Look what's happened to these Democrats. They show up for their convention.... You talk about juggernauts-- this was supposed to be a well-oiled machine that was going to bump Obama by 15 points coming out of there, but now he's down by two. He didn't get a bump out of Biden, didn't get a bump out of Michelle last night, didn't get a bump out of Teddy last night, so Pelosi has to go reassure Democrats this morning in Denver, "Hey, hey, don't worry about it, he's under-performing in the polls." No, Nancy, if anything his poll representation right now is overstated. Dare I say it, the Wilder Effect? Dare I say it, the Bradley Effect?
Psst-- listen to me. If he's not up ten, 15 points a week before the election, they're toast. If he's down two now, in electoral terms, based on history, he's down ten, at least five. Look what's happened. They have nominated somebody based on identity politics; not on resume, not on experience, not on qualification. They've nominated somebody for two reasons, because they couldn't stand the Clinton's anymore and they thought that this guy could sweep to victory over anybody without even having any competition to speak of.
--Rush,
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Based on everything I've seen in Convention history the last 28 years I have to concur-- things do not look good for Barack right now. Not good at all.
Betsy Newmark offers some insight into the efficacy of the Convention "Bounce"
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Landslide coming, possibly, but for whom?
Marshall's right, the story's dateline is June 20th. If that weren't enough of a clue that your article is the tiniest bit dated, the article mentions the "previous" poll, which was "completed in late May when Clinton was still fighting him hard for the Democratic nomination."
If that weren't enough, the article also explicitly mentions that the poll was taken on June 18 and 19, 2008.
Maybe I misunderstand you, Dan, just as I supposedly misunderstood your point about McCain considering a pro-life Veep. (If you have clarified your comment to explain on how I misunderstood you, I haven't seen it.)
But it seems an odd thing for you to pin so much weight on a poll (of registered voters, not likely voters) that was published SIXTY-SEVEN DAYS AGO to suggest that, despite the numerous polls and the numerous developments since, Obama might win in a landslide in an election that's still seventy days away.
It might well happen, but that two-month-old poll is not the most trustworthy bellweather that it will happen.
My bad...
:-)
I think that what nobody seems to be getting is the Obama peeps see this election as a street fight, not an effort to win "states." They ain't wastin' no time goin' noplace they can't win. Take Oklahoma. I'll be disappointed if Obama comes here. It's a goner for the GOP, yet again.
I know what you think of Limbaugh. I didn't need your comment to affirm it, but in typical fashion you attack the messenger and leave the message unaddressed. You Lefties are really good at this.
At this stage in the race I couldn't care less about polls. I only offer my take on them to rub the Left's nose in its favorite bell-weather. They hoot and howl about 'Barack's leading here,' 'Barack's leading there.' But now.... they have to try and spin their own spin. Spin too much and things fall apart, the center cannot hold...
And I'm enjoying the spectacle immensely.
But put this bit of Yeats to music and you can almost hear the dead prophecy the Obama Campaign and the peril it seeks to foist upon America.
"Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
"Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"
Barack Obama will, thankfully, lose this election... for many reasons. Not the least of which his support of infanticide.
Wanna bet?
I wouldn't. There's far too many fools who support this guy. In addition, there are far too many rightwing voters who think they'll be doing good by either not voting or by voting third party. They are foolish as well.
Vote less crappy. Vote McCain.