Barack Obama’s lead expanding
From TPM today:
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 have helped him to double his lead in just one day of sampling.
And the new Hotline/Diageo poll has Obama up 48%-39%, compared to a 44%-40% lead from just one week ago.
Whoop whoop!! I’m trying to write some articles on Obama but keep getting distracted.
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The most ridiculous scandal that will probably break in a few days is that she was a member, and as of 2008 still has links to AIP – Alaskan Independence Party – a group whose goal is to secede from the United States.
This is beyond parody.
Gallup daily tracking poll issued a few minutes ago has Obama at 50%, McCain at 42%.
I really hope they keep hammering that point too. But so far I haven’t seen much play on it. Obama unfortunately is playing this safe. He doesn’t want to attack her in fear of annoying Clintonites.
Which means a surrogate group needs to go on the offensive about that.
Here is a video that she prepared this year for the AIP (Alaskan Independence Party) convention.
AIP’s founder quote: “”I’m an Alaskan, not an American. I’ve got no use for America or her damned institutions.”
Ravi,
I don’t think that is quite the clincher you and I would like it to be. She’s just doing the courteous host spiel. She has to be tied to the AIP, who are apparently an entryist sort of group.
This is fun, isn’t it?
This is quite interesting:
http://tinyurl.com/6×46fv
Wouldn’t you just love to be a ’self employed gold miner’?
Hallelujah!
Heh.
Alaska seems like an unique place. My favourite TV show of all times is Northern Exposure. I can’t recommend this series highly enough.
I read that they are a fringe group with only 1%-3% support. Her husband was member of AIP until 2002.
When will she denounce her close links to these separatists?!?!
GO ON, MY SON!
What we really need is for the GOP to ‘fess up that Palin is actually an android, conveniently created for the purposes of being John McCain’s running mate.
I mean, come on. Pro-gun, pro-life, pro-religion, pro-reform, anti-corruption, anti-environmentalist and ‘pro’-feminism? All that, AND a photogenic cherry on top?
Yer havin’ a larff. I look forward to them loaning her out to the BBC for the new series of Doctor Who.
All depends on whether McCAin can get the conservative religious right out on election day.
In that respect one can understand McCain’s choice of VP. Apparently Mrs. Palin personifies the ‘American Dream’. She married her childhood sweetheart, is a loving mother and wife and an honest no nonsense politician.
… except that the national poll isn’t really where it’s at. My understanding is that the election is likely to hang on the votes in Virginia, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Nevada and maybe Missouri.
A bit premature to talk about Obama’s lead just yet. Candidates typically expect a significant bounce after their respective conventions. I would see their polling next week when the dust settles.
… except Obama is polling well in Virginia, Penn, Ohio and New Mexico, as well as nationally overall. This thing is far from done, but national polls are often transmitted ad infinitum by the media and can influence voters in swing states – otherwise the media wouldn’t be interested in them.