Breaking: New Poll Shows McCain Leading Obama in Ohio
By SusanUnPC on July 22, 2008 at 4:31 PM in Barack Obama, Electability, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Ohio
From Rasmussen Reports on Ohio, the state that Hillary Clinton carried with double digits in the primary:
John McCain has opened a modest lead over Barack Obama in the key swing state of Ohio. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the Buckeye State shows McCain attracting 46% of the vote while Obama earns 40%. Last month and the month before McCain held a insignificant one-point lead over Obama.
Seven percent (7%) of voters say they’d prefer a third party candidate over either McCain or Obama and another 7% remain undecided.
When “leaners” are included in the totals, McCain leads Obama 52% to 42%.
Obama Favorability Sinking
McCain is now viewed favorably by 57%, little changed from a month ago. Obama gets favorable marks from 50% of the state’s voters, down three points from June but up three points since May.
Based on this new poll, Rasmussen has moved Ohio from “Leans Democratic” to “Toss-Up.”
You all remember Hillary’s big victory in Ohio’s primary. In late May, Deb Cupples reported on the latest poll numbers from Ohio in “Polls: Hillary Does Better than McCain and Obama in Kentucky (and FL, OH, PA)“:
| FL | .OH | PA | |
| Clinton | 48% | 48% | 50% |
| McCain | 41% | 41% | 37% |
| Obama | 41% | 40% | 46% |
| McCain | 45% | 44% | 40% |
We can only “hope” that the constant lovefest of Obama blows Europe does not change these numbers….
I have NEVER seen so much free press for a candidate in my life, and I was born in the Eisenhower years.
The DNC seems more comfortable owning Congress than the White House, but if they keep trying to hang onto the Messiah’s coattails, then they may find themselves the minority party again in November.
I am blissfully unaware. I refuse to watch manufactured propaganda to promote such a fraudulent candidate. I can just imagine how they are filling the 24/7 schedule with garbage about how adored and magnificent he is. What is so interesting is, just like in the final primary states, the media-fest does not reflect the voter’s perception. His numbers are dropping as they force feed him to a skeptical public.
I haven’t watched it either. When they start talking about him, I flip the channel. Judging from his shrinking poll numbers and approval rating, I imagine that a lot of Americans are starting to tune him out.
IMHO, what you are talking about shows the fix is in for the Great Black Hope.
Off topic
I stopped watching CNN for a while, but in the last week or so started to try as it seemed they were starting to lose the infatuation a bit for Ofreakish. Anyway, I saw Donna B one of my first tries back and had to change channels again, but she doesn’t seem to be around and they have this new black gal who was featured in the Clintons never quit speacial. Did Donna get her ass canned???? Can I hope???? She should be canned.
Also, I bet CNN’s ratings dropped a ton after Hil was out and they have been told to turn more balanced like fox to win us back!
I AM A PROUD PROUD POROUD CITIZEN OF OHIO AND I AM SOOOOOOOO GLAD OBAMA IS SUCKING IT UP HERE IN OHIO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
READ EDUCATE YOURSELF STAY INFORMED!
If you haven’t seen this unbelievable video please watch it now:
ABSOLUTE PROOF OF A FIXED PRIMARY ELECTION !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Important new development uncovered by a Hillary Loyalist Now For McCain.
In early February Don went on record describing the Democratic Party process and the way the superdelegates roles should be played out. Now he writes a letter demanding we back Obama.
Read the whole story and watch the video you will become all the more determined to PUMATIZE the NATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://hillaryloyalistnowformccain.com/absoluteproofofafixedprimaryelection.aspx
also:
THE REAL OBAMA
Today what was formally known as the Rezko Watch now called The Real Barrack Obama posted what very few MSM reporters are even aware of. It is important so please understand who Obama really is as a person. Who he associates with and who he knows will make all the difference in the world for us Americans. Obama right under the eyes and noses of the reporters has had contact with a wanted man on his big Iraq tour!!!!!!!
read it for yourself…..
http://hillaryloyalistnowformccain.com/therealobama.aspx
If I lived in Ohio I’d be pretty angry at the ASS CLOWN IBAMA over his backflips on NAFTA during the Ohio Primary.
While bashing Hillary over NAFTA he was secretly tellng the Canadians it was just campaign rhetoric, which he denied, then after all the primaries are over he tells Fortune Magazine that NAFTA is a good thing and all his rants during the Primary were just campaign rhetoric.
This man has duped the US, but he really played the people in Ohio for Patsies.
