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Bombshell: McCain Takes Five-Point Lead Over Obama
JammieWearingFool —
... Time to spin furiously , Baracky. As Russian tanks rolled into the Republic of Georgia and the presidential candidates met over the weekend in the first joint issues forum of the fall campaign, the latest polling includes drama almost as compelling - Republican John McCain has taken a five-point lead over Democrat Barack Obama in the race for President, the latest Reuters/Zogby telephone survey shows. McCain leads Obama by a 46% to 41% margin. And McCain not only enjoys a five-point edge in a two-way race against Obama, but also in a four-way contest including liberal ...
Yeah, it's Zogby, but...
Taylor Marsh —
BY TAYLOR MARSH
What, worry about polling now, in August? There’s so much time left, right?
Oh, and yeah, it’s Zogby: ...
Instapundit — ... BAD NEWS FOR OBAMA: McCain Makes a Move, Takes 5-Point Lead Over Obama. "Obama loses ground among Dems, women, Catholics & even younger voters." The good news for Obama: It's a Zogby poll . . . . ...
Zogby: Obama suffers 15-point swing, trails by 5
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... The latest Zogby poll reinforces what earlier LA Times/Bloomberg and Pew polls have found: Barack Obama has had a collapse this summer. Being Zogby, it has a more dramatic collapse than the others. Obama led John McCain in Zogby’s July poll, 47%-40%, but now trails 46%-41%, a 15-point swing (via ...
Ouch!... Obama Drops Like a Rock- Suffers 15 Point Swing
Gateway Pundit —
Change You Can Believe In... The latest Reuters/Zogby Poll shows that John McCain took a 5-point lead over Barack Obama in the last month. Obama lost ground among Democrats, women, Catholics and even younger voters this summer. Zogby reported: McCain leads Obama by a 46% to 41% margin. And McCain not only enjoys a five-point edge in a two-way race against Obama, but also in a four-way contest including liberal independent candidate ...
Brainster's Blog — Zogby Stunner: McCain by 5 It's Zogby, so take it with a shaker of salt, but I think he's got the direction right: UTICA, New York – As Russian tanks rolled into the Republic of Georgia and the presidential candidates met over the weekend in the first joint issues forum of the fall campaign, the latest polling includes drama almost as compelling - Republican John McCain has taken a five-point lead over Democrat Barack Obama in the race for President, the latest Reuters/Zogby telephone survey shows. McCain leads Obama by a 46% to 41% margin. The result is ...
"McCain leads Obama by a 46% to 41% margin."
Althouse —
Polls Zogby: And McCain not only enjoys a five-point edge in a two-way race against Obama, but also in a four-way contest including liberal independent candidate Ralph Nader and Libertarian Bob Barr, the poll reveals. In the four-way contest, McCain wins 44% support, Obama 39%, Barr 3% and Nader 2%.And this poll was taken from August 14-16, before the Saddleback Civil Forum which, it seems, will McCain. Obama needs a smashingly good convention week. ...
Poll: McCain Overtakes Obama With Five Point Lead Amid Other Polls Showing Obama Weakening
The Moderate Voice —
A new Reuters/Zogby poll indicates Republican Senator John McCain has now shaken up the Presidential race: he is no longer the underdog and has taken a 5 point lead over Democratic Senator Barack Obama — who is seen as steadily weakening in a series of other recent polls.
McCain’s lead in the polls means the dynamics of the race have now changed. The “given” that with all of the political and economic factors aligned against McCain and the GOP that the Democrats were virtually to win now vanishes. The poll also shows Obama steadily losing ground among some key groups — a consequence of ...
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 states look good for McCain,
including OH (+5), FL ...
McCain 5 points over Obama: poll
The Swamp —
by Frank James
Sen. John McCain appears to have gained some momentum and, through negative advertising, driven down Sen. Barack Obama's appeal with voters to the point where the Arizona Republican now has a five-point lead in the latest Reuters/Zogby poll.
Here's the top of the Reuters press release:
UTICA, New York - As Russian tanks rolled into the Republic of Georgia and the presidential candidates met over the weekend in the first joint issues forum of the fall campaign, the latest polling includes drama almost as compelling - Republican John McCain has taken a ...
