In a year which is supposed to be dominated by Democrats, the Republican ticket is leading the race in September? How ironic.
If it were not for Sarah Palin being added to the ticket, I doubt that John McCain would be garnering these kinds of numbers this early. Helping matters is the left-wing blogosphere combined with what Hannity calls the “Obama Media” and their relentless attacks on Palin and her family. With each new non-story attacking the Republican VP Nominee - and worse her family - Americans are being drawn to the GOP ticket.
From Zogby International:
Republicans John McCain and Sarah Palin left St. Paul, Minnesota, with a smallish bounce overall and some energy in key demographic groups, as the race for the presidency enters a key stage and voters begin to tune in to the contest, the latest Zogby Interactive poll finds.
The McCain/Palin ticket wins 49.7% support, compared to 45.9% backing for the Obama/Biden ticket, this latest online survey shows. Another 4.4% either favored someone else or were unsure.
In the two-way contest in which just McCain and Obama were mentioned in the question, the result was slightly different, with McCain leading, 48.8% to 45.7%.
In a Zogby Interactive survey conducted last weekend, just after the McCain announcement that Palin would join his ticket, McCain Palin won 47.1% support, while Obama/Biden won 44.6% support.
The interactive survey of 2,312 likely voters nationwide was conducted Sept. 5-6, 2008, and carries a margin of error of +/- 2.1 percentage points.
What should be beginning to concern the Democrats at this point is not only losing the White House November 4th, but seeing their slim majority in Congress slip away as well.
By alienating Joe Lieberman for his support of John McCain that could be a vote in the Senate that Democrat leaders are willingly throwing away. Combine that with the increasing distaste Americans are developing for the tactics employed by the Democrat Party and the seats that they hope to be picking up in the Senate are in jeopardy.
If the Democrat Leadership in the Senate give Lieberman his walking papers or strip him of his Committee Chairmanship, AND they fail to pick up any additional seats, the Senate will change hands. If Nancy Pelosi continues to mock the will of the American people by avoiding a vote on the proposed bill that would increase domestic oil production, the House may see a change as well. Is this the ‘Change’ that Obama has been preaching about?
The 110th Congress has been a failure from its first day. It has failed to do anything that its leaders promised. Nothing resembling bipartisanship has emerged from the increasingly polarized House. The Senate will continue to be deadlocked until one Party or the other is voted into power with more than 60 seats or the rules are changed on cloture.
As for the Democrat pick for President/Vice President? What can I say other than they fell for the window dressing. They bought a bill of goods without knowing how it functions. They allowed themselves to be sold on “a cult of personality” and it is blowing up in their faces. They rejected a more qualified candidate for President based on guilt and rhetoric. And now they are likely to lose.
As for today’s poll numbers from Zogby, perhaps this is only an early indication of how November 4th will play out. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it here again, the dirt on Obama hasn’t started to come forward yet. That will likely happen next month. And don’t look at the McCain campaign as the source. It will be coming from the Clinton campaign. Why? Because the ONLY shot Hillary has at becoming the first woman elected President of the United States is if she can secure the Democrat Nomination in 2012. 2016 will be too late in her life to mount an effective campaign and she cannot challenge a sitting President from her own Party for that nomination in 2012. In other words, she needs McCain to win.
To accomplish this, the Clintons will leak every bit of dirt they’ve been accumulating against Obama since May. And they will do it through their surrogates on the internet in order to distance themselves from the dirt. But rest assured, it will originate with the Clintons.
Bottom line…
The poll numbers will stay pretty tight throughout the remainder of the race. Polls run by left-leaning news outlets will be the last to indicate a McCain/Palin lead so when they do it will indicate something much more dire for Obama/Biden.
The Dems didn’t count on Sarah Palin and her impact on the Conservative base. The nomination of John McCain left Conservatives considering staying home in protest. Since he named Palin to the ticket, the base has been energized to a level not seen since Reagan’s 1984 campaign. Even Michael Reagan declared her to have the spirit of his father.
Conservatives, bitter Clinton supporters, Reagan Democrats, McCain’s moderates, and Independents are going to combine in an effort to prevent Obama from achieving his goal. And what is that goal? To destroy the American way of life (as we currently know it).
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