Obama Leads Palin On Experience…By Five Points

Uh oh…

While Republicans and Democrats predictably favor their party’s candidate by overwhelming margins, the experience gap among voters unaffiliated with either party is even narrower than the national totals. Forty-two percent (42%) say Obama has better experience to be president, but 37% say Palin does.
The potential problem for Democrats is that Obama, the junior U.S. senator from Illinois and a former state legislator, is the party’s standard-bearer, while Palin, an ex-mayor and now governor of Alaska, is number two on her party’s ticket.

I think the liberals really put their foot in a mud hole when they came after Palin for inexperience. I mean, if a one-term Governor who beat a sitting Governor from her own party in a primary election and has a history of exposing corruption at several levels of government isn’t experienced to lead how in the world is a one-term Senator who has sent most of that term campaigning?
By trying to highlight Palin’s inexperience (or, more accurately, create a false perception of it) all the liberals have done is open up their own candidate for further scrutiny on his experience.
And that is one area the Obama faithful shouldn’t want a lot of scrutiny.
Regardless, the left’s attacks on Palin’s experience clearly aren’t gaining traction.

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  • http://Array carrick

    Whistler:

    The Democrats managed to find one candidate that could lose to McCain in this year.

    Don’t count your satan-children before they’ve hatched. McCain still has plenty of time to screw this thing up.

    A better way of putting it, the Republicans have managed to find the one candidate who has a chance of losing to Obama.

  • David

    Why is the VP Candidate being compared to the POTUS Candidate ?
    Last I heard McCain was still breathing

  • Bill Mitchell

    Obama/McCain TIED in new CBS Poll!

    And this was taken BEFORE Sarah’s speech when a large majority of voters said they didn’t know enough about her.

    http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/04/opinion/polls/mai n4416798.shtml

    The interesting thing in the poll was that while McCain is far ahead amongst those who think he would be the best Commander in Chief, he lags badly amongst 1) women and 2) those who feel he understands them and their struggles.

    On both counts, Sarah Palin scores HUGE for McCain.

    P.S., I know something about how these MSM Polls are conducted and they give HUGE sampling advantages to Democrats. The truth is likely that at this point, McCain is ahead, not tied if a fair sample was used.

  • Bill Mitchell

    oops, busted link:

    http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/04/opinion/polls/main4416798.shtml

    This has Obama losing 8 points in one week – wowsers!

  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    You can usually count on Republicans being behind at this point of the campaign.

    The Democrats managed to find one candidate that could lose to McCain in this year.

  • RebTex

    I wonder if any of obama’s “community organizing” experience would be helpful in stopping the bloodbath in his home state/adopted home town?
    http://cbs2chicago.com/local/chicago.summer.shootings.2.810166.html
    “CHICAGO (CBS) ― An estimated 123 people were shot and killed over the summer. That’s nearly double the number of soldiers killed in Iraq over the same time period.

    In May, cbs2chicago.com began tracking city shootings and posting them on Google maps. Information compiled from our reporters, wire service reports and the Chicago Police Major Incidents log indicated that 123 people were shot and killed throughout the city between the start of Memorial Day weekend on May 26, and the end of Labor Day on Sept. 1.

    According to the Defense Department, 65 soldiers were killed in combat in Iraq. About the same number were killed in Afghanistan over that same period…”
    .
    .
    .Get that?!
    MORE Americans died in his Chicago than in Iraq during the same time frame!

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