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Friday, October 10, 2008

FOX News Poll

Barack Obama leads John McCain by 46 percent to 39 percent, according to a FOX News national registered voter poll released Friday. Two weeks ago Obama led by 45 percent to 39 percent (Sept. 22-23).

Obama’s advantage comes mainly from doing better among women, blacks, young voters, those with a college degree, and unmarried voters. He has increased his edge over McCain among women to 16 percentage points, up from a 4-point edge last month (Sept. 8-9).

Obama has also improved his standing with his party faithful. A month ago, 79 percent of Democrats were backing Obama. Today it is 86 percent. McCain has consistently received the backing of over 80 percent of Republicans and is backed by 83 percent today.

Independents split their vote 34 percent Obama and 32 percent McCain, with 24 percent unsure. That’s little changed from two weeks ago when Obama was up by 36 percent to 31 percent and 29 percent undecided.

A 61 percent majority of voters believes Obama is going to win the election - more than three times as many as believe McCain will (18 percent). A month ago it was evenly divided: 41 percent Obama and 40 percent McCain (Sept. 8-9). This summer, voters were more likely to say Obama would win: 51 percent Obama and 27 percent McCain (July 22-23).

All of the interviews for the poll were conducted after the town-hall style presidential debate held on Tuesday, Oct. 7. Opinion Dynamics Corp. conducted the national telephone poll of 900 registered voters for FOX News from Oct. 8 to Oct. 9. The poll has a 3-point error margin.

Comments

If Obama is so far ahead, why does he need to lie about his friends and allies so much?  Why do his buddies at ACORN have to commit all that fraudulent voter registration?
These are not the acts of confident people.


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robert108 on October 10, 2008 at 02:23 pm
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Robot108, is that the best you can do?  Please tell us the poll numbers are wrong and that the folks at Fox News are just a bunch of lying, lefty marxists.  There’s got to be an explanation for these numbers!

ukulele on October 10, 2008 at 02:33 pm

Well, perhaps the poll was conducted in Denver, Cleveland, Chicago....let me think, where has ACORN been working?....

Gary M. on October 10, 2008 at 02:36 pm

And the NY Times has discovered more than 3000 donors to Obama who supplied fictitious donor information, with only a few for McCain.  Perhaps Obama has spread some of that illegal money and bought off Opinion Dynamics

Gary M. on October 10, 2008 at 02:40 pm

Robot108, is that the best you can do?

Your lack of answers to my questions is noted.

My opinion on the matter is that polling is mostly a propaganda tool, and can be manipulated, even by the respondents to a poll.  I think there is a lot of “fashion” and “fad” attached to saying you’re going to vote for Obama, so that many people, in the privacy of the voting booth, might vote otherwise when they know no one else is looking.  Why do you think unions(and Obama) want to eliminate the secret ballot for union selection?
On the other hand, there is no fad or fashion reason for saying you will vote for Sarah and McCain, as the MSM/Dems have done a pretty good job of demonizing both of them; I’m sure most people who say they will vote for Sarah and McCain will actually do so in the voting booth.
Remember, the only poll that counts will be taken on Nov 4th.
Reagan’s 49 State thumping of his Dem opponent wasn’t predicted by any polls.


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robert108 on October 10, 2008 at 02:41 pm

Hold on tight to your dreams

Reagan’s 49 State thumping of his Dem opponent wasn’t predicted by any polls.

WOOF on October 10, 2008 at 03:07 pm

Wolf - I have a dream.  I dream of a time when a man is not judged by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character

Gary M. on October 10, 2008 at 03:12 pm

but by the content of his character

So you certainly can’t be voting for the serial adulterer with a hair trigger temper who flip flopped on everyting to gain popularity points from the base he abandoned long ago.


Excuse me, you were saying?


