While the media continues its 24/7 televangelism outreach for their savior Obama, reality begins to creep in as actual voters voice their opinions through polling data. The MSM will never report on this because it contradicts every single lie they’ve been shoving down our throats for the past year about the very junior, utterly unexceptional, exceptionally unprepared, and ARROGANT beyond belief, Senator from Illinois. While the daily tracking polls are showing a neck and neck race, other polls are showing a definite downward trend in Americans’ faith in Barack Obama to lead our country as President. Rasmussen has some numbers out that must be disturbing to the Obama campaign.
John McCain is now trusted more than Barack Obama on nine out of 14 electoral issues tracked by Rasmussen Reports. The latest national telephone surveys find that McCain has the biggest advantage on the war in Iraq, by a 51% to 39% margin.
The fact that McCain has a double digit lead over Obama on who would better handle the war in Iraq is staggering. Especially when the latest polls show that 66% of Americans oppose the war, and nearly as many disapprove of the way that Bush is handling it. I guess most Americans aren’t buying the “McSame” smear. I would love to see the numbers if Hillary were to be thrown into the mix. What really is shocking is that this was the issue that was the cornerstone of Obama’s campaign. His 2002 speech is the basis for claims that while he may not have experience, his judgement is beyond reproach. I guess they noticed that now, as a senator, when he actually has the power to try to stop the war, he hasn’t done squat. Funny how people tend to value actions over words. In fact I think there was a certain Democrat running for President who told us the very same thing.
But it gets even worse for Obama:
Perhaps the most interesting finding of these polls is that McCain has expanded his leads on nearly every issue he had previously had the advantage on, while Obama’s leads have diminished over the past two weeks…
In the new survey, McCain has tripled his lead on the topic of immigration. He now has a 45% to 36% advantage over his Democratic opponent…
The Republican also has pulled ahead on the issue of balancing the federal budget. Two weeks ago, the candidates were tied on this issue at 40%. McCain now has a 43% to 40% lead on the issue among voters.
McCain used to be behind on the issue of Social Security but has pulled ahead of Obama for a 44% to 38% lead…
On national security, an issue that McCain consistently performs well on, the Republican leads 52% to 40%.
The one thing that Obama could cling to was that on the issue that most Americans say is the top priority, the economy, he had consistently been seen as the better choice to handle it. Maybe his constant flip-flopping on energy issues and his close ties to big money have soured people’s opinions:
The economy is the top issue for the majority of voters this election season. Voters have consistently trusted the Democratic Party more on this issue, but the two presidential candidates are tied at 45% as to who voters trust more.
And that’s a downward trend. Here’s a song dedicated to all of the Americans out there who are realizing that The One is more snake-oil salesman than shaman. Let’s hope that even more voters continue to “lose their religion” when it comes to Obama.
Filed under: Barack Obama, Media, Politics, Presidential Election 2008 | Tagged: Losing my Religion, polls, R.E.M., Rasmussen
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Not only is Obama tanking in the polls on his candidacy, but people are sick of hearing about him.
I hope the Media continues to drool all over him so it insures his defeat in Nov.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080806/ap_on_el_pr/poll_obama_overexposure
They keep cherrypicking the polls to report on to leave the impression that he’s doing well – but they are running out of pollsters.
The uglly word “siall” even creeped into a headline today – not Larry Craig related
http://edgeoforever.wordpress.com/2008/08/06/gender-gap-grows-while-obama-stalls/
Wow. SuperDelegates, stop smoking the Hopium. We want Hillary. No one trusts this ego-maniac, and no one is going to vote for him come November if you make him the nominee.
Wake the F UP!
oops! I mispelled “stall”
Yah ..
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Backers to salute Hillary Clinton with a parade and rally at DNC
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/aug/06/group-plans-to-hail-hillary/
Read the wonderful op ed by Hillary at wsj
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121798030763715107.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries
Heh. I told BTD at TalkLeft that this was going to be a National Security election, and that McCain was unbeatable (by Obama) on that front.
I mean, the natural thing for Obama to do would be to talk about the economy 24-7. It’s a winning issue for Democrats. BUT, since he doesn’t do issues, and since he has no proof that he knows anything whatsoever about economics, he has no natural advantage in that area.
Actually, he has no advantage in any area except with his teeny coalition of AA’s, loyal Democrats, liberal elitists and flighty young college students. And as we’re seeing, that’s not nearly enough to carry him over the 50% threshhold nationally.
SuperDelegates, do you want to win or lose in November? Seems like an easy choice to me.
