VP NOMINEE NEARLY TIES OBAMA’S RATINGS, EVENS POLLS
In nominating Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate, GOP presidential nominee John McCain’s campaign got everything they could have hoped for… and then some.
Nielsen Media Research is reporting that 37.2 million people watched Palin’s breakout speech at the Republican National Convention last night on six networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, FOX News Channel, and MSNBC) — a mere 1.1 million less than watched Democrat Barack Obama’s speech last Thursday night.
Palin’s vice presidential opponent Joe Biden pulled in 13 million less viewers.
But better yet for McCain, Obama’s five point lead coming into the week has entirely evaporated. A hot-off-the-presses CBS News poll has McCain and Obama tied at 42 percent.
That is an incredible bump coming out of a weekend in which a hurricane dominated the news cycle, and less than a week after Democrats pulled out every spectacle in the book in Denver.
With numbers like these, I guess it’s no wonder Obama and company are launching an all-out personal smear campaign against Palin. Unfortunately for them, it doesn’t look like it’s working.
(Photo: Reuters)
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“Entirely evaporated?”
Same period (9/1 to 9/3): Gallup has Obama +7; Rasmussen has him +5. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/us/general_election_mccain_vs_obama-225.html
You know what they call folks who cherry pick data like that? Propagandists.
What are you bitching about, sister? You smear gays in South Carolina with barely a thought. And then you pretend to care about HIV/AIDS sufferers left out because you and your masters won’t spend the money on public health to break the epidemic. You’d rather keep preening yourself over a $4942.50 tourism tab, and your fear of queers roaming the streets because $10,000 spent on RuPaul robs you of a few minutes of police protection.
I’m not from New England, but I’ll be happy to fill in for them. You are a bigot and a homophobe. Show your readers how much you cherish free speech: ban me.
Eh, Adam is alot of things, but I don’t think homophobe is one of them.
Though he is both willing to and enthusiastic about drilling for attention from the numerious other homophobes that populate this state.
Waldo…
Get a grip man.
Obama has literally nothing to do with the ad hominem attacks against Palin–it’s mostly from scum of your
own persuasion, you know those despicable blogger types. Meanwhile, the personal attacks against Obama continue
from every part of the spectrum, including the very mouth of Palin.
Also, I’d like you to respond to this:
http://www.avclub.com/content/blog/jon_stewart_still_a_genius?utm_source=avclub_rss_daily
Thanks,
Randolph
What did this post have to do with sodomy? I don’t get the comments above.
Palin is the only reason that I am going to vote for McCain. I have been calling myself a conservative Independent since the primary ended because I don’t care much for the maverick.
McCain’s choice of Palin means that I and my family will be voting for MAC. Since I have never had an original thought, I figure that there must be a million more folks just like me. We are going to eat crow and vote for McCain, but only because we love Palin.
When all the River Dancing and Hallelujahs calm down (and I really like Mrs. Palen) folks need to get real and think about the fact that Sara is NOT running for the big chief seat. Hers will be the minor role as Veep. What you may rejoice and see in her is NOT what you are going to get. I wish we would!
John McCain is a GLOBALIST and McCain will play footsies with the Global Community and like a slow eating cancer America will lose her sovereignty to be merged with Canada and Mexic0 in a North American Union patterned after the European Union. Think, I am kidding? I have seen and held in my hand the AMERO.
The new monies already minted. Instead of United States of America, it has :
Union of North America.
I cannot give his name for specific reasons some of which are, he is a Lt. Colonel in the Marine Corp and is involved in Military Intelligence.
No a thousand times NO, I am not a Democrat and I believe Obama is a Socialist.
This country has one chance and one chance only, to see real Constitutional Conservatism put into our government and that is to vote for Chuck Baldwin of the Constitution Party.
To those of you who wish to compare, he is the male counterpart to Sara Palen and did support Ron Paul untill Paul had to drop out. All three of these are true Americans and love their country and wish to see it remain a Sovereign Nation not controlled by outside Global influence.
With McCain what you see and know is what you’ll get. With Mrs. Palen, what you see is not what you will get.
Darrell, do the nice people who help look after you know you were using their computer?
Ugh. I really really really wish some of my fellow Ron Paul supporters could learn the subtle art of NOT CONSTANTLY SHOOTING YOURSELVES AND ALL THE REST OF US IN THE FOOT.
Constantly telling the other 99% of the population that they’re wrong, and stupid, and sheeple, isn’t persuasive! Don’t need to take my word for it though; just look at what happened, we got freaking McCain instead!
Sarah is the candy to make the bad tasting medicine go down.
People should read Dr. Chuck Baldwin’s take on this. Conservatives are always duped by their masters. So Sarah is eye candy, perhaps with a heart, time will tell but McCain is no different today than when he wanted to let all the immigrants in, raise taxes, add more government control to your lives, and increase the size of our big brother.
And you like Sarah enough to vote McCain???? People lost their critical thinking skills a while back due to all the fluoride in the water. Quick, somebody add more fluoride.
“McCain is no different today than when he wanted to let all the immigrants in, raise taxes, add more government control to your lives, and increase the size of our big brother.”
Many would debate you just quoted some of the commandments from the Democratic Bible
After a week, the more I learn about Palin, the more I dislike her.
Especially that e-mail written by the housewife from Wasilla, Anne Kilkenny.
It certainly solves the mystery of how the Republicans and McCain guaranteed her “Maverick” spirit wouldn’t be causing them trouble as VP/candidate. The answer is she never had any to begin with.
Turns out Palin is exactly what Adam has always accused Mark Sanford of being.