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  • Posted By: mrchas @ 07/12/2008 3:42:33 PM

    The polls from Newsweek are useless. A few weeks ago you said he was up by 15% and every pollster in the country said that was bogus. Now you say they are even when every other poll has him with his 6-8% margin. What's important are the state polls, there he has enough to be president. Already over the magical 270 mark. So Newsweek please stop boring us with your inferior poll taking techniques.
    Charles - Calif.

  • Posted By: mrchas @ 07/12/2008 3:41:08 PM

    The polls from Newsweek are useless. A few weeks ago you said he was up by 15% and every pollster in the country said that was bogus. Now you say they are even when every other poll has him with his 6-8% margin. What's important are the state polls, there he has enough to be president. Already over the magical 270 mark. So Newsweek please stop boring us with your inferior poll taking techniques.
    Charles - Calif.

  • Posted By: Pat S @ 07/12/2008 9:35:07 AM

    Jill,
    I agree, Obama reads well, but is poor at thinking on his feet. So I ask... as a President will he be called upon to read scripts or think on his feet?

    • Posted By: Jill from Florida @ 07/12/2008 9:59:12 AM

      He will have his Master advisers speak for him. He will be at an undisclosed location.

      • Posted By: SKVAM @ 07/12/2008 10:01:43 AM

        And McCain, who makes one gaffe after another and needs another old guy, Lieberman, to dig him out of goofy foreign policy faux pas, he's not an idiot?

        • Posted By: Jill from Florida @ 07/12/2008 10:44:00 AM

          McCain could forget half of what he knows and still know more than Obama.
          What's Obama's excuse for his gaffes? Stupidity? No - it was taken out of context. It was misinterpreted. It's not what I meant. I used the wrong word.

          • Posted By: sharenews @ 07/12/2008 3:39:51 PM

            Here is one SCARY flip flop Obama has made. It was what it was. No getting around this one:

            OBAMA SAYS: Dont tell me words dont matter!


            OBAMA WORDS: Iran, Cuba, Venezuela -- these countries are TINY compared to the Soviet Union. They DONT pose a serious threat to us!


            TWO Days later . . .


            OBAMA WORDS: Iran is a GREAT threat! Iran is a GREAT threat, REALLY! Iran is a GREAT threat, I am not kidding here!

            WHAT does Obama really believe?? What are we supposed to think if he tells us words DO matter.

            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lx-QcstDcU

      • Posted By: sharenews @ 07/12/2008 3:32:22 PM

        ......making (what he only feels comfortable with) bombastic speeches. :- )

  • Posted By: Johnathan Fayssoux @ 07/12/2008 7:33:43 AM

    I agree that there have been some policies brought on through the past few years that have hurt this country, but let's face reality. Congress enacted multiple "Free Trade" acts which Bill Clinton (The Democrats "God") signed off on. But it' s deeper than that our complete political system is not based on what is good for the country...it is based on career politicians doing whatever it takes to get elected. I would like to comment on the gentleman's quote two sections below me. He states, "Obama will lead us like a child of God." I see this as a flawed unjustifiable statement that is rooted for the up bringing of another Bill Clinton type figure. Obama is yes, a SOCIALIST. If you want to live in a commune that's fine, just don't use the whole country as a Federalist state that is a "government of the government, by the government, and for the government" because I guarantee ever;y single one of Obama's false hopes that he promises will never occur. If they do we are all screwed economically.

    • Posted By: Bamisasham @ 07/12/2008 7:43:30 AM

      Obama is absolutely a socialist. A vote inthat direction would be a vote away from any hope of keeping and semblance of individual liberty., As it is now, we are losing that bit by bit.
      Unfortunately, look around you on a daily basis. America has been dumbed down significantly and that does not bode well for our future.
      If you have ever been involved in trying to hire quality employees then youo will know what I mean. Very depressing.

      • Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 07/12/2008 7:53:15 AM

        that always seems the case with the socialist until a well formed and well armed militia shows up !! LOL

        • Posted By: Jill from Florida @ 07/12/2008 8:27:32 AM

          Which is why they are trying to limit our right to bear arms.

          • Posted By: Curious in Texas @ 07/12/2008 3:38:51 PM

            Jill, for someone who proudly claims to be so highly educated, you sure seem to be missing a lot of pueces. mainly of logic.

      • Posted By: NoExcusesInAtlanta @ 07/12/2008 7:50:02 AM

        So true!