{I posted this at the tail end of the previous thread — I am curious to see historically what the answer to this is. It also goes to Gary’s post that Obama’s campaign has created a very positive image of him with more than full support from the media. Still, the public is not completely sold on him — because (IMO) there are too many unanswered questions about his bio and not enough evidence in terms of his accomplishments, his record. It is like everybody surrounding him and he himself are telling America, “take our word for it, he is amazing. You don’t worry your pretty little head with all details. ” }
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As I have said many times, I feel like sometimes I am a outsider looking in. I write this post with the curiosity about US history. Take a look at the picture below — I think it was Obama’s ‘06 trip to Africa, perhaps campaigning for his cousin Odinga (the speech transcripts are not available, I hear). Historians on the board — have there been other presidents or presidential candidates who were closely related some other foreign country campaigning for a candidate from that country in their elections? {I have a feeling Article II goes much beyond the citizenship issue. It requires one to have deep roots and unequivocal allegiance in this country — appearance and all for that number one position.}
http://www.canadafreepress.com/images/uploads/obama-family-13.jpeg
NH – The Money Quote from Hillary’s Op-Ed:
I just LOVE how she sneaks that in there. Sounds like Our Girl has been reading “Disaster Capitalism,” doesn’t it?
What gives me the creeps is the true believers (hey, stop calling them a cult!) declaring any poll that doesn’t pump their celeb candidate as false. Or politically motivated. Even if that same polling outfit was legit a month ago, when Celebrity Junior was leading. It’s a little too “we’ve always been at war with Eurasia!” for me.
That **Paris Hilton** has entered the public discourse is the most telling sign of where we are.
Ah well, I’m sure the celeb-watchers who think BO is just dreamy thinks it’s great.
Picking up on an earlier comment, would somebody PLEASE make a YouTube video showing Obama being “applied directly to our foreheads.” Because that’s what it feels like.
Gary: thanks for the flashback with that song. I think local republicans in my area are feeling a little better about their fate in that they won’t be wiped out in an electoral landslide. I can’t wait until Mitt Romney starts on him. Then I will be rolling on the floor laughing and kicking with excitement.
We here hold the cure for Obamitis. We all hold in our blood the anti-body that makes us immune to the disease. We must continue to distribute the anti-dote to delegates before the convention.
I predict Hillary is practicing her takeover as we speak.
Hillary – we love you, more importantly, we need you. I say go for it – send those little twits scurrying in the light like the roaches they are. This is our country and we don’t have time to watch him fail.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAVlk4F2qkw
I know she loves us more than some “faux future in the Democratic Party”
PUMA HAKA
PM317
I do not know the answer to your question.
It seems to me it would be illigal.
Isn’t the president supposed to be for the well being of the American people first?
If you have family interests in another country and you interferred in their election that is not always in the best interest of America.
But then again the CIA has done it for years.
COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS
PUMAS AND BUBBAS RULE.
It has to say something about the belief and faith we have in BO, when I, as the mother of a soldier who will be in Iraq in less than two weeks and former BO supporter, would chose McCain over Obama. McCain holds none of the beliefs and principles that I hold dear, but I would trust him with my child.
So am I certifiable?
Heh, heh heh…check out this from yahoo news/AP:
Bolded area done by me.
It seems that hopey/changey crap is getting old! I hope it all blows up in the face of Pelosi, Brazile, Dean!
Perhaps Madamab could do a play: Obama implodes – A Play in one miserable act!
Gary — I think he’d view the war as a money maker like Cheney. We’ve already seen he has no respect for many things and money is his god — absolute power corrupts, no? But he wants it. Adores it. So did Il Duce and others. But, could he have the entire globe in mind?
Perhaps. I had this link to a speech he gave post Sept. 11 — he was pro-war at an anti-war liberal rally in NY. I think he’s in some global big money pocket someplace. Horrifying.
Where to move? Yikes. I’ll tell you what — the Hopi Prophecy says the four corners area is safe. It does have a lot of caves and stuff! Maybe all the PUMAS can go and make a new tribe!
Grow our own food like Lambert—they say that the ones who aren’t racists team up together…Geez.
I love you all! Heck, this community has teachers, librarians, therapists, you name it. All we need is some land and water!
Damn. This is the Dark Ages redux…
I’m really wanting some land there — for an art colony among the peaceful peoples of the world!
pm317: As little scrutiny there has been on BO on domestic issues, even less on international ones, particularly his ‘06 trip to Africa where his behavior, to say the least, was odd. His participation in the Kenya election is of concern, not just when he was there but from here as well. The press “coverage” was fawning as usual and any dissent in the press was clamped down quickly. He went so far as to call Chicago columnist Neil Steinberg (who is a supporter) while he was still in Kenya, to express his anger and offense that the columnist “presented his trip to Africa not as the sincere personal odyssey that the seal pack of journalists following him are describing, but as calculated political theater.”
http://www.suntimes.com/special_sections/obama/38069,cst-nws-stein27a.article
I wished I shared the general optimism re national daily tracking polls…
The state by state Electoral College polling in Rasmussen, Real Clear, Hominid, or Pollster is not so cheery.
