Hillary actually lost ground against McCain while Obama gained.

gotalife,

If you do actually have a life, why do you spend such a significant portion of it trolling on this board? Just curious.

This poll includes a week's worth of data (4/30-5/4) so a lot of post-Wright voters in there. Anything before 5/3 is going to be unfavorable to Obama.

(Plane pulls to a stop)
Dr. Rumack opens cockpit door: "I just want to tell you both: Good luck. We're all counting on you."

Eric, your first line should say:

"Most polls show Obama doing well, but I managed to find one that doesn't, so I 'm going to write about it instead of all of the other ones."

Obama goes down 10 points against Clinton, while at the same time she loses 4 points against McCain, who to complete the circle loses 2 points to Obama. Rock, paper, scissors anyone?

I don't buy it.

It's funny. The larger sample in the head-to-head against BigMac show that Hillary is losing ground from previous polls. My guess is that the larger sample is more representative of the population compared to the smaller population of Dem-only or Dem-leaning voters.

my bum bum hurts.

OUT-LI-ER.

Pig out.

Okay, so maybe the last comment above should have been, (NO OFFENSE INTENDED TO IDOTIC!!!)

Okee,

I didn't mean to suggest that being Pro-Clinton defines a poster as a troll. That said, the quality of Gotalife's standard arguements are astonishingly weak. If you can't bring anything else to the game but schoolyard trash talk, you are a troll.

Have a nice evening.

Obama supporters: If this poll is accurate, this is terrific news. Who cares what the national polls say re HRC vs. Obama? Obama's effectively got the nomination. Issue is how he will do against McCain. And even if Dem nomination were not settled, this poll undercuts HRC's only argument - that Obama is unelectable.

So many bright people at TPM are spoiled by those bad apples who seem to feel a weird need to find blame in everything Hillary does. If you serious about Obama, please stop it.

I sincerely want reasons to support Obama but rarely find it here. I shake my head, thinking there's no there there.

I think I could do a better job than many of you--and I voted for Hillary. How about this: Obama advocates diplomacy in an unprecedented way. We must give up our proclivity to make war or we will never have time or space to deal with our relationship with the planet or with the other inhabitants.Obama has said it clearly that he WILL talk with nations that with whom with disagree. No other candidates will. That is the difference that matters. We must cut defense spending and we must redirect our priorities...

But NO. With many here it's just I hate Hillary, she ought to die. And the trip about Wright, many of you thought he was great at first, but turned when he spoke candidly in a forum that wasn't the church. BUT He was RIGHT about most things, and was certainly entitled to speak wherever he wished. I have seen so few Obama supporters, who ought to know better, encourage their candidate to do better. For myself, I have written on many blogs and directly to Hillary's campaign when I thought she was in error. I think Obama is better on foreign policy and have told her staff and on many blogs the same thing. So why can't you say that Hillary is better on health care. Why can't you say to Obama, we support you, but if you really want it, you have to move left on Health care. Let's all quit the crap and move the country left.

But if you respond with more anti-troll crap--something I'm not--you will force me to think that Baudrillard was right about you, at least.

I know that being so beaten down by the Republicans that we all feel like exiles in our own land. We thirst for home: but as Aeschylus warns in his Orestia:

Exiles feel on empty dreams of hope. Believe me, I should know.

So many bright people at TPM are spoiled by those bad apples who seem to feel a weird need to find blame in everything Hillary does. If you're serious about Obama, please stop it.

I sincerely want reasons to support Obama but rarely find it here. I shake my head, thinking there's no there there.

I think I could do a better job than many of you--and I voted for Hillary. How about this: Obama advocates diplomacy in an unprecedented way. We must give up our proclivity to make war or we will never have time or space to deal with our relationship with the planet or with the other inhabitants.Obama has said it clearly that he WILL talk with nations with whom we disagree. No other candidates will. That is the difference that matters. We must cut defense spending and we must redirect our priorities...

But NO. With many here it's just I hate Hillary, she ought to die. And the trip about Wright, many of you thought he was great at first, but turned when he spoke candidly in a forum that wasn't the church. BUT He was RIGHT about most things, and was certainly entitled to speak wherever he wished. I have seen so few Obama supporters, who ought to know better, encourage their candidate to do better. For myself, I have written on many blogs and directly to Hillary's campaign when I thought she was in error. I think Obama is better on foreign policy and have told her staff and on many blogs the same thing. So why can't you say that Hillary is better on health care. Why can't you say to Obama, we support you, but if you really want it, you have to move left on Health care. Let's all quit the crap and move the country left.

But if you respond with more anti-troll crap--something I'm not--you will force me to think that Baudrillard was right about you, at least.

I know that being so beaten down by the Republicans that we all feel like exiles in our own land. We thirst for home: but as Aeschylus warns in his Orestia:

Exiles feed on empty dreams of hope. Believe me, I should know.

a few modest facts:

some of you fools blather on about Tuskegee. Well, let me set you straight. 400 guys. sixty some years ago. who were not likely to receive effective treatment anyway. so what the fuck is the big deal? Compared to the Holocaust, the famine/genocide in Ukraine, mass murder in Cambodia, etc etc etc, African-Americans have not suffered much at all, certainly not a tenth as you might think based on their whining. And to twist the facts of Tuskegee into some hysterical "basis"for asserting the Maerican government invents diseases to kill black people is just repugnant. Repugnant.

"laughing stock"

FYI - the AP/IPSOS poll sampled 1,000 "adults," rather than likely voters or even registered voters. Polls of adults are notoriously inaccurate because of the significant difference between the preferences expressed by all adults and those expressed by the sub-set of adults that actually show up at the voting booth and cast a ballot. I realize political junkies are always hungry for more information, but polls of adults shed essentially no light on the horserace. In fact, since the adult population at large tends to skew more democratic than the voting population, relying on these polls can lead to heartbreak down the road.