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51% Believe Palin Right Choice

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:09:04 GMT

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clipper's remarks: For all on ClipMarx who live in their own little left-wing bubble!

Friday, September 05, 2008

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows the beginning of John McCain’s convention bounce and the race is essentially back where it was before Barack Obama’s bounce. Obama now attracts 46% of the vote while McCain earns 45%. When "leaners" are included, it’s Obama 48%, McCain 46% (see recent daily results).

Both Obama and McCain are now viewed favorably by 57% of the nation’s voters (see trends). However, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is viewed favorably by 58%--a point more than either Presidential hopeful. Forty percent (40%) have a Very Favorable opinion of her.

Fifty-one percent (51%) of voters now believe that McCain made the right choice when he picked Palin to be his running mate while 32% disagree. By way of comparison, 47% said that Obama made the right choice by picking Delaware Senator Joe Biden as his running mate. Voters are evenly divided as to whether Palin or Obama has the better experience to be President.

Poll: Half Say Palin Unqualified

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 05:07:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Also of interest:

The poll found that Obama benefited more from his selection of Biden than McCain did by picking Palin. While 25 percent said they were more likely to vote for McCain because he picked Palin, 19 percent said they were less likely to support his candidacy. A majority, 55 percent, said the choice won't affect their vote.

By contrast, 22 percent of voters said Biden's selection for the Democratic ticket made them more likely to vote for Obama, while just 10 percent said they were less likely to support the Illinois senator's presidential candidacy. Again, a majority -- 67 percent -- said the choice won't matter in their vote.

More evidence that Palin was a base shoring choice. She's not winning converts, just energizing those already on the right.

Clip Source: www.bloomberg.com

Half of U.S. voters said first-term Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, the Republican vice presidential nominee, doesn't have the experience needed to be an effective president, according to an ABC News poll.

The survey found that 50 percent of adults polled on Sept. 4, the last day of the Republican National Convention, said Palin lacks the right experience to be president if she succeeded to the office. Forty-two percent of the voters said she has the necessary experience, the poll said.

The poll found that 66 percent of voters said Delaware Senator Joseph Biden, the Democratic vice presidential candidate, has the right experience to be an effective president. Twenty-one percent believed Biden, presidential candidate Barack Obama's running mate, lacks the right experience to be president.

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Gallup Poll: Acceptable Republican Presidential Candidates.

Wed, 19 Jul 2006 19:27:58 GMT

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Clip Source: poll.gallup.com

2006 Jun 26-29	Yes, acceptable	No, not acceptable	No opinion
	%	%	%
Former New York City Mayor, Rudy Giuliani	73	25	2
Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice	68	29	3
Arizona Senator, John McCain	55	41	5
Former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich	45	50	5
Florida Governor, Jeb Bush	44	52	4
Tennessee Senator, Bill Frist	38	44	18
Virginia Senator, George Allen	36	35	29
Vice President, Dick Cheney	34	61	5
New York Governor, George Pataki	33	51	17
Massachusetts Governor, Mitt Romney	31	42	27
Arkansas Governor, Mike Huckabee	17	40	43
Kansas Senator, Sam Brownback	14	43	43

Tags: poll, polls, politics, rudy giulliani, giulliani, rice, mccain, republicans, conservatives, president

Palin's speech

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:27:51 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This is an interesting comment..still 58% of the people who took the CNN poll thought Palin was effective....We'll see.

Clip Source: isaacs.newsvine.com

texas mom-492769

Not only did she mock Sen. Obama but she mocked all of us that spend day after day volunteering for various organizations (without pay or much respect). I have spent most of my adult life which included a full time job and 3 children, volunteering (domestic violence hotline, rape crisis hotlines, neglected and abused children, etc.) and in a few hate spewed seconds she invalidated that contribution. I guess because I don't get paid and do it strictly because they are causes that are important to me and help society in general. She owes all of us who do the thankless jobs (volunteering) day in and day out (we don't have a stage to garner that "oh, how sweet" sentiment) a huge apology. She turned my stomach! I won't forget those comments!

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Politics Doesn't Get Any Dirtier

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:58:35 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This week marks the second time children have been targeted by those who don't like John McCain. And before his supporters on the political right puff up in indignation over what happened to the Palins, they should remember what the right did to McCain in 2000.

The victim was his daughter Bridget, found by Cindy McCain at Mother Teresa's orphanage in Bangladesh, brought to the U.S. for medical treatment and adopted. In the South Carolina primary, anonymous McCain opponents used a telephone "push poll" across the state, asking voters what they thought of McCain's "illegitimate" black child. McCain lost South Carolina, and the Republican nomination.

Clip Source: www.chicagotribune.com

Ask the left-wing Internet haters, the anonymous propagandists who call themselves bloggers on the Daily Kos.

And ask Bristol Palin, who didn't deserve it, and was a victim of the rumor-mongers consumed with attacking her mother, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican running mate of Sen. John McCain, because the mother is a conservative and opposes abortion.

