Obama basically doesn’t believe that the average voter is that smart and follows policy debates or cares, so he continues to pander to them with slogans, rather than substance. He gives them what he believes they want to hear and believes they will simply trust him to do “the right thing” for them. We all need to wake up and advocate for good government and sound policies that help everyone.

The first link is actually:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12334.html

A very fair and informed analysis Mr. Garrett.

A former Republican and an army vet, I consider myself the definitive swing voter. I intend to vote for Obama this year as I am disgusted and finished with the Republican party (I’m not trying to start a battle on this discussion board, I’m just telling you the truth).

But nevertheless, you’re right. Senator Obama has great ideas on all those issues, but he needs to articulate them louder and more consistently. I am pleased to see him on the trail recently talking about his actual policies and plans for the country, but he has to keep it up.

I think his best bet would be to name Hillary Clinton as his VP. The Clinton name, while enraging some on the right, has major credibility in the middle class and would allow Obama the right to talk about a return to the economic prosperity and stability of the 1990’s. Also, having three ‘top of the ticket’ caliber spokesmen at your disposal would be a campaign manager’s dream. Imagine stationing Bill in Ohio, sending Hillary to Florida, and allowing Senator Obama to tour the rest of the nation. Juan McCain would run out of gas trying to keep up.

Another Conservative for Obama ‘08.

When Obama signals he’s willing to compromise for the sake of enacting useful legislation, it’s called a “reversal.” When McCain does it, he’s “reaching across the aisle” because he’s so bi-partisan.

What people are sick of is the media’s obsession with trapping the candidates rather than engaging in meaningful public debate.

Your Spin is pathetic.

For all of Obama’s supposed ‘Polling Blues’ he’s consistently out polled Bush’s third term – now hasn’t he.

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Why would America reward COMPLETE GOP FAILURE ?

We wont.

Sure, Garrett, hope all you want that Obama will lose. But it ain’t gonna happen. Team McCain and the current Republican leadership have virtually nothing to offer Americans except gimmicks, so they are resorting to full-fledged character assassination. But I think enough Americans have woken up to right-wing disinformation and dirty tricks. That stuff worked on Kerry with the Swift Boat sleazeballs, but not this time around.

This is more FOX SPIN. Obama is ahead but he should be concerned???
PLEASE

I am sure you guys have not shown McShame offering his wife for a nasty beauty contest.
Mrs Buffalo Chips…

Obama is going up against the establishment. There are very powerful people who do not want Obama as president and it is in their best interest that he is not elected.

Assuming the polls are correct (even though they’re subjective), the national numbers are being dragged down by the heavy concentration of racists in the south. Fortunately for us, these states aren’t worth crap in electoral votes. When you take a look at the state polls, you see a landslide by Obama in November. The creepy old white dude doesn’t have a chance. He may even lose Arizona LOL!!!

The bottom line is that if the democrats want to win a presidential election, they need to come up with a credible candidate. Charisma and credibility are not the same thing. His lack of experience is glaring. His inability to tell the truth and his unpatriotic gestures will lose the election in November.

The fact that Obama is unworthy 9is beginning to surface.

The best thing the Obama camp can do is take a low profile and let John McCain dominate the news for awhile

The more you see of John McCain, the less you like him

Let’s face it, the media has given John McCain a free ride

The man released income tax returns showing a $58,000.00 per year disability payment because he has been declared 100% disabled by the US government. He then released 3000 pages of medical documentation showing that he was just as fit as a fiddle. Which is it?

The media never said a word.

How is Obama leading in taxes? If he’s elected they are going to go up, up and away!

Leave it to FAUX News to post something this rediculous. What matters is what happens in November. Who gives a rat’s tail about your creative FOX-worthy math?

Fix the link to the first website. It’s not correct.

YAWN, fell asleep reading it.

One thing I have noticed that is completely left out of the polling data analysis and back and forth is the way the polls themselves are conducted. Most of the major polls are a sampling of “landline” phones only – this excludes the 13 percent of America that currently communicates by cellphone exclusively as of this year. Gallup and several other polling agencies take this into account in their statistics to a degree but only using last years wireless number which is 6%. Now take into account the demographics of those who have chosen to be wireless – the young and the low income- and you can easily see how there is a good chance the polls are under reporting the Obama numbers. This effect would be exaggerated versus McCain given their voting blocks but would have been negligible in a match with Clinton since they would split the wireless vote. All this is another example of the generational/ technological gap that continues to grow in this country.

you have too much confidence in polls.The head of pew research admitted that because it is next to impossible to poll people who exclusively use cell phones the only people heavily researched come from land line phones.These people tend to be older and thus the results are tilted toward an older population.The primariers showed a great diparity among polsters for that reason and there is great concern in the polling industry that there methodologies have run their course.

Didn’t think Fox news would hit the nail on the head like this. Obama is pulling a John Kerry. I have no idea why he isn’t hitting McCain over the head with healthcare and the economy daily…

LOL!!!

Did you say “non-scandal” year?!?!?! Wow, nice observation Stevie Wonder, how many box-tops did you have to collect for that journalism degree.

McSame does not have a chance!

This news organization is bias. I do not vote and I can tell there isn’t any positive news the broadcast about Mr. Obama. I can not trust you as a true news organization.

Dude,

Those articles don’t deal directly with what you said they did.

What else do we expect from FOX and the Repubs, except this type of reporting?

Do you really trust polls? Wasn’t Kerry’s significant loss in 2004 an indiction that you shouldn’t believe everything the polls are telling you? Not to mention, they change ‘every’ week. Why jump to conclusions about this entire election like you’re the announcer at a hockey game? There’s no mathematical rule that can predict the results because there’s so many factors that seem to decide who wins the presidency. Lets not forget that Kerry had many things against him, especially the fact that he really wasn’t a likable candidate. Nobody knew what he stood for, so he was easy prey for attack ads and rumors. The Bush team ran a much better campaign overall. Considering George is now at 33% approval, it seems as though it isn’t about who is the best candidate, rather than who has the best campaign. Whether you’re democrat or republican, you have to admit that, although Americans are getting way too much Obama coverage, McCain is hardly seen. Who do you really think is running the better campaign? The republican team is relying more on attacking Obama than promoting John McCain, which is were he seems to be losing out.

The answer is that Bush is not the candidate.

The answer is also that Obama is the only non-white candidate for president in US history and he happens to be relatively inexperienced, so his intelligence only counts for people who are also intelligent enough to follow his considerations. He speaks fast and refers only briefly to complex solutions. His real problems are that the average IQ is 100 and most people act out of fear and never get past their fear to really look at long term solutions.
Much of what Obama has to say is unique. However it was diminished by Hillary saying it was like appealing to choirs of angels, when in fact the unique appeal of Obama is that he may actually comprehend how to make world peace happen and make the Congress work too. He is also a typical old-style Democrat in that he intends to put people back to work, by creating works projects that are long overdue, including rebuilding the bridges and creating new internet infrastructure for the rural areas which dont even grasp it yet, that by putting in really high speed broad bandwidth delivery systems, their rural schools can receive high quality education from hihgly trained centrally located EXPERT teachers, and the local teachers will become mentors. This is all new. It has to be sold like corn flakes and so far it has only been touched upon in brief, because the right wing has made this about Rev Wright’s anger video about the way bin Laudin was trained by the CIA, and concerns about whether Obama is Muslim and FOX’s claim whether Obama’s wife is a terrorist, that kind of total b.s. which takes time from the in-depth considerations that COULD be taking place and which the 80 IQ to 110 IQ voters need to hear over and over to comprehend at all.

40% of the AOL respondents said a year ago they would not vote for a black person, nor for a woman for president. Some Ghetto blacks say he is too white, having a white mother and a Harvard education.
Maybe the USA is not ready for an educated intelligent person of color who can restore the Constitution. Clinton never mentioned restoring Habeas Corpus once in all her campaigning. We also have the legacy of the Clinton era to deal with. Many women are ‘fans’ of the First Lady. Dont forget, millions of women fall in love with the first lady, whomever she is, and from Mamie Eisenhower to Jackie to HRC. It is not just about liberation.
It is also about the wife of a president, who had 8 years in office. That person is a loved one to many women.
So Obama is dealing with the left over work to heal those wounded hearts. The ones who say they are voting for McCain are jilted lovers. They even say Obama may not choose any other woman, over HRC!!! I find that amazing. It is proof that this Clinton factor is NOT about liberating women. They want this particular woman, the FIRST LADY. Claire McCaskill would be the nominee by now if it were not for the incredible claims that the FANS of HRC have upon HER being the ONE. Claire McCaskill put herself through school. She has a long and in-depth career that HRC does not. McCaskill was State auditor. She was a legislator in Missouri. She was the chief prosecutor for a metropolitan area of Kansas City. This stuff was not on being a first lady, a wife. She did a ton of local important work and is way past HRC in scope of experience. And the HRC FANS say, NO ONE BUT HRC may be the nominee if it is to be a woman. Amazing. So that and more is why this is still close. We have two months for the fans of HRC to listen to HER and her campaigns for Obama. Maybe they will get it.
McCain is in league with the devil. He went on TV on Letterman in fall 2001 and claimed that he had a SOURCE who told him that the anthrax WMD attack against NBC and two congressmen was by IRAQI’s. Now we know that was false propaganda, planted by the White House and McCain aided and abetted in treason to start up the WMD war, where no WMDs were actually found. All this is complex stuff over a seven year period. If you are shrilling about angelic choirs and people’s churches, you have little time to unravel the treason of the Bush McCain Iraqi war.

