say Anything — ... WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a sharp turnaround, Republican John McCain has opened a 5-point lead on Democrat Barack Obama in the U.S. presidential race and is seen as a stronger manager of the economy, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday. ...

Obama’s VP Pick and Don’t Believe The Polls
Ankle Biting Pundits — ... Also, there’s a new poll out showing that McCain is up by 5 points. Don’t believe it. First it’s a Zogby/Reuters poll, which is unreliable no matter who they show winning. I have no doubt McCain is gaining some ground, but this race is still Obama’s to lose (indeed I don’t think McCain can “win” it, as much as Obama can “lose” it).  However, I think people are starting to take a closer look at Obama, and the more you look at him up close, the more you realize he’s an empty suit. ...

McCain leads, arguably
RedState: Conservative News and Community — For the first time, state-by-state analysis shows McCain in lead RCP's "no toss up" map shows McCain leading 274-264. It's the 2004 map with Obama picking up IA and NM. Thus, McCain's tiny "lead" in VA, CO, and OH is enough to put him over. Reuters/Zogby also announces a telephone polls showing McCain up by 5 today. This is a big change from the last Zogby poll (Obama +7) and shows Obama losing support across the board. On the other hand, other national polls show Obama ahead 1-3 points. The most recent polls from swing ...

Voters seeing through Captain Bullshit's ™ bullshit
Ace of Spades HQ — Voters seeing through Captain Bullshit's bullshit McPain has a 9 point edge on managing the economy -- which is quite a statement in itself, since he's admitted in the past his economic chops are mediocre at best . ... McCain now has a 9-point edge, 49 percent to 40 percent, over Obama on the critical question of who would be the best manager of the economy -- an issue nearly half of voters said was their top concern in the November 4 presidential election. That margin reversed Obama's 4-point edge last month on the economy over McCain, an Arizona senator and former Vietnam ...

Poll mania: McCain jumps out in front
TigerHawk — Sitting as I am in the north woods, I am going to let more connected bloggers tease the meaning from the latest polling news , that John McCain has pulled in front of Barack Obama. Memeorandum ...

McCain Leads Obama by Five Points
PoliGazette — ... We can now definitely say that Senator John McCain has a serious chance of winning the elections in November; according to the latest Zogby/Reuters poll, he has opened a lead of 5%. That’s for the first time in months that McCain has taken such a lead. Better; it’s for the first time this campaign. ...

First Obama Accused McCain of Racism. Now Obama Accuses McCain of Questioning Obama's Patriotism
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... in attack ads designed to scare voters about McCain's economic policies. It's no wonder considering polls now show McCain running ahead of Obama on the economy. ...

Zogby: McCain By 5
TalkLeft — ... Boy, is John Zogby shameless. He'll massage his numbers anyway he can to get attention. And he does so in his latest Presidential poll: ...

Open Thread
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: McCain takes a five point lead! McCain leads Obama among likely U.S. voters by 46 percent to 41 percent, wiping out Obama's solid 7-point advantage in July and taking his first lead in the monthly Reuters/Zogby poll...McCain now has a 9-point edge, 49 percent to 40 percent, over Obama on the critical question of who would be the best manager of the economy -- an issue nearly half of voters said was their top concern in the November 4 presidential election...Obama's support among ...

John McCain Watch: Taking The Lead
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... A number of polls are out today that show John McCain with a slight lead over Barack Obama. This is a dramatic turn around in the Presidential race. Looking at the Electoral College Map above, the race is virtually tied: ...

McCain Takes the Lead?
Power Line — Drudge is headlining this Reuters/Zogby poll , which has John McCain surging to a five-point, 46%-41% lead over Barack Obama among likely voters. I don't doubt that McCain has made gains over the last couple of weeks. He obviously performed well in connection with Russia's invasion of Georgia, while Obama was on vacation. I suspect, too, that more people have figured out that McCain wants to drill for oil and Obama doesn't. The Reuters/Zogby poll shows McCain with a 9-point lead on the economy. This explains, no doubt, why Obama has started running a grotesquely misleading ad ...

McCain Takes the Lead Over Obama
Boots and Sabers — ... I thought that Obama’s presidency was inevitable ? In a sharp turnaround, Republican John McCain has opened a 5-point lead on Democrat Barack Obama in the U.S. presidential race and is seen as a stronger manager of the economy, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday. McCain leads Obama among likely U.S. voters by 46 percent to 41 percent, wiping out Obama’s solid 7-point advantage in July and taking his first lead in the monthly Reuters/Zogby poll. [...] The dip in support for Obama, who would be the first black U.S. president, cut across demographic ...

