Latest Poll Puts McCain down Eight Points

[Yanksfan396]

Looks like it's bound to rise after Palin continues to lose credibility.

[RenegadeLonghorn]

Obama picking Biden cost him points. The DNC boosted him up tremendously. McCain was suppose to land a counterpunch with the VP choice. Looks like that failed. Post RNC poll is the one to look forward to.

[mikesilvia]

I notice no link so I will assume that 8 points is the poll after the DNC. The Palin effect hasn't even been polled yet. And since CNN and others are interviewing Obama during the RNC (vice covering the Laura Bush speech) I would expect the bounce to remain until this Thursday after the RNC (when they start covering it). It will be a dead heat again in a week.

[RenegadeLonghorn]

http://www.gallup.com/poll/109954/Ga...ead-49-43.aspx

Given this year's unusually condensed convention and vice presidential selection calendar, today's tracking report also represents the first three days following McCain's vice presidential announcement. McCain's 43% level of support in today's report contrasts with 41% supporting McCain right before the Palin choice was revealed, giving McCain a 2-point vice presidential selection bounce.

6 point lead.

[RedGoneWILD]

I notice no link so I will assume that 8 points is the poll after the DNC. The Palin effect hasn't even been polled yet. And since CNN and others are interviewing Obama during the RNC (vice covering the Laura Bush speech) I would expect the bounce to remain until this Thursday after the RNC (when they start covering it). It will be a dead heat again in a week.

mike, i still haven't seen your links to prove the quotes you provided below...

You are a guy. The vast majority of female Clinton supporters voted for her because she is a woman. The same reason the vast majority of black men/women voted for Barrack Obama; because he is black.

Well, then how do you explain 20% of Hillary supporters already stating that they are voting for McCain? How do you explain so many others saying they will just not vote.

[mikesilvia]

Pre-RNC up by only 6%:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/109996/Ga...McCain-43.aspx

[jlzinck]

Looks like it's bound to rise after Palin continues to lose credibility.

Polls are usless unless you understand how they are polling.

If they are polling registered voters vs registered likely voters you have a big difference. If they are just polling people in general the poll is even more lame.

If polls actually have meaning then Dukakis would have won in 88. His lead was 17 points over H.W. Bush going into the convention.

[ensbergcollector]

I don't listen to any polls. If you want to hear why, I will share 10+ stories just of people I know who pollsters tried to convince to say a certain candidate or even hung up on them if they wouldn't

[chljoe]

Never trust a poll. Questions can be written to get the answers the pollster needs or wants. Plus, the statistical approach to using a poll can be skewed as well.

[mikesilvia]

Yep, polls suck. They only picked the last two Presidential elections by 1/2 of point.