Obama has the ability to destroy the *Democratic brand*, which is worse for Dems than him losing in Nov. I don’t know what the Dem leadership is thinking.
Carol, on August 6th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
Carol, I agree with you. Hill’s WSJ op-ed was the first shot over the bow. They have had their warning.
gqmartinez, on August 6th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
I think since they sold the party off and waved when the moving trucks left for Chic-town, those we would identify as the “leadership” aren’t too involved. Dean has time to ride around in a bus, speaking to groups of 70, while a national convention is 3 weeks away…. IMO if he was running anything but the DNC coffee cart, that would not be the case. But who knows…they haven’t seemed too caring of the Dem brand for a long time now.
madamab, on August 6th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
Exactly….Hill knows the plan is to bring the Iraq/ Katrina shock and awe economic model here., well beyond the gulf coast . In this WSJ Op-Ed Hillary has put both parties elites and their paymasters on notice that she will fight that. I think the timing is fascinating .
vbonnaire, on August 6th, 2008 at 1:35 pm Said:
Gary — I think he’d view the war as a money maker like Cheney.
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This is my gut assessment as well. He won’t do much to resolve the situation in Iraq and bring the troops back home. His will be a Bush third term.
Annetoo – Yes, the timing is FASCINATING. Especially since she says we need a Truman in the White House.
You think she means Obama or McCain?
Me either.
Kim, on August 6th, 2008 at 1:25 pm Said:
It has to say something about the belief and faith we have in BO, when I, as the mother of a soldier who will be in Iraq in less than two weeks and former BO supporter, would chose McCain over Obama. McCain holds none of the beliefs and principles that I hold dear, but I would trust him with my child.
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I think McCain has a son in Iraq right now and another to go there soon? There was a poignant backstage story of a McCain event and how Cindy was near to tears for having missed her son’s call (from Iraq).
Carol, on August 6th, 2008 at 12:57 pm Said:
I predict Hillary is practicing her takeover as we speak.
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I agree. If the party elite go ahead and nominate the loser disregarding her 18 million supporters, we at least have to succeed in giving her the power to come back and say “I told you so!”
I guess they’re not announcing bayh as VP today as predicted…I think they would have done it by now to have the whole day focused on them. strange..I really thought they were going to….I’m starting to think they went to Indiana to lean on bayh hard to take it, but he told them no…
Bayh has his own aspirations for running. Why would he say yes to this loser? Unlike those who rejected before, he probably does not want to publicize his “NO” for the same reason. I think like many of us, he would rather wait for 2012.
Gary – I noticed that too! What’s up with the lack of announcement?
Could Bayh really have refused? Good Lord, he may actually have to go with a Republican! Or, perhaps, he’s just playing the game with McCain. Maybe he wants McCain to go first.
Oy.
Wow. Just read a Pew survey which the Obama folks would have to find disturbing. 48% of those surveyed said they were tired of hearing about Obama,.
Help me compile this list. Poor Kerry only had one item on this list, his 87 billion dollar war funding and he got clobbered for it..
Obama was against it before he was for it:
1. Public Financing
2. FISA
3. Offshore Drilling
4. Tapping into Strategic Petroleum Reserves
5. NAFTA
How about Obama was for it before he was against it list?
EUROPA’S OBAMA EUPHORICS AND REAL CLEAR POLITRICKS LYING WITH STATISTICS MAKES FOOLS OUT OF PATRIOTS
Google the RCP ratings for June – July; then use the New Hampshire Reliability Ratings to discard the incredible pollsters with “negative reliability ratings”, such as Fox/Opinion Dynamics, Rasmussen, and Zogby, to get a less unrealiable average.
pm317 -
For it before he was against it:
1. Public Financing (that one goes on both lists!)
2. Gun Control
3. Safe, legal and rare abortions
4. Nominating Roberts to the Supreme Court
5. The bankruptcy bill
6. Reverend Wright
add Rezko, and Bill Ayers, and the Bush/Cheyney energy package.
Plain and simple the american people are tired of obama…24/7. The american people are noticing increasily the fawning and hand holding and protect the kitten at all cause mentality…and we are (as my mother used to say to me as a child) sick and tired of The one.