You bet he’s got a problem!!

Despite the whirlwind of socialists coming out of the woodwork to support him–he must get the moderates in order to win the election–and he is failing terribly.

Millions of former Republicans and Democrats have now become independents or Libertarians. For the first time in history–a thrid party—the Libertarians appear to actually have a chance. Both candidates engage their teams to adapt their strategies based on the polls–leading many of us to believe neither are truthful.

Obama–will reconnect with Rev. Wright and all the other radical dissidents he’s thrown under the bus.

McCain wll re-cultivate relationships with all of his GOP big money cronies once elected.

Many believe in order to really get change–very radical efforts are required.

I think Bob Barr has the best chance of becoming the most credible President the nation has ever had–and will create real change.

Bob Barr 2008

If you cannot figure out why the polling of these two candidates remains close, just imagine how the relative poll numbers would change if both men were of the same race. Simple, isn’t it?

My problem with polls is that they don’t do a good job of predicting who will show up at the polls. The Democrats have had a major surge in voter numbers in the primaries, the Republicans have not. I question whether this shows in straight up polls or even polls of “likely voters”. I believe that John McCain needs a 5 or 6% lead in the polls to come even with Obama. I believe Democrats are far more likely to show up at the polls than Republicans. It will reflect how much they despise George Bush and his cronies. It’s probably good for Obama that the media and the pollsters portray this as a close race. Frontrunners have all too often been left behind in such races. The American public tends to like underdogs.

Obama will lose in November. The only way he could win is if Hillary accepted the VP slot and I for one hope he does not offer her the VP position so that he will not be able to blame her when he loses. Obama copied Hillary’s health care plan and then left 15 million out. Now he wants to go for the Hillary plan as she wrote it. If what we want is Hillary’s ideas then it makes much more sense to elect Hillary as the person responsible for those ideas rather than a man that copied her plans and ran a racist and sexist campaign. Can’t wait to see the 3 debates Obama has agreed to….it will be extremely funny when McCain kills Obama in debates…..don’t forget that Hillary won all debates against Obama and even helped Obama in many of those debates…..McCain will not offer any help to Obama…he will let this Obama man flip and flop all over the stage. No wonder Obama would only agree to 3 debates.
I will vote John McCain 2008 and Hillary 2012 unless the Super Delegates wake up and nominate Hillary at the DNC which I do not believe they have the brains or guts to do.

loathe

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To dislike (someone or something) greatly; abhor.

loath
A adjective
1 antipathetic, antipathetical, averse(p), indisposed(p), loath(p), loth(p)
(usually followed by `to’) strongly opposed; “antipathetic to new ideas”; “averse to taking risks”; “loath to go on such short notice”; “clearly indisposed to grant their request”

2 loath, loth, reluctant
unwillingness to do something contrary to your custom; “a reluctant smile”; “loath to admit a mistake”; “unwilling to face facts”

I love these propaganda-laden articles… you guys are *great* reporters.

>non-scandal (meaning non-Watergate) year for Democrats since 1932

Umb… that was a Republican scandal, eh? Great reference Einstein. And… umb… any Republican scandals this year? No, not at all. Just start with airport men’s rooms… it gets lower from there. How about something with backing references instead of thin-as-air conjecture.

Get off the poll wagon! Polls are over-rated and not the slightest bit scientific.

This is a silly article. Polls are just as badly rigged as the election. Republicans and Democrats are the same animals with different stripes. Wake-up “American People”.

[...] Obama Polling Blues « Major Garrett’s Bourbon Room « FOXNews.com What should Obama do? [...]

As suual Fox News is a political machine for the REPUBLICANS. There are no polling blues. The fact ois that ther is the :RACICT FACTOR”, Where white people will not vote for a blackman. All of fox journalists are RACIST. They hate the very thought that a BLACKMAN is running for President. Obama will lose because whites will vote heavilly against him

Do you have no new news to cover. Do you just sit around compiling your own stats. out of pure boredom? I mean useing one stat of an election, and trying do some kind of your own math, just for a meaningless stat. If Obama wins he wins and were better off than we are now, and if he doesn’t then we could be going down the same road were on know. Or is FOX News just for Republicans, not trying to sound too upset but, I wish I had that much free time on hand at work.
Thanks

I think the public is seeing that Obama is just another politician. He beat Hillary at her own game by going far left in the primaries when Hillary was positioning herself towards the center ever since she won the Senate seat. Now he is pushing hard to the right.
The fact that he has next to no record in office has helped him so far because everyone can project what they want onto Obama with no past records to contradict their feelings. His pandering in the general election will hurt him greatly though because there is finally starting to be records out there (interviews mainly) showing his flip-flopping (and amazingly him pretending he doesn’t flip-flop and that they are just ‘distractions’).
The media shoving Obama down the public’s throats has helped him in the short-term but probably will hurt him long-term.

I personally think that the left-wing media has pushed so hard for a Democrat sweep that it just might be a fairy tale they’ve sold themselves on. I mean, if you look at the Democratic congress all you see is a waste of time and money. Corruption of Democrats this year has been horrendous (and downplayed) although the Republicans have given them some run for their money on this (pushed hard by the media).

“In other words, Bush’s approval rating is 16 percent lower than it was about the time Kerry claimed the nomination and the national wrong track number is 18 points higher. And yet, Obama’s numbers over McCain are only slightly better than Kerry’s numbers over Bush.

What is happening here?”

This is POOR reporting. The simple fact of the matter is that many people are either Republican, or Democrat, and WILL NOT switch no matter what. There is the additional consideration that Obama is black, and that will effect a (hopefully) small number of voters as well. Your analysis of the situation is simply propaganda. The fact of the matter is that McSame’s strategy (rovian) is worn out, and will not work with a candidate as strong as Obama. There is nothing “juicy” for them to attack Obama on, so they start making things (Paris Hilton? WTF!?!?) up.

Typical FOX news trying to put a spin on polling data. Good job failing to convince anyone. Again.

WHEN SOME COMMON VOTER WOULD HAVE SAID MONTHS AGO THAT OBAMA,S HOT AIR BALLON IS GOING TO BURST SOON. I HAD THAT FEELING BUT I AM AMAZED THAT IT IS BURSTING PREMATURELY. AMERICA NEEDS A SERIOUS THINKER IN MCCAIN NOT A ROCK STAR OBAMA . ROCKSTARS CAN FILL THE STADIUMS BUT CANNOT RUN A COUNTRY IN PERIL.
UNFORTUNATELY OBAMA COULD NOT CASH IN ON THE EXCITEMENT AND PROVE A SERIOUS THINKER. HE ACTS LIKE A COMMEDIAN ON STAGE RIDICULING OTHER PEOPLE.
THE GLAZE IS FADING FAST
TRUST ME MCCAIN WILL PROVE A BETTER PRESIDENT THAN OBAMA BECAUSE OF HIS LOVE AND COMMITMENT FOR HIS COUNTRY.
I FELL SORRY BEING A DEMCRAT THAT MY MIND TELLS ME TO VOTE FOR MCCAIN. AT LEAST THE MAN HAS SOME HONOR
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Could it just possibly be that people are seeing through those wonder full delivered speeches, that actually don’t say any thing, how it is Obama always bring up race. Does he think he can make people feel sorry for him because he is black? I imagine some of his smart remarks could be a problem, people don’t like being made fun of, as with his remarks about guns and religion. I am sure people are taking a second look at a man who would go to a “church” for 20 years that only deals in hate mantra, and than try to say he never heard that message. Some in the media actually now looking at his record in his state tenure and how he ran his public service.