Sulli-vating, buyer’s remorse and Dracula remakes
Roger L. Simon —
... - is sounding alarms. And now Zogby is reporting a five-point McCain lead in the summer (when the Dems have almost always been way ahead… hello, Hillary?) Sullivan - the conformist masking as a rebel - rushes to the fore like a refugee from a Vampire movie with his cross silliness. Opera bouffe, I suppose. ...
Instead of Fainting, Now They're Falling Asleep
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... her in mid-blink. She actually dozed off just as Obama was ventilating on the horrors of the Bush economy.
View video here, which shows the woman falling into, then struggling out of, the arms of Morpheus.
Could this be part of Obama's plan to reduce health-care costs? Instead of spending all those millions on sleeping-pill prescriptions, just have the country tune into a cable channel playing a continuous loop of his speeches?
On a day when he's falling behind McCain in the polls, will the MSM report on how Obama has voters . . . falling ...
MIDDAY ROUNDUP
News —
... John McCain may have turned the tide in presidential race after a new poll shows him leading Barack Obama by five percentage points nationwide, conservative bloggers propose. Meanswhile Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) could be in trouble with Democrats now that he will speak at the GOP convention in September, liberals claim. McCain’s newfound lead, as reported today by Reuters/Zogby, likely stems from his response to the Russia/Georgia conflict and his plans to expand oil drilling, Power Line’s ...
Obama Takes A Big Hit: Polls and Patterns
Stop The ACLU —
Cross posted by Susan From Wake up America Yesterday I brought some news about recent polls showing that Barack Obama was taking a few hits and while still ahead by a statistically insignificant amount, his numbers continued to drop with John McCain’s rising. Obama also suffered a hit in favorability ratings and his unfavorable ratings rose. Today I see the pattern continues and while the individual polls show different statistical numbers, they all show the same pattern emerging. Obama is losing voters. Starting with the Reuters/Zogby Poll we see that in July, Barack Obama held a 7 percentage point lead over ...
McCain Ahead in Latest National Poll
Firedoglake —
John McCain is gaining in the polls nationally, according to several independent measures. The general consensus among political analysts is that McCain's relentless personal attacks on Obama are taking their toll. Obama's week-long vacation and McCain's saber-rattling during the Georgia/Russia conflict didn't help the Democratic candidate, either.
McCain pulled ahead of Obama in Reuters/Zogby's latest national poll, the results of which were released this morning. The live operator telephone survey of likely voters showed McCain leading Obama 46 percent to 41 percent--a spread outside the poll's ...
That Zogby Poll
Oliver Willis —
You would think some people slept through the last year the way they’re reacting to the just released Zogby poll showing a 5% “lead” for McCain.
Let’s go go the tape:
Georgia Primary
Zogby: 48% Obama 28% Clinton
Reality: 66% Obama 31% Clinton
New Jersey Primary
Zogby: 43% Clinton 42% Obama
Reality: Clinton 53% Obama 43%
California Primary
Zogby: Clinton 41% Obama 45%
Reality: Clinton 52% Obama 45%
And on and on. It’s not that Zogby has a bias for or against one candidate, it’s ...
You’ve Got to Handle all 10 Hurdles!
No Runny Eggs —
... Wednesday, Zogby released a poll showing John McCain with a 5 point lead amongst likely voters. The poll shows Barack Obama losing significant ground in all of his core groups; Democrats, under the age of 35, women and voters with incomes under $50K. ...
Obama Going Someplace He Should Not
Flopping Aces —
... This is just classic. Obama finds himself either tied with McCain or losing in the latest polls and he goes on the attack accusing McCain of basically being a….get this….elitist.
Pot meet kettle.
The Obama campaign seized on the house issue Thursday with an ad called “Seven,” claiming that’s the number of houses McCain has. The ad closes with a shot of the White House and the narration: “Here’s ONE house American can’t afford to let John McCain move into.”
McCain spokesman Brian ...
“Trapped in a world they pretty much made”
protein wisdom —
... politics by their choice of a woman for VP, because she’s not the right kind of authentic woman. Having dismissed Palin as Mayor of “Wasilly,” the Obama campaign now complains that she’s not giving Obama his props for the important work of community organizing. Having trotted out Obama’s daughters, they find it difficult somehow to insist that because Palin’s not made her family invisible, they ought to be treated as (note the hunting metaphor) fair game . According to a recent Zogby poll , the McCain campaign has seen a 15 point swing (I know, Zogby . Take it with a grain ...