"Celebrity" Attack on the Airwaves in Yet Another Form
MoJo Blog Posts: mojo — ... Barack Obama is no different. Only it’s your money he wants to spend." I think it's safe to say that the Obama campaign hasn't hammered any message as hard as McCain has hammered this "celebrity" attack. Which is funny, because you'd think "McCain is four more years of Bush" would be easier to make stick, and more effective to boot. And, for what it's worth, it looks like I was wrong about the "celebrity" attack. I thought it was too transparently silly to be usable . These new poll numbers , which show McCain leading by five, indicate otherwise. [image] ...

Gone Fishin'
Ross Douthat — I'm headed off for a (truncated) vacation, so posting will be light-to-nonexistent until early next week - you'll have to go elsewhere, alas, for instant reaction when Obama, desperate to reverse his slide in the polls, picks Joe Lieberman (!!) as his running mate. When I get back, I hope to respond to a thoughtful ...

Reuters/Zogby: John McCain Opens Up a 5 Point Lead
Wizbang — ... . McCain has opened up a 5 point lead over Obama in the latest Reuters/Zogby poll: In a sharp turnaround, Republican John McCain has opened a 5-point lead on Democrat Barack Obama in the U.S. presidential race and is seen as a stronger manager of the economy, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday. McCain leads Obama among likely U.S. voters by 46 percent to 41 percent, wiping out Obama's solid 7-point advantage in July and taking his first lead in the monthly Reuters/Zogby poll. The reversal follows a month of attacks by McCain, who has questioned Obama's ...

Hand-wringing
The Reaction — By Creature There's a whole lot of it going on across the Internets these days. With McCain on the offensive (and being offensive), with a tightening (and even an overtaking) in the polls, with Obama seemingly unwilling or unable to define John McCain, it's natural to worry. While some say it's still early, I say it's getting late fast. If the media continues to portray everything as good news for McCain, it's going to be increasingly difficult for Obama to turn this ...

Reuters/Zogby: McCain Takes Lead in New Poll
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire — In a sharp turnaround, Sen. John McCain has opened a 5-point lead on Sen. Barack Obama, 46% to 41%, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll. Obama had a 7 point lead in July. Said pollster John Zogby: "There is no doubt the campaign to discredit Obama is paying off for McCain right now. This is a significant ebb for Obama."

Campaign Updates and Media Headlines 8/20/08
Corrente — Poll shows McCain in 5-point lead over Obama WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a sharp turnaround, Republican John McCain has opened a 5-point lead on Democrat Barack Obama in the U.S. presidential race and is seen as a stronger manager of the economy, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday. McCain leads Obama among likely U.S. voters by 46 percent to 41 percent, wiping out Obama’s solid 7-point advantage in July and taking his first lead in the monthly Reuters/Zogby poll. Too close for comfort: POLITICO’s 2008 Swing State ...

Despite A 3-1 Disadvantage In MSM Coverage
small dead animals — Despite A 3-1 Disadvantage In MSM Coverage John McCain has opened a 5-point lead on Barack Obama . He should probably send a thank you note ...

What I'm Reading, August 20, 2008
baldilocks — Our first Flakian-American President . Mikhail Gorbachev defends the decisions of Vladimir Putin Dmitry Medvedev. Reuters/Zogby poll shows that McCain has a five point lead on Obama ; Ace gloats (mild language alert). A fool and his money… and John Edwards, too. Another Obama sibling is found in the shanty on the outskirts of Nairobi. (Hey, you can’t pick your parents or your siblings, but was O’s father busy or what?) From the UK with Love: A World Without the American Soldier . Leading Democrats—the Speaker and the ...

The Loser Now is Later to Win
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run — For the first time since he locked up the nomination, Barack Obama has dipped to a tie with John McCain on the electoral map and to a deficit in some of the national polls. Tell us why, John Zogby. The reversal follows a month of attacks by McCain, who has questioned Obama's experience, criticized his opposition to most new offshore oil drilling and mocked his overseas trip. The poll was taken Thursday through Saturday as Obama wrapped up a weeklong vacation in Hawaii that ceded the political spotlight to McCain, who seized on Russia's invasion of ...

Reuters/Zogby: McCain Up 5
The Corner — [image] [image] NRO BLOG ROW | THE CORNER | ARCHIVES SEARCH E-MAIL PRINT RSS [image] [image] Wednesday, August 20, 2008 [image] Reuters/Zogby: McCain Up 5 [ Rich Lowry ] Here. 08/20 11:16 AM [image] [image] [image] © National Review Online 2008. All Rights Reserved. Home | Search | NR / Digital | Donate | Media Kit | Contact Us This page loaded in 0.006677 seconds.

Testing, Testing - Barack Obama
Riehl World View — ... On the heels of the LAT/Bloomberg survey showing Obama dropping 10 points since June comes another piece of bad news from Reuters/Zogby. Their new poll, conducted Thursday through Saturday (August 14-17), shows McCain taking the lead away from Obama - a 12-point turnaround from last month when Obama led by 7: ...