I would never vote for Obama not because he is black, but because of his stance on abortion. Anyone that thinks a poor little baby that manages to live through an abortion should be left to die, that says a lot about their ethics. Abortion is murder and live birth abortion is the same as they did under Hitler.

I hope the media can get past their worship of the new star and actually do some reporting.

Another great story from FOX about nothing. Polls are useless!

Flip-flopper, anti-patriot, tax-raiser-during-recession, no-new-ideas-for-energy, and suggesting that not only Mr. McCain is a racist but also Bill Clinton are NOT good attributes for a person trying to be president.

Bill Clinton will be back for blood, you watch, he’s not going to be called a racist by the Obamabots and let them get away with it.

How can you state Obama says one thing when he changes his mind the very next day. Hmmm now there’s an honest question.

I think you should leave the statistics to the statisticians and stick to the journalism. Or at least what ever fox is trying to do…

obama will lose

How do you expect the Obama campaign to get traction when he has virtually no significant or positive experience to point at and continues to change his allegiances and positions on MAJOR issues more often than I change my socks? When he beat Hilary, all he did was beat the most devisive and hated polititian in the country.

the only thing all your statistics prove is that Bush stole the 04 election too – there is strong evidence of electronic voting fraud on the record – the investigations of which were lead by known republican party affiliates, and of course none of these were ever followed through on.

Is there legitimate cause for concern that Obama could lose in what appears to be the most favorable non-scandal (meaning non-Watergate) year for Democrats since 1932?
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Oh like the democrats have so many scandals? Major, you do realize you are not considered a real reporter, except at FOX? I used to watch FOX until I realized that you folks are Republican lap dogs. You should be ashamed of yourself, knowing the bad shape of our country is because of the Republican’s failed policies.

How do you figure this is a “non-scandal” year? Because there have been too many to count? Or because gross negligence, willful mismanagement, politicizing the executive and general stupidity don’t rise to the level of scandal?

This article makes no sense.

Nice article Major! Can’t find an angle to blindly criticize Obama, so you opine “could he be doing better?” What a profound question! And it’s important to ask this of Obama, and not McCain, who’s not only polling behind Obama, but clearly has no room for improvement himself, right? Even when the polls are clearly in Obama’s favor, you spin the positive into a negative with your “polling blues” title. Also, way to lazily link to a couple of articles on other sites without giving any summary of their content (and I use the word “link” loosely–learn HTML). If you want your readers to read those articles, then why are we wasting our time on yours? Sloppy job man.

While I agree with the precepts of your article, suggesting that we can take 15 polls, each with their own independent error, and combining them together to get a result you call “statistical evidence” displays an extreme ignorance about how survey research actually works (and doesn’t work, for that matter). The only way we can assess Obama’s polling strength versus John Kerry’s, is to take two surveys conducted by the same organization, with the same set of questions and same mode of surveying (phone, face-to-face, mailing, etc.), and compare those results.

Just wanted to keep your readers from using bad data to draw a conclusion.

Wishful thinking Major

What happens when FOX NEWS no longer has a corrupt administration to uphold or a possible future replacement candidate to endorse? Does it go out of business? One can only hope. Maybe we can get back to FOX’s regularly programmed schedule- I do miss A Current Affair and Married With Children…

This article seems to be trying to take one point – the very plausible idea that Obama’s campaign is weaker than it could be – and make a completely unrelated one, namely that the raw success of Obama’s campaign is in danger.

“Is there legitimate cause for concern that Obama could lose in what appears to be the most favorable non-scandal (meaning non-Watergate) year for Democrats since 1932?”

If there is, this article hasn’t done a bit of good in demonstrating it. Saying that Obama’s campaign is *weaker than it could be* doesn’t relate at all to whether or not he is besting McCain in the polls. It doesn’t say anything, one way or another, about whether or not we should reasonably expect Obama to beat McCain in the upcoming election.

It is reasonable to assert that Obama is running a weaker campaign than he could be. But McCain is almost certainly doing the same. McCain consistently loses points with young, more highly educated people for his terrible lack of knowledge regarding important issues. The difference between Sunni and Shiite, economic effects of lowering taxes, and the negative correlation between condom use and the contraction of STDs – all these issues are ones on which McCain has said, directly, that he doesn’t know very much about them, or enough to make a comment.

Kudos to him for admitting ignorance, where Bush would have attempted to redirect the question. Nonetheless, educated people generally see that we’ve had 8 years of an idiot in office, and would suffer additionally from at least 4 years under another idiot, albeit one who is aware of his deficits. But with this negative component to his campaign, McCain has done little to redress the impact. In all the other areas where Obama polls significantly higher, he has also done little (or at least achieved little) in winning back those potential voters. In these respects, McCain seems also to be running a poorer campaign than he could be.

But again, this criticism is irrelevant. Landslide victories are often won by candidates who run a poorer campaign than they could have. What matters is that they ran a better campaign than their opponent. And Obama, by any measure of success, is running a better campaign than McCain.

Could he do better? Sure. Is that relevant to the fact that we should currently expect him to be our next president? Not in the least.

Faux News and its representatives should be a little more careful in how they take facts and turn them into bias. If their logical paths are always as poorly constructed as this, people might actually start to think for themselves.

“Hi, I’m Rupert Murdoch and I approved this slanted editorial by Major Garrett”

This column unfortunately makes a statistical error so many journalists do: distinguishing between percent and percentage points. “Bush’s approval rating is 16 percent lower than it was about the time Kerry claimed the nomination.” In fact, his approval is 16 percentage points lower (47-31), which translates into 35 percent lower (31/47). I haven’t read the rest of the numbers, but my guess is there are other mistakes as well.

Why indeed?

Donna Brazile told America exactly why during the primary campaign — she said that Obama does not need white, working class voters (or hispanics) to win in November.

She was reflecting the thinking of the Obama campaign — that their victory will depend on a huge increase in voting participation by young people, the votes of upscale Independents and disillusioned, upscale moderate Republican voters, and African Americans. His campaign’s strategic appeal to young voters is opposition to the war, its appeal to African Americans is based on understandable identification and aspiration, and its strategic appeal to upscale independents and Republicans is based in “centrist” economic policies and the promise of “bi-partisanship.”

The campaign has not focused on the bread and butter economic issues important to working class voters because it does not consider those voters to be part of Obama’s constituency.

I’ll tell you why his polling numbers keep heading south: the folks who didn;t trust or like him and were for Hillary, like him less now. The folks who liked him then are wondering what in fact he stands for since he has reversed almost every ’stand he had duing the primaries. Americans are not idiots, although Obama treats us as such. we are hardworking, educated (even if it is just street sense), folks with long memories. He is the least qualified candidate this country has ever seen and besides his only positive attribute: his biracial heritage, doesn’t have much to offer the US, when it’s all laid out on the table. The democrats better get Clinton back before they lose in November. As an Independent, i am watching and learning about both these candidates and the better choice is actually, gasp, starting to look like a maverick Republican. Never thought that would happen.

I am never surprised at how you misrepresent the news. Your stories always have an agenda. How sad is that? Come up with something original.

I also wonder why Fox news is out of touch with what people are interested in. I use to watch Fox from time to time, but since this man name Obama started running for President I notice a shift in the type of media representives Fox uses and the direction the producers had them taking. I decided to leave all Fox related products alone. I am only using this format to inform you. Buy the way, you are not fair and blance from my prespective.

Nothing from “fixed news” can be trusted.

Major, sorry about the way you have expressed the concerns on the “Obama polling
blues”.
In fact, you should know better, and you shouldn’t worry about that much; he is not going to win this time, no matter what the polling data in the ebb and flow these days. The final decision making day for the most of Americans is not in his favor, period. He is just 100% lack of the experiences and qualifications to run for the highest/toughest position of this greatest country on earth.
Let me just summarize some things here:

OBAMA and CHANGE
“O”riginal “B”elief “A”ntagonize “M”ajor “A”mericans and “C”haracteristic “H”ollow
“A”long “N”ational “G”eneral “E”lection.
BTW, please don’t act as a major writer for Obama’s campaign, be fair, be objective and be realistic….
Have a good day!

Chrene

the problem with polls and we have all seen this before, is the questions asked, what demographics were used to ask these questions of whom?
If you understand the backlash that is occuring, to much media hype, his continued flopping on issues, lack of substantive answers on basic issues and his continued image of aloofness, elitist attitude. That and his energy and economy plans are really not that much different than McCains, and of couse the tax issue, puts him in jeopardy and will in all likely hood, lose him the election.

Now lets talk about the race issue, yep it is there and many people will tell you it doesn’t matter, however, at the poll and when no one is looking, he will lose the undecided vote.

