Team Barry Won’t Like This
Team Barry won’t like this Gallup Poll. That’s ok with me though. Seriously, I didn’t expect McCain-Palin to move ahead this soon. I’d told friends that I wouldn’t have been surprised to see McCain-Palin ahead a week after the Republican Convention. Still, I didn’t expect this solid a lead this soon after the Convention. Here’s what Gallup published this morning:
The latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking update shows John McCain moving ahead of Barack Obama, 48% to 45%, when registered voters are asked for whom they would vote if the presidential election were held today.
I expected the McCain-Palin ticket to overtake Team Barry sometime after the Republican’s convention but I didn’t expect them to jump ahead this quick or by this much. The question now facing Team Barry is whether they’ll respond with poise or whether they’ll react irrationally.
Since the House Republicans rebelled against Speaker Pelosi’s dictatorial rulings, Republicans in general have been on the offensive. When Sen. McCain started highlighting the issue, his campaign’s been gaining ground. Still, Sen. Obama has maintained a lead in the polls.
Until now.
The most important issues to voters this year are national security, energy and, to a slightly lesser extent, health care. Sen. McCain’s held a healthy, commanding lead on national security since pollsters started polling the McCain-Obama matchup. Gov. Palin’s expertise on energy gives the McCain-Palin ticket a significant advantage over the Obama-Biden ticket.
Anytime you’ve got a commanding lead on two of the three most important issues of the election cycle, you’re in great shape. That’s where the McCain-Palin ticket currently finds itself.
Things won’t get better tomorrow or the next day either because this morning’s poll doesn’t include done after Sen. McCain’s acceptance speech and it doesn’t come after Chris Wallace’s thrashing of David Axelrod on this morning’s FNS. Here’s the video of that thrashing:
Mr. Axelrod clearly isn’t ready for primetime. He isn’t helping Sen. Obama at all.
Technorati Tags: Polling, Barack Obama, John McCain, Sarah Palin, Energy, National Security, Health Care, Economy, Election 2008
Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog
September 7th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
I think we can use a little humor:
An email from an Irish cousin:
‘We, here in Ireland , can’t figure out why you people are even bothering to hold an election in the United States.
On the one side, you had a pants wearing female lawyer, married to another lawyer who can’t seem to keep his pants on, who just lost a long and heated primary against a lawyer, who goes to the wrong church, who is married to yet another lawyer, who doesn’t even like the country her husband wants to run !
Now…On the other side, you have a nice old war hero whose name starts with ‘Mc’. He’s married to a good lookin’ younger woman who owns a beer distributorship !!
What in God’s name are ye lads thinking of? Are Ye Daft?
September 8th, 2008 at 3:21 am
“whether they’ll respond with poise or whether they’ll react irrationally”….These are Democrats. I Guarantee the latter!!
September 8th, 2008 at 10:27 am
Oh, but there’s so much more, and it’s so much better than that. See here.
Good times, friends! Good times!
September 8th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
The LA Times will very upset with this, VERY UPSET!