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Gallup: Obama Up 7 Points Over Hillary
Today's Gallup tracking poll shows Obama maintaining a statistically significant lead over Hillary Clinton. Here are the numbers, compared to yesterday:
Obama 50% (+0)
Clinton 43% (+1)
And here are the general election match-ups, unchanged since yesterday:
McCain (R) 46%, Obama (D) 44%
McCain (R) 48%, Clinton (D) 44%
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Add this to the new Rasmussen numbers (Obama up by 6, up from +2 yesterday and -2 the day before) and I think it's safe to say that he weathered the Wright storm okay.
March 29, 2008 2:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Gallup is the poll that reported that Hillary's "favorable" numbers were at a seven-year low. And getting close to a fourteen-year low.
So you know they're in the tank for Obama.
Want further proof? They report tracking poll numbers that include the states that Obama won, when every Hillary supporter knows that those are the states that don't matter.
For that matter, every Hillary supporter knows that the polls don't matter at all (except for a week or so after the Wright story broke). And yet Gallup continues to do polling! How Obama-centric is that?
If Gallup were honest they'd just look at the results from primaries (ignoring caucus states, of course) and extrapolate that any state Hillary won in the primaries would go to McCain in an Obama-vs-McCain race. If Obama can't win California in the primaries how can he hope to win it in the general election?
March 29, 2008 2:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's hard to tell, but I think this is sarcasm, right?
It's sad how hard it is to tell these days...
March 29, 2008 4:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
And yet, Hillary's running around Indiana quoting polls.
March 29, 2008 3:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
Right! I forgot about that one. It's not often that Hillary finds a poll that is in her favor these days.
But of course there isn't a realistic scenario in which Hillary gets the nomination that has much at all to do with how the remaining states vote. It's all about the super-delegates, and they won't overrule the pledged delegates without an extremely compelling reason to do so.
March 29, 2008 3:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
22% + 22% + 62% = 106%
The extra 6% comes from Florida and Michigan.
March 29, 2008 4:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
How silly.
This so-called "poll" was given to over a thousand -- literally over a thousand -- people. It is therefore clearly macrotrendic, and thus is utterly irrelevant.
Meanwhile, Senator Clinton is unilaterally dominating all of the important microtrendic categories, such as left-handed rodeo clowns aged 83-86 or 88 and older. Given forcefully cogent facts like that, silly so-called "polls" like the one in this post just show Senator Clinton's incontrovertible dominance of this race in an even more clear light.
March 29, 2008 3:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Obama looks like he is getting his momentum back.
I think the McCain vs either Democratic challenger results reflect the contentiousness of this long drawn-out primary. These polling results are based on the current mindset which is clouded by the Hillary/Obama race.
I am confident that once we have a candidate who can start campaigning against McCain, the numbers will swing more towards the Democrats. We really need to come together as a party and the sooner the better.
March 29, 2008 3:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Obama looks like he is getting his momentum back."
Yes, but he needs more than momentum. He needs morementum.
(Don't mind me: I'm just trying html tags for the first time.)
March 29, 2008 5:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Success!
Success!
March 29, 2008 5:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Success?
March 29, 2008 6:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
'Til the Last Dog Dies
March 29, 2008 3:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
I've been one of those Obama supporters who have been urging Hillary to concede -- for her good, for the good of the "Clinton legacy," for the good of the Party, for the good of all our need to rest from all this craziness. But now, having seen it play out, Obama is really in his game around crazy people (including his own pastor). He is so smooth. He manages to increase his positives by demonstrating how mature he is, despite his youth and "lack of experience." He is the red phone candidate.
Meanwhile, John McCain is working unfiltered. Crazy? Now that guy's crazy! And guess what? All that craziness is not going away. All of his McCainisms are being dutifully recorded, getting posted on YouTube, and all through the Fall we will be treated to hilarious video mash-ups. People aren't going to say, "Oh, that's old news," because it won't be old news. It will be new entertainment.
And totally un-crazy, calm and articulate Barack Obama will win by a landslide.
Thanks, Hillary! You're doing good for the Party and the nation, after all.
March 29, 2008 3:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
She just can't help it! It's not deliberate ...
and, thank goodness!, it *is* out of her control!
March 29, 2008 4:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Obama is really in his game around crazy people (including his own pastor). He is so smooth. He manages to increase his positives by demonstrating how mature he is, despite his youth and "lack of experience." He is the red phone candidate.
Word.
He impressed me first with his astounding cool under pressure. I can't wait to see a debate between Obama and McCain, whose fuse grows shorter with age, I read.
He's popped off more than once and the media lets it go, but I've picked up on little snippets here and there where reporters let it slip. So I'm hoping for a monumental, red-faced tantrum, myself.
:)
March 29, 2008 4:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Obama supporters, you should cut out the Hillary bashing. All Dems will need to unite soon.
March 29, 2008 4:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
In her heart, she'll only know it's over when the bashing stops.
March 29, 2008 5:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Obama supporters, you should cut out the Hillary bashing."
Yeah. Shame on you, Barack Obama supporters!!! This was supposed to be inevitable! You're all a bunch of Judases! Only I can handle the Republican attack machine!
March 29, 2008 6:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Talk to Senator Clinton.
Was joining the ridiculous media feeding frenzy and attacking the black church a WISE move, on the part of Senator Clinton?
No. It was not.
Watch the news today. There's blowback, as well there should be. ALL religious are now defending Wright. Not a good situation for the Democratic nominee, being squarely on the Wrong side of the Wright "issue", but that's where she finds herself.
She shows poor judgment. Repeatedly.
March 29, 2008 7:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
The polls whee Obama is leading Hillary by 7-8 points do not matter. They are not fir polls. The only polls that matter are polls where Hillary is winning. Hillary is leading in PA. That's the only poll that should matter; all the other polls are not important.
This just in: Senator Casey does not matter either. The only people who matter are those who support Hillary.
Delegate lead, popular vote yield, states won, all do not matter. If you look at just the states that Hillary won, you can see how Hillary is winning.
The queen has no clothes. Someone please gt her a mirror so we can end this embarrassment.
March 29, 2008 4:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
March 29, 2008 6:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
jayasurya,
As a Democrat and a Edward's supporter, I feel compelled to inform you that I am joining together with the Obama-nations to criticize the jack_hole who has done more to hand this election to the Republicants . . .
Making the world safe for corporations and war-mongers everywhere.
March 29, 2008 7:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Religious are coming out in droves in support of Rev. Wright.
The media will start the mea culpas soon.
I felt as if we'd be hearing from religious soon.
Wright's well-respected, and that disgusting, ill-informed feeding frenzy puts ALL religious at risk. I figured they'd be defending him, and they are.
I think Hillary Clinton made a huge strategic error, re: Wright. She should have resisted the urge to benefit from that insanity.
Helpful Hint: when you're to the Right of Mike Huckabee, you're probably too far Right, Hillary.
March 29, 2008 7:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Helpful Hint: when you're to the Right of Mike Huckabee, you're probably too far Right, Hillary.
Ouch.
Have to say, though, it's sad when the only candidate criticizing Rev Wright is a fellow Democrat...
just proves Hillary is in over her head.
March 29, 2008 8:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is EXCELLENT News!
FOR HILLARY!
March 30, 2008 1:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
Can we get this updated?
It's now a 10 point lead for Obama!
woo hoo...
March 30, 2008 3:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sunday's Gallup numbers have Obama up 52-42!
March 30, 2008 3:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sunday Gallup: Obama 52 Hillary 42 !!!
March 30, 2008 3:58 PM | Reply | Permalink