Obama Has Double-Digit Lead In VirginiaBy: Jane Hamsher Monday October 6, 2008 10:14 am | |
New SurveyUSA Poll:
As McCain's Lead Among White Virginians Shrinks, So Too His Chances of Holding The State's 13 Electoral Votes: 29 days until votes are counted in Virginia, Democrat Barack Obama is ahead 53% to 43%, according to this SurveyUSA poll conducted exclusively for WDBJ-TV in Roanoke, WJLA-TV in Washington DC, WTVR-TV in Richmond, and WJHL-TV in the Tri-Cities. In 4 tracking polls conducted since the Republican Convention, McCain has gone from up by 2 to down by 10.
(Must be that Sarah Magic!)There is movement among men, where immediately after the GOP convention, McCain led by 10, and where today Obama leads by 11. (No Joy in Sarahville, There.)
There is movement among whites, where McCain's once 22-point lead is today reduced to single digits.
There is movement among the well-to-do, where today for the first time Obama leads.
There is movement among pro-choice voters, where Obama's lead has doubled since August.
McCain no longer leads in any region of the state. In Northeastern VA, which includes the DC suburbs, Obama leads by 24 points. In Central Virginia, home of the Confederate White House, the Museum of the Confederacy and Appomattox, Obama today leads by 8. In Southeastern Virginia, Obama leads by 11. In the Shenandoah, where John McCain led by 24 points one month ago, Obama and McCain today tie.
Also, per a Suffolk University Virginia poll taken form October 3-5 (PDF), Obama now leads McCain 49-37, and 52% of those polled say that the economy/jobs will be the issue that matters most when deciding their vote.
Doggone it, that's worth a wink, eh?
2 comments:
There are trophy wives and trophy VPs. We are now finding out that Palin, like Quayle, is just a trophy candidate with no substance. It took a while for people to figure that out but at this point it's obvious. They are now going try to revive Ayers and Wright in a last effort at pissing off white conservatives but it won't work.
Palin appeals to the Right Wing Wackos. And that's it.
She has not helped McCain in any demographic. The independents are breaking for Obama, women are breaking for Obama, even older Americans are going his way.
The Old Dominion, Virginia, that hasn't voted for a Democrat since 1964, is double-digits for Obama.
Where has Palin helped in bringing voters to McCain?
NOWHERE!
McCain is bleeding support even in tried and true conservative states.
She's candy for the conservative men who have nothing else to get them to sit erect* in their sofas while watching the teevee.
*This is a reference to Rich Lowry's (of National Review) now famous and embarrassing take on Palin's performance at her debate:
"I'm sure I'm not the only male in America who, when Palin dropped her first wink, sat up a little straighter on the couch and said, "Hey, I think she just winked at me." And her smile. By the end, when she clearly knew she was doing well, it was so sparkling it was almost mesmerizing. It sent little starbursts through the screen and ricocheting around the living rooms of America. This is a quality that can't be learned; it's either something you have or you don't, and man, she's got it."
Good for Palin and her efforts to get conservative men to sit up (cough) "a little straighter." (cough)
Other men use Cialis.
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