Barack’s Bounce Newsweek Poll Shows Obama Widening Lead On McCain

http://www.newsweek.com/id/142465

 

With strong support from women, blacks and younger voters, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, the apparent Democratic presidential contender, leads Arizona Sen. John McCain, expected to be the Republican candidate, among likely voters in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania, according to simultaneous Quinnipiac University Swing State polls released today.

This is the first time Sen. Obama has led in all three states. No one has been elected President since 1960 without taking two of these three largest swing states in the Electoral College. Results from the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University polls show:

* Florida: Obama edges McCain 47 - 43 percent;
* Ohio: Obama tops McCain 48 - 42 percent;
* Pennsylvania: Obama leads McCain 52 - 40 percent.

Again, 4+ months out, the usual caveats still apply, but the overall trends and CW-busting observations are wonderful to see, especially in Florida, which for a while seemed out of reach for Obama. As fivethirtyeight’s Nate Silver puts it:

If Florida is in play, then John McCain’s defense is completely broken; it was the one traditional swing state that always had looked off-limits to Obama. More frustratingly for McCain, he had spent the better part of three days in Florida earlier this month, hoping to raise doubts about Obama among Jewish voters. Although Quinnipiac does not break out the Jewish vote, Obama holds a 61-31 lead in Southeast Florida, where most of the state’s Jewish population is concentrated.

It’s hard sometimes to know if the GOP and their presidential candidate really sucks sometimes or am I just so bias I can’t judge. I thought last night’s speech by John McCain in Louisiana sucked and now that’s been confirmed by other sources…

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/03/the-lime-green-monster-mc_n_105044.html

From the lime green background, to his weird grimace (I guess that was a smile), the strange solo cheer leading from the sparse crowd, to his misproununciation of New Orleans, it was really bad. Things got worse for the old man when Obama took the stage in St. Paul to claim the Democratic presidential nomination before a fired up crowd of 17,000. The diversity of Obama’s crowd’s is always inspiring. Obama says he likes to wade into the crowd and see old and young people of every color standing side by side reaching for his hand. I was moved to tears by Obama’s soul stirring speech and the sheer magnatism of his presence.

Fox News tries to put lipstick on the pig of a speech…

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/06/04/fox-news-rips-mccains-kenner-speech-is-carl-cameron-a-lefty-blogger-now/

All of this spells major trouble for McCain. He better hire some better organizers, take some speech lessons and pray for a miracle or he’s toast in the fall.

I would like to personally thank former White House press secretary Scott McClellan for writing “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception,” for drawing attention back to the spring of 2003 and the run up to the Iraq War. Although his criticisms about the so called “liberal” media not being critical enough about the reasons for going to war is hypocritical to say the least, I mean which is it? Is the media liberal or are the major networks and newspapers owned by huge corporations who are wed to a conservative belief system and that belief system influences the stories the American public is permitted to read, see and hear.

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