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Time to panic?

Submitted by CJK on Tue, 09/02/2008 - 18:12
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I glanced at gallup and rasmussen and Obama has gained major ground....

In fact he has gained more ground/maintained the same ground since the end of the convention even though he hasn't done anything...

I'm guessing here that the terrible poll numbers are a result of media scrutiny of Palin, in combination with the post-convention bounce for the deomocrats. I'm not sure how long post-covention bounces last, but you would think given the intensity of coverage that they would fade faster in this election than others. If this isn't fixed fast the ticket could be doomed. Let's hope the RNC intro is good....

UPDATE: 2000 Polls

Gallup, 8 days after RNC Convention: Bush 56, Gore 40 (Likely voters)

But among registered voters they were still tied....

The DNC Convention merely pushed Gore back to a tie, although he gained more ground in September.

UPDATE II: For the entire month of August (which included the RnC/DNC conventions), Bush's average poll lead was 5 points.

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In A Word.

Submitted by Sean on Tue, 09/02/2008 - 19:53.

No.

its too late to panic

Submitted by superdestroyer on Tue, 09/02/2008 - 20:18.

The time to panic was back in the primaries when the Republican voters faced the prospect of voting for one of a number of totally unfit candidates.  The time to panic was when President Bush and Karl Rove decided that the Republican Party could be a big government party like the Democratic Party.  The time to panic was when everyone realize that former Speaker Hastert and former majority leader Frist had zero leadership skills and had no business being in charge.

Maybe the time to panic will end when the last few Repubcian voters decided that incomptence will not be tolerated and that excuses will not be made.  McCain should offer up his resignation for the stupdity that he has displayed for the last few days. It is time for Republicans to take charge and show SEnator McCain the door out.

The only whiff if panic I sense

Submitted by lagomorph on Tue, 09/02/2008 - 22:11.

is coming from the Mainstream Media and all the bloggers who are handmaidens of Big Left.  Get out much?  Like...maybe turn on a station other than MSNBC or CNN, or listen to 5 minutes of talk radio or read the blogs other than Huffington Post or KOS and you'll hear a whole other America out there.  That would be the America that sounds more like the one everyone flys over on their way from New York to L.A. or San Francisco.  You know, the one with all the Bible-toting gun-clingers.