Zogby: McCain VP Pick Destroys Obama DNC Bounce
Posted on August 30, 2008
I think we all knew this would happen, but here is the first evidence via Zogby. Its a Zogby poll, so take it with that grain of salt.
New York – Republican John McCain’s surprise announcement Friday of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate – some 16 hours after Democrat Barack Obama’s historic speech accepting his party’s presidential nomination – has possibly stunted any Obama convention bump, the latest Zogby Interactive flash poll of the race shows.
The latest nationwide survey, begun Friday afternoon after the McCain announcement of Palin as running mate and completed mid-afternoon today, shows McCain/Palin at 47%, compared to 45% support for Obama/Biden.
Mavericky move McCain! Even bumped yourself slightly ahead.
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The election is over. The Republicans won and even the Democrats know this.
It is apparent McCain is grasping for straws.
Can our country afford to put a man in office who might possibly make decisions on the spur of the moment, like this “Maverick” decision, that could put us in a position even Bush could not imagine? Or, should he “kick the bucket” wile in office can we afford to place his recent choice in the most powerful position in the world? He continues to say he will put the USA first. Somehow this doesn’t add up.
The real question is whether or not we should take Jay seriously if he can’t spell “while” properly.
Seriously, though, I think McCain made an excellent choice here. You can’t call this “going maverick” or “grasping at straws” just because McCain turned the tables on Obama and shocked the liberal news media and their “experts”. He chose a conservative woman who will do what it takes to get the job done. It was a smart move on his part, and I applaud him for it.
I am glad that John McCain picked A women to be the VP. Its time for change as Obama would say but seems the change is coming from the Republican Ticket and the same old thing from the Democrat ticket! Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin still has more experience then Obama only wishes he had! Obama is a man of words when it comes to running this country. McCain & Palin are a team of actions as there record shows!
Obama keeps talking about change but all he is about is THE SAME! And like i said before look how much Obama has lied to the American people. McCain now has his field set and will now have a field day picking Obama & Biden apart piece by piece.
There is a storm coming! The 2008 McCain Palin storm. And its eye is on Obama & Biden!
Palin is turning out to be more exciting for the masses than Obama – she’s smart, beautiful, gutsy, tough, a reformer, and a gun toting mom who told Washington D.C. to shove their “bridge to nowhere” and use the hundreds of millions in pork spending on better things. WOW – Obama is toast now.
Pandering…Politics at its worst. A pompom girl and a old fart. Thats the best the GOP has? Im glad I left the party. It just goes to show the pathetic lust for power that the right has. Ron Paul would of never even given this poser a look. She is already being investigated for her lack of ethics. Oh…. thats right she would be right at home with the GOP ..thats the way you do business…
What can we say again? everything has said itself. John McCain has made the best choice for Americans, (Country first!) for his campaign, for Women, for ordinary people, for general parents, for parents with physically challenged kids, for conservatives, for Christians, for independents, for Clinton’s supporters, for reasonable democrats – except those who like empty argument, and McCain has made a great choice for CHANGE in the history! What else do we want to talk about?
This is not just democrat’s history making of CHANGE of color. Get me right,I AM A PROUD BLACK and African, so I don’t oppose Obama because of his color, but his credential, he is shortcoming be a President, he is good Senator, and we need him long there.
God bless America, God bless McCain/Palin, God bless everyone that read this.
Sarah Palin was so authentic during her presentation one has to see how very removed she is from politics as usual. She showed real affection and connection to her family, so unlike Michelle. I like that she isn’t too Harvard. I think that is the best type of representative, a real person. I think she and Biden will have the most interesting debates! Here from a black republican who feels the power of Goodness, Truth and Beauty glowing from the soon to be vice president Palin.
This is the best thing that could ever have happened to the American people. Governor Palin takes on all. Corruption, wild spending and good old boy politics as ususal. I just hope she won’t head for the hills after having to deal with all the scum in Washington. Well done McCain, well done. You have this independents vote. My check is in the mail.
How can anyone dare to compare the experience of a woman with a journalism degree from U of Idaho–who was a mayor of a podunk town in Alaska TWO YEARS AGO–with Barack Obama who has a degree from Columbia, a law degree from Harvard (where he was elected by other students as the president of the Harvard Law Review), and 12 years teaching constitutional law at the U of Chicago, and whose Illinois state senate seat constituency was 20X the size of Wasilla, AK population?? Totally absurd choice by McCain. Their educational credentials alone are like comparing a tricycle to a Lamborghini. Good bye GOP.
How can anyone dare compare being the chief executive of a U.S. State to grading law papers for 12 years? The audacity is nauseating! Comparing the education credentials of politicians is like arguing over seating preferences on the Titanic (no, not the movie). Remember how Kerry was so much smarter that that dumb Bush… then the records came out after the election and Kerry had actually been a WORSE student than Bush! Julie is just another “educated” snob telling the peasants what’s best for them. Anyone who reads Michelle O’s ‘educated’ thesis and does not weep for higher education isn’t paying attention. It would be laughable if it weren’t so serious an issue. It is being discovered that B. Hussein O. grafted millions of taxpayer dollars servicing Chicago neighborhoods that are worse off now than they have ever been. It was supposed to improve education in Chicago schools. When will the media tell us how that turned out? Oh, they’re not reporting it? It appears that the only thing BO has ever been placed in charge of was a complete failure.
Obama ran uncontested in his early election to the Senate.
Palin fought an Incumbent Republican Governor and then the former Democrat Governor and WON.
This says a lot about her and a lot about him.
He won versus Hillary by inches in the end, his meme of Hope and Audacity becoming Hope and Change, then just Change, when the man represents no change from Hillary, and no change from Edwards, and no change from Biden. Any of them would have preached the same types of ‘change’.
Palin put her change down peoples throats for their ethics problems, and smashed them for it. She got tough, walked the walk, and did the talk. She is the real maker of change.
you deleted my comments… i said we love osama, i mean obama…why delete?
If Sarah Palin were a Democrat, the Republicans would be accusing her of not being a good mother, of not being there for her pregnant teenage daughter, and of not taking care of her infant with Downs. Republicans would be holding up Sarah Palin as another example of the moral decline of America with mothers turning into aggressive career women who work outside the home and put themselves ahead of their families. Why isn’t the same true of Sarah Palin as a Republican? Why not call a spade a spade? Sarah Palin seems like another “family values” Republican who values herself more than her family. This is important because of what it says about the distance between Sarah’s rhetoric and her behavior. Reminds me of Bush with his “compassionate conservatism,” which has turned out to be mean-spirited and a radical shift from America’s beacon of hope to the world. I am worried that Sarah would also lead America radically off course behind a smokescreen of high-sounding but empty rhetoric.