Listen my pinworm friend.This is the problem. There are a majority american like yourself being uninformed and yet given the right to vote is a oxymoron. It was the clintons that supported nafta. Even the Canadian PM, say it was the HRC camp telling them,dont worry about Nafta. Not Obama. Do the research, burn some of those neurons ( I know you have a limited number) and think. You are a fine example why europeans think Americans are uneducated
It is backfiring already–the NYT brouhaha is icing on the Wedidng cake Team Uhhbama had made before we asked him to marry us for 4 years…..
(did ya like my gender biased theme there? must have learned that from the pros on campaign Uhhbama, love their prom date references)
Americans dont like the hard sell at all,. non blogging tv viewers saw a bit early with Hillary but it is out in the open now with MAC, they arent trying to hide itsednign all 3 anchors to his Uhhbamapalooza tour, they are in the tank and it is sickening
there is a backlash a brewin! some anchors may flip, last night was great, a question, a challenge, a lack of obesiance to his frakkin throne for cripes sake…
he and his campaign get ever more arrogant and presumptuous, and we dont like that either
lecturing, bullying, selling, pushing, and presuming
PRIDE GOETH BEFORE THE FALL
WooT!
Just wait for his speech in Berlin! I am willing to bet that he will make an other blunder besides the interesting choice of location.
I sort of don’t think the European vacation will work as desired. Thanks to Junior, people now are aware when they’re being shown a photo op.
Now just watch some idiot videographer try to feed us homages to Leni Riefenstahl via Barky. I can’t wait for the side-by-sides the 527s then will provide.
The Democratic Party delivers another Looser in a year that should be all but a shoo-in for a democratic nominee…
C’mon super delegates do your job!!!!!! Dump him before the DNC gets dumped again!
You’ve got that right. Bobo will go the way of McGovern, Mondale, Dukakis, et al. The last laughs are always the better ones.
Can you hear us NOW DNC?????
And I live within spitting distance of Ohio in yet another swing stae- the one where us bitter hicks live clinging to our guns and religion.
Hope Nancy, Donna and Howard ahve a script for the ulcers we are giving them!
I was born and raised in Ohio, just accross the river from Wheeling WV. So, I have to say if Obama thinks those Hillbillys will let go of there guns and religion, I think he lives in a fantacy world. My children still live there and they will not vote for him…. But let me guess, he will claim there all racist??
http://nativeamericansagainstobama.wordpress.com/
Yep. His problem not yours. I knew no way in H E double hockey sticks OH would go blue this year.
The Messiah thinks that he doesn’t need OH, PA, MI and FL. He’ll just hop on his magic bus and bamboozle them all in the Midwest and the South.
And to think Hillary woulda had NV, MO, AR, WV. Maybe even KY & TN, but we never got to find out.
i hate barack obama.
actually BOBO’s lie about telecom immunity was only reveled after the primary was over… As was his expansion of bush’s faith program giveaways, his addoption of bush’s Iraq exit strategy, etc..
The decks were stacked against her, in the form of one of his snakes placed at the top of her campaign. Who helped rack up all of that debt like that? That debt she was forced to concede for so that they would stop standing around in a circle stabbing her to death. I heard the voices of a death cult ~ “DIE DIE DIE ALREADY YOU BITCH WE CAN”T TAKE YOUR SUPERNATURAL ABILITY TO RUN THIS ALL THE WAY TO THE CONVENTION!!!” “WE WONT HAVE IT ~DIE!!!!” Books will have to be written about these goings-on in 2008 (and what transpired BEFORE 08), we’ll find out about who was the movers, the shakers, the bagmen, and the takers, the shakedowns, and the takedowns, the breakdowns, the boneheaded, and the makers.
There are still First Amendment journalists out there. Seek them away from the MSM and its collective agenda. They will do this, there are hungry hunters out there that want to replace the plastic borg of the species talking headus. They are not just far left or right loops. There are pragmatists for whom the right to know the truth in these United States means everything, and they sing the words of the first amendment when they wake up, so they can go looking for the truth. These are the patriots who will be on the front lines of this struggle. A bought and paid for media brand will still not get it programmed into the masses. We are misfiring our neurotransmitters in irritation, thus erasing our uptake of blowhard dephlostigating windbag and the wicked wild whirled peas and war tour.
The first book should be “Obama, a man on the make” the second should be titled “Pulling the whole 500 character drama off”. Then the third book should be called “how could we the people not known from the start (and who kept all this from us)???”
Me, too! I hate him with a passion!
Loathe
Depise
Not a strong enough word!
Ouch. But barky has all that money and free press and he’s still tanking? WTF?! And McCain is such “a feeble, old guy” running a sad campaign. Man, this is not good for Barky. SWEEEEEEEEET!