        • Posted By: Brooklynny @ 07/12/2008 7:54:48 AM

          Bamishasan, one need look no further than your comment as proof of the "dumbing down" you refer to. Please explain your basis for concluding that Obama is a socialist. I challenge you. And I'm betting that you are not capable of coming up with a solid, well-reasoned response.
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          • Posted By: Bamisasham @ 07/12/2008 8:04:33 AM

            For one, Barak Obama favors a national healthcare system. That is the ultimately socialistic. The government was not designed to proivide social services to its citizenry. ie; retirement programs (soc secrutiy), healthcare (Careand caid).Do not attempt to spar with me on healthcare issues. I am a physician.
            He favors putting even more money into the public education system and favors altering the tax system to favor those who already suck off the rest of us.
            McCain is not much better, but less dangerous.
            To me they are all socialistic..some more than others.

            • Posted By: swanny @ 07/12/2008 9:24:51 AM

              What is wrong with putting more money into the public school system? Pretty obvious that your children go to private school. We need to buuild up our public schools. Our country;s children are getting further and further behind other countries in education. Who do you think is going to be the world power if our children aren't up to par or more with countries such as China?

              • Posted By: Jill from Florida @ 07/12/2008 9:40:14 AM

                As long as our kids are educated under the Kennedy educational system, our children will NEVER be able to compete with any of the Asian countries. Kennedy's system was to have dumbed-down Americans who wouldn't realize what was happening to our great and powerful country.

                Unfortunately, his policies are succeeding. Most of the voting population has been dumbed down to the point they have NO COMMON SENSE.

          • Posted By: Bamisasham @ 07/12/2008 8:16:03 AM

            PS.....The latest admoniton out of his big mouth was that American kids need to be to be taught Spanish. Look around...the little twits can't add two and two and now we need to teach them Spanish. F'8ng Pr8ck.

      • Posted By: Jill from Florida @ 07/12/2008 8:18:38 AM

        Heavens, all you have to do is try to talk to most people, and you can tell they received dumbed down education. There is no such thing as common sense anymore. They have to be told how to do everything.

  • Posted By: SPORTLOCK09 @ 07/12/2008 2:39:04 PM

    OOH Happy days...... LMAO
    Wow what happened to the double digit lead? And Ive noticed new posters here speaking with high regards to McCain. Could it be the same people who used to be for Obama and now they are switching stances(flip flopping) to the more popular candidate?

    • Posted By: HDavidson @ 07/12/2008 3:29:32 PM

      AAAAAAHHHH, Summer? DUH!

  • Posted By: vidal123 @ 07/12/2008 11:21:57 AM

    Obama we support you not because your charisma but because of issues. if you think otherwise , big mistake.

    • Posted By: Jill from Florida @ 07/12/2008 11:28:22 AM

      Which issues? The ones he supported yesterday or the ones he supports today?

      • Posted By: sharenews @ 07/12/2008 3:19:20 PM

        . . . or the ones he is waiting to flip again to in the future should he get elected?

  • Posted By: notroubleatall1963 @ 07/12/2008 1:48:29 PM

    Obama will win in November, despite all you hopefuls for the McTaint campaign.

    The fact is, Bush ruined it for the Republicans and now it's the Dems turn, so to speak. If McCain't does win, more power to him - it will be HE who takes all the blame for the decline and fall of the USA. Go ahead, vote him in. He's a sure loser in every other respect.

    • Posted By: scabo @ 07/12/2008 2:13:57 PM

      McTaint... a new one. Obama keeps warning about the imment GOP attacks on him and his wife. So far the only uglyness I've seen comes from Obama-camp. He plays on age, equals McCain to Bush even if we know they hate eachother and lies on every issue. Perhaps I could believe Obama if he had the guts to show up in a debate or something. Instead he tries to buy the election - knowing full well he looks bad when he is forced to answer real questions. The only one turning this presidential campaign into a knife fight is Obama. All McCharacter has to do is run a straight forward campaign, and he will win.

      • Posted By: sharenews @ 07/12/2008 3:00:48 PM

        Politico
        WHO IS SMEARING WHOM?
        By JAMES KIRCHICK
        7/1/08 12:33 PM EST


        EXCERPT:

        Writers Evan Thomas and Richard Wolfe concluded that the 2008 presidential election will be no different. It is a sure bet that the GOP will try to paint Obama as The Other ??? as a haughty black intellectual who has Muslim roots (Obama is a Christian) and hangs around with America-haters.

        But has it been a SURE BET????

        Not really. Thus far, no one with any serious affiliation to John McCain's campaign has resorted to the alleged SCARE tactics in which Republicans ??? and, apparently, only Republicans ??? have been perfecting since Richard Nixon was first elected. On the contrary, if the past few months have showed us anything, it is that the Obama campaign is the one dealing in CRUDE SMEARS.

        Full article: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0708/11463.html

  • Posted By: Boulder Sue @ 07/12/2008 2:58:28 PM

    Despite what I said before about college football championships, this sort of feels like the two weeks before the Superbowl when you have a team in the game. People obsessively watch the odds-makers and the analysts, while rationally you have to know none of that makes a damn bit of difference. Witness the invincible Patriots. The deifference is that in an election, you can make a difference, however small you think
    it may be. Just try to keep it civil, huh? And try to use facts, well researched from a variety of sources, as hard as that may be. As I said, this really is more serious than a college football game with consequences that will go far beyond the hangover the next day if your side loses (or wins).