The Internet rumors claimed that Sarah's baby, Trig, born four months ago with Down syndrome, wasn't really hers but her daughter's.

"Sarah Palin is NOT The Mother" cried one Daily Kos blogger who goes by a screen name ArcXIX.

Well Sarah, I'm calling you a liar and not even a good one. Trig Paxson Van Palin is not your son. He is your grandson. The sooner you come forward with this revelation to the public, the better."

"We have been blessed with five wonderful children who we love with all our hearts and mean everything to us," Sarah and Todd Palin said.

Tags: ak gov palin, sen john mccain, dailykos

Your WTF of the Day, or, The Neo-Cons Aren't Dead

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:02:11 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Comments from the troops with links to site info will follow.

Clip Source: www.vetvoice.com

by: C76

Wed Aug 27

This is from today's Denver Post:

A new U.S. poll being released now finds 63 percent of voters support military action against Iran if diplomacy fails. The poll commissioned by the Israel Project, a group based in Washington D.C. with an office in Jerusalem, found Americans across the political spectrum see the Iranian regime as a threat to the United States - 85 percent among Democrats and 97 percent among Republicans.

Does anyone know who the Israel Project is and where I can get some of what they've been smoking? At first, I thought that I'd fallen into a timewarp back to 2002, but the current national numbers on Iraq and foreign intervention don't jive with this information. Does anyone have any details about this organization? Please tell me that this poll is bogus because I would hate to think that 62% of the American people have all come down with Down's Syndrome (AKA Neocon's disease).

Your WTF of the Day, or, The Neo-Cons Aren't Dead.

Tags: iran, israel, poll

Obama Convention Bump Erased in 2 Days

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 04:51:11 GMT

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Clip Source: www.newsmax.com

Republican John McCain's surprise announcement Friday of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate - some 16 hours after Democrat Barack Obama's historic speech accepting his party’s presidential nomination - has possibly stunted any Obama convention bump, the latest Zogby Interactive flash poll of the race shows.

The latest nationwide survey, begun Friday afternoon after the McCain announcement of Palin as running mate and completed mid-afternoon today, shows McCain/Palin at 47%, compared to 45% support for Obama/Biden.

In other words, the race is a dead heat.

Women More Skeptical of Palin Than Men

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:29:37 GMT

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clipper's remarks: It will be interesting to see if this pattern holds up in other polls.

Via Andrew Sullivan.

Clip Source: www.fivethirtyeight.com

What's interesting, however, is that while there is a gender gap in these numbers, it's not the one many observers were anticipating.

Rather, along a variety of metrics, men like the Palin choice better than women:

Tags: sarah palin, 2008 election, public-opinion, poll, polls, andrew sullivan

Palin the popular??

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:09:48 GMT

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clipper's remarks: More bad stuff on Palin... I don't think she's the VP candidate when we vote...

Clip Source: www.bloglines.com

About her strengths and weaknesses: “She is smart, vivacious and energetic; she tends to oversimplify complex issues, has had difficulty delegating authority, and clearly has difficulty distinguishing the line between her public responsibilities and private wishes. She is under legislative investigation on this, the so-called “troopergate” issue, in which she is said to have used improper influence to try to get her sister’s ex-husband fired from the state troopers."

About her approval ratings: “Her approval ratings are high–65 percent, or so–but down from 80 percent earlier in her term. Most Alaskan’s haven’t watched her as closely as most reporters or legislators. If you took a poll of reporters and legislators I expect her approval rating would be down in the teens or twenties."

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Romney Off The List???

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:33:17 GMT

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clipper's remarks: McCain advisers this past week have been meeting with social conservatives to gauge opposition to those picks, and they've been warned of a brewing revolt that could include a walkout at the Republican National Convention next week and a huge battle on the floor -- especially if the pick is the Independent Democrat Lieberman.

A recent ABC News/Washington Post poll found if John McCain were to pick a running mate who favors legal abortion, it could cost him votes, particularly in some core Republican groups.

Among current McCain supporters, 20 percent said they'd be less likely to vote for McCain if he picked a candidate for vice president who favors abortion rights.

Clip Source: abcnews.go.com

Just hours before presumptive Republican presidential candidate John McCain is expected to announce his running mate, the speculation over who the pick will be has reached frenzied proportions.

McCain, R-Ariz., is scheduled to announce his choice at a noon rally in Dayton, Ohio, and just who the pick is has become the best-kept secret in politics

ABC News has confirmed that two of the presumed finalists are no longer in contention: former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty will not join McCain on the Republican ticket

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, according to her spokeswoman Sharon Leighow, will not be on hand for the McCain event in Dayton but instead plans to be at the State Fair in Alaska.

Another curve ball is the fact that other possible pick, Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., is already in Ohio to attend the rally. But the McCain campaign says VIPs are gathering to show unity behind the new ticket

Clip Source: abcnews.go.com

The issue of abortion may be key to McCain's choice.

Poll: Most Oppose Same-Sex Marriage Ban in CA

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:34:08 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This despite the polls showing that the public is split on approval of the marriages themselves -- 47%-47%. The lesson here is that you don't have to approve of a practice to recognize someone's right to do it; that's what you call yer "tolerance."