McCain Takes 5 Point Lead in Zogby Poll
Stop The ACLU — Panic time for the Obama cult! WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a sharp turnaround, Republican John McCain has opened a 5-point lead on Democrat Barack Obama in the U.S. presidential race and is seen as a stronger manager of the economy, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday. McCain leads Obama among likely U.S. voters by 46 percent to 41 percent, wiping out Obama’s solid 7-point advantage in July and taking his first lead in the monthly Reuters/Zogby poll. ...

No More Mister Nice Blog — ... Now my reason for why there might (and I stress might) be a silver lining in the Reuters/Zogby poll showing McCain up by 5 and other dire portents: ...

John McCain Takes Poll Lead Over Obama
(Obsolete Feed) — ... People seem surprised. I’m only surprised that McCain hasn’t taken a bigger lead over the pretend president. At least the poll gap is finally starting to mirror the experience gap: ...

pundits change minds, call election for mcmuffin
skippy the bush kangaroo — ... on obama, or actually ahead, and then concludes that this is somehow not to be expected. joe joins the punditry in their pearl-clutching and vapors, as if a tightening presidential race towards the end of summer is a new thing, unfathomable or even impossible. ...

links for 2008-08-21
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... John McCain Watch: Taking The Lead (tags: Barack Obama John McCain) McCain takes 5-point lead over Obama-Reuters poll | Politics | Reuters In a sharp turnaround, Republican John McCain has ...

McCain takes lead over Obama in poll
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS — ... Democrats and self-described liberals. "That hairline difference between nuance and what appears to be flip-flopping is hurting him with liberal voters," Zogby said. Obama's support among Democrats fell 9 percentage points this month to 74 percent, while McCain has the backing of 81 percent of Republicans. Support for Obama, an Illinois senator, fell 12 percentage points among liberals, with 10 percent of liberals still undecided compared to 9 percent of conservatives. Source Posted by John Ray. For a daily critique of Leftist ...

The state of the race: Polls, projections, and presidential politics
The Reaction — ... The poll with McCain up by five is from Zogby, which means that it's accuracy and credibility are in question. As poll watchers have come to know, Zogby is, in general, highly unreliable. And yet it is true, as Joe points out, that, in general, poll results show a tightening race. It is not necessarily the case, however, that Obama is "weakening." Rather, McCain may actually be strengthening as Republicans (and conservatives who find him suspect) coalesce behind him heading into the conventions and the more earnest campaign to follow. Basically, for whatever reason, the ...

The State of the Race: Polls, Projections, and Presidential Politics
The Moderate Voice — ... The poll with McCain up by five is from Zogby, which means that it’s accuracy and credibility are in question. As poll watchers have come to know, Zogby is, in general, highly unreliable. And yet, as Joe points out, it is true that, in general, poll results show a tightening race. It is not necessarily the case, however, that Obama is “weakening.” Rather, McCain may actually be strengthening as Republicans (and conservatives who find him suspect) coalesce behind him heading into the conventions and the more earnest campaign to follow. Basically, for whatever ...

McCain Rides High in Saddlebrook
Sound Politics — ... of sorts hosted by Rev. Rick Warren at Saddlebrook Church in California. It may have been a turning point in the campaign for the White House if the jump in the polls for McCain is any indication. For sure, it was a demonstration why Barack "I'll debate John McCain ...

As the Racers Stumble into the Blocks: Polls on Obama vs. McCain
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run — ... 45 42 Obama +3 LA Times/Bloomberg 08/15 - 08/18 45 43 Obama +2 Reuters/Zogby 08/14 - 08/16 41 46 McCain +5 ...

Despite Soft Polls in US, Bloomberg News Tells us Germans 'Overwhelmingly Favor Obama'
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... For instance, as late as August 20, Zogby reported that McCain had not only closed the gap, with Obama but earned a 5 point-lead over the candidate of "hopenchange." McCain was enjoying a 46 percent to 41 percent lead over Obama by the 20th. The coverage by ...

Despite Soft Polls in US, Bloomberg News Tells us Germans ‘Overwhelmingly Favor Obama’
Stop The ACLU — ... again… who cares what the 1,009 Germans polled think about our election? Why is this news? Still, maybe the reason this is getting reported as news is because Obama has been seeing very soft support, even losing ground to McCain here among people that, unlike their German counterparts, will actually have the opportunity to vote for president of the U.S.A.? Perhaps Bloomberg is looking for good news to support Obama in any place they can find it? For instance, as late as August 20, Zogby reported that McCain had not only closed the gap, with Obama but earned a 5 point-lead ...