I love Ohio.
Tin soldiers and Nixon coming,
We’re finally on our own.
This summer I hear the drumming,
O’s dead in Ohio.
That is an amazing number. Think what it would be if we had a viable third party candidate like say - Hillary. Where is that third party I’ve been hoping for? I’m afraid we’ve missed the boat.
Not sure if Hillary going 3rd party would help.
But that number for OH is amazing.
I would guess that these numbers are partially due to the work that 18million voices (forget which org) was doing on the ground. I think a few radio shows ago, they mentioned that they were focusing on swing states.
Awesome!1
And yesterday there was a PPP poll putting Obama up by 8 points in Ohio. I don’t trust any of these at this point.
I agree, it’s hard to know which ones are accurate.
PPP does not have an accurate history.
PPP showed Obama winning Pennsylvania by several points against Hillary.
PPP is a poll sponsored by the Democratic Party. And, they have been way off target compared to the actual vote.
Rassmusen and Gallup are the only reliable polls at the moment.
You don’t even see Zogby anymore. His polls have not been valid for about 10 years.
I am sure Newsweek will come out with a new poll to help Ibama.
Trust Rasmussen.
He’s the only pollster who has made adjustments in his modeling based upon the PUMA/Operation Chaos (GOP’s registering as Dems to vote in their primaries) changes which occurred. His numbers are the only ones I trust at all right now.
The other pollsters seem to not have taken any of this into account yet. Their modeling is outmoded and is based on the flawed assumption that all the ‘new’ Democrats will be voting Democratic in November.
False.
Also, not sure if they are working in the PUMA effect or not.
We still have an entire month until the convention. Let’s hope a few more polls sink before them. Then we’ll convince Barky that the ultimate uniter thing to do is to step aside and let Hillary be at the top of the ticket. We’ll tell him he’ll go down in history as the greatest leader since George Washington who refused to run for a third term.
I’m sure a troll will be here soon with a lame excuse for this poll or just change the subject to something like say, the pollsters must be racist. Obama’s numbers have been gradually sliding and the Republicans have not even begun to air Obama’s dirty laundry. No, it’s not going to be pretty. I bet the Republicans are salivating over how much they can wreak havoc. I think once that begins we will quickly see more and more of the real Obamas.
Your favorite trolls Francis, Dave and Ted are still at remedial school, but we’ll here from them once they get home.
I kinda like Jenna, the “feminist” troll. She cares about my reproductive organs.
LMAO. Jenna the Magic Gynecologist Troll.
It was fun disposing of UK and believe.
They just didn’t have what it takes!
Some of the links people have provided here and elsewhere lead to sources of data you can go through for yourself, electoral maps you can adjust to the data, etc. Yesterday I did that and concluded that if McCain had Ohio, he would win the election. It was so close that one state will do it… personally, I think he has it in the bag.
Personally, I think it will be a landslide victory for McCain.
I’ve never wanted to see a Repub win in my life until now. So sad, how low we Dems have gone.
Melleen: Don’t be hard on yourself or any of us former Dems.
It’s not low if it comes as a price for actually THINKING. The ability to put two and two together and apply to changing situations is a mark of maturity and intelligence.
I don’t think there is a Democratic Party any more. Once it was clear that the primary was rigged and any opposition to the chosen candidate was silenced with threats, the contract was broken and the Party ceased to exist.
Five Thirty: Thank you. How right you are.
This too will pass. This has been tried before. Always, it marginalizes the party, but then, someone comes along……..and saves the party. Bill Clinton did it last time. Whether they like to admit it or not. Two presidents in 40 years is all we have elected. It will soon be 44. And our numbers will continue to be pathetic until we rid ourselves of the loud fringe that couldn’t make it in the socialist, marxist and communist parties in America. They always entrance the children too, which is the most despicable part of them.
But as I said, this is not a new thing. But it is the thing that holds this party down, because the MAJORITY of this party will not vote for Pied Pipers of the children who offer nothing but platitudes. It’s just the way it is. These are people who never stay home on election day.
My mother who has voted straight democrat ticket since at least 1960 is scared and frightened of Obama and his followers. She told me today that she is voting straight Republican ticket.
My Mom also wanted to add that she loves lurking on No Quarter!
I’ve been voting for DEMS for 40 years but I’m voting STRAIGHT REPUBLICAN this year too, If you’re a DEM office holder for Obama you deserve to be punished.
The New Democrat party is indistinguishable to any Marxist socialist totalitarian thug dictatorship in the making.
Freedom is fragile and must be defended!