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

A majority of California voters oppose a ballot initiative to ban gay marriage, though they are evenly split on the practice itself, according to a poll released Wednesday.

The ballot question essentially will ask voters to prohibit the practice of same-sex marriage, which was approved this year by the California Supreme Court.

A majority of likely voters, 54 percent, oppose ending gay marriage, compared with 40 percent who support it, the poll said. The result is similar to the findings of a Field Poll in July, which found that 51 percent of likely California voters opposed ending gay marriage, while 42 percent said they supported it.

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47% of dem women wanted Hillary as VP

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:38:08 GMT

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Clip Source: www.rasmussenreports.com

Nearly half of Democratic women (47%) say Barack Obama should have chosen Hillary Clinton for his running mate instead of Senator Joseph Biden as the former First Lady prepares to speak tonight at the Democratic National Convention. Thirty-nine percent (39%) disagree.

Only 35% of Democratic men believe Hillary should be on the ticket

Interestingly, younger voters prefer Clinton on the ticket.

While Democrats overall by a 61% to 33% margin give Obama the nod over Clinton as the candidate best able to beat McCain, unaffiliated voters, perhaps the key bloc at play in this election cycle, prefer Clinton 48% to 33%.

Clinton continues to get high marks for her conduct since quitting the race for the nomination on June 7, despite a great deal of reported behind-the-scenes intrigue over her speech at the convention and putting her name in nomination. Sixty percent (60%) of voters rate her conduct good or excellent, while only 10% characterize it as poor.

Tags: hillary, clinton, obama, democrat, poll, election, politics

Democrat convention bounce....for McCain

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:42:49 GMT

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Clip Source: www.rasmussenreports.com

The Democratic National Convention has begun and the poll numbers are bouncing, but not in the direction that most people anticipated.

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows Barack Obama attracting 44% of the vote while John McCain also earns 44%. When "leaners" are included, it’s still tied with Obama at 46% and McCain at 46%. Yesterday, with leaners, Obama had a three-point advantage over McCain

Obama is supported by 78% of Democrats while McCain gets the vote from 85% of Republicans. The GOP hopeful also has a slight advantage among unaffiliated voters.

Today’s results are the first based entirely upon interviews conducted since Joe Biden was named to be Obama’s running mate.

Obama’s support has declined in each of the last three individual nights of polling.

McCain is viewed favorably by 57% of the nation’s voters, Obama by 53% (see trends). Clinton is viewed favorably by 47%.

Tags: mccain, obama, biden, election, politics, poll

Poll: Most Open to Gay Presidential Candidate

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:57:28 GMT

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clipper's remarks: 65% is pretty damned big and pretty damned surprising. It's also pretty cool.

Good on us...

Clip Source: thinkprogress.org

A new Zogby poll finds 65 percent of U.S. voters say they “strongly” or “somewhat” agree that they could support an openly gay presidential candidate. Seventy-one percent also said that they could support the appointment of an openly gay Cabinet-level secretary. According to the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund, more than “415 openly LGBT elected officials serve at every level of government throughout the United States, a ten-fold increase in just the last two decades.”

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Tensions Boiling Over Between Obama-Clinton Camps

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:32:17 GMT

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clipper's remarks: to Obama’s victory, it is up to Obama to accommodate them.

In fact, some senior veterans of Clinton’s presidential campaign do believe this.

“He has not fully reconciled,” said one political operative close to the Clintons, “and he has not demonstrated that he accepts the Clintons and the Clinton wing of the party.”

While the Clintons have a relatively easy job in Denver — to deliver gracious speeches and accept what are likely to be loud cheers from their supporters — it is “Obama who has the heavy lifting” this week, this aide said.

This is because large numbers of Clinton backers — 30 percent in a recent ABC/Washington Post poll — are still not backing Obama over McCain.

The peevishness on both sides and the volume of behind-the-scenes catcalls are noteworthy because both the Clinton and Obama teams had resolved in pre-convention talks that it was overwhelmingly in the interests of both sides to get along.

Clip Source: www.politico.com

As Democrats arrived here Sunday for a convention intended to promote party unity, mistrust and resentments continued to boil among top associates of presumptive nominee Barack Obama and his defeated rival, Hillary Rodham Clinton.

One flashpoint is the assigned speech topic for former president Bill Clinton, who is scheduled to speak Wednesday night, when the convention theme is “Securing America’s Future.”

The former president is disappointed, associates said, because he is eager to speak about the economy and more broadly about Democratic ideas

This is an especially sore point for Bill Clinton, people close to him say, because among many grievances he has about the campaign Obama waged against his wife is a belief that the candidate poor-mouthed the political and policy successes of his two terms.

A prominent Obama backer said some of Clinton’s lieutentants negotiating with the Obama team are “bitter enders” who presume that, rather than the Clintons reconciling themselves

Tags: bill clinton's political and policy successes, hillary supporters are “bitter enders”