This year, America don’t like ugly.
People’s regard for the Republican presidential nominee has deteriorated across the board since September, an Associated Press-Yahoo News poll showed Friday, with McCain losing ground in how favorably he’s seen and in a long list of personal qualities voters seek in White House contenders.
Perceptions of Obama have improved or remained steady. Beyond views of the two rivals’ character traits, McCain faces another problem – Obama is more trusted on the economy, the contest’s commanding issue, including a 15 percentage-point edge for better grasping how the raging financial crisis is affecting people.
Anecdotal evidence to the contrary: A well-educated 70-something friend recently returned to NYC from visiting friends and relatives in Illinois. EVERYONE he talked to was voting for McCain. NB: This was Obama’s home state.
Moral: Beware the AARP set. They can still hobble to the polls, and will.
The only way to be sure is to get out EVERY Obama vote possible, so that stealth bigots, corrupt registration challenges don’t matter. We have to OVERWHELM the pollsters, aim for a landslide!
whoa – I’m a bona-fide member of the AARP, and I’m VERY pro-Obama, as are many of my friends (who also belong to AARP). Please don’t generalize, anotherbozo, as the AARP is more progressive than you can imagine.
Love that Google Ad there, Ollie.
The Rich Jerk: “I’m rich and you’re not.” Fuck you.
Gotta agree with Ms. ewoman. All of the children of the ’50’s and 60’s are AARP now, like my parents. Hippie-dom may go into regression, but it remains active, like a dormant volcano.
I think Mr. Bozo was referring to the A-plus AARP members, like my grandparents. My grandmother doesn’t think Barack is “colored enough” what ever the fuck that means.
Speaking as an Illinoisan, I’d ask where he was visiting in Illinois. The metro areas and college towns, as you’d expect, are not going to give McCain the time of day. But remember that Illinois also has a lot of farmland downstate, and that the rural areas have always skewed Republican on culture issues.
We share a border with Kentucky, after all. Some of that spills over.
My grandmother doesn’t think Barack is “colored enough”
Grammy just keepin’ it real, ‘nilla!
Yeah, I know. Poor thing.
Right. The death spiral. Except the important result of the poll…you know that important question about who people are going to vote for, only has Obama up by 2 points, 44% to 42%.
In addition, the breakdown is a joke. Out of the 841 surveyed, 44% polled were Democrats, only 30% were Republicans and the other 26% were independents. If the numbers are accurate, Obama should be worried because in a poll that’s weighted completely off from actual party ID in this country, he didn’t do better than 44%.
ewoman: I’m a member too, but I hate to admit that most of the “unconfortable voting for a black man (or “colored man”)” set are up in years. Twenty-somethings, at least here in NYC, are much more likely to be beyond skin color, part of the happily “post-racial” generation.
Jay has a point. That survey definitely oversampled Obama supporters.
“Anecdotal evidence to the contrary: A well-educated 70-something friend recently returned to NYC from visiting friends and relatives in Illinois. EVERYONE he talked to was voting for McCain. NB: This was Obama’s home state.”
Anecdotal evidence means JACK SQUAT. Read “Unspun” by the Annenberg press. Just because you see it happen once does not a fact make. This is what lies and smearmongers base everything on.
Sounds more like confirmation bias to me.Of course there are McCain supporters in Illinois, but I’m sure your friend was around circles of McCain supporters only and less around Obama supporters- thus confirming a flawed hypothesis.
I thought Annenberg was full o’ terrists.