Growing Doubts About McCain's Judgment, Age and Campaign Conduct

Obama's Lead Widens: 52%-38%

Overview

Barack Obama’s lead over John McCain has steadily increased since mid-September, when the race was essentially even. Shortly after the first presidential debate on Sept. 26, Obama moved to a 49% to 42% lead; that margin inched up to 50% to 40% in a poll taken just after the second debate. Currently, Obama enjoys his widest margin yet over McCain among registered voters, at 52% to 38%. When the sample of voters is narrowed to those most likely to vote, Obama leads by 53% to 39%.

Obama’s strong showing in the current poll reflects greater confidence in the Democratic candidate personally. More voters see him as “well-qualified” and “down-to-earth” than did so a month ago. Obama also is inspiring more confidence on several key issues, including Iraq and terrorism, than he did before the debates. Most important, Obama now leads McCain as the candidate best able to improve economic conditions by a wider margin (53% to 32%).

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Peacenik thinks it is going to be very tough to steal this election through the normal wingnut mechanisms; Voter suppression, electronic voter fraud, and outright cheating. Only a black swan event can stop Obama now.

Why McCain Has Caught Obama and What Obama Can Do About It

by Cenk Uygur August 4, 2008

There are two principal reasons why John McCain has caught Barack Obama in the national polls. 1) McCain has changed the whole conversation about this election into one question - do you want to vote for or against Obama? This is genius. Obama needs to switch the conversation if he wants to win. 2) Obama has only played defense so far and has not attacked at all. This is weakness and a sure-fire way to lose an election

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Peacenik is totally flummoxed by this article by Cenk Uygur. How is it possible that McCain can out poll Obama after Obama's wildly successful trip to the Mideast and Europe. How is it possible that McCain can out poll Obama when McCain's campaign has been a laughing stock and McCain's performance has been incompetent. And how is it possible that a Republican can out poll, even for a day, a Democrat; when this Republican administration has so much baggage; corruption, incompetence, economic disaster, war crimes, impeachable offenses, and on and on. Read Cenk's analysis. Peacenik is very worried about who is pulling the levers in the polling stations. If voters get what they deserve....watch out.