  • Posted By: Augotme2 @ 07/12/2008 2:54:12 PM

    The moreon bush, oops I meant the more on bush we have the moreons, oops the more they hide under others misstakes. We know what the others diid but thats how they explain the bush error,oops era.

  • Posted By: dazey @ 07/12/2008 2:41:44 PM

    Newsweek and MSNBC, everyone knows they are in the tank for BO -- In fact it has become a running joke. They don't see their own absurdity -- and the more they cheer him on, the more people begin to hate him.

  • Posted By: Boulder Sue @ 07/12/2008 2:41:20 PM

    Someone said the media should stop the emphasis on the number and direct more attention to the issues. That's the problem in a nutshell, no? (And no bad puns on the use of the word "nut").

  • Posted By: JETrout @ 07/12/2008 1:28:54 PM

    The Vigil - You lost me at Hilary "suggested Obama should bow out of the race because he mght be assassinated." That is simply not true,and if you are willing to twist facts like that, then your well written opinion is of no value to me.

    • Posted By: TheVigil @ 07/12/2008 1:33:58 PM

      I'm sorry. The actual comment by Hillary was "We all remember the great tragedy of Bobby Kennedy being assassinated in June in L.A.", and it was spoken in reference to the primary campaign. Might I ask you what you think she meant by that comment instead?

      • Posted By: HolyRoller @ 07/12/2008 1:39:08 PM

        She meant...sometimes unforeseen things happen. Things that shake up everything. She was not predicting a Hussein assassination. To suggest it, is crude and typical of the obamamohammed constituency. A bunch of kooks.

        NOBAMA!!!

        • Posted By: TheVigil @ 07/12/2008 1:45:34 PM

          Considering that you've spammed every single post you've made on dozens of threads now with stuff like "Hussein" and "obamamohammed" and other stuff designed to promote the idea that Obama is a Muslim or a terrorist, I kind of doubt the unbiased and impartial nature of your comment.

          • Posted By: HolyRoller @ 07/12/2008 2:06:46 PM

            His name is Hussein. He is/was a muslim. He has definite ties to terrorists. He is associated with the scum of America. He is most definitely a racist. He is a crook (most likely will be indicted, by witness from good buddy Tony). He has wobbled on every major policy stance, he made in the primaries. He can not stop the allegations of Larry Sinclair, which are rapidly gaining momentum, he is an admitted cocaine user, he lacks experience, loyalty or ethics. Basically, he is a crook and a fraud. And the DNC, chose him as its Messiah.

            A mohammed in the White House??? GOD Forbid...And HE Has.

            NOBAMA!!!

            • Posted By: TheVigil @ 07/12/2008 2:15:37 PM

              No, Obama is not a Muslim. Muslims pray five times a day to Mecca, and if Obama did this once it would be all over every world newspaper. He has no ties to terrorists - if he did, that would be all over every world paper as well. You've posted this in just about every single reply, it never makes it any more true, and you really need to stop now.

              • Posted By: HolyRoller @ 07/12/2008 2:29:50 PM

                If he is not Muslim, he was. His childhood in Indonesia, was absolutely filled with a muslim education and indoctrination. To deny it, is to deny the truth. Obamamohammeds are great at that. No ties to terrorists??? What do you call Willy Ayers? He is an admitted terrorist. Hussein had his first fund raiser at Ayers home. He sat on the board of the Woods Foundation (socialist) with him. He has given public appearances with him. I could go on, but you are a Kool-Aide Kid. NOTHING matters to you. You worship at the Alter, of the Sect of Obama. He is your Messiah. I understand. I hope your condition is not permanent.

                NOBAMA!!!

          • Posted By: Jill from Florida @ 07/12/2008 2:04:07 PM

            OK, Then I will tell you.
            Because not everything is known about Obama. The media gave him softball articles. Because, people will have time to research just who Obama is, who his supporters are, and what he really stands for.

  • Posted By: dazey @ 07/12/2008 2:28:20 PM

    maybe we're just not into him -- huh?

  • Posted By: dazey @ 07/12/2008 2:27:23 PM

    Maybe we're just not that into him -- huh?

  • Posted By: andyk5 @ 07/12/2008 2:04:07 PM

    Editors--Please stop using the term "statistical dead heat" to describe close margins in political polls. Even if the results of a poll produce a spread that is within a margin of error, there are still more people expressing preference for one candidate over the other. Margins of error refer to the probability that a poll is accurate,usually calculated with 90 or 95% confidence level. For example, a four percentage point margin of error means that there is a 95% chance that the result would be within four percentage points of the poll taken. "Statistical dead heat" implies that the candidates are tied--and they are not.

