Poll: Obama holds 9-point lead over McCain nationally

[Mark E. Smith]

Source: Politicker.com

July 15, 2008

A new poll released Wednesday morning shows that U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.)
has a commanding lead among women and African-American voters in the
presidential race with his presumptive Republican opponent, U.S. Sen. John McCain of
Arizona. Overall nationally, Obama has a 50 percent to 41 percent lead over McCain,
according to the Quinnipiac University poll.

Obama has 94 percent of the African-American vote, compared to 1 percent for
McCain; women support Obama over McCain 55 percent to 36 percent.

Read more: http://politicker.com/poll-obama-holds-9-point-lead-over-mccain-nationally

[thereismore]

1. Women are smart. nt

[Ian David]

2. Bush had a 40% approval rating in 2004, if I remember correctly.

In any case, we need to get on the right-wing stations with coordinated talking points saying that McCain needs to waste his money in a futile attempt to concentrate on
winning the African-American vote.


McCain has 1% of the African-American vote?

That's half of Bush's share!

[Teaser]

3. We're DOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMEEEEEDDDD

Oh Noes!!!111!!

WELL NEVER WIN WITH NUMBERS LIKE TAHT.

[UncleTomsEvilBrother]

4. I'm wondering....

....when the MSM will start talking about McCain's "Black problem."

[NewJeffCT]

6. Or his women problems, or his Hispanic problems, or

his youth vote problems, or his overall voter problems?

[Virginia Dare]

5. The GOP strategy will be to suppress and disenfranchise the black vote..

they will also stir up as much racial hatred as they possibly can between now and November.

[NewJeffCT]

7. Good news, but in 1988

Dukakis was up about 10 over Bush around this time...

[yellowcanine]

8. Forget 1988. Every election cycle is different. Fundamentals were much different in 1988.

Reagan was going out with much higher approval ratings than Bush, the economy was relatively strong, we were not mired in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. And the Republican Party was still in the ascendancy. All that has changed.

[NewJeffCT]

9. True

but, the media was far less corporatized back then than it is now.

[aaroh]

10. age issue > race issue nt.