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More Polls Show Obama Ahead In Key Red States
More polls today show Barack Obama leading in some key red states:
• In Ohio, Public Policy Polling (D) gives Obama a 49%-43% lead over John McCain, with a ±2.8% margin of error. Three weeks ago, PPP had McCain ahead 48%-44%. Take this as further evidence to suggest that the economic crisis is knocking John McCain down in a lot of places.
• In Florida, Mason-Dixon gives Obama a narrow lead of 48%-46%, within the ±4% margin of error, not significantly changed from a 47%-45% Obama lead two-and-a-half weeks ago.
• In Nevada, Research 2000 has Obama ahead 50%-43%, with a ±4% margin of error. Two weeks ago, Obama had slim edge of 44%-43%.
All totaled, these three states have 52 electoral votes, and they all voted for George W. Bush in 2004.
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Please do not tell me this server is going to act like this tonight.
I'm getting a whole new set of problems -
no Node available to service your request?
October 7, 2008 3:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm guessing it's not a server issue, but rather a bandwidth issue.
October 7, 2008 3:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm guessing it's not a server issue, but rather a bandwidth issue.
October 7, 2008 3:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
I like nodes. I like it even more when TPM has them available.
October 7, 2008 3:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, and they are good targets to take out when on a Borg ship to rescue an friend ;-)
October 7, 2008 7:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
I seem to be short of suitable nodes too . . .
October 7, 2008 3:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
No kidding - how could I survive the debate without a debate watching thread (no, beer or wine is not an option -- I don't drink).
October 7, 2008 3:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Phew, I thought my computer was the only one f***in' up.
October 7, 2008 3:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Realistically, if Obama gets ANY ONE of these, the election is his.
October 7, 2008 3:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
John King said this morning that all Obama needs to win is just ONE of the following states: OH, FL or Indiana.
That's if he takes all the usual blue and most of the purple states as well.
October 7, 2008 3:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
that is, every state that kerry won, plus one of the above would give obama the win. over your head?
October 7, 2008 3:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
What will be the repercussions of this campaign for McCain and Palin after it's all said and done? Will the senate receive McCain back with open arms "nice work John. welcome back." Will Palin write a book and finally appear on Oprah?
October 7, 2008 3:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
Palin will definitely write a book and get paid a pretty penny for it.
October 7, 2008 3:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm sorry but:
ROFLMAO!!!!!
October 7, 2008 3:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Jonze - you cannot say "Sarah Palin" and "write a book" in the same sentence.
She doesn't even read them - she burns them.
October 7, 2008 3:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
A woman who's capable of reading every newspaper in the country simultaneously can definitely read a book!
October 7, 2008 5:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain will retire and sadly die from complications from cancer on Obama's inauguration day. His death comes only days after he signed on to be the spokesperson for new Depends product that is soaked in Viagra.
Palin returns to Alaska and they successfully secede from the union. Shortly thereafter she renames the state to Jesusland. She says thanks but no thanks to a book-deal, citing that her computer has a liberal bias and twists her words.
October 7, 2008 4:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
You are a prophet, my friend.
October 7, 2008 5:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
hallelujah
October 7, 2008 6:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
Can you imagine what this site will be like on November 4?
October 7, 2008 3:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Busy?
http://pufferfish.typepad.com/
October 7, 2008 3:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
Kaputt is more like it.
October 7, 2008 4:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
I've said it already, but I'll say it again:
Sarah Palin will at most become the answer to a Trivial Pursuit Bar Version question.
October 7, 2008 3:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
I posted something to this effect in another thread the other day -- if she were smart enough to think about her own political future, she wouldn't be spouting all the shit as she is now. She will continue to be a darling for right-wing nutjobs for sure, but I can't see how viable she will be politically after this election.
Then again, there is always FOX -- perhaps she can take over Coulter and flirt with Hannity in one of their programs.
October 7, 2008 4:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Who was that airhead that ran for Vice President...you know the one that looked like Tina Fey?
October 7, 2008 4:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
And we'll all probably get that question wrong.
"Sarah Palin?!! Are you sure it wasn't Anna Nicole Smith?"
October 7, 2008 5:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Why are my comments being rejected?
October 7, 2008 3:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Same reason mine are - this site won't work with traffic.
How the hell does Arianna manage to run a site with so much traffic and no problems?
This is the worst ever - I've never seen such a buggy site.
October 7, 2008 3:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Did you ever see CNN's first bulletin boards in the mid-90's? What a mess! They finally shut them down after a few months, never to return.
