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This page contains a single entry by Mark Willen published on June 18, 2008 10:46 AM.

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Headaches for McCain in Latest Polls

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The new statewide polls are filled with bad news for John McCain, and the closer you look the worse it gets.

 

Most of the attention has focused on the Quinnipiac polls that show McCain trailing in the crucial swing states of Florida (47-43), Ohio (48-42) and Pennsylvania (52-40).  No one has won the presidency since 1960 without winning at least two of the three. But there's even more ominous news elsewhere.

 

A new North Carolina poll by the Civitas Institute, a conservative think tank, has McCain leading Obama 45-41, within the 4% margin of error. Obama is working to put North Carolina in play for the first time since 1976 and he looks to be succeeding.

 

Looking further into the Quinnipiac polls must also be depressing for McCain. Obama leads by more than 10 points among women in all three states, while men are split almost evenly. Black voters continue to go for Obama by over 90%.

 

And for congressional Republicans, the polling news just gets worse. A SurveyUSA poll in Kentucky shows GOP Senate leader Mitch McConnell leading his Democratic rival, Bruce Lunsford, by only 50-46, within the 4% margin of error. Rack up yet another seat that in a normal year would be safe but that  Republicans now will have to protect with valuable and scant resources that otherwise could be used to defend even more vulnerable seats.

 

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Paul said:

If the public really looks at what Obama has done while in the senate, then MCcAIN should be ahead in all of the polls except those conducted by the liberals. Obama only became an intellectual after he became the democratic nominee. Now he has a solution for the energy crisis, fuel crisis, job crisis, foreign policy crisis and poverty. Where is Will Rodgers when we need him?

Cary Jones said:

Well I guess Obama wasn't an intellectual when he was editor of the Harvard Law Review and I suppose McCain was a real smart guy when he graduated in the lowest 1% at the Naval Academy. Isn't it time for you conservatives to vote for the smart guy???

Mark said:

The Republican Party, for reasons largely of its own doing, is going to be demolished in November. The huge and growing wealth gap in the country is causing lots of voters to turn to the Democrats. CEOs and hedge fund managers (even very unsuccessful ones)are making absolutely obscene amounts of money while everyone else who works for these guys sees their wages go down and their costs of living skyrocket. I say all of this as a Republican who is pained by the self-destruction of the Party. Who was president during the ultra-prosperous 1950s when the middle class was experiencing its glory days? Dwight Eisenhower; a Republican. A country that has most of its wealth concentrated in the top 2% of its population while everyone else eats crumbs will not stay that way for long. Bush and the neocons have done a huge disservice to the country and to the Republican Party. Thanks to these guys, there won't be a moderate Republican left in the country after November.

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