If Obama Looked More "White"

[rayboyusmc]

Would the polls be more in his favor right now?

Just a question that I ask after a golfing partner said that Obama wasn't White, he was "Black" because he looked "Black".

New York - Barack Obama has picked up steam.



Over the past two weeks he's seen a small but steady rise in the polls. Immediately after the Republican Convention, the Illinois senator trailed his rival John McCain by three points in the various daily tracking polls. Senator Obama is now up by as many as six or seven points.

Pollsters say that's in part because the vital independent voters are now shifting his way.

.........

Then there's the way Senator McCain reacted to the crisis. Initially calling the fundamentals of the economy strong, he then decided the crisis was so bad he needed to suspend his campaign, even calling for a postponement of the first presidential debate on Friday.

.........

There's also the Sarah Palin factor.

.................

"I'm not sure it's gotten to the point where she's hurting [McCain,] but she's clearly not helping," says political analyst Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

..................

A USA Today/Gallup poll released Sunday also found that by a 52 percent to 35 percent margin, viewers thought Obama offered better proposals to solve the country's problems.

...................

"There were times McCain came across as too angry," says Mr. West. "That's a style of delivery that's going to scare some undecided voters, and it's also a style that women don't like, and there are more undecided women than men."

..................

"You saw a real difference in style and temperament, but you probably came out of the debate thinking very similarly to the way you went into the debate," says Margie Omero of Momentum Analysis, a Democratic polling firm in Washington.

So we could have watched a good movie and it would have made no difference to most of the posters here.

Obama inches ahead in tight race - Yahoo! News