Oh, and my personal feeling is that these polls do not really reflect the true feeling of what the american people are thinking. You showed Kerry ahead in all polls, he lost badly as I recall.

The media is creating this reality for Obama. Between the incessant polling, the incessant replaying of McCain’s anti-Obama advertisements, the incessant coverage of his every move, the media is causing the problem. Obama is just campaigning – the media decides who gets overexposed. It’s quite a responsibility and unfortunately it lies in quite irresponsible hands. I’m sure this problem of over exposure – will get over exposed.

Will we EVER get actual news from Fox “Noise”?
No. That would defeat the purpose of always promoting the corporate line.

Polls are interesting but electorial votes dcide election. Here Obama is way ahead.

McCain “message” harder than McCain himself had ben driving it

BEEN

Or maybe, the polls don’t really show the true picture? These are polls conducted on a few hundred to a thousand people, WHO ANSWER THE POLLS. Which means:

- They’re not representative of the youth vote, because youth overwhelmingly use cell phones exclusively, and pollsters don’t call cell phones (it’s illegal).

- Depending on the poll time (as in, what time the pollster called) they could be non-working women at home, and therefor also not representative of most voters (although that scenario would make you think the results should be skewed towards democrats, as women typically vote democrat more than republican)

- Or a myriad of other scenarios..

Everyone knows that polls mean crap. Fact is this is a close race period. I just think its funny how you can quote all the polls that have Obama leading and make it out as a negative for Obama.

Even though I am a Union Construction worker from the Demo state of WA. There is NO way I could vote for Barrack Hussein Obama, not only because of his lack of experience in foreign policy affairs, but because of his obvious lack of patriotism to the USA. Not to metion his Muslim upbringing and his FAMILY background. I’m sorry he cannot be trusted to lead the most powerful nation on earth against the radicals whom still plague this planet.

Pollsters, just like those who are reporting on it (as we have seen in almost every election) are utterly useless, and merely of good use on slow news days.

John McCain should choose Paris Hilton as his running mate

This isn’t news. The polls don’t count until September, but by the time mid-October rolls around, Obama will be set for landslide vistory. I used to like McCain but I honestly can’t picture this man being president. Just like Bush, he cant string two coherent sentences together. Maybe that’s why he graduated near the bottom of his class? And when he says he “knows how to won wars”, how many has he won? Maybe he’s been playing vido games…

Major Garrett? This syncophantic hack practically prostrated himself at the feet of Richard Grasso, the corrupt head of the NY stock exchange post-9/11, when he was at CNN. It figured this type of guy would be hired by Fox News. Actually, just now read his piece. Pretty good. No, excellent.

Politico link is:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12334.html

Not:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12334.htl

Were you talking? I’m sorry.

If you ask John McCain to name the 45 places he plans to locate nuclear reactors his campaign will end. No one wants a reactor in their back yard.

One obvious explanation for lower than expected polling numbers are biased polls. Pollsters have an incentive to keep polls relevant and therefore have an incentive to make the race appear closer than it actually is. This primary season showed us many times the failure of pollsters to provide accurate data. That is why I expect to see a double digit victory by voters for Obama over voters for McCain

[...] few minutes ago and I read this headline from Fox News: Obama Polling Blues. So, I click through to the article and here’s the leading paragraph: Does Barack Obama have a problem with the polls? Is his [...]

Non scandal? What planet are you on?

EMINEM DISSES OBAMA AND LUDACRIS?

response to Ludacris Record

Wow Fox, since when does winning make someone blue? Talk about spin. Reality check is that McCain is losing, and hte more people get to know him, well . . .

BHO is over exposed for me. I’ve seen too much of him without a strong plan or message. His carefully worded position on oil drilling in effect says he’ll never find the right reason to approve drilling in spite of saying he can include it in his energy plan. I don’t like JM’s positions very much, but I agree with him that we need energy sources now, more oil from new wells (even off shore), and we need all the nuclear power we can build. France gets 80% of its electricity needs from nuclear power. We need similar numbers.

It is almost as if he s too good to be true. While I am a convinced advocate for him – and I count in the catagory of white,middle-calss, senior, female, – It is as if everyone is holding their breath, hoping that this gifted man is going to make it … that the Rovites won’t win this one. How can one judge the depth of racism – can we at last move beyond that? I believe we can and that this time the lies and smears won’t work even though they have been so sucesssful before.
I read on editorial that stated Obama deos challege Mc Cain – he tells the truth about McCain;s policies while Mc Cain is spreading untruth from deep within his campaign. I know Barack is being careful and that’s not as glossy as being an attack-dog but is closer to the thought process of middle America.

Trying to garner information out of poll numbers that way is like trying to pick the winner of the Kentucky Derby by comparing the stats of this years horses to last years field.

Robby

Ok, Here’s the TRUTH of the matter…….This election wants “Change”, polls show Dems leading Republicans by 40%, states that have not had a dem in office in decades are winning, and the republican namebrand and the economy are down…..

So why is Barack Obama not doing so well??????

3 things……1. He’s black, 2. He’s young and so-called “inexperienced” …….maybe

Ok, Obama being black and getting as far as he has is stirring alot in the American Psyche, for African Americans its a testament for all they have fought for…..For Whites it might be the final stage of the past of hate and discrimination, some will react with open arms and others might want to protect our laws from being changed by a black man…..personally i think its more racism than Obama’s age and tenure….

In terms of inexperience, not so…….I dont need to spend 26 years in politics and the senate to find out that solar, wind and electricity are the wave of our environmental future, or to know that Afghanistan is the real threat to our country because its the place where a group plotted and killed over 3000 Americans on 9/11, or that there is inequality in the workforce, or that our tax system for the rich is tilted in the wrong way on the poor………..For this you need common sense

Obama08

I think a winning spread is a winning spread. It does not have to be bigger. You forget that Obama has a huge handicap – and it is being fully exploited. Also, he has taken the high road. If he went for the nonesense that others have in the past and McCain is pursuing now, he might be further ahead.

I think you are doing the usual Rove trick – reverse the issue that is a positive for Obama and trying to make it a negative. Shame on you.

I partially agree with the author, but disagree with him as well. To start, I will say that I’m equally baffeled that Obama doesn’t have a bigger lead given Bush’s poor apporval ratings. I believe most of it has to do with all twenty-four hour news channels (CNN, MSNBC, CNN Headline News, and Fox News included) trying to fill air-time with discussion about trivial and non-sensical issues, such as… “Is Obama Black Enough?” As far as the issues go, I’ve actually heard less specifics about McCain’s plans than Obama’s. What are McCain’s plans??? He hasn’t outlined anything aside from his disdain for whatever Obama said the day before. I actually know more about T. Boone Pickens energy plan than McCain’s. Secondly, I disagree and believe Obama’s trip to Europe was undoubtedly successfull. You’re the news! Are you not watching yourself??? He lead McCain overall by 6% in an AP poll taken the following week. McCain couldn’t draw 200,000 in Berlin, and you know that’s true. And, lastly, these “some Democrats” (this unnamed, uncalculated, miscellaneous, unprovable referance) who believe Obama is running behind John Kerry’s 2004 campaign, or don’t believe his campaign is running as strongly as it should be… probably aren’t as polished on politics as they should be. And, that’s likely due to twenty-four hour news channels subsituting horse sh*t for substance. Keep up the good work!

-Michael Brian (24 Years Old)
San Jose, Ca.

with the average voter turn out of over 100million. which is usually 50% of the voting age population. CNN is only polling 914 voters when the average turn out is over 100 million. this poll is irrelivant. it is my opinion the audiences that the canidates attracts lays out who the majority will vote for. Obama has no problem filling stadiums, while McCain is having problems filling large rooms.

I want to preface this with a big fat, I don’t like either of these candidates chosen by the media for us as President.

You want to know what is happening?

People are starting to find out that Obama doesn’t really have any plans for what to do once he gets to the White House.

I didn’t like Hillary, but she pretty much hit the nail on the head with Obama. what has he done? What experience does he have that makes anyone think he would be a good candidate?

McCain also hit the nail on the head with his celebrity ads. Obama has been riding a wave of celebrity generated by discontent with the way things have been going in Washington. Many people are ready and willing to vote for a Democrat, any Democrat because they blame Bush for all of the nations troubles. Well, he certainly isn’t blameless, but the Democrats have been in control of Congress for a long time now, and their approval rating was actually lower than Bush’s last time I checked.

However, the closer we get to the election the longer Obama is in the spotlight and the more people realize that the only message he has is “change”.

