New SUSA Poll
Apr 15th, 2008 at 2:35 pm by Susie
Clinton ahead in PA by 14 points.
Also, now ahead by 36 points in Kentucky.
Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media.
Apr 15th, 2008 at 2:35 pm by Susie
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I am getting pretty discouraged about now. I think Obama is still going to hijack the nomination one way or the other. I also think that his supporters are intimidating others and not above threatening anyone who does not get onboard. Particularly superdelegates. I am a Hillary supporter but the MSM and many of the liberal blogs have made it their mission to seal her defeat and it is pretty disheartening. Come November, should he be the nominee, I cannot honestly say I would have the smallest amount of enthusiasm to cast a vote for him. Although I would never vote for McCain I may just leave the top of the ticket unchecked since I believe, and hopefully I am wrong, that Obama and Co. will have taken this nomination out of the hands of the electorate with MI an FL being sacrificed. As of today I feel pretty much defeated.
I read somewhere that since 1960, every prez winner in the general election won OH, MO, KY & TN. I don’t know if this nugget is true but I also read that Obama was polling weaker in those states than Hillary.
actually, I think a double digit victory in PA by Hillary has been pretty much as expected.
WV and KY are a virtual lock for Hillary as well.
The battlegrounds are NC which Obama has a 10 point lead and IN where Hillary is listed as up by 16. A 16 point loss in Indiana would be a devastating loss for Obama…he himself called Indiana the tiebreaker
Granted, he said a number of dumb things the past 2 weeks but calling Indiana the tiebreaker was the worst of them if he loses Indiana by double digits.
w naz :
I was talking about the general election in November. Obama (vs. McCain) is polling very poorly in those 4 key states when compared to Clinton (vs. McCain).
The Dem dilemma is how do we move Obama aside because he can’t beat McCain in the general.
now those are some entertaining comments…
shall we set the goalposts at hrc winning KY by 36 points? deal?
Hijack the nomination? by what means? oh the means of actually winning the most states/delegates/primaries/caucuses/popular vote? yep - highway robbery!!
do you actually believe OB to have a chance in a state where an elected official refers to a black man only 4 years younger than himself as “boy”?
Can’t beat mccain in the general? you can cherry-pick polls all day long. I can probably find a poll that has OB ahead in PA. Anything less than a 20 point win by hrc equals a loss. CQ estimated today that the best hrc can gain is 3 delegates in PA. Gains three delegates and clutches pearls that election is being hijacked! too funny! she’ll cry victim even when she wins a state….pathetic.
Joe Joe Joe:
I was simply stating an historical fact that no one has won the presidency since 1960 wihout winning OH, MO, KY & TN.
I was not saying it is fair to “hijack” the nomination from Obama on that basis. BUT Obama can not win the nomination either because he has insufficient delegates (though he has more than Hillary). So since he does not have the nomination, it can’t be hijacked from him buddy.
Recent slide by Obama will be very very troubling to the super -delegates. If not, they all would have thrown their support already. Think about that for a moment! And let it sink in to your mind…..there is going to be a fight and a nasty one. It already started.
Wendy - read the first post. My comment was directed to that author who stated he/she felt that OB would continue to hijack the election.
recent slide? polls (if one wants to put their faith in them) show the recent “bitterness” vapor-lock hrc and tranditional media has resulted in virtually no movement - certainly within the MoE. What slide then? Losing OH? Ok he lost (doubt he would today after the clear nafta lies hrc has been caught in)… Losing TX - sorry he won. 5 weeks ago hrc was polling 20+ points in PA. Now the best hrc poll is +14. A 2nd grader can determine who is in the slide here.
Not every post is in response to yours…i know, tragic to consider…but true.
polls, polls—everyone gots a poll!!
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-poll16apr16,0,794499.story
Can I just say, fuck Hillary. I never wanted to vote for her in the first place, and now I wish she and Bill would end the agony and shuffle off to the dustbin of history already. Good riddance.
I just hope that you all can get on the same page in November.
If we don’t, we will have John McCain for 1 term and whatever wacko winger he choses as his VP for eight years, if the Republic lasts that long.
The polls have been all over the place. I like pollster.com. They use weighted statistics that take into account sample size and confidence intervals (that makes them better than pure averages).
So here’s the big picture, showing Clinton up by about 7% per the weighted average, but the data points in the past few weeks indicate how noisy and volatile the situation is.
http://www.pollster.com/08-PA-Dem-Pres-Primary.php
Gee, all I can say right now is I cannot see an eyelash’s worth of difference between the two Democratic Presidential candidates. I am so glad that I live in Illinois and was still able to cast a vote for Edwards (even though he had dropped out by that time). All of the acrimony that this bickering is presently causing is making me seriously consider just sitting out the election entirely.
Either that or actively voting for McCain and enjoying the destruction of what’s left of our country! I hope that whomever wins this mess (the Democratic nomination) can figure out a way to undo the damage, but I am not holding my breath based on the postings and comments I see on this site and others.
McCain’s Electoral Math for Wendy…