Our vote is the Firewall against this attempted takeover of our democracy.
Country First!
Hello to you mother.
sorry Hello to your mother….the typo sounded bad.
And Hello to you MissE!
hey Seattle Moss’s mom. happy you lurk and feel free to post anytime.
Your thoughts and observations, I’m sure, are most welcomed here.
Hi mom!
my mother has never voted republican and is going straight elephant this time, and she worked on the stevenson and mcgovern campaigns.
I’ve never gone republican and am doing so this year, no barfy or kerry for this blue stater
Not only that the primary was rigged, but that billionaires, the media, and the party leaders forced an unqualified, inexperienced, idiot upon everyone and then had the audacity to contend that anyone who objected is a racist.
If I had a tumor that required surgical removal, I would not choose a surgeon because he is black, or because he knows how to read a teleprompter, or because he won a popularity contest among 18 year olds. I’d choose someone with experience and a proven record.
The party betrayed us by forcing a crappy candidate on us. The media betrayed ALL Americans by playing along when the consequences could be deadly.
You are exactly correct!
The democrat party broke their Contract with the American people and will become extinct.
A party that willfully fixes elections and ignores the will of the people and citizens rights for One person one vote need not survive.
Created out of this debacle will be a new political party
The American Party
I don’t believe that Obama will win Pennsylvania. Hillary was favored here, and still is. Her supporters will mostly vote McCain. Not 1 Hillary supporter who I have talked to from Pa. will support Obama.You know when you are insulted behind private doors, you tend not to forget.
PUMA
NOBAMA
I agree. I’m from a suburb of Pittsburgh. The PA primary was more of a blowout for Hillary than the overall state-wide result implied. If you looked at the county-by-county results, just about every county, except the ones containing the urban areas of Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, and Philly, had wide margins in favor of Hillary - margins that looked more like what we saw in West Virginia. The Philly area seemed to pull the numbers down for Hillary, probably due to the AA vote.
Save your time, Trolls. No, I’m not racist.
I live in the Philly burbs and it was strong Hillary country here.
I agree that McCain will win PA. I have not spoken to one Hillary supporter who will vote for Obama.
If my memory is correct, I believe that the AA community did vote in the numbers they were expecting.
I waited in line 3 hours to vote for Kerry and have never voted for a Republican for President.
If Hillary does not pull off a Hail Mary, come November, it’s McCain for me.
Country before Party!
did NOT vote in the numbers they predicted.
Bucks and Montgomery Counties were very much for Hillary. That is actually a good sign.
These affluent suburbs have been one of the four components of Obama’s primary strategy.
Yup- just south of Erie here and Hillary took the I-79 corridor Erie to Washington PA by huge margins- some counties as much as 68%. All the colleges in Pittsburgh did not help the chosen fraud.
I too have not met a Hill supporter in this county who is behind the O either. And I spread the word about PUMA to every one!
Glad to see some other S.W. Pa. PUMA members on here. I am from Washington Co. I also have been spreading the word about PUMA.
Proud Military Mom, Did you come see Hillary when she was at California University? She was awesome.
Have you also noticed that there isn’t any yard signs supporting any candidate. I have only seen 2 Obama signs and they were in a window at a local union hall by the Washington Court House. I also have not seen any bumper stickers.
I think most people are probably afraid of being harassed, threatened or having their property vandalized.
There is ony one group in this election cycle that is voting soley based on skin color.
We know who the real racists are.
Right on! Obama’s candidacy have set race relations back by years due to his race-baiting among African Americans!
Rendall has a strong machine in PA, they may pull it off for him, but FL, OH forget it. One Repub gov and the other Dem didn’t get the feeling in their leg for BO.
You give Rendell to much credit and not enough to the voters. Rendell was a strong supporter of Hillary’s. He has to basically support Obama now, but we DO NOT. We own our votes, the DNC doesn’t.
NO DEAL
PUMA
NOBAMA
I agree………..Gov. Ed talks the line but hasn’t done too much for O-boy here in ‘bitter land’. He(Rendell) is too aware of how his fellow Dem Pennsylvanians really feel about the ‘presumptive nominee’. No way, no how. Never will vote for Obama. Puma!!
My state is a definite for McCain, so I do have options…although we will be voting for McCain. BUT for voters in these battleground states, I don’t understand why anyone would consider staying home etc.! One may as well vote for the “O”! The electoral college will determine the winner, and from what I remember…McCain wins with Bush’s states…the “O” wins by picking up two. When I see Virginia and Colorado numbers I cringe to think that anti-O voters will concede!
i think you vastly misunderestimate Virginia.