What change Mr. Obama?
Change from what we have right now.
What would you do to change what is wrong?
I would change things.
No, what specifically are you going to do to help with the economy?
I will change the taxes.
How?
Raise them for the rich.
And that will fix the countries troubles?
Yep, because it is change.

Change isn’t always a good thing, when the change isn’t thought out. Obama seems like a nice enough guy, but he just doesn’t have the experience yet to be President and I think people are finding out that not only doesn’t he have the credentials, but he also isn’t the squeaky clean person the media tried to tell us he is.

Which means, God save us all, we are left with McCain. Don’t get me started on him!

You are looking at the WRONG numbers.
It turns out that the most reliable statistic for predicting a presidential winner state-by-state is not size of margins, but the MEDIAN of all the polls taken for each state.
This method predicted 49 out of 50 states correctly in the 2004 race.
Check it out.
According to this method the closeness of the race is an illusion.

http://colleyrankings.com/election2008/

What so ever your story is pro McCain, and what so ever Barack Obama will become the president of the United States.

Obama has been pushing these ads like crazy. Over 90% of his advertisements through last week were messages about himself that didn’t even address McCain. The problem is that news outlets like yourself publicize every single one of McCain’s negative ads to death, but won’t even show Obama’s positive ads on your programs. Funny how McCain’s negative ads (even with less air time bought) seem to drive the agenda. YOU are the ones driving that agenda.

I don’t think he even has to try right now. McCain is doing Obama so much good right now that anything Obama could do would not do him as much good as McCain continuing the way he has been for the last month.

I cannot believe I voted for McCain in the primary. Apparently I should have voted Paris Hilton because even she appears to be a match for the wits of the McCain campaign.

One thing you seemed to have ignored is:

In 2004, Kerry ran against Bush…
Fast-forward to the present… Obama is running against somebody other than Bush, so perhaps the data regarding Bush’s approval rating is less of an effect in 2008 as it was in 2004.

Nice article Major! Can’t find an angle to blindly criticize Obama, so you opine “could he be doing better?” What a profound question! And it’s important to ask this of Obama, and not McCain, who’s not only polling behind Obama, but clearly has no room for improvement himself, right? Even when the polls are clearly in Obama’s favor, you spin the positive into a negative with your “polling blues” title. Also, way to lazily link to a couple of articles on other sites without giving any summary of their content (and I use the word “link” loosely–learn HTML). If you want your readers to read those articles, then why are we wasting our time on yours? Sloppy job.

I know you won’t post this because you can’t own up to any fair criticism of your work. Just because other people can’t read my comments doesn’t mean you’re less of a coward.

Obama is a light weight and he is wearing thin on people.

Everyone needs to calm down, especially the media. Public attention is far from being focused on this election. Right now it’s just pundits, politics junkies and reporters. The average American won’t engage until the debates start.

This isn’t exactly about this story, but there was a poll saying American’s are sick of hearing about Obama. What an understatement!!!! I turn off the TV everytime his face comes on. Also, since he is only 1/2 black, if elected wouldn’t that make him the first 1/2 black president? Or is he going to just forget he was born to and raised by a white woman. Why isn’t that fact that he is 1/2 white come into play? Why not call him the first 1/2 white president? Why pay up on only 1/2 half of what he is? And they try to say it isn’t about race. You have got to be kidding!!! Also, I was sickened by the way he acted in Europe, etc. Is he running for President of the United States or the World? If his heads swells anymore he won’t fit into the plane.

It is so opvious that by the company he keeps we already know what direction he will take the country. He has a very getto attitude sometimes, why does he feel the need to “act” black when he is making speeches? Does he feel his “people” won’t understand him? Jesse Jackson was right, he talks down to the black people.

I’d like to see much more on McCain, afterall, there is still an election coming up isn’t there? The bleeding heart liberals would crown Obama King today if they could. I thought we left England to get away from royalty, but Obama is treated like a King.

God help us all if he is elected. I bet he won’t get a second term, but how much harm will he do in those first 4 years if the worst happens.

Someone once said, “no prophet is accepted in his own country”. Perhaps The One will suffer a similar fate.

Obama is a light weight and is wearing thin on people.

As a lifelong Democrat, I hope John McCain can keep up the momentum and crush Obama in November. I am tired of belong to a party that is a stupid and short sighted as the one I belong to (and am considering leaving). Obama is just the latest incarnation of stupid candidates. I am a die hard Clinton fan (both Bill and Hiillary) Say what you want but at least we had prosperity under Bill Clinton. I don’t think Obama can remember back that far. He was too busy writing his so called autobiography which needs to be torn apart for the lies that he tells in it.

awwwww… maybe the voters are smarter than Obama’s handlers think…

If Obama is favored over McCain for taxes, jobs, and especially gas prices, then we are a nation of economic illiterates. I vote for people, not parties. People that vote for candidates just because of party affiliation are foolish. I think that is what’s happening here.

I would love to have a black or woman (or black woman) for President. Unfortunately, Obama is not the one I would choose.

Your article is misleading at best and would not pass a freshman journalism class test:

“Consider this. In a Newsweek poll taken on the two days leading up to Kerry’s July 29, 2004 acceptance speech in Boston, Bush’s approval rating was 47 percent, his disapproval rating was 45 percent. The national right track/wrong track number showed 58 percent of those surveyed thought the country was on the wrong track.

Fast-forward to the present. The most recent AP/Ipsos poll shows Bush’s approval rating is 31 percent and his disapproval rating is 66 percent. The wrong track number is 76 percent compared to a right track number of 18 percent.

In other words, Bush’s approval rating is 16 percent lower than it was about the time Kerry claimed the nomination and the national wrong track number is 18 points higher. And yet, Obama’s numbers over McCain are only slightly better than Kerry’s numbers over Bush.”

You did not mention that Kerry’s opponent at the time was the very same G. W. Bush. The numbers you quote are really more an indication of the Republican opposition to Kerry. The “underlining data” you refer to is spurious. Perhaps Fox News is not a place where one can find reliable coverage of this contest. By presenting articles like this as “news”, you compromise the quality of all your information. Fox News has a very bad reputation as a news source. This is a prime example of why that is.

you fox people/republicans crack me up…you expect someone to walk the finest line…if they don’t “elitist’ “movie star” “anti American” give me a break, look at your party…molesters, gays, payoffs, prostitutes, crack heads, and don’t forget people who will shoot you in the face!

[...] has an article (I got it from this FOXNEWS page, where they actually has the link a) wrong and b) not hyperlinked) about Obama not [...]

If the media would keep there nose out of the, trying to elect Oboma, things might be diferent, first lets find out who Oboma is, then find out all his associates he cronied with back in Chi Town, that windy place similar to all the wind we are getting from this person trying to be president, as we see in all the media and forced down our way by CNN, mainley by Wolf and Jack. Lets get real guys, WHO IS THIS OBAMA PERSON, TELL THE TRUTH, ABOUT HIS PAST.Lots of people have past history the public should be informed before decisions can be made.

The fact that Obama leads in the categories listed above is a gross example of the dwindling intellectual fortitude of America. All the experts that have examined these issues point to Obama’s tax plan increasing ALL of our tax burdens. Are Americans truly for raising their own taxes or are they simply not paying attention? And with a government that has increasingly failed at managing anything, do we Americans truly think that an entity that typically breaks what is not broken can fix something that already is broken? It is called a brain, America, and it is time we used it! Is McCain the real answer for America right now? ABSOLUTELY NOT! But is he the lesser of two evils? ABSOLUTELY! This election- as were the last two- is all about damage control. We cannot fix the holes in the dam in this election, but we can keep from adding too many others. It is time for the voters to stand up and tell BOTH PARTIES that what we want is REAL candidates with ideas that WORK and EFFECTIVE leadership.

JFK once said, “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” No statement could be more the antithesis of this election than this one. It is time that we remembered what he said as Americans, and begin acting upon it.

I think there are several reasons for these poll numbers. Despite the fact they aren’t a landslide yet, the reality is a black man is winning over a white man for the president of the US. I think this is a positive for our country.

In my life I lived where there were colored and white bathrooms, colored and white drinking fountains and blacks were sent to the back of the bus. Black men and women were treated like second class citizens and worse. Now a black man has shown he is every bit as qualified to run our country, in fact more so. Remember he is the one that is providing answers and plans. Just so you know I’m a 58 year old white man from Florida so I’m not some “bleading heart liberal”. I am a man that has seen our country torn to shreds by the policies and criminal acts of the Republican party.

1) The Republican party has proven itself adept at lying to keep itself in power.