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realitybasedbob on October 10, 2008 at 03:17 pm

No, RBB, Clinton is not running, so I can’t vote for him.  I’m just struggling to understand how anyone can vote for a guy who denies knowledge of every controversial person or group he has known, and yet claims he has sufficient experience and wisdom to run the country.  I’m just seeing lots of ties to nefarious characters, fraudulent groups, and bigoted religious leaders, and a big “Gee, I didn’t know” when asked about them.

Gary M. on October 10, 2008 at 03:30 pm

Really RBB.  I have no reason not to respect you.  But I don’t understand how anyone can support Obama.  He spent a grand total of 143 days in the U.S. Senate before he started his run for office. There’s all the stuff he just brushes off.  Either he is the unluckiest guy around, and he keeps innocently affiliating himself with the wrong people, or his associations have been made on purpose.  And this is the guy you want to lead the country?  I can see a democrat pushing for Hillary, but this guy?

Gary M. on October 10, 2008 at 03:38 pm

rbb: I’ll take your gross, cherry-picked exaggeration over a lying black separatist/Marxist community agitator any day.

Woof: I know you would like it to be so, but Reagan’s 49 State thumping wasn’t a dream.  A very bad dream for you lefties, I know, but an inconvenient truth.


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robert108 on October 10, 2008 at 03:53 pm

rbb: I’ll take your gross, cherry-picked exaggeration over a lying black separatist/Marxist community agitator any day....

robert108 on October 10, 2008 at 02:53 pm

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The more I investigate McCain, the more firmly I am convinced that I cannot vote for him, as a matter of principle.  He’s a shit sandwich I just refuse to eat.

By robert108 on June 22, 2008 at 03:50 pm


Excuse me, you were saying?


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realitybasedbob on October 10, 2008 at 04:02 pm

Obama’s advantage comes mainly from doing better among women, blacks, young voters, those with a college degree, and unmarried voters.

The employment of a female as a hollow identity politics icon has generated backlash among the women. Not for the right reasons. They are not all in favor of good looking chicks getting more power than them. Someone at the GOP should have known that. The female-female hate can be experienced in any stratified co-ed workplace.


Yun Chu said, “You must strictly not express in words what is very significant. Both dragon and snake are killed in one blow.”

Sparkie Arbuckle on October 10, 2008 at 04:20 pm

The employment of a female as a hollow identity politics
icon…

Another desperate lie from you.


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robert108 on October 10, 2008 at 04:51 pm

r108
I ain’t desperate. And Palin has sunk the female vote for the GOP, if there ever was any. Why is that? I offered my opinion. You offer yours.


Yun Chu said, “You must strictly not express in words what is very significant. Both dragon and snake are killed in one blow.”

Sparkie Arbuckle on October 10, 2008 at 04:58 pm

I have expressed my opinion on Sarah multiple times; if you don’t know by now, back away from the pipe.  You can’t afford to lose any more brain cells.


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robert108 on October 10, 2008 at 05:08 pm

900 registered voters

Which is such a laughably small sample. Assuming 100 million voters, this is .000009% of the voting crowd! Huzzah!

r108
I ain’t desperate. And Palin has sunk the female vote for the GOP, if there ever was any. Why is that? I offered my opinion. You offer yours.

If there was no female vote for the GOP to begin with...how did Palin ruin it? Before the announcing of Palin, McCain was losing among women, as every Republican does. Moreover, last month, the vote tally showed the gap being closed to 4 points. That’s an extremely close race amongst women, considering what it normally is. If anything, it’s pretty solid that Palin helped McCain.

Woof: I know you would like it to be so, but Reagan’s 49 State thumping wasn’t a dream.  A very bad dream for you lefties, I know, but an inconvenient truth.

He’s not saying it was a dream. Woof is pointing out how useless the polls are. No poll predicted a 49 state victory. Yet he had a 49 state victory. Even Woof’s not that dense.


For the first time in my adult life, I am ashamed of my country.

Kenny on October 11, 2008 at 01:22 am

Even Woof’s not that dense.

Don’t put money on that.


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robert108 on October 11, 2008 at 01:55 am
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