Tuesday, February 19, 2008

McCain v Obama: current polls

Tuesday, February 19, 2008 | Posted by Fredo | | Edit Post
MattC over at Race 4 '08 has plotted recent head-to-head polling, and the electoral map currently looks as follows:















This represents a 34 EV shift from the 2004 map in favor of the Democrats so far, making the presumed totals Obama-286; McCain-252.

The results against Billary are much more encouraging, but that doesn't seem very pertinent currently. MattC left a comment on his own thread to drive the point home:

...it shows 4 red states flipping blue so far and no blue states flipping red. These are just the states we have polling data for thus far. I would guess there’s a lot more blue to red with an Obama candidacy than red to blue, and further polls will bear that out — at this stage in the game.
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2 comments:

SheaHeyKid said...

Let's be honest: if Obama wins the nomination it's a problem. He will be tougher to run against, and if he wins the presidency it's all over. He has the most liberal voting record in the Senate (left of Hillary, if that's possible), and it will be coupled with a Dem congress.

A suggestion on how to take on Obama, by highlighting his voting record to emphasize his liberalness, is here.

2/20/2008 7:32 AM
SheaHeyKid said...

More MSM attack on Obama and his hollow rhetoric.

Also here.

Both of these slam Obama for claiming to be about "change", yet offering nothing new beyond the standard Dem grab bag of tricks.

For example:
Barack Obama vowed to abide by the public finance campaign-spending rules in the general election if his opponent did. But now he’s waffling on his promise. Why does he need to check with his campaign staff members when deciding whether to keep his word?

Obama says he is practicing a new kind of politics, but why has his PAC sloshed $698,000 to the campaigns of the superdelegates, according to the Center for Responsive Politics? Is giving Robert Byrd’s campaign $10,000 the kind of change we can believe in?

If he values independent thinking, why is his the most predictable liberal vote in the Senate? A People for the American Way computer program would cast the same votes for cheaper.

2/20/2008 8:33 AM
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