2) McCains campaign from the beginning has been filled with lies and innuendo about Barak Obama from attacks on his religion, his wife, accusing him of celebrity to even the “fill your tires with” air slams. Instead of coming up with a realistic plan to bring us out of this Republic caused moral and financial recession. McCain has been relying on lies and character attacks to stay close.

3) Slanted journalism like this article feed the uninformed masses. You headline “Obama Polling Blues” to slant the facts in order to create doubt in your readers about the great gains Barak Obama is making. Your polls clearly show is is ahead in the race. Here is a black man winning against a white man, instead of sticking to the facts you apparently believe in yellow journalism and are willing to slant the news to benefit the Republican party even though they have driven this country into a recession that we may not come out of. Where is your “fair and impartial” unbiased reporting?

Oh thats right you do work for Fox news, the mouthpiece of the republican party. Is this the current Bush talking point?

I frankly expected more from you Major, you had been more unbiased in the past.

Ah yes, deception through statistics is still alive and well. Picking random statistics from the last electin and using the differences in those statistcs this election to show there is a problem really shows that the statistics are at issue, not the campaign.
It is interesting when people spin things like this, Obama is ahead of McCain in the poles, so the “news” tries to convince us that something must be wrong because he should be further ahead in the poles.
Let’s not forget that the swift boat folks did a great job of destroying Kerry’s character right before the election. As so often happens in this country, one issuedecides most things. You can lie about people all you want but it will only be the really convincing/ scary lie that will make the decision for so many people before the election.

The only question now is, who will the lie be against and who will make it?

The “News” beleives it is it’s job to tell us what we should be thinking, it’s sad that opinion pieces, like the one above get reported as news. A real news story would have asked a qualified statistician what they thought of the the current polls and reported the statisticians views. Multiple confiremd sources etc. not simply Major Garrtets opinion. Sad.

Never read this stuff before, but happened to catch my eye. First get a better spell checker. Second polls are the bread and butter of political commentators, but in reality are seriously flawed. I would rather hear your openly admitted biased opinion, whichever bias you may posess, than your crunching of poll numbers. let all of America feel as if their vote was important not just the “battle grounds”. How by refusing to ceede credibility to these “opinion” polls. Your opinion is terrribly important, so let us all in on how you feel. Stop pretending to be neutral news, I would rather hear how you really feel than how it’s supossed to sound.

Personally my opinion is that Obamma is all wet. I truly believe his judgement is seriously flawed. He may be brilliant and successful, but clearly he has a view I do not share. I believe that America is still the land of tremendous opportunity for anyone, even non “citizens” willing to work hard and despite difficulties, some of which are imposed by our own bureaucratic government, to persevere, and succeed beyond any ability of the governemnt to provide for them. Help the needy? Absolutely! Provide long term assistance to people expecting the next check rather than the next job or opportunity? Absolutely not! America is the land of the free and the home of the brave. John Kennedy said it best “Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country” Where has that spirit gone? The peace corps, arguably Kennedys idea, set standards of service to our fellow man by which we recognize our good fortune and were tasked to share some of that with the less fortunate. One “fortunate” American with very limited resources and his or her own determination and skills, used those skills to provide the less fortunate the ability to become “fortunate” and pass it on to others in turn.

I don’t want to be saved I want to be inspired by actions not politically expedient words delievered grand eloquently. Gas price crisis? A minor inconvienence. Housing crisis? Minor inconvenience. For people genuinely in need, immediate help should be readily available. Our American spirit can overcome any of these trivial problems with ease. Who do you think showed the rest of the world how to drill for and refine oil in the first place? Stop coddling and focusing on these minor issues, and help inspire our abilities and boundless innovation and brilliance. Do a better job than looking for easy information on the web. Dig deeper. The winers are easy to find, and a hard luck story is captivating all by itself. Telling an inspirational story is less “sexy” unless you use your skills to tell it inspirationally, creatively. The so called “illegal” immigrant workers can provide many of these such stories. In them seems to reside the old American spirit. Not very “sexy” to show a run down house with way too many residents sharing space, and food and wealth, sacrificing to help make their families existance better back home, but inspirational and ultimately much more satisfying than which poll says Obomma or McCain is ahead or behind. Mrs. Gomez how many people live here? How much money do you make? How much do you send back to help out at home? How many hours do you work? What type of work do you do? Ask and listen to these answers and really be impressed. Not which candidate raised 16 million dollars last month, and how much will they spend on TV ads in which “battleground” states.
Kind of went off the deep end there a little bit, but still meant every word, and am willing to admit it, when asked. Will not have to consult my advisors who will invaribly have to consult existing polls or commission new ones to find out what i will tell you I think.

Mark Wilhelm

The polls are fixed as is the election so why all the concern. The best man for the job is Obama.
He has the hearts of the true Americans no matter what happens. He is the next president elected or not.

Obama is not running away in the polls because of one reason: So many American people dod not trust and believe him. He talks the talks but does not walk the walk so to speak. He lies too much.

i think obama will win the whitehouse without a hitch. i do not think the polls are accurate for him because of so many supporters only use cell phones and i do not think they can be polled. i nor anyone that i know have ever been polled so who are they polling? red states ,blue states…are they showing a good mix?
also the media shows over and over again anything that obama says as a gaff but none of the McCain gaffs that he makes daily. he just slides by with a one time liner that instantly goes away but we hear about obama’s till we are sick of them. FOX news has been so one sided on obama that i can hardly watch that channel as well. it is so obvious that all of them are in McCains pocket and that becomes sickening that all of the media there except for major garrett snear when they mention obama as if he were not as good as McCain as a person.the racism there is very obvious. if obama were white there would not be a problem with him running away with this election.
FROM an older white woman in hopes of obama being our next president

Obviously the pollsters are asking the general public about the presidential race…and not the adoring media and press corps that is so enamored of Mr. Obama. I must admit that most of my friends are Democrats and although they are taken with the style, smoothness and success so far of Mr. Obama, they also express doubts. The Presidential role requires either a strong history of governing (remember when that was the key to the White House?) or the ability to move Congress to results (LBJ comes to mind). On a practical level, Mr. Obama has demonstrated neither of these. Mr. McCain clearly has credibility on the latter and none on the former.

Given that choice, I am not surprised the general population is not in sync with the media and press corps who in this election have clearly fallen off the fair and impartial principle.

Rick Henry
Silicon Valley, California

Man Karl Rove would be proud. McCain should make a video…”A man who abandons his family when they are maimed and broken, A man who will abandon you when you are maimed and broken, John McCain he will use you and lose you. I’m john McCain and I approve this message!”

I have to admit I usually kringe at the positive coverage of Obama on CNN and MSNBC or over the zealous attacks on Obama by several FOX shows, however this article was the most fair and balanced I have read in a long time. It doesn’t attack or support either candidate, it just pointed out some simple truths that I have been wondering about myself. The most important aspect is that the writers opinion did not over power the topic. Send a copy of this to Keith Olberman.

The youth vote is much more energized this time. However they tend to be underepresented in the pols because
1. They tend to have cell phones instead of landlines at a much higher level
2. Are less available to answer the phone during the day, whend these polls are conducted.

C.

The cry heard during the campaign to win the Party’s nomination for President was, Obama cannot seem to “close the deal” with the voters.

IMHO, the “close the deal” issue was media created, just to spice up straight news reporting by adding the element of suspense to the news for the entertainment value it could provide.

Real news is mostly a “thing of the past” ratings, bottom-line and a platform for shriek heads is the bill of Fare today. What I have come to call news-ertaniment is all we get today from our media. Anyone wanting to know what is going on in the USA needs to read the foreign press.

As far as “Close the Deal II”, we all know the end of that story…

Unless Americans come to their senses we could have our government run by three big liberal, free spending politicians – Obama, Pelosi and Reid. All hope of reduced federal spending let alone a balanced budget will be gone with them in power. I don’t know if these three are waiting until Obama is elected to get serious about energy, or if they are determined to drag us back to the stone age. Oil is the life blood of this country, plus petroleum is used in many every day items we use. How are we going to survive until alternatives come on line? Do people not realize that the natural growth in our economy plus the growing economies of India and China will require ever increasing amounts of oil? Maybe we can buy all the bicycles in China and India since they will have no use for them as they buy more cars, but certainly we will if Oama,Pelosi and Reid are in charge.

NO surprise at all! Obama is no more than the media’ hyped celebrity and the product of Affirmative Action Policy. The more American people know Obama, the more Obama will feel polling blue! While Obama certainly impress Beliners, Europeans and those who hate or dislike America and American’s ways of life, the majority of “bitter, religious and guns-clinging” working class will not be fooled by Obama.

polls? are you kidding me? you actually think people give any creedence to polling numbers?
we all know polls are used to manipulate public opinion. Thankfully Polls are becoming more and more worthless. Recent polling shows … come on fellas. That does not work any more. Surely you have figured it out by now.

