Obama bounces back in polls, Palin's Big Mo slows
Over the past several days, there has been a dramatic shift in this election toward Barack Obama...he's in a stronger position now than he was right before the conventions.
It took John McCain about 60 days and tens of millions of advertising dollars to whittle Obama's lead down from around 5 points at its peak in early June, to the 1-point lead that Obama held going into the conventions.
Obama has swung the numbers that much in barely a week.
WASHINGTON (AFP) — Democratic White House contender Barack Obama has reversed a Republican surge in national polls for the presidential election swayed by the financial crisis and signs that Sarah Palin's star may be dimming.
Obama, who has focused attacks on McCain's capacity to rescue the US economy, led 49 to 45 percent in a new poll of likely voters nationwide by Quinnipiac University released late Thursday.
A CBS/New York Times survey put Obama up by 48 percent to 43 percent.
The trend was confirmed in Gallup's daily tracking poll, which had Obama ahead 48 to 44 percent, the first time in two weeks that the Illinois senator had a lead beyond the statistical margin of error.
A Pew Research poll out had Obama on 46 percent and McCain on 44 percent, while Rasmussen's daily poll had the contest at a 48 percent tie nationwide ahead of the November 4 election, but again the trend was towards Obama, who had trailed by three points just three days ago.
...Palin's momentum seems to be diminishing.
"Senator Obama is right back where he was before the so-called convention bounces with a four-point lead," said Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University polling institute.
...The Quinnipiac poll showed that Obama led 54-40 percent among women voters, the key demographic which Palin is targeting for Republicans.
...The poll found women have returned to Obama after favoring McCain by five points two weeks ago. Obama now leads McCain by 54 percent to 38 percent among all women.[..]"
I guess the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression will do that. It's just what the Dems needed, a renewed focus on the economy.
Wonderful to see Obama stepping up to answer questions with calm, measured, and rational thought. While McCain just embarrassed himself by demanding the sacking of Christopher Cox, the chairman of the SEC...saying if he were president today he would fire him.
Why is Cox responsible? Did he change the rules so lenders could give money to unqualified people?
I'm not sure the president has the authority to fire him...I do know that McCain actually can fire one of the main contributors of this fiasco, Phil Gramm, his campaign co-chairman.
Anyway, back to Palin...I knew that once women understood where she stands on women's issues, they would back away.
Palin looks and talks like Anita Bryant’s evil clone...though, to be fair, she hasn’t beaten up on gays...yet. Maybe because her religion believes that you can "pray away the gay."
I just loved this -- "Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel, a Republican, is questioning whether Palin has enough foreign-policy experience to serve as the country’s second-in-command. “She doesn’t have any foreign policy credentials,” Hagel told the Omaha World-Herald. “You get a passport for the first time in your life last year? I mean, I don’t know what you can say. You can’t say anything.”
“I think they ought to be just honest about it and stop the nonsense about, ‘I look out my window and I see Russia and so therefore I know something about Russia,” he added. “That kind of thing is insulting to the American people.”
