The Reuter’s headline reads: “Obama Ahead Of McCain Amid Wall Street Turmoil”
The opening paragraphs:
Democrat Barack Obama has opened a 9-point lead over Republican John McCain in the U.S. presidential race amid turmoil in the financial system and growing pessimism about the economy, according to a Washington Post-ABC News national opinion poll released on Wednesday.
Among likely voters, the poll found Obama now leads McCain by 52 percent to 43 percent. Two weeks ago the race was essentially even, with McCain at 49 percent and Obama at 47 percent, the Post reported.
The article proceeds to list various poll results from “likely voters,” “those polled,” “respondents,” “Independents” “white voters,” and “white women.” The last paragraph:
The survey of 1,082 people, including 916 registered voters, was conducted Friday through Monday. The margin of error for the full sample is plus or minus three percentage points and four points for the sample of 780 likely voters.
MSNBC leads with the “9 point” headline and buries the above paragraph in the middle of their story. They also add more categories: “Obama supporters,” “McCain supporters,” “Republicans,” “conservatives” and “white evangelical Protestants.”
I expected to read what “guys named Josh” and “girls who have vibrators” thought, but, alas, that wasn’t there. I guess when you poll about 1,000 people and have roughly the same number of categories as people, sooner or later you run out. Of course, “guys named Josh” who know “girls who have vibrators” might get counted more than once if they’re also “white, Republican, evangelical, conservatives who drive Volvos and are likely to vote if they have time,” but those kind of guys probably don’t hang out with that kind of girl.
Does Axelrod have pollsters on the payroll or does he just spoon feed their results to the media?
Both?
Probably.
*Disclaimer: One line in this clip is pure b.s.
PUMA
Just Say No Deal
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Meanwhile, the fact that Obama is a Black candidate and any poll numbers will be skewed should just be ignored. lol I usually check the gallup daily tracking poll every afternoon and they currently have Obama ahead by 3. It has been going down every day for the past four or five days. I’ll bet today it’s only 2 points.
I believe that McCain will win, but I think it’s going to be downtothewire. If I weren’t about to start a new job or I would take November 5th off because I feel like I’m going to be up all night long……..I’ll just have to keep myself full of hot tea and coffee to get through that day because I’m going to be worn out I’m sure.
Do the Media, Obama and his campaign actually think that anyone in their right mind would actually believe this CRAP. Obama will NOT WIN THIS ELECTION no matter what poll of polls they put out there to try and fool voters. I, have to say, that this election has been the WORSE THIS COUNTRY HAS EVER SEEN. After this election is over in November and President McCain takes office, it is going to take a while to get this country back on track.
Obama is the WORSE presidential candidate that this country has ever seen. I say to the Media and Obama campaign, keep it up with all the lies and political spin and see how far it gets Obama in November.
McCain/Palin 08