Please stop with these polls. And why is it always about Obama, what he can or can’t achieve, what he can or can’t close, its becoming annoying. Its time to direct the scrutiny to McCain. The commentators are always in a tizzy, proposing Is Obama one of us. Who does this apply to? There has never been anyone in the white house previously, who I feel was like me? How do they think minorities felt for all these years? Geez!

Thanks for the poll information. Why can’t we accept the fact that the polls are saying …”neither candidate is worthy to be president?”

Your poll numbers record what americans are saying. Read between the numbers to find what they are feeling–which is, both candidates suck!!!

The polls show the reality that we despise them both, but if asked (polled) we have to SAY we like one or the other ; Hence the numbers cluster around the center line, no better than chance. Investigate that statement statistically!

How sad that if McCain wins, America loses and if Obama wins, America loses!
thanks. ssj.

Too bad…so sad…What did he expect?…that everyone who thinks him to be “The One” and everyone simply rolls over and plays dead because of all the media hype and bias towards painting him as the next “savior”….I think Obama really began to believe this hype and media exaggeration…and he still does believe it. That he can just play the race card on demand and expects everyone to jump….NOT !!! There is little question Obama’s “changing at the drop of a hat” has many wondering which day he is for or against anything…JUST WHAT DOES HE REPRESENT….INCREASED TAXES, NO REAL RATIONAL ENERGY POLICY, GIVE AWAY PROGRAMS…pandering for votes thru rebates???? Now this is presidential material???….I think not!!!….not ever!!!!! And we have not even brought up the inexperiences, poor judgements and terrible past associations.

The polls reflect what Americans are thinking, not saying. Obviously we are thinking both candidates “SUCK”…hence when polled (forced to choose) we get responses of about half and half, no better than chance!

Not surprising considering neither is worthy of being president.
ssj..

WHITE RAPPER RESPONDS WITH OBAMA AND LUDACRIS DISS

Obama is better than McCain in so many ways. He has better policies and strategies and is inspiring. We do not want a third Bush term. We have hungered for change for too long. Please vote for Obama. The polls need to tip. We need to have a good president in the office and that’s Obama. OBAMA for 08!!!!! VISIT WHYOBAMA08.ORG!!!!!!!

Fair and Balanced my behind. Fox News will do and say anything and everything to further it agenda. In the past 368 days that The American Freedom Agenda Foundation tacked in commentators over 64% were out and out lies or talking points for the RNC and Bush White House.
When we the ring wing nuts wake up smell and the coffee, since Ron was president our country has lost its middle class. We work longer hour for less money. The top 2% income have grown 2000%compared to middle class thats lost money.
You bought a bill of good from the republicans (smaller government, who are you kinding) . They ran up a 10T bill without anyone caring. That why the dollars is worthless.
You listen to Hannity, Limbaugh, and O’Reilly and think they know you, when in reality they wouldn’t let you cut their lawn.,
They hate the middle class! They don’t love America. They are carpetbaggers.
Southerns, you know carpetbaggars, don’t ya’ll

Obama’s gonna lose! Neither of these candidates share my views, but at least McCain has some degree of humility and definately he has EXPERIENCE! Obama is no more than a studio singer that can’t sing his or her way out of a paper bag when it’s showtime. He’s manufactured and contrived and calculated and opportunistic and arrogant…….and NOT the 44th president (Obama)! lol what a farce! Go sitting at home on election day! woo hoo!

In reviewing many Blog sites throughout the country I have noticed more and more negative remarks in regards to Obama’s campaign.
Many people seem to be upset because while in Germany he would not visit the injured Soldiers unless the press could get him in a picture.
Another major complaint seems to be his flipping and flopping on the issues. he has no firm position on anything they are saying.
PEOPLE ARE ALSO BECOMING MORE CONCERNED THAT HE DOES NOT HAVE EXPERIENCE. ANOTHER REASON I THINK HE IS DROPPING IN THE POLLS IS BECAUSE Hillary IS LURKING IN THE WIND STURING UP HER SUPPORTERS AND READY TO STEP IN FOR THE NOMINATION AT THE CONVENTION.
Beware of this woman, she IS Dangerous.
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Remember she only suspended her campaign she did not concede to Obama.

As a result there is no doubt that he will continue to drop in the polls in the future.

Polling data is bogus. When do they do these polls? During the day when most “Republicans” are working and the dems are sitting at home. Truth hurts BO will lose by 15%. The Manchurian candidate is out of touch.

One correction. President Bush’s approval rating dropped by 16 percentage points or 34%.

The media is propping up McCain like ” Weekend at Bernie’s “

CHARACTER COUNTS. EXPERIENCE COUNTS.

Let Obama crash and burn it would be better for us no doubt. He doesn’t care about our veterans and do we want someone like that leading our troops into battle? I say no I want someone who has been in a war and they know what its like Obama will never know what that is like. He never served in that capacity. I think any man who doesn’t serve in the military should not be allowed to be elected as president, He should have command experience. If no command experience get out.

The pundits can go on and on about the polls, and whether Obama, or McCain is ahead at any given time … however it’s now a virtual dead heat, and Obama should be about 13 points ahead … and, I’ll bet that a big influence in this election will be the BRADLEY EFFECT … so, even with all the accusations of racism, launched by the Obama campaign … and all the pressure to be politically correct … when voters actually vote, in the privacy of the voting booth … McCain will win … and Obama will go down hard.

For those of you that can remember back to 1984. Walter Mondale chose the first woman ever as his vice presidential candidate. His poll numbers went way up and the pollsters and pundits admitted that Reagan could lose the election. Then, come November, Mondale/Ferraro lost in the biggest landslide this country has ever seen. Afterwards the pollsters realized that the voting public was lying to them all along. No one wants to admit that they won’t vote for a woman or a minority, but the fact is that there are a lot of poeple who will tell the pollsters one thing and then do the complete opposite. Plus you have some old time Dems who will not vote for a black man no matter what. I believe that the 2 or three points Obama is up now is actually a 5 to 10 point deficit when these folks are taken into account.

I for one and am a FOX News fan. However I watch the other major networks and check out their news websites to make sure I am getting a fair and even report. What I do not understand is all the people who vote only Republican because their Republican or only Democrat because their Democrat. I will vote for the most qualified candidate no matter what race, creed, or political affiliation of that person. Senator Obama is not the right person to lead this country. I am not saying he is a bad person or a bad senator, I just believe he is not the right person for the job. Political speeches are great tools to get a message out to people who only watch the evening news and get all their information from the soundbites on those programs. What is needed is for the voters to go out and do research on your own about all the candidates, from your research decide whom to vote for. Research their voting record, the number of times they were absent during key votes. Look for where they went to school, what their family and children are like, you can learn alot about a person if you look at how they raise their kids. Its time to look deep into the candidates and decide who is better overall, not just who gets the most media attention. If people dive deep into these candidates they will surely run out of things to look up for Senator Obama as he talks alot without ever really saying anything.

It’s my honest opinion that either McCain or Obama will be a better President than Bush, no were to go but up from this point…

Obama should be SPANKING McCain… Why isn’t he??? American these days are smarter than a SLOGAN. We all agree we need change, but most individuals want to know HOW? Obama finally tried to put a plan out this past week on Energy but’s a joke a best…. Don’t get me wrong McCain and HIS DRILL DRILL DRILL isn’t that great either. But why can’t either candidate or both Parties understand it have to throw EVERYTHING we have as Americans at the Problem…

Here is the thing. We talk about about Our Presidents approval rating… WHAT ABOUT CONGRESS and THE SENATE? These people are the JOKE! 9% approval rating??? Working only 15 days over the summer, but remember they are only working for the American public 20% of the time during those 15 days…

When it’s all said and done BOTHS SIDES of the aisle are RIGHT AND WRONG! Till we get these two instutions working the way they should be it won’t matter who is President.

I WANT in my heart to vote Obama but till he starts putting his plans out there and they make sense, i will continue to throw my support to McCain… How sad is that???