October 7, 2008 4:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's worse than buggy. It seems one bug is replaced with another. Avatar works in a thread -- then doesn't.
Posts don't take -- post take but password is wrong.
Fix password, it doesn't fix the password across all pages.
I've about had it. Huffpost has too much starlet-glitz, and headlines aren't always accurate. Here, the most basic bugs are not fixed, glossed over, or invisible to whomever is to be fixing them. It constantly stays the same here -- nothing improves.
Yep, I've about had it. I'll just have to find somewhere else that provides the information without the disruptions and obstacles and preventions.
October 7, 2008 6:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Not just yours, sweetie.
October 7, 2008 4:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Tonight Johnny Mac will promise nodes in every pot.
And he will explain that it was Barack Husein Obama and his good friend Bill Ayers who stole all the nodes.
Sarah Palin will proclaim that Alaska produces 20% of America's nodes when everybody knows that it is only 3%.
Joe Biden will say that his good friend John is responsible for the lack of nodes and that Barack Obamas plan for increasing nodes is just what we need.
Lastly Big O will calmly assure the nation that together we will create hundreds of thousands of nodes in new green technology jobs.
October 7, 2008 3:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Waiting for the gratuitous Ohio-bashing post: "any Ohio poll showing Obama ahead should be discounted."
Yeah, I'm a sensitive guy.
But WE WILL WIN OHIO.
BOOK IT!
October 7, 2008 3:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
I was sceptical, but I'm starting to believe you now. Good work.
October 7, 2008 4:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
That would be sweet redemption for 2004.
October 7, 2008 6:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
My God! It's choking! Somebody slap some Heimlich on the server!
October 7, 2008 4:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
I prefer the more discreet response:
"You are unable to add comments."
October 7, 2008 5:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'll be in D.C. partying with the Obama people! No websites for me that day.
October 7, 2008 4:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Today's Gallup tracking poll ended its analysis with the following sentence: "McCain has an opportunity to try to reverse Obama's momentum at tonight's town hall style debate in Nashville. -- Jeff Jones." That was not a result extracted from the polling, but a bit of fluff added for -- what exactly? And why "reverse" rather than "slow" or "stall"? The line might have read just an accurately: "Obama has an opp0rtunity to try to increase his momentum tonight."
Ya gotta wonder sometimes.
October 7, 2008 4:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Here's to hoping that McInsane & the polar bear killer can't even win Arizona and Alaska in the first week of November . . .
October 7, 2008 4:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
That would be soooooooooo sweet.
October 7, 2008 5:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
After she loses Palin will become the next Anne Coulter. Just as mean, just as stupid, just as vapid but more popular. She will host a show leading into Bill O'Leilly.
October 7, 2008 6:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think you're being too kind - she's not smart enough.
Not that Coulter has any brains, but she at least can string a semi-coherent sentence together.
I'm with Tena - Trivial Pursuit Bar Edition.
October 7, 2008 6:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Comments you will NOT hear tonight from McLame:
- "Senator Obama makes a good point ... "
- "I think Americans want answers, not baseless charges of terrorism or lack of patriotism."
- "An exit strategy after 6 years in Iraq with little or no progress makes sense."
- "I solved the Keating Savings and Loan crisis and I'll fix the current mess we're in."
- "You can't solve the world's problems by bombing."
- "Sure I'll release my medical records, and my psychiatric files. Anything else?"
October 7, 2008 6:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
That is funny stuff.
I'm really hoping to see Johnny lose his cool tonight. In my daydreams I hear Obama say the words "Keating Five" and then Johnny just explodes... throwing in a few racial epithets in for good measure.
Obama then calmy says "did you really just say that?"
Johnny walks off stage and is never heard from again. Palin takes over the top of the ticket and loses 535 to 3.
October 7, 2008 6:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
I got my ballot today!
October 7, 2008 6:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
McLame will be medicated so he doesn't call Obama "boy" or use the N-word. Did I mention he was a prisoner of war?
October 7, 2008 6:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
let me be the troll and say that McCain will win convincingly tonight and the polls will move back to 3-4% Obama lead and everybody will panic.
come November this site will be a virtually dead
getting back to reality, obama faced better smarter candidates then McCain.
i love Hillary (now) for the tough love she give to Obama during the primary.
McCain will tray one more gimmick tonight which is to promise that he will only serve one term if he gets elected.
October 7, 2008 7:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
I promise not to live through, I mean not serve more than, one term.
October 7, 2008 7:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
THIS IS GREAT NEWS FOR JOHN MCCAIN!!!
October 7, 2008 8:17 PM | Reply | Permalink