Gallup: Obama Up By 2
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Biden, Democrats, Independents, McCain, Palin, Polls, RepublicansA 3 point swing for Obama today as his takes back the lead from McCain amid growing worries about the state of the economy.
Today’s report includes two days of interviewing conducted after reports of the collapse of Wall Street financial institutions and changes in the stock market began to dominate the news on Monday. Gallup Poll Daily tracking data show that in each of these individual days (Monday and Tuesday) consumer ratings of the U.S. economy have become more negative.Similarly, in each of these individual days’ interviewing, Obama has led McCain in election tracking. There is thus a correlation between the bad financial news and Obama’s gains, although the data do not allow us to conclude definitively that there is a causal connection between the two.
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September 17th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
This means that Obama had a pretty significant lead in the third day of polling. And with McCain and his merry band of lying liars making gaffe after gaffe while he tries to rebrand himself as some kind of economic wiz, it could get ugly for him real soon.
September 17th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
Remember the comment I made the other day to the effect that Obama needs Sarah Palin’s novelty to wear off soon to still have a shot at winning this thing? Well, the financial events of the last couple of days may have done the trick, and sooner than anyone expected. It’s not that the Palin buzz has died down, rather it’s been suddenly drowned out by the roar of pain from Wall Street.
Now, I happen to think the economy, being far too complex and chaotic for any president to tame, is vastly overrated as a campaign issue, but anyone can see I’m in the tiny minority on that count. So, in order to win in November, McCain will have to convince voters that either (a) he has a better economic plan than Obama or (b) “It’s the economy, stupid” was so last millennium. I wouldn’t expect Palin to be of much usefulness here.