How can I take any comments seriously from a guy named: Major Garrett

Response to the Comment by JOEY August 6th, 2008

Hi JOEY, are you sure you were okay when you had posted the comment on Aug. 6th? Or you had too much BUD Light at that time?
The reason I am asking is because the comment you made was totally far off the realities!
Here is much clear way to say about this guy; “O”riginal “B”elief “A”gainst “M’ajor
“A”mericans!
Don’t worry about the pools of the fixed one or not, he is not “the best man for the job…”, period.
As far as the experiences and qualifications are concerned to be the commander-in-chief of this great nation, it has been the greatest modern political joke letting him
run for the head of this country. He was “selected’ not “elected” by his party, then
worshiped by those narrow-minded/short sighted followers, who possess the mind of anti-Bush/anti-Reps with blindly thoughts that “vote for anyone but Reps”, regardless what kind of candidate he is, even he actually is a kind of hollow and shallow politician on both domestic and foreign affairs!
So, Joey, take another closer look at this guy, think about twice what he is being
proposed to those big issues…., he is not for REAL, only talk and talk without having any basic and solid previous experience back to what he said, which is NOTHING!
I read one comment on another Blogs site last week, which was a short one as it read; “Take away his teleprompter, this guy is moron”. Wow, what a powerful and
hyperbolic say-so, did he hit a right nail on the head? I think he did it very closely.

Chrene

By now voters thinking voters would know that Obama just does not havae the qualities of leadership that the president of the free world ought to have. He is long on rhetoric and perception but no substance and core values, or else he would not be changing his core democratic values as he does. What does he really stand for? He frustrates this independent voter.

Sen Edwards + caught late at night leaving mistress’s and love child’s hotel room by reporters + nothing being said about it on ANY of the media’s stations = “NON”-Scandal

There is a lot of outright blatant non-reporting of all things that might cast a negative light on a “Democrat”.

This isn’t the America I grew up in and. . .contrary to how the overly pampered and priviledged life led by Mrs. Obama. . .LOVE.

Interesting how the lemmings are so eager to condemn and not accept the “New Yorker’s” slant on how they viewed their latest cover artwork and yet, when Obama throws out the “race” card and uses other enuendos – then tries to blame the other party for doing so. . .smacks of something quite smelly.

PLAY IT AND WEEP…THE GOP SURE WILL… http://www.larrysinclair.org/press.html

This is one Democrat who will not vote for Obama. He is all talk with no experience. I am ready to leave the Democratic party because of their pandering and because of Nancy Pelosi. The Democrats no longer have a message or a core, all they can do is run against Bush. I have not seen one thing of substance come from Obama except no to anything that is good for poor working class people like me.

Congratulation and thank you to Chris. I hope every reader in the Southern states reads and forwards your comments about the racist south whose electoral votes aren’t worth crap. If Obama makes it through the nominating process at the convention you just made it harder for him to win in November. Again, thank you. Not only are people finally getting to see another side of Obama they are seeing the attitude of his supporters. As a former Dem who could never vote for Obama, who advocated for the half representation of two of our fifty (NOT fifty seven states) after he reneged on his pledge to not campaign in Florida or Michigan, you are making McCain look better every day.

Obama will lose. Nuff said.

Just a short note to those who are the admirers/followers/supporters/worshipers,
etc. to the guy’s name as “O”riginal “B”elief “A”gainst “M”ajor “A”mericans. Please spend few minutes to read the Comment by Bruce Becker, August 6th, 2008 on this page, you will be able to open up your narrow-mind/short-sight, and having
a new thought, a new vision about your idol!
Then you should realize that he is not for REAL, he is not the RIGHT man to be elected into the White House, period!
What should we do then? You may ask, Well, we may have to think about our only
option which is the measure of “less evil/less risk” tactics!
Wish we all the best luck!
God bless America

Cnrene

Response to the Comment by Mike, August 6th, 2008
Hi Mike; We hve only one option left; think about the “less evil/less risk” choice, then just DO IT!
God bless America!

Chrene

You all can talk untill your blue in the face. But John Kerry thought he had it in the bag too, and lost bad. Look up the history of how reliable the polls are. No really do it yourself and you’ll see that its much closer than you think. Or don’t and I’ll laugh at you in november.

So now Obama is critizised for not talking details regarding his positions on policy. read other articles, they say Obama does not speak enough about his personal life. Then you read other artivles that say people think he talks too much… “just words”… my goodness. People, open your ears and try listening. And as far as a wrry about a five point lead… the worry belongs to McCain, not Obama.

The failed neocon experiment of the early 2000’s

Wow Major, people are really harsh. Personally I find Fox news the only unbiased news source. Keep up the good work.
I would like to say that the many who are blaming Bush for everything from hurricanes to wild fires need lessons in government. Unfortunately it is the congress that deserves and is getting some of the negative press. A democratic congress that promised so much and delivered absolutely nothing. I fear Obama is nothing more than much of the same “all talk” no action hype. But a question that I have not heard an answer to is the birth cert of Obama. Is this guy even legally able to run? I keep seeing the same blogs and emails about his failure to provide a birth certificate. Perhaps you can put this question to rest. Many thanks…..Dave

you gotta be kiddin, Obama Hussain is a freakin joke. I’m a registered Democrats, I vote for him in the primary. I have been following him everday, his a freakin joke. It’s a freaking wake up call people. Open your eyes and take yourself outside the box and look at his plan, i mean everthing this guy stands for is a joke. you thinks Bush is bad, I don’t think we haven’t seen it yet. Talk about change, what change? his policies is going to make my kids suffer in the future. good speaker I will give him that especially in front of the teleprompt. I would encourage you people just to think these through because Mr Hussain Obama will take this freedom and this great country down to the ground. His doing this for himself not for us, such a joke.

Well, as a registered democrat and a woman, I can say with certainty that I divorced a man for talking down to me, I certainly don’t want to elect a president that tells me to “inflate my tires” as a solution to energy. Does he think that the average american doesn’t already do that? This guy has got to go. So far the only one of my friends (who are all far left loonies) has not given up on Obama, but his biggest political issues is “Gay marriage”. Well, I’m like John McCain, that’s not political. That should be up to the state. And, as I told my friend, he needs to be thinking with his brain, not his penis. Move to a state that permits it. If Obama becomes president, there is no state that you can move to so that you won’t be involved in his redistribution of wealth plan. I think he would make a great French politician. Maybe he should think about learning French.

why has there been no mention about obamas forged birth certificate that actually belongs to his half sister

Ha!

Obama is in trouble because he’s not winning by a larger margin! That’s the ticket faux, keep telling your sheep…er….viewers… that everything is going to be all right.

Fox news is so unfair to Obama. They see all the problems & lies that the Bush admin. have caused & made up, but yet & still they say Obama is not the right choice! First off our President lied to the whole country to get us in this stupid ass war!! Obama is willing to sit down with opposing countries to talk instead of fighting. Republicans he’s out of his mind!

Now about MCcains war experience, he was a prisoner of war, But didn’t he give himself up to be captured? I wouldn’t want anybody leading my country that will give under any circumstances! To me I would be more confident in my leader who can sit down with the enemy & talk.

Being gung-ho is why our children are being plotted against all day & night! Don’t let fox news make you dislike Obama because he wants to change things in Washington. He’s being hated on because he will raise taxes on the upper class, most of the people that down grades him are the upper class! People that make over $50,000 are not wanting Obama in office. Thats my 2 cents!

All of the Obama haters, hate on. Say what you will. Experience or none, to me, I would rather have someone who is willing to talk to our enemies than some one who wants to act high & mighty. I don’t want my kids getting thier limbs & heads blown off! Plus, who knows if the little white haired guy isn’t shell shocked. He still calls his captures “gooks”. While I’m thinking about it, when he got shot down, did try to get away, or did he just give up? because I don’t a person who doesn’t have any fight in him!

I have a qeustion, doesn’t he have an ex-wife? Mccain that is. We never hear bout that. Yall are so obsessed with Obama, speak on that! Yes its true, Obama has no experience, but he doesn’t want us to be the target for the world! Despised by every other country in the world unlike Bush & his lil’ brotherMccrazy! Don’t you think that after awhile countries will get tired of being bullied & take up arms together against the U.S?

The polls will never accurately depict Obama’s numbers…why?… because the polls do not reach the legions of young voters who only have cell phones. So you go on thinking this is gonna be really close. We like that. But it will be a lanslide for Barack and your slimy Karl Rove and company will scratch their heads and wonder why their lies and slander did not work. And then you will figure it out that the American people are sick of Karl Rove, Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, and they will never forgive them for hobbling this country with this dolt and laughing stock of a president, Dubya.

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Obama polling blues…

Surprising, isn’t it, that a black man should have trouble attracting whites! Never imagined that. Now how about if Obama were white but homosexual? Would he be having polling blues? What if he were white but atheist, would he be having trouble attracting supporters?

Would his blues have anything to do, perchance, with the rich dark hue of his complexion, or am I just seeing things…?