The more obama tanks in the polls because of all the ad nasuem reporting on obama-the more the media reports on him to try and save him from further tanking–it is a vicious loop! But they can not stop reporting on him because he is a celebrity and he needs adulation and fawning to appear more substantial and important than he is. Poor Dnc, look what you have gotten yourself into? Tsk Tsk.
PUMA
A tire gauge may the most technology John McCain understands: http://pajamasmedia.com/edgelings/2008/08/04/how-much-technology-does-the-next-president-need-to-know/
This letter should give us all something to think about. It was sent to the Editor of the Times-Dispatch from a Mr. Alvarez:
Subject: Celebration
From Richmond Times-Dispatch, Monday, July 7, 2008
Dear Editor, Times-Dispatch:
Each year I get to celebrate Independence Day twice. On June 30 I celebrate my independence day, and on July 4, I celebrate America ’s. This year is special, because it marks the 40th anniversary of my independence.
On June 30, 1968, I escaped Communist Cuba, and a few months later, I was in the United States to stay. That I happened to arrive in Richmond on Thanksgiving Day is just part of the story, but I digress.
I’ve thought a lot about the anniversary this year. The election-year rhetoric has made me think a lot about Cuba and what transpired there. In the late 1950s, most Cubans thought Cuba needed a change, so when a young leader came along, every Cuban was at least receptive.
When the young leader spoke eloquently and passionately and denounced the old system, the press fell in love with him. They never questioned who his friends were or what he really believed in. When he said he would help the farmers and the poor and bring free medical care and education to all, everyone followed. When he said he would bring justice and equality to all, everyone said, ‘Praise the Lord.’ And when the young leader said, ‘I will be for change and I’ ll bring you change,’ everone yelled, ‘Viva Fidel!’
But nobody asked about the change, so by the time the executioner’s guns went silent, the people’s guns had been taken away. By the time everyone was equal, they were equally poor, hungry, and oppressed. By the time everyone received their free education, it was worth nothing. By the time the press noticed, it was too late, because they were now working for him. By the time the change was finally implemented, Cuba had been knocked down a couple of notches to Third-World status. By the time the change was over, more than a million people had taken to boats, rafts, and inner tubes. You can call those who made it ashore anywhere else in the world the most fortunate Cubans. And now I’m back to the beginning of my story.
Luckily, we in America would never fall for a young leader who promised change without asking, what change? How will you carry it out? What will it cost America ?
Would we?
Manuel Alvarez, JR.
If Obama is faltering now, can you imagine how poorly he’ll poll once the republican attack machine gears up to full capacity!? It’s just like the Clintons predicted, Obama can’t win in the general election. He’s too weak. He has too many soft spots where a bit of republican pressure applied in just the right way, will defeat him. Hillary could win, Obama can not. The polls are already showing it. Wake up super-delegates!
ari, on August 6th, 2008 at 3:21 pm Said:
A tire gauge may the most technology John McCain understands:
Maybe it’s all he needs to understand.
Fredster, on August 6th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
LOL!
ari–McCain and his wife both know how to pilot aircraft, more technology than Obama ,Pelosil,Dean . Computer knowledge isn;t necessarily the benchmark for technological intellience.
or was he really ever ahead at all, but lets all recall Media dosen’t get add buys and increased readership or ratings if things are going smoothly and good governance with out corruption were to erupt….
the Dem race is where it was before the SC primary Obama is still famous for being a different kind of candidate, feared for his difference, oppressed for his difference by Them, defined by his different by differently depending on the demographic or voter interest, yet unknown widely and as Obama says himself those that believe they do know why he is different didn’t listen cause he never said what he said or did aka projected who he is
add Obama is all about playing the I am different grievance cards it actually still is his only strength other than the teleprompter on the stump, therefore and you can’t play form there as the front runner
HEARD ON HANNITY THE OTHER DAY..’IS OBAMA BECOMING HILLARY?” HE HAS STOLEN ALL HER TALKING POINTS AND IF HE THINKS WE HAVENT NOTICED THEN HES STUPIDER THAN I THOUGHT. OBAMA ..THE CANDIDATE OF “CHANGE YOUR MIND”
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I don’t know how Hillary would ever carry enough states in a national election, though I’d much rather see her in office than Obama. Most voters are die-hard fans or die-hard haters of her, so she can’t appeal to the independent vote very well, because she’s been around too long for most people to have a non-bias opinion of her. One way she could take the white house would be to let Obama win the presidency and then challenge the validity of his birth certificate (A forensics expert and Hawaii social security employee have deemed it a fake) and then win it as the runner up; Initially it sounds crazy, but she has yet to say anything at all on the issue as far as I know of, and if I were her I’d be screaming it from the roof tops and saying that he’s untrustworthy, especially since they haven’t officially declared Obama as the nominee.
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