    • Posted By: Brewer66 @ 07/12/2008 2:15:20 PM

      They are statisticly tied within the margin of error. The margin of erron means the numbers for each candidate could be off by X% based off the polls failure to obtain the proper proportion of each class of Americans. This pool for example is to heavy in 18-39 year olds and way under on the number of 40+ needed for a accurate poll. There were also less Republicans surveyed than the percent of Americans registered Republican. The margin of error is to account for these and allow that if a proper polling group had been obtaied the results most likely would very up to X%.

  • Posted By: scabo @ 07/12/2008 2:07:11 PM

    Obama, I just don't like the guy; and much of it has to do with how he won. The sneaky, false, scam he puts forward and the campaign he runs. The latest Obama-radio-ad confirms what everyone who follows the internet debates know: Obama-people, paid hacks are lying and shitting serious dirt. Their transparant use and re-use of certain expressions are telling: "McSame", "senile" and anything on age like "confused". Obama did the same to Clinton, and it's unfalltering to him, and if Obama win or lose I will always think the 352 superdelegates and Al Gore rewarded the wrong candidate.

  • Posted By: polisciguy @ 07/12/2008 1:58:03 PM

    A good article above and demonstrates that Obama was ill advised in his strategy of pandering to conservative swing voters. It is not working for Obama and if he continues with it his previously high favourabiliity ratings will continue to diminish. He clearly has to face the most pressing issue - how to restore credibility while somehow reversing McCain's rising favourability ratings. Fortunately this is reversible but he has to acknowledge the mistake and get over this "air of invincibility" that so plagued the Clinton campaign as well.

  • Posted By: ztexz @ 07/12/2008 1:55:42 PM

    "Obama's overall decline from the last NEWSWEEK Poll, published June 20, is hard to explain."

    It's actually quite easy to explain, and Abraham Lincoln said it best: "You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time. But you can't fool all the people all the time." The more that Sen. Obama campaigns, the easier it is to see that he is relying on empty rhetoric ("Change we can believe in") and a complete lack of political courage (FISA vote, public funding for the campaign, statements on free trade). People are simply becoming more familiar with the candidate and realizing that he's just another typical politician.

  • Posted By: martvol @ 07/12/2008 12:40:43 PM

    A dad, a Republican, has a daughter, a Democrat. Dad is well money wise. The daughter is always saying how he should be helping the ones that don't have as much "wealth redistribution". One day the dad started talking to his daughter about college. Asked how she was doing in her classes. "Well," she says," I'm getting straight A's but I study all the time and don't have much of a social life." Her dad thinks for a second and asks how her roommate was doing. "She's barely getting passing grades. She's out half the night partying and never studys." Dad says, " Well since your grades are so good, Why don't you go to the Dean and give her a letter grade of yours?"(Grade redistribution) " But dad," she says," I earned my grades, She could have better grades if she tried." To which dad says,"Welcome to the Republican Party."

    • Posted By: Boulder Sue @ 07/12/2008 1:52:02 PM

      Did you happen to see Obama's Fathers' Day speech? Or read "Dreams From My Father" (the middle section re: his experiences as a community organizer on Chicago's South Side will do. Don't want to tax you with too many facts). Even my Republican (verrry Republican!) has a hard time arguing with Obama's philosophy on using one's own abilities as far as they will take one. Why do you think the Rev. Jesse Jackson was kinda pissed at him. It's a whole new generation, baby, and I love it.. But I still don't care for allowing disabled vets, or anyone else, to live on the streets or people who cannot afford health insurance to die or become so sick that their only option is the ER. On the practical side it just costs you more. On the moral side, to use a cliche, what would Jesus do? And I don't care for greasy, slimy lenders who deliberately allow bad loans to the detriment of all of us (read: bad economy) or greedy, subsidized oil companies who have not drilled the areas already available to them, also to our detriment. Come on! If we are talking about responsibility here, let us, by all means, include the the speculators who sit on their behinds racking up paper fortunes that will add to our woes. And the CEOs who get obscene severance packages, even if they have caused a company's failure, to the detriment of their stockholders, large and small. I think the stockholders of Enron, large and small, and many other large corporations deserve a little income redistribution for the money they have lost because of the greed and incompetence of the very wealthy in whom they put their faith with their investments.

  • Posted By: CKA in Red State USA @ 07/12/2008 1:45:40 PM

    Obama's just, thus being seen more and more for the inexprienced, narcissistic, unprincipled, I'll-do-or-say-anything-to-be-elected charlatan he's always been--but that devotees either couldn't or wouldn't until their faces got rubbed into who he really is.

    And Obama victor in November's general election? Yet another Obama fantasy.

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