tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com - 9/2/2008
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It's starting to look like John McCain's historic selection of Sarah Palin hasn't done him any favors in the polls.
Here's this morning's Rasmussen tracking poll : Obama 51%, McCain 45%, outside of the ±2% margin of error. Obama was up 49%-46% yesterday, suggesting that Palin's scandals may ...
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Talking Points Memo —
... But in line with a number of regular polls out in the last 24 hours, they show a clear trend. Obama's bounce appears to be continuing and expanding during the RNC. And if you look closer at the numbers, the trend is not so much McCain losing support as a clear movement of hitherto undecideds into Obama's column. ...
Poll: Obama’s Lead Over McCain Is Widening
The Moderate Voice —
... UPDATE: TPM Election Central also has this list of other polls showing the numbers now shifting in Obama’s direction — but that could change after the GOP convention. Or it should.. ...
Bouncy!
Comments from Left Field —
... , there are awful lot of other polls coming out in the past twenty-four hours which back up the trend that Obama is indeed putting some distance between he and John McCain. ...
McCain's Katrina moment
The Reaction —
... with Tucker Bounds to Obama's surge in the polls, the turn against McCain's maverick bull is palpable. The gap between McCain's carefully crafted spin and reality is now too big to bridge. John McCain ...
DAY'S END ROUNDUP
News —
... is surprised the story is not getting more mainstream media attention, pointing out that if Obama had been a member of a secessionist group the story would likely be much bigger. More and more polls are showing that Obama has gotten a significant bump from last week’s Democratic National Convention, TPM's Eric Kleefeld writes. ...
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The experience argument
corner.nationalreview.com 9/2/2008 — It's interesting that Barack Obama is publicly making the argument that he has more political experience than Sarah Palin. Why does the top of the Dem ticket feel the need to run against the bottom of the GOP ticket? It diminishes him. And by ...
Obama: I Have More Executive Experience Than Palin
elections.foxnews.com 9/2/2008 — Barack Obama contends that he is more experienced in executive matters than Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin because he has managed his presidential campaign for the past 18 months.
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Palin's stopover
politico.com 9/2/2008 — I wrote the other day that a Palin spokeswoman said trips to Germany, Kuwait and Ireland made up her foreign travel.
Two details worth clarifying:
The Ireland trip was a refueling stop on her trip to military installations in Germany and Kuwait, ...
POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2008 —
CNN Political Ticker 9/2/2008
CNN: CNN Poll of polls: Obama holds slim lead
Roughly nine weeks before Election Day, a new CNN poll of polls shows Barack Obama holding a five point lead over John McCain. Only four days after Obama’s acceptance speech and three days after McCain’s ...
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