Virginia is PUMA country.
Bet on it.
All us bitter, gun toting, racist, trailer trash have to do in Virginia is to talk to our friends, and leave the top of the ticket blank.
that ought to suffice.
lived here near 3 score.
Hope you’re right. Keep on talking!!! Puma from PA
I think this free press the O is getting might backfire in the end. I think people tend to get sick and tired of seeing the same person over and over again; and with all those brilliant gaffes of his and his astronomical arrogance, it might not bode well for him. He is running around on his world tour acting as if he’s already president- believe me that is not a good thing - people see right through that! What an imbecile!
It’s not helping him so far.
Today’s Gallup poll has him with just a 3 pt. lead over McCain. The other day, he was 6 pts. up but couldn’t sustain it. That’s pretty much been the story for him, hasn’t it?
http://www.gallup.com/poll/109006/Gallup-Daily-Presidential-Contest-Remains-Close.aspx
Looks like he got testy with Katie Couric too:
Did he call her “sweetie”?
The Mark of the Escalation of Arrogance.
Those whom the gods would destroy must first be made drunk with power.
It’s like the Dems are already drunk on power that they haven’t even gotten yet.
No but he probably told her how to dress. He probably likes those veiled nation of islam women at father pfleger’s church.
OT did anyone see John Stewart making fun of the press’ crush on Barky? It’s not Tina Fey…a little more adolescent , but it’s VERY funny.
She’s obviously racist for daring to ask him tough questions.
She’s trying to understand why he talks out of his ass?
I guess he didn’t look all that sexy to her during that exchange, hey?
She saw the love tape!
He forgot to call her sweetie and let her hold his cell phone?
To give Katie credit, she stould up for Hillary (albeit too little too late) and faced the wrath of Keith Olbermann.
I agree. Just tool ate unfortunately.
Obama by dismissing the success of the surge puts him at odds now with the American people.
Obama’s insistence that even in 20/20 hindsight he wouldn’t have authorized the surge is an affront to security and safety of the United states.
Obama wished and is still wishing for defeat in Iraq.
Obama is bitter that the surge worked!
Obama is a petty coward that can’t even acknowledge the obvious.
That we have a McCain victory in Iraq!
Thank god,
That we don’t have Obama defeating and humiliating The United States in Iraq.
Obama said this to Katie..
What I can say is that there’s no doubt that our U.S. troops have contributed to a reduction of violence in Iraq.
Obama thinks our troops contributed to the success.
What a put down to the troops!
You couldn’t have the political change unless you had security on the ground.
Our troops were 100% of the reason why we have success now in Iraq.
Shame on you Obama!!!
Give credit where it’s do snail juice!
McCain gave America a victory in Iraq!
Thank you John!
This my friends is the phrase that sinks Obama
By McCain
I would rather sacrifice a political campaign and have victory for America
By Obama
I would lose a war and have America defeated so that I can win a political campaign.
Check mate against Obama!
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/07/obama-escapes-n.html
ABC reports that few in Iraq care about Obama or know he’s there. The media obsession is all here.
Time reported a similar story yesterday.
Yes that is true..I live in the UK and what you say is right, so right.
I cannot vote, I cannot donate. But what I can do is support you all the way. I too wish for Hillary Clinton as your President.
And don’t forget the world is watching..really watching. Whatever you do..do not give up..fight all the way..I hear you..you are not alone.
Hillary Clinton for President.
Kat, I can assure you they don’t care he’s there. My son is serving over there now as we speak and I talked to him. If anything they were kind of pissed that he was there. Oh, you had a few who wanted that opportunist picture, but for the most part, they could care less as they know what he is and who he is and he ain’t military, nor does he know what they think. I’m sorry to upset anyone on here, but they want to stay and get the job finished. They don’t want that country to go by the way of Iran, they want the civilians to be able to have their freedom and my son has said that they can taste it. Which is good. He’s had people over there beg him for us not to go. They like what is happening, afraid their military is not quite there and actually afraid of Maliki as they know his Iranian ties. And they’re afraid of what could happen if we leave too soon. Plus, one biggey, he also said Obama has no freaken (edited) clue what he is saying in our he is going to get them out without the ones staying being sitting ducks. He could actually put them in more danger. Sorry about the rant. As you can tell, I’m from Ohio and I’m doing all I can to not let Obama get this state. I work at a doctor’s office and see over 100 people a day and I have not heard, I repeat, not one person who is voting for Obama. I can’t see how it is even this close.
I’d just like to say that the team Larry has assembled here on this blog is great. I really enjoy the constant updates and the very clever postings. Thanks to all.