Gallop: Largest Margin To Date

[jillian]

PRINCETON, NJ -- The political landscape could be improving for Barack Obama in the waning days of the campaign. Gallup Poll Daily tracking from Oct. 28-30 shows him with an eight percentage point lead over John McCain among traditional likely voters -- 51% to 43% -- his largest margin to date using this historical Gallup Poll voter model.

Gallup Daily: Obama's Lead Widens Some on All Bases

 

[jillian]

Since Tuesday, McCain's support among traditional likely voters has dropped by four points (from 47% to 43%), Obama's has risen by two points (from 49% to 51%), and the percentage of undecided voters has increased from 4% to 6%.

Thursday night's interviews are the first conducted entirely after Obama's widely viewed 30-minute prime-time campaign ad, which ran on several television networks Wednesday evening. Obama held a substantial lead over McCain in last night's polling, however no greater than what Gallup found on Wednesday.

Obama's lead among expanded likely voters is only slightly greater than that seen among traditional likely voters. He now leads McCain by nine-points, 52% to 43%, using this looser definition that does not factor in whether respondents have voted in past elections, but strictly relies on their reported level of interest and intention to vote in the 2008 election.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/111679/Gallup-Daily-Obamas-Lead-Widens-Some-All-Bases.aspx

 

[bk1983]

The McCain campaign is stuck in the 50's, the socialist argument is older then McShame!

 

[jillian]

It's not even that; they deserve to lose because their campaign is disgusting. McCain used to be an honorable guy....

too bad desperation made him pathetic. And I really, truly hope that shows on Tuesday.

 

[AllieBaba]

What will show on Tuesday is America doesn't want a lying, socialist president.

Only the lying socialists want him. And thankfully, they aren't the majority.

 

[random3434]

What will show on Tuesday is America doesn't want a lying, socialist president.

Only the lying socialists want him. And thankfully, they aren't the majority.

Allie, I have a question for you.

What are you going to do if Obama WINS?

 

[jillian]

What will show on Tuesday is America doesn't want a lying, socialist president.

Only the lying socialists want him. And thankfully, they aren't the majority.

it's so cute that you're raving now. try a little factchecky snookums.

 

[AllieBaba]

Lol. Compare those last two posts and see who sounds like the sane adult, and who sounds like the lunatic nutjob.

The baby talk and lack of capitals is a nice touch. Makes you sound really....sane.

 

[Chris]

What will show on Tuesday is America doesn't want a lying, socialist president.

Only the lying socialists want him. And thankfully, they aren't the majority.

Lying socialist?

You mean Palin?

 

[AllieBaba]

Allie, I have a question for you.

What are you going to do if Obama WINS?

Spend the next 4 years laughing my ass off as every prediction made by the right about what will happen under an Obama presidency comes true.

 

[random3434]

Spend the next 4 years laughing my ass off as every prediction made by the right about what will happen under an Obama presidency comes true.

Well, I'm glad to hear you'll be laughing!

 

[Caligirl]

What will show on Tuesday is America doesn't want a lying, socialist president.

Only the lying socialists want him. And thankfully, they aren't the majority.

Obama is not socialist.

There actually is a socialist party in the US, and they have a candidate for president. Socialist views and the socialist platform has very little resemblance to Obama's supporters. It bears about the same amount of resemblance to McCain's. McCain and Obama are both capitalist.

Socialist Party USA

The Socialist Party stands for the abolition of every form of domination and exploitation, whether based on social class, gender, race/ethnicity, age, education, sexual orientation, or other characteristics.

We are committed to the transformation of capitalism through the creation of a democratic socialist society based on compassion, empathy, and respect as well as the development of new social structures. Socialism will establish a new social and economic order in which workers and community members will take responsibility for and control of their interpersonal relationships, their neighborhoods, their local government, and the production and distribution of all goods and services.

For these reasons we call for social ownership and democratic control of productive resources, for a guarantee to all of the right to participate in societal production, and to a fair share of society's product, in accordance with individual needs.

As we pursue a socialist transformation of society, we join with others in making radical demands on the existing system: demands that challenge the basic assumptions of a capitalist market economy while pointing the way to a new society. Although reforms will not in themselves bring about socialism, the fight for them will advance the cause by demonstrating the inherent limitations and injustice of the capitalist system. As we build the socialist movement, we organize around a platform committed to our common and interdependent struggles and aspirations.

 

[AllieBaba]

He's not a member of the socialist party because he couldn't get nominated as the Dem candidate or have a chance at the white house if he was a member.

YOu don't have to pay dues to be a socialist. He's socialist.

 

[bk1983]

He's not a member of the socialist party because he couldn't get nominated as the Dem candidate or have a chance at the white house if he was a member.

YOu don't have to pay dues to be a socialist. He's socialist.

I think McCains mortgage bailout plan has all the blueprints of a socialist agenda.

 

[Red Dawn]

What will show on Tuesday is America doesn't want a lying, socialist president.

Only the lying socialists want him. And thankfully, they aren't the majority.

Anger management therapy?

 

[DiveCon]

I think McCains mortgage bailout plan has all the blueprints of a socialist agenda.

it does
but McCain isnt as bad as Obama would be
especially with a dem dominated congress

 

[DiveCon]

Anger management therapy?

is that the new talking point?
call anyone that disagrees with democrats angry?

 

[Caligirl]

Both the dem and rep plans are more similar than dissimilar. If Obama is a socialist then so is McCain and for sure Bush and Bernanke.

The plain fact is that Obama's plan isn't socialism, it is progressive taxation which is what we have had for as long as we have had taxes. Do you think we should get away with progressive taxation? Sales taxes are flat, and there has been some talk in past years of instituting a flat tax for income as well. Should we switch to a flat tax for income?

Socialism is more like this:

Socialism is an economic system in which all the means of production and distribution are wholly owned and controlled by the state. The government takes all the crucial decisions such as what goods and services are to be produced, how they are to be produced, in what quantities they are to be produced and at what prices they are to be sold. The government of the erstwhile Soviet Union (now Russia) is a shining example of a socialist economy, but the state ownership of property in the Soviet Union was combined with effective planning by the government.

Socialism was criticised sharply by several economists as they could not understand how the government could function in an efficient manner if they monopolised every service, including the basic services. The bureaucracy was not driven by profit maximisation, which was the goal of the private entrepreneurs in capitalist societies. Central planning failed as most of the objectives of these socialist governments could not be met, and this was the reason pure socialism also gradually began to fail and mixed economies became the order of the day.

Obama is not about central control and mass ownership and distribution. He is interested in things like providing incentives to job growth such as a tax break to small business to job creation on US soil.


Pure capitalism fails, and pure socialism fails. All of our leaders are square in between these ideologies and it is a strawman to call Obama a socialist. it's silly.

The socialist candidate for president:

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[Caligirl]

See also Fox news' piece where Moore calls the bailout a manifestation of capitalism, and says it will led to an opening for real socialism:

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[DavidS]

What will show on Tuesday is America doesn't want a lying, socialist president.

Only the lying socialists want him. And thankfully, they aren't the majority.

I'm not a socialist, nor am I a lying socialist and I want him.

In about 72 hours from now, you're going to be taken aback by your comments.

Obama is going to win enough to win the election. Pennsylvania, Virginia, Colorado, Iowa, New Mexcio and New Hampshire are all going to vote Obama. Along with all of the other blue states that